Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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-t-L zzzzz TZ ZSZ K Y, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES EIGHTH GRADE Barbara Alley Virginia Bruce Anna Louise Cable Jane Dierks William Hauf Mike Kukuchka Ogle Newlon Clair Reed Dorothy Schreibeis Billy Tschirgi Marion Wondra James Sexton SEVENTH GRADE Betty Jo Dierks Frank Kawulok Vincent Johnston Martin Schilling Doris Kawulok Maxine Weber Billy Tschirgi -----------------------------------------President Dorothy Schreibeis----------------------------------Vice President Betty Jo Dierks------------------------------------Sec’y-Treasurer Anna Louise Cable---------------------------------Council Reporter Class Colors: Blue and Gold. Class Flower: Gladiola. Class Motto: “Pick your peak and climb it.” There were twenty pupils enrolled at the first of this school year in the seventh and eighth grades. At the end of the first six weeks Joyce Ralph and James Fleming moved away. In March, Barbara Alley moved also, and James Sexton entered as an eighth grade pupil. In December the seventh and eighth grades presented a one-act play, and several poems for the Ladies’ Bazaar. In February eight of the boys participated in the basket ball tournament at Buffalo. A party was given for the high school on April 17, and all en- joyed themselves. Page 29

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY “THE OLD CRAB’’ By Austin Goetz Published by The Paine Publishing Company, Dayton, Ohio Copyright, 1936 CAST OF CHARACTERS Judge Adam Apple, a small town judge Thomas Doyle Henrietta Apple, Adam’s long suffering wife Helen Ruth Johnston Delicious Apple ------------------------------------------------ Alice Jean Black Early Apple --------------------------------------------------- Faye Schilling Jonathan (Jack) Apple Fred Hauf Mary Apple, Jack’s wife Carrie Lee Jester Mrs. Carleton Townsend, social dictator of the town Helen Irene Cable Diane Townsend Bette Doyle Paul Towmsend Bob Graham (Jack Hallowell, sub.) Hettie, the maid---------------------------- Nellie Strait Tilda, the cook------------------------------------------------ Estella Fackenthall Sir Hubert Cathcart, an English noble . Chester Severance Lady Cathcart, his wife Pearl Newlon Caroline Cathcart, their daughter Opal Newlon C. E. Alexander, director A farce-comedy in three acts. SYNOPSIS OF ACTS The entire action of the play takes place in the living room of the home of Judge Adam Apple, in Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania. Act 1—An afternoon in June. Act 2—That evening. Act 3—The following afternoon. SYNOPSIS OF PLAY Judge Adam Apple, known as “the Old Crab ' wisely dispenses justice in the courtroom but unwisely dispenses with it at home. “Plain man of the people” though he claims to be, he simply makes himself ridiculous by his pompous man- ner and his tantrums. His big moment of the first act comes when his son Jonathan comes home from the university with a wife. The fat is in the fire. The judge sets off for Philadelphia at once to have the marriage annulled. Delicious, his older daughter, has been forbidden to go with Paul, one of the “ritzy” Townsends. In fact, the judge has forbidden his entire family to have anything to do with any of the Townsends. In the second act, the biggest thrill comes when the judge returns unex- pectedly, having missed his train, to find the whole Townsend family in his living room. The judge blows up, but Mrs. Townsend is a royal match for him. (Continued on page 30) Page 28

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY (Continued from page 28) The biggest laugh is in the third act. Henrietta, Adam's long suffering wife, still smarting from humiliation of his treatment of her friends, vows that she will pay him back in his own coin. The judge receives word that three of his most important relatives from England are to visit them. He gave the family instructions as to how to behave, what to wear, etc., during the visit. His big idea, for once in his life, is to make a good impression on someone else. But Henrietta gathers her family, the maid, and cook about her and gives them final instructions which are just opposite Adam’s. They all dress in the most outlandish clothes and when Adam's relatives arrive they are greeted with a barrage of bad manners from his ridiculous looking family. It is a bitter ex- perience for the judge, a bewildering one for the relatives, a victory for Henrietta and a most hilarious episode for the rest of the family. The cure is complete and Adam realizes that his life and the life of his family will be happier if he is more of a father and less of an Old Crab. SALT No Surprise! A certain young man??: “I've wanted to ask you a question for months.” Miss ???: “And I’ve had the answer ready for months and months.” Bob D. : ‘‘My razor doesn't cut at all.” Muriel: “Come, come—your beard is no tougher than that linoleum I cut with it yesterday.” Football enthusiast: “Wots all the megaphones for?” Chorus of men (lined up for a match): “Why, ain't you eard? The ref's 'ard o’ earing.” Ranchester Kid's Fables: “It takes a clever man to know whether the light in a girl's eyes is her Stop, Go, or Park light.” “One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate, but he must die as a man.”—Webster. Page 30