New Holland High School - Leoninus Yearbook (New Holland, PA)

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'L-l- Commencement Exercises - ' School Lifesv Th-e S-enior Class presented as its Commencement exercise, an original pageant, School Lites, in the school auditorium, Wednesday evening, May 25, at 8 o'clock. Miss D. Irene Pennington was director of the play, and Mr. William D. Burley had charge of the music for the program. School-Lites was a series of skits representing all the High School departments and subjects studied by the members of the class. The portrayal of the departments an-d subjects studied by the class was interwoven and made more vivid by the narrator, Ethel Brendle, with the appropriate music of the orchestra. A Those departments presented and the characters used in the portrayals were: HOME ECONOMICS Mother, Charlotte Diem, Father, Reid Slick, Patty, Dorothy Zuck, Helen, Mary Weaver, Dot, Kathryn Frankhouser. FRENCH Jacques, a boy, Harry Witman, Aunt, Luella Gehman, Betty, Evelyn Eppley, Marie, Ar- line Klin-g, Theresa, Dorothy Stokes. SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND HEALTH -Represented by a court room scene The characters: Judge, Rayfmond Shirk, Lawyers, Mervin Buch an-d Walter S-huler, Ma- dame Curie, Dorothy Martin, Einstein, Reid Slick, Copernicus, Mark Houshower, Mar- coni, Jackson Yundt, Newton, Carl Sauder. ART AND SHOP Characters: Luella Gehman, Jane Staui'l er, Harold Weber, Walter Shirk and Clarence Rutt. HISTORY AND ENGLISH Represented by: Indian, Richard Myers, voice reading Hiawatha, Mwary Weaver, Pil- grims, Kermit Zimmerman, Iva Yost, Pilgrim Mothers, Margaret Stroman, Frances Ohl, Patrick Henry, Jacob Myers, Farmers, Donald Wright, Robert Geist, Martin Hoffman reads Chicago. ' COMMERCIAL Applicant, Marguerite Kessler, Employer, Eugene Good. EXTRA-CURRICULAR Boy, Walter Shuler, Principal, Eugene Good. By the enacting of these skits they portray to the public the practicability of each subject studied, and the importance of the school curriculum to the student in his after-graduate days. Orchestrations appropriate to the stories or the different acts, interspersed them to add to the col- orfulness of the scenes. - With the aid of faculty advisors, the following committee wrote the pageant: Charlotte Diem, Luella Gehman, Dorothy Martin, Walter Shuler, and Walter Shirk. , Page Thlfty'

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4:'-- Class Day Exercises -'ii The play, Forward Into Profgressiaf' was presented May 13, by the Senior Class in the High School Auditorium as their Class Day Program. The play was written by ia committee chosen from the class and several members of the faculty. Miss Ann Edwards and Mr. William D. Burley directed its production. The cast of characters was as follows: Caleb Martin .......... ..... ............................................ .... .......................................... M 1 a r tin Hoffman Bertha 1Caleb M1artin's wifel .......................... ..................... L aVerne Wise Hilda QC'aleb Martin'is daughterj ..................... ............................ J ane Stauffer Greta fCaleb Marti'n's second daughterj ............ Kathryn Frankhouser Wilson fCialeb Mlartiin's sonil ................................... ...............,............. M ervin Bfuch Captain Heller ..... - .......... , ....... - ....... , ............. , .,.. - ...,...... ............. M 'ark Houshower Simon Stack ........... , ............................................... .......... J 'ackson Yundt Cary fJacob MuhlenJbeng's sonl ....... .......... E ugenie Good George Hess ....................................................... ......... - ................... R eid Slick Whollypop .................... ., ................. .. ............. . ..... Harry Witman Henry Klinger ..... , ..... ..... ............ ........ D orraild Wright Adam Metz .-.., .................. .. ......... Richard Myers Jacob Muhlenlburg ..... ... ............ Robert Geist Salty QA sailor? ..... ... ...... .... Walter Shirk Jigiger QA sailorl ................................... -..-. ................... - .......... .... ....... - ........... Walter Shuler Limpy fA sailorl ...................................................... .. .... M ..... ............,..............,... Clarence Rutt One-Eye QA sailorj .,,,..,.,,,............................,........................ ..... ...... Jacob Myers Porky ..... . .... - .... - ........... n-- ........................................................... , ...- ..... Rfaymon-d M. Shirk Prophecy Reader ..... .. .......... ........ .. .......... ...... .. ...... ... ....... , ........ Carl Sauder Will Reader ............................. , ........ ., .... ,..... ...... ..... .. .... K ermift Zimmerman Tlate fRetining Squire! ...W .... .. .... .. ....... . ...................... - .... , ....................... Harold Weber The fplay depicts a peasant scene in Transylvania, a mythical Balkan Counrtry. Caleb Martin, a peasant farmer -sees the plight of himself and the rest of his neighborst They have talented sons and daughters, .but in tiny Transylvania they cannot put their talents to use. Caleb perswades his followers to 'go with him to a new land across the sea, where they can be suc- cessful. They snail to this new land, called Progressia, and the ship named Conqueror, where their dreams come true. T-he class son-g, poem, will and prophecy are woven into the plot of the play. Harold Weber, .presi-dent of the Senior Class, 'presented a mantle to Richard Wright, president of the Junior Class. PLAY COMMITTEE Mark Houshower Martin Hoffman Dorothy Stokes. Ethel Brendle Reid Slick Class Poem-Dorothy Stokes Typist-Marguerite Kessler Diyttoist-Rayimond M. Shirk - Class Poem fBy Dorothy Stokes Our hope has been- Our aism is- To watch, while waiting- To see life, with our own eyes- To remember, not forget- To listen wisely, keeping the good- To learn ourselves, then .teach others- To escape from vice, by steering clear- Always -having, obtaining, and keeping Always working, trysing, and doing, be- our own ideals. fore we give up. With these, we hope, we aim, to conquer time. Time-it does not wait, it cannot be stopped. We shall-by using every second, We will-by using every minute, Conquer time. -.-- Page Twenty-nine ,-.----.-

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