Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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r .. , 'Uma 'llhe only requirement for membership in onr oh, so illustrious ehtb was to be taking either Dramatie ,Xrt or Public Speaking, but Llflllll get ine wrong we are exelnsireg we have only the best in oak borders. .Xlthongh this year we were officially inactive, we weren't so privately. Yes every day we were the ones who tried to talk Miss Lfarett out of giving tests. lint as yon gaze thonglttfully into our face, donlt believe we always looked that way, lonee we were yonngerlj. ln the years before we sent money to the Stage Door Canteen by putting on one aet plays. being th speech ehoir, hlpingg back stage. playing bit parts, and generally being the backbone of the theatre. We didn't eleet ollieers, but we intend to next year. and all the years afterwards. Bliss l.illian Cavett did a grand job of teaching ns the fundamentals of the stage. Next year we can carry out those fundamentals. and really do big and good things. Pupils ul the Stage

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' Glad The l.etternien's Club is very well known for the beatinv' its initiates received, tw and this year the few that survived had a year that top Jed the other. Under l the leadership of Football Coach Rollin tiiridley the lsettermenls Club got under this year with Xtrenferd Tackett acting as president of the group, While Bert Pratt lilled the position of vice-president and Bob Young that of secretary-treasurer. llut, since several of the club's outstanding athletes left for Uncle Samls armed services after mid-semester graduation, a few changes were made in the executive boardf' Bert Pratt succeeded Tackett, and Pete Pullen was elected vice-president. The club has a very colorful history which goes something like this: The organi- zation was started several years ago by C. L. McFarland, then head coach of Tue- son High. and the purpose of the club has from that time on been to combine good fellowship of all boys earning letters in the four major sports. The club has always had chances that topped all the others. lt seems a habit of the club to pick some nove1,' idea that really goes over big. This year the athletes topped off their almost too colorful initiation of some twenty odd, yes very odd, new members. with a successful Backwards Dance. All who attended this dance experienced a very novel and enjoyable evening in which every- thing from the programs to the tirand March was held contrary to the usual pro- cedure. The money raised from the dance was used for the dance and the club's yearbook picture. Bigshots im.-wi

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A t Xie were those little eltins who made your plays what they were. ln gaining our precious points which were necessary for us to gain admittance to the Thesptans, we did everything from electrocuting the patrons of the theatre by fiddling with the light switch. to smearing grease paint on poor unsuspecting victims, and play- . H ,, . mg ze leeds. in your plays and some assembles. tlften. in the clear, not so dead days of last year. you could have seen any number of us memorizing lines. getting props together, testing light bulbs, dashing madly around in search of lileenex, and other jobs not so illustrious but just as im- portant. .Xfter the performance of Seventeen, we got our year under way with a for- mal initiation. It was all done by candlelight. and if someone hadn't been on hand with a bucket of water when llat Spencer knocked over the candle of Dionysus, it would have been done by firelight. ln our first year we had au election and chose Milton Gibbs, the illustrious Willy liaxterf' as presidentg XYilliam lYarren. the wicked Nazi, vice-presidentg and Ar- lene Nlyerson. the matronly mother, secretary. ,Xs we go on naming important details. here is one you just can't pass by, and that is wonderful Grand Thespian. Miss Lillian Cavett. XYell. this year has gone past. and don't they all, but another one will come along. so we can put on our -treat plays for you 'ufain. N C . . 1 ?'r Rulers of the Stage t