Rocky Ford High School - Le Cantaloupe Yearbook (Rocky Ford, CO)

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This year, the dramatic department created its own Christmas Pageant from The juggler of Our Lary, made famous in America, by john Nesbitt. Pictured below are Eddie Gobin, Rachel Corf, Frances Whitney, and W'ynette Zimmerman mak- ing robes for the monks in the play out of potatoe sacks donated by Messrs. A. Blotz and I. Griffen. Pageant 5 3 in no 5 5 5 U H 2 G Now ember and December These extremely successful plays x cre sponsored by the Chex rolet compan es of La junta and Rocky Ford The play pictured aboye is The Old Oaken Bucket The cast included Marjorie Rolander Kenneth Yankey Frances VUh1tney johnny Clay and Bill McBr1de ninety we 4 2 .Q f 2 U 4 Rocky Ford High School broadcasted a series of radio plays over KOKO during the months of

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me .fasten A tb L , 011 The Stage Each year the speech class gives a group of one-act plays free to the public. At the end of each performance a silver offering is taken. This money is used to improve the stage, or to pay for other necessities in the dramatics department. Pictured here is a play in pro- duction and one in rehearsal. The first picture is a scene taken from Sanitorium one of the productions used this year. The action takes place in an insane asylum where Miss Dickson, Betty Johannes, has gone to study. When the doc- tor, Bill McBride, begins act- ing strangely and introduces as nurses Helen, Marjorie Ro- lander, a ratty-haired, flower crowned woman who carries a lantern and dresses in an old- fashioned white dress, and Miss Miller, Phyllis Watters, a military lady who wears a steel helmet and a row of med- als on her chest, Miss Dickson finally realizes the truth, that the inmates have taken over the hospital. She is at last rescued from near death at the hands of the insane doctor and nurses, by the true head nurse, Mary Richards. A rehearsal scene fro m Will-O-The-Wisp is the third picture shown here as Leatrice Guest prepares to strangle Willa Mae Long. The maid, jackie Hamilton, can do nothing but watch the attempt- ed murder.

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Anlorioan Legion llratorioal Contest Billy McBr1de Bob Buns Byron Blotz oan Gable Shirley Kiefer Forensics After driying through to mn the school and district meet Billy McBride took first place in the eighth annual American Le ion sate oratoricll contest held in Deny er and second in the regional which included the yyestern states Rocky Iorel s High School orators under the direction of Miss Ruth Lytle haye long distln zguished themselyes in oration and haye placed in the Denyer contest each year with the exception top honors there The Amerie in Legion sponsors these contests in in ettort to turther the education of American youth in the prlnely les ol elemoerley Contestants extemporlze on suhyeets chosen by the legion must speak on topics hlsed on Americmism md Winners of the state and regional contests theft go to Washington D C In the school competition were Shirley Kevfer By ron Blotz and oan Grable This year for the first time the Knights of Pythias of the United States sponsored an orator ical contest blsed on the history of the deyelop ment of our country The participants in the local meet yy ere Ioan Grable Bob Buis and Byron deadly than the male in this case consequently oan Crable vton loan vms avnrded the state championship adding, a second star to Rocl-ey lord s croxyn She vuill compete in Las Vagas Nleyada for the re eional championship ninety one , , ,J I , . . O 1 L I - C I ' L . . Y . v 1. . . ' V 7 ' ' V J I ' v , : 'V ' V V ' ' . V , V , V' , AV - ' V v 7 ' V of 1945. Bill, however was the first to achieve Blotz. The female of the species was more Y ,, I ' r ' 1 ' v yy 1 -,L A y' 5. , . A. A 4- V. J t 1 ' ' . i e 'U . ' ' ' i' A ' A L '4 'e . . ' l . h '.' ' I ' . l' .i ' ' . v . 'l ' ' l .i 4 ., A ' . . A .' 'J 1 1 Y' ' '.