Meadow Grove High School - Trojan Yearbook (Meadow Grove, NE)

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,-y.fTM ui tft m tjKjYt'lVi » wswn wan r) r1 r) rlf1 irvnn i1 ) Ur:rJ J JJj. IrrUJJJI , The Senior Class presented the play, Deer Daffodil, May 6, 1948. The three-act comedy was very entertaining. Mr. Leamons, director of the play, w8s presented a gift by the cast to show their appreciation. Daffodil Coleman, generally nicknamed Daffy, was always getting her family in trouble. Her latest adventure was the most serious. Daffy, Joan Gast, had written for eight months to a soldier end in her letters had varnished the truth quite a little bit about her family. Her father, Arnold Werner, is a bandmaster in the village park actually, but Daffy hod elevated him to a symphonic leader and composer. Mrs. Coleman, Dorothy Schutt, had a little artistic talent, but in the varnishing she had become a well-known artist whose work was very much in demand. Cora, an older sister, played by Theresa Motz, changed from a shrinking violet to a crimson poppy as a result of the letters. Charles, a seventeen year old brother, Don Johnson, was the usual brat, but Daffy hod made him a Golden Glove contender. Another sister, Dorothea, Betty Arrison. wes a snob, but was described es a heart breaker to the soldier, Kent Merrill. When Kent, Bob Werner. came for a visit, the family was on a spot. Jim Carver, Norman Wright, was on admirer of Dorothea which becomes complicated after the arrival of Kent. John J. Coleman, a lawyer, V11 ton Pugh, who unfortunately had the same name as Daffy's father, was involved in the family's trouble. Miss Ihorpe, Dons Glaze, made a sketch of Dsffy which created another complication. Duane Van Gundy, played the part of Ellsworth Norton, who had courted Cora for seven years. As customary the pley ends, and everyone lives happily ever after. v - THe TaJ

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n r1 DU M] Cl ] It was autunui in the year 1944, as the bell sadly tolled the death of three months' vacation, when sixteen Freshles assembled on the east side of the assembly. Somehow, we lived through Initiation and found courage enough to hold our first class meeting and elect officers. Our number decreased when we lost Leon Sellin and Eugene Werner In the freshman year, and Charles Jenkins, Phyllis Klelder, Esther Swarm end Jim Schurmen during the sophomore year. With the beginning of our last year, the cless numbered eleven with the addition of Done Glaze, a fugitive from Norfolk. When we returned as Sophomores end found we were no longer the object of upper-classmen's Jokes, we began to enjoy the fun and take part In high school life. We enjoyed a year of work sprinkled with a few parties. As we took our places as Juniors the following year. It was then that we demonstrated Just how successfully we could menage the job of being a class In MGHS. This year. In addition to having parties, we had the responsibility of the class play and the junior-senior banquet. Our three act play, Mystery In the Library, went over with a bang. The banquet was an exceptionally pretty one. The theme was Ye Olde South. This class has been justly proud of Its athletic record all through high school, having several four-year lettermen In baseball end basketball, and also track the lest two years. As Seniors, we started the year with true Senior pep and elected officers end a sponsor to pilot us through this most important year. Sneak day was 8 very welcome change for both the Seniors and the lower c The Seniors enjoyed themselves very much touring the city of Lincoln. During this ssme week they were also the honored guests at the banquet given by the Juniors. The Senior class play, Dear Daffodil, was a cheering success, not a howling one. Thus we have seen In the history of the cless of '48 the evolution from Freshmen to Senior. May we continue to grow in such a manner when we become Freshmen in i.ty VHTmry, r. r y; vm v {vs :i i: 'v ».v n'.v %’s .-swim