Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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SENIOR PLAY HUGE SUCCESS FOG ISLAND A fog-bound island was the scene for this year's Senior Play. The play was full of suspense and nerve-ting- ling situations. The plot oi the play was about a group of girls stranded on an island over night. On the same island were some criminals holding a man, knowing secrets ot the atomic bomb. In the end everything turned out for the best. The girls persuaded the criminals to give themselves up. The play was held on December 8 and 9, and, under the expert direction of Miss Iulia Royse, Eugene Gillaspy, and Miss Charlotte Wetteroth, was a huge success. 45 tw- ff 'Mt 5 ' A. i gl f A r 5. L S THE CAST Members of the cast were: Glada Reed, Priscilla: Phil Boone, Ierry Martin: Dorothy Bodnar, Mrs. Williams: Bob Cooper, Mr. Williams: Iack Hughes, Sheriff Doolittle: Ken- neth Cutler, Brock: Violet Demos, Hazel Sommers: Mary Lou Ziegler, Mary O'Laughlin: lone Kreuger, Anne Wicliffe: Virginia McDowell, Maurine: Sabra Carl, Iohannah Green. THE COMMITTEES Play committees were: Ushers-Ardis Wells, chairman: Donna Jacobs, Marilyn Veldman, Ioan Schlievet Publicity- Yvonne Pattison, chairman: Emilyn Smith, Charlene Ander- son, Evelyn Workman, Iohn Swett: tickets-Louise Kuzniar. chairman: Carol Teuling, Phyllis Kline, Phyllis Bowers. Marian Meyering: costumes-Lois Scott, chairman: Shirley Hullinger, Betty Kemperman, Claudelle Bollenback: pro- gram fA--f Connie Van Damm, chairman: Pat Lawson, Ianet DeBard: properties-Charlene Anderson, chairman: Paul Nordstrom, Iohn Swett, and Larry McRoberts. Cutler, Bead, Boone I Page Eighty-one

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RIDDLE ME RICHES The Iunior production ot Riddle Me Riches, by Anne Ferring Weatherly, under the expert direction of Miss Charlotte Wetteroth, Miss Iulia Royse, Mr. Eugene Gillaspy, turned out to be a huge success. The setting of the play was about an average American family that won 20,000 dollars over the radio program Riddle Me Riches. A jack-pot full of prizes, which was received by the family, was the reward for the father's witty thinking. The winning of the prizes, a new maid, a visit from a famous Hollywood Star, all lead up to some very confused and hilarious situations. In the end everything turned out for the best. The play was given May 4 and 5, in the Muskegon Heights High School auditorium. Music was furnished by Heights High School orchestra, under the direction of R. Maynard Buck. THE CAST Members of the cast were: Ierry Moeller, Tom Taylor: Ioan Dudley, Ester Taylor: Ioni Newblom, Patty Taylor: Herman Borgerding, Chuck Taylor: Kenneth Essenberg, Bob Calloway: Ioan Harvath, Susie Bryant: Bob Carlson, Ed- mund Davis: lack Keglovitz, Danny Hudson: Marilyn Bomers, Olive Kendall: Iohn Johnson, Rutus B. Hill: Shirley Rudd, Adeline Hill: Iean Smith, Marla Kay: Ierry Billings- ley, Sam Wilson: Iuanita Decrter, Hilda Sorenson: Martin Loitis, Truck Driver. THE COMMITTEES Play Committees were: Publicity-Shirley Newald, Chair- man: Bob Hagstrom, Allan Landgrai, Shirley Sauder: Prop- perties-Iackie Dopiel, Chairman: Lillian Herbst, Peg Mont- gomery, Elizabeth Carpenter: Costumes!Shirley Unger, Chairman: Shirley Veltmen, Elizabeth Carpenter, Avis South, Lucille Culver: Programs-Barbara Martin, Chairman: Ger- aldine Gilbert: Stage Crew-Larry Sterenberg, Chairman: Neil Ruhl, Dennis Femley: Tickets-Hannas Meyers, Ir-, Chairman:Harold McGill, Donna Inman, Beverly Ellis, lack Iohnson, Kermit Warrick, Betty Cooper: Make up-Dramatic Class. Page E zfghty

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FORENSIC CONTESTS INSP Year after year our high school has conducted various speech contests which are held in order that those students who have an interest in this field might have an opportunity to demonstrate their ability. Through these contests students meet the com- petition of other students and other schools, and so develop their talent. There are tour contests: oratorical declamation, d r a m a t ic declamation, original oratory, and extemporaneous speaking. ln oratory the student mem- IRE PUBLIC SPEAKERS orizes a printed selection: in declama- tion he memorizes a dramatic reading: in original oratory he writes his own: and, in the last, he speaks unprepared on a timely topic. The local contest winners this year were as follows: in oratorical declama- tion, Keith Pohl and Marilyn Verduin: in dramatic declamation, Ioni New- blom and Paul Calloway: in original oratory, Aileen Seacat and lack Iohn- ston: in extemporaneous speaking, Kenneth Cutler and Iunior Meyers. Standing: Johnston, Cutler, Meyers, Calloway, Pohl. Sitting: Verduin, Seacat, Newblom. Page Eighty-two