Metamora Township High School - Parrot Yearbook (Metamora, IL)

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UP IN THE AIR Seated, left to right — Norma Smith, Betty Gries, Nancy Smith, Standing, left to right— Marvin Elbert, Burtron Schertz, Janice Sullivan, Marietta Schneider, James Wiltz, Connie Stamper, James Zimmerman, Harold Neumann, Marvin Elbert. A capacity crowd was present at the high school gymnasium October 26 to enjoy the operetta, Up in the Air, a comedy by Geoffrey Morgan and Don C. Wilson. Mr. Stephenson was the director. George Burbank (Marvin Elbert) is a big businessman who tolerates no one but a young man of brawn and daring as a candidate for the hand of his daughter, Betty (Betty Gries). Betty is already wooed by Harold Post (Jim Zimmerman) much to Mr. Burbank ' s annoyance, because Harold is a young man of just the opposite type that Burbank admires. Burbank ' s friend, McCullom (Burtron Schertz), a movie magnate, proposes to stage a spectacular flying stunt by a young aviator, Joe Bennett (James Wiltz), who has applied for a job in the movies, and offers a prize to any amateur who will make a parachute jump. Jim Carter (Har- old Neumann), Harold Pest ' s busybody friend, seizes on this as the young man ' s opportunity to make good, and devises various alibis which will prevent his actually going up, while still gaining credit for bravery. One by one these alibis fail and Harold gets more and more deeply involved. Finally, he is forced to go through with it in spite of himself, and by a comic fluke manages to maintain his reputa- tion as a dare-devil, to gain the enthusiastic approval of Burbank and to win the girl of his choice. Other members of the cast included: Connie Stamper as Shirley Kingston, Nancy Smith as Annie McCullom, Norma Smith as Fannie McCullom, Marietta Schneider as Mrs. McCullom, Janice Sullivan as Mrs. Burbank and Marvin Smith as Juniper Johnson. The students in both girls ' glee club and boys ' glee club made up the chorus. The operetta was given in two acts. During the intermission there was a special dedication ceremony of our new stage curtains given to the school by our alumni classes of 1945, ' 46, ' 47 and ' 48. Fifty-One

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BAND The band activities began for the 1949-50 school year at MTHS by electing officers. We elected Harold Neumann president, Eugene Schlabach, secretary, and James Zimmerman, Burtron Schertz and Marietta Schneider, board members. One of the first activities was marching at the Washburn Festival. Another event was the Eureka Pumpkin Festival in which our band participated as part of the massed band. Home activities began by playing between the halves of football games. When basketball games started, a pep band was organized. We played for many of the home games, the Woodford county basketball tournament and Dick Brcers night. Band ensembles were also organized this year. The ensembles were flutes and oboe, saxophone quartette, clarinet trio, brass sextette and trombone quartette. The annual Woodford County Band Festival was held in Metamora in March. An evening concert was held in the gym. One of the last activities for the year was playing for graduation. Many of the band members frcm MTHS will play in the town band this summer. Fifty

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PARROT STAFF f) l ti Seated, left to right — Burtron Schertz, Betty Gries, Janice Sullivan, Marvin Smith, Doris Elbert. Standing, left to right — Feme Garber, Kathryn Leatherman. THE PARROT This year The Parrot, our school newspaper, had as co editors Janice Sullivan and Betty Gries. Others on the staff were: Doris Elbert and Burtron Schertz, as- sociate editors; Kathryn Leatherman and Marvin Smith, business managers, and Feme Garber and Bernadette Giehl, exchange editors. Most of the members of the senior class are appointed to some .job on the staff. However, this year we were fortunate enough to have some juniors help us with the paper. James Zimmerman was a sports editor, Donald Halford and Marietta Schneider were associate editors and Ccnnie Stamper wrote feature articles. The co-editors want to thank these people for their cooperation and their willingness to work to make The Parrot a success. Published monthly, the printed paper consists of six pages and is made up of news around school. However, there are essays, poems, two editorials, letters to the editors, an athletic page and other feature articles. For the future it is planned that each class will have members represented on the newspaper staff. The Parrot was originally a senior publication, but under- classmen should gain experience so that when they become seniors they will be competent to fill major positions. The Parrot has an exchange list of forty schools, and quite a number of students and townspeople are subscribers. We have continued as a member of the Illinois State High School Press association. Robert Hires was the adviser for The Parrot. Fifty-Two