Rockford High School - Rocket Yearbook (Rockford, OH)

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The Kitchen Clock Kitchen Clock ............. Billy Bair Tea Kettle ................Joan North Dust Pan ....................... Paul Badger Broom ................. Gloria Grimm Stew Kettle ........ Charles Dudgeon Feather Duster ...... Lucille Roebuck The operetta “The Kitchen Clock,’’ was presented Friday afternoon and evening, April 2, 1937. The entire cast consisted of pupils in the first four grades and they displayed fine talent even though they were lacking in experience. The story of the operetta concerns the health and happiness of the Kitchen Clock. When the Cook forgets to wind him, he begins to groan because he can’t tick-tock any longer. He complains ef being worried to death, and so his friends, the kitchen utensils, Rag-Tag Man ............ Max Stover Night Lady .......... Mary Ketcham The Cook ............... Joan Boyce Stars ............ Bernadine Nuding and Betty Rowland plan a party for him. The Rag Tag Man and all the Rag Tags threatened to take him away to Rickety Row, but his friends stoutly defend him. Someone finds the key just in the nick of time and the Clock is glad to be wound and so prove to the Rag Tag Man that he is not yet useless. The Sleepy Children come in to help the Clock celebrate for they have been watching all these marvelous antics of the kitchen utensils under the magic spell of the Night Lady. First Row: Faye Shock, Lillian Shrider, Betty Lou North, Dorothy Swander, Charles 'Dugan, Billy Anselman, Jimmy Frysinger, Dic k Shrider, J. P. Grimm, Billy Beerbower, Charles Beams, Barbara Raudabaugh, Judith Dugan, Loella Friedly, Jimmy Pontius. Second Row: Carl Cook, Carl Rumple, Eugene Beams, Donald Clouse, Madeline Snyder, Paul Eichler, Roger Krughm, Doyt Crouch, Mary Now, Jackie Symons, Gloria Mills, Bobbie May, Third Row: John Boyce, James Graham, Wavel Gibson, Maurice Williams, Gene Carr, Tommy Vantilburg, Charles Dudgeon, Paul Badger, Max Stover, Billy Bair, Lucille Roebuck, Joan North, Gloria Grimm, Lois Roebuck, Betty Now, Don Williams, James Reed, Mary Irene Long, Joan Hawk, Grace Rul ledge. Fourth Row: Betty Pond, Dale Crouch, Bern-dine Nuding. Mary Ketcham, Betty Rowland, Joanne Boyce, Anna Courtney, Joan Vantilburg.

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The Childhood of Hiawatha The cantata, “The Childhood of Hiawatha,” was presented just after the Operetta, “The Kitchen Clock, ” on both the afternoon and the evening of April 2, 1937. The chorus was composed of pupils of grades live to eight and numbered eighty-five. The cantata is a musical setting by-Ira B. Wilson of a part of Longfellow’s poem, “Hiawatha.” To lend an Indian atmosphere, a teepee was set up on one side of the stage, and two boys, Kussell Rager and Billy Ketcham dressed in beautiful Indian costumes, stood on the other side. The chorus was composed of so-prancs and altos, singing several choruses in unison, but most of the songs were in two parts. By way of contrast there w'ere two songs for boys’ chorus only and one for girls’ chorus. The cantata is the first production of its kind given here for a number of years past. It was very well done by the students, and enthusiastically received by the audience. First Row: Billy Ketcham, I'atsy Van Fleet, Marlese Standiford, Betty Lou Hays, Isabelle Hurless, Lois Penn, Madge Grimm, Genevieve Eichar, Mary Louise Bair, Betty Fast, Bernice Shock, Mary Beaty, Marjorie Buei, Martha Shock, Vivian Frysinger, Joan Stover, Helen North. Second Row: Russell Rager, Helen Kuehm, Lucille Ketcham, Helen Shaffer, Jacqueline Aab Lucille Caywood, Anna Lee Dugan, Maxine Reed, Mary Taylor, Virginia Schumm, Dorothy Stetler, Betty Vantilburg, Jean Robbins, Kathryn Cook, Virginia Fox, Marilyn Straubinger, Lois Meihls. Third Row. Betty Cook, Betty Shindledecker, Gloria Smith, Jerry Dugan, Norma Replogle, Lois Anselman, Vivian Frysinger, Dorothy Schumm, Betty Commers, Dorothy Taylor, Louise Rollin, Ruth Fast, Shirley Beaty, Margarete Hinkle, Phyllis Kutleuge, Betty Swanders, Geraldine Kimmel. Fourth Row: Dick Shaffer, Harold Huffman, Dale Eickler, Billy Book, Manuel Ralston, Jimmy Whitley, Burl Gibson, Cloise Dudgeon, Dick Kolter, Richard May, Don Long, Harold Shock, Robert Beams, Dick Campbell, Lee Roberts, Junior Cook, Marion Replogle Bob Huffman. Fifth Row: Lee Roebuck, Jean Anselman, Keith Rutledge, Lowell Meihls, Carl Crouch, Richard Strathearn, Harold Buel, Keith Mills, Jack Frysinger, Don Straubinger, Maurice Caywood, Victor Carr, Budd Aab, James Emerson, Junior Henkle, Darrell Clouse, Orley Roberts, Junior Hurless.

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Melody - Plus The Rockford High School Band, under the direction of Miss Steinle, is composed of students from the grades and high school. During the past year the band has successfully played for the American Legion Celebration at St. Marys, Peony Festival at Van Wert, the Hallowe’en celebration, Armistice 'Day Celebration, Fall Fair, Farmers Institute, Commencement Exercis- es, and Memorial Day Celebration in Rockford. A member of the band playing two years receives an emblem in the form of a lyre with a small “R’’ in the center. New members are practicing with the band to fill the vacancies of the seniors. The band gives great opportunity to these who are talented and love music. Drum Major, James Borchers First Row: Cloise Dudgeon, Harold Dilbone, Helen North, Jimmy Whitley. Second Row: Chester Carr, Mary Helen Fast, Lucille Ketcham, Dick Kolter. Third Row: Grace Gibson, Jean Frysinger, Lewis Kolter, Anna Lee Dugan. Fourth Row: Betty Pond, Harold Huffman, Charlotte Hill, Jerry Dugan. Fifth Row: Charles North, Ruth Wilges, Jeannette Young, Jean Robbins. Sixth Row: Paul Kolter, John Rutledge, Patty Burgess, Helen Shaffer, Robert Springer.