Mount Pulaski High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Mount Pulaski, IL)

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Seated: Marllyn Buckles, Wllna Emery, Virginia Underhill, June Ridgeway, Alice Yauch, Marilyn Voyles, Sylvia Allsopp. Standing: Dalen Shellhammer, Lois Watson, Julian Sams, Junior Bertoni, Charles Rledle, Leonard Obery, Joe McCullough, Beryl Wachter. flew ?Dzea. On May I7, l94O, all on board were again inviTed To see an amaTeur play, This Time presenTed by Those experienced acTors, The TirsT class passengers. STephen SanTry, an auThor, inheriTs a small Tarm in The Missouri Ozarks Trom his uncle, Gideon SanTry. His Tamily visiT The place wiTh him in his eTTorT To geT away Trom his Chicago Troubles. When They arrive, They have no idea They are going To sTay. Desiring To reTurn To Chicago, Olive, The oldesT daughTer, Teigns sickness. This brings Lynn Gray, The oung counTr docTor, inTo her liTe. He Tells STephen and Anne she has hearT Trouble. She is readly To hiTch-hike back, when Mary Marshall, who is visiTing Phyllis and Billy, Two youngsTers oT STephen and Anne Take scarlef Tever, The Tamily is quaranTined Tor a monTh. Since The servanTs, Lucinda and Suzanne, were noT in The house aT The Time, The Tamily musT look aTTer Themselves. Dr. Gray comes To The house very oTTen and he and Olive Tall deeply in love. He changes her views on life and makes her a very sweeT girl. Dick, Olive's broTher, has married Eve, who aids him ver much by savin him from worThlessness. AtTer all Their Troubles, The Tamily decide To remain on The place a li'r+Ie llonger and when They leave, The managemenT oT The house- hold is Turned over To Dick and Eve. These experiences give STephen an inspiraTion Tor a new book called New Fires . Humor and idealism were ouTsTanding in This play, and boTh aspecTs were well porTrayed by The casT Tor The enTerTainmenT of The audience. L J P' if P I I Stephen Santry ............,..... Anne Santry .,.. Billy Sentry .... Phyllis Sentry. . . Dick Santry ..... Eve Santry ..... Olive Santry .,.. Lynn Gray ..,.. . . . . ..... Joe McCullough Lucinda Andrews ...., Suzanne Toler . Sid Sperry ....... Jerry Sperry .... Angie Sperry .... . ...... Wilna Emery Mary Marshall .... Mrs. Marshall. , . .Leonard Obery ., ........... Alice Yauch . . . .Dalen Shellhammer . ..,.... Sylvia Allsopp , ,,..... Charles Rledle ,.. ,. ...June Ridgeway , ..... virginia Unnarmu ,......Lols Watson Beryl Wachter . ......, Julian Sams . ..... Junior Bertonl . . . . .Marilyn Buckles . .... Marilyn Voyles Stage Assistants. .. Robert Aughenbaugh, Kenton Opperman, and Robert Gulso. Properties .... Wallace McGee, Irma Mae Ryan, and Earl Riggs. Prompters ..... Alice Stockton and Irma May Ryan Business Manager and Publicity Manager: Charles I-Ianslow. Assistants: Willis Laatsch and Wilna Emery. Director .......,..,..... .... Mi SB Lois Waller This page sponsored by GEORGE UNDERHILL Phone 43 MounT Pulaski

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TF' T-IGMECCDMING On December 22 all The presenT and pasT M. P.T.H.S. passengers enTered The main ballroom of The ship The HillTop Tor Their annual Homecoming. The companionway and ballroom were dec- oraTed by The STudenT Council in The ship's colors and made ChrisTmas-like by Their gail lighTed ChrisTmas Trees. A communiTy band aTTired in purple and gold caps and bands made a ilormaTion on The ballroom floor, played several selecTions, and were seaTed on The sTage for The remainder of The evening. A newspaper, The l-lillTop Herald, published by The passengers and of greaT inTeresT To everyone was disTribuTed aT The door. Virgil Wynd exTended a hearTy welcome To ex-passengers and George Pinney delivered The response. The baslceTball game wiTh Carlinville, one of The inTeresTing TeaTuresl of The evening, was a well played game in spife of The TacT ThaT we losT. The girls' gym class, under The direcfion oT Miss Grace RoThwell, gave a Tumbling acT aT The half. The evening was concluded by a grand march direcTecl by Mr. STivers and Miss RoThwell, and dancing To music by Bill OeTzel and his orchesTra. GEORGE PINNEY W' y 1 Yo MPG!! Wy 66' . 'Vo 'via This page sponsored by ' DAN W. ELLIS ConTracTor and Builder

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Seated: K. Connolley, V. Moll, M. Buehler, B. Brooker, W. Mer'r'n an, W. H b h. 1 - C. Baker, J. Matthews, R. ,Miller, M. Lindsay. I 1 agen uc stand nt' ,, - Boyer On November I7, I939, all on board were given inviTaTions To see The play China Boy given by amaTeurs, second class passengers. China Boy is a sTory abouT a boy Trom China who comes To America To live wifh his aunT and uncle. This boy is The son of American Missionaries in China. They are going To a bandiT-ridden parT oT The counTry and Think iT is besT To send Ma rk, Their son, To live wiTh his aunT. l-le is a good boy and none of The children oT The communiTy like him. Lula Mae Robinson Tinally Tallcs him inTo doing some mean Things, buT ever Thin Turns ouT all righT. Bob and Bill lose a TooTball game, be- cause Bob is Trying To use Marlc's iyormutia Tor overcoming nervousness. Selma finally wins a Tree Trip To Hollywood sponsored by The Middlesboro lce Cream Company. George, The villain, sTeals The TooTball money, buT his sisTer, Lula Mae, solves The mysTery. Everyone present enjoyed The Flay very much, and iTs success was aTTribuTed in a large measure To The able direcTion o Miss Wa ler. Hrs. Parker nn-, Will Parker --- Bill Parker .... Annie ......... Selma Parker .... Bob Trautman .,,,,. ,U Lula. Mae Robinson -----..------- Bei-'ty Brook! William Merriman -..--- Rlehnrd Milla' ---- Charlotte Blkd' - ,..,,..,, Pmrle Stoll Kenneth Oonnolley ------.,--, Mnrllyn Bllehhr C118-I'l0tt8 Mach ,,,,,,,-,,,,,.,, Vlrglnln Moll George Robinson ,, Mark Willis ...... -- ....., , Joe Matthews Radio Announcer -n ,un Walter lhgenheudn ----- Max Llndsqy Director .......... ....,.., Lo is Waller Stege Assistants: Delbert Horn, Mu Lindsay, Clarence Frazier, and Dwaln Marten. Properties: Jean Klnert, Lillie Mae Jackson. Business Manager: Jean Guffey, Assistants: Meredith Peterson, Raymond Stoll. Ushers: Loren Anderson, Clarence Frazier, Syl- via Carty, Flora Key, Emogene Maxheimer, Virginia Milner, Dorothy Opperman, Mary Passmore. June Roos, and Mildl-gd Sghafer. This page sponsored by COMMUNITY GARAGE MounT Pulaslci