Oakland High School - Acorn Yearbook (Oakland, NE)

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PLAYS SPRING I1 EX I' R The Junror rlass play Sprrng Fever was presented to the publrc on Nov 28 and 29 1940 Phe scene was lard rn a roomrng house where a group of college boys boarded lt was the day betore Commencement and there was a great deal of excrtement rn Mrs Spanglers lrvrng room Ed Burns used hrs room as an experrment rng laboratory for hrs chemrstry work Vrc Lewrs was an art student who rn hrs attempt to palnt a portrart of an erratrc Bolshevrk gagged Mr Purcell and tred hlm to a hatrack The mrs take was drscovered but not rn trme to prevent Mr Purcell from wrthdrawrng hrs offer to pre sent a new scrence burldrng to the school How ard Brant typed frantrcally at a term paper whrclr rf he got rt rn on trnre meant he could graduate the next day To complrcate matters hrs Aunt Maud who had promrsed hrm a trrp abroad wrth the provrslon that he graduate that year arrryed unexpectedly When she learned of Howards farlure to pass she got on the good srde of Prof Bean and persuaded hrm to pass Howard Anne Purcell Howards heart lnterest arded by her chum Vrvran Vrcs grrl and wrtlr Vrc posrng as a doctor pretended to be 111 rn order to get her father to srgn a paper promrslng the scrence bulldrng if Howard graduates But Vrcs mustache carrre otf and the deceptron was drscovered Lou Herron had her troubles too rn trying to get Ed to take her to the Commence ment Ball These are only a few of the thrngs wlrrch these people had to contend wrth but IH good farry tale fashron all ended well Cast of Characters Howard Brant Ed Burns Vrc Lewis Lou Herron Mrs Spangler Anne Purcell Vrvran George Henry Purcell Phoebe Purcell Maud Corey Prof Vrrgll Bean Dr Drxon Presrdent Abner Krasne B111 Osterberg Jerry Reunerfeldt Marran Tunberg Margaret Anderson Phyllrs Anderson Marrlvn Swanson Herbert Jacobson Dorothy Hultqurst Dorothy Dahl Stanley Young X1 esley Terch THF VAMPIRE BAT The Senrors gave the trnal dramatrc pre sentatron of therr school careers on Mav 9 1941 at the clty audrtorrum It was a tlrreeaot mystery play Donald Abbott has fallen lrerr to a strange old mansron located on Black Island wrthrn srght of a penrtentrary whose searchlrghts play now and agarn on the rsland and lts gloorrry edrfrce Professor Abbott Donalds deceased berretactor had tome to hate the world at large but havrng a love for the sea acqurred thersland W hen Mrs Kahn for many years rn the employ of Mr Abbott trnds her posrtron rnsecure be cause of the young lrerr who rs to take over management she plots wrtlr Zombe a negro servant to srckerr young Abbott of hrs bargarns so that he wrll not lne on the rsland a year a slrpulatron 111 the wrll And so we frrrd Donald and lrls flancee Kay Adams lookrng oyer the legacy wrth a house full ot guests Then conres the hour when Mrs Kahn wrll prove that the Namprre Bat rs no myth Screams a strange woman appears and drsappears In the end all rs well Donald gets the estate and has good prospects of gettrng kay Jugobra rs captured and a hrdden dramond rs found Cast of Character s Donald Abbott Kay Adams Grnger Drew Buster Crarg Mrs Kahn Yombe Aunt Lydra Slrerrtf Ole Swenson Jugobra 7oe Arnsworth The XX oman Rrchard Grant Fred Seryiue Mary Stauffer Helen Oberg Stanley Carlson I race Hanson Dwrglrt Beckstrorrr IaVay Larson Lloyd Thornblad Rrchard Edmrsterr Natalre lNeumann Helen West Paul lohnson -'-0-0 -0--0 1040 f-0A-0N0 0 1 Y I A . ' H . rv ' L- ' . , A ' ' K . . ' ' ' I l ' - . . . . V ' - u p ' V' ' lv' ' 'I V' v 4 n ' w . - ' . ' ,' . ' ' . ' K- y . ' v D ' - ' I- O . V , , . V , - , . ' - 1 f V . . . ' - y A ' y V r D ' .L I . . . - 4 v' ' y ' v ' ' I - - . . , . . n . V 4 K ' V . i, ' L v ' . - , Y . - Y r i . ' , .. - v are heard. The sheriff searches the house while , . . n v ' v I . s . V Vv 4 kv Lv ' ' . . n y ' ' v ' v . . , , V ' I. , 1' . Y ---- . ' 1 I I - - - .4 I I 1 1, ' I A . . . - - ' A ---- - - V. l - - - I ' ' - - - - 1 ' 1 A . 1 3 1 ' ' ' .4 ' Y ' Y v' v . A - - - A

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DECLAMATORY 0V0f'0' 91075101405 Il so tl I'lllTllStlYl XX flqt6lllGIg S C11 eon T IS sen 0 ll S xx IS blessed wlth ln unusually f111e clop I cleclam students Xetemns 'unona these pfutlelpants wele Rlchald Ldnnsten l1u1gl1tBeckst1cnn btanlev f21l1'a0ll Helen West Quentm Pefnson 1ncl llcnotln IJ1l1l Othels who pultlclpdted lll the local cle Kllllllttllx contest xselc Yxllllllll Ostetbelc, I1 Huolcl PI0lllltllllNf .Il NX eslew T cl1 ll told Iohnson Deloles tlomel Malguet AIld6l's0ll ll lllt Bklkllll c 11nnc1s 1 1 llXlNl0ll 11e1 X 1 lun Os GI 1e1 lllltl llll wus Fcln s 0 la, 1l 01 :tc ll uolcl Johnson s 1 I'llllll0l0ll'w It IH lllltlGNIlllL, to 11ote that toul ot these tue boss uele 89111018 xxlllllfll 0ste1he1g JI and Quentln Pealson non the gold '1ncl s1lse1 medals 1s-sp ctnelx Theee IIIQIIHIS hfue been pleeented to tl1e d9Clllll3l0lS students hx Xhlllam C Ostelbelg 51 f0l tl1e past KGYGIWI xeus XIIPI lll0Ill9l tuo ncclcs ot p11c't1ce out team went to Fremont Xluch C0lllD lll tl1 cllstllct con Rest contests lll the sl 1 s l1 lx tee t o111 con cs 111 s lllllx9I toot Hnolcl Xl1ll1an1 'lncl ftnlex Tlc OIIIGI tuo Quentln ftncl Rtchu lecelwecl lfxcellente In Hen of the fOlllpF'tlllIlll xx lllll tl1e boss md tsesen Omahi Qchoole 1se1e 1ep1ese11tecl1 we teel that thex hue mcleed accomphshed a tlne Job lOl O H Q ulnch was one ot tl1e stile Contest 06101 02101-020'-l01401s0f'01'0'40105 7502024000 0Y040V? ll. .lc l nfn, Q. l'e:11':4 ll, ll. I - , '. . ' . , 1 'L . l1'.' j z ' . . . 'z s z .' ' o' ' .' , v, 'c .' c , 1' c ' ' 1' ' ' I' ' ,t .-, 2 . Y, 2 . -h. f - - ' -' 1 ' 5 . ,L i , A. V . , v- -i D, I . .,. I .u z - '.. ' .H ' .' cfi', za' . .' , , '.' '. '12 . Put c'iz1 f'ill'lSOI1 zxncl .la - - ' a 1. Th 1 1 1 in ez c'l l' ' 'e: V'll'z .'t 'l rg. Jr.- Ex tn 7 Q -c sg Ric-l1:11'cl I 1i.'ten -- l ,'illl 'z n'y: 1 ' .' A Intc'1'p1'c-tutive Orzltoryg Quentin l'ez1rsol1 llranlzltic-sq and Stanley Carl- Sox ir . '-, ' , - ,., ' R, . ' - ' A, . Dx. . . A, ' .si 'Q -. . . ' -N ' .t. . 1 , . , B.. . L. id, , ' - ... N L. L V . 5 . z .', L, K, -, v- ' wh A. . - ' ' .N . 1 1 j z I . 2 . . . , , .A, ' .2 ' . ' - Y on 1 z 27, to - ete ' e - test ' .' ' lar, A - 1: .- ' .- atv. Nc-l1'z1.'kz1 zu ro .' z .' . Th' o' ' - t 1311 tx 'z ' l I l -- 1 ' . ' . St. 1' ' ' , ' . '- z 'cl. ' ' IJ- . ' ' 'l'- l. s ' . .' ,