Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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Music VOCAL The vocal department of Sheridan High School is under the direction of Miss Ivadell Swindler. The various groups of the department are Beginning Girls’ Glee Club, Boys’ Glee Club, Advance Girls’ Glee Club, and Mixed Chorus. There are also three selected groups, namely—Girls’ Sextette, Boys’ Quartette, and Mixed Quartette. The Beginning Girls’ Glee Club and the Boys’ Glee Club are composed of students who have not had any previous vocal training in Sheridan High School. Both of these groups sang at a spring Concert on March 15 and at the Clinic on May 10. After one year of being a member of either of these groups a student is eligible to join either Mixed Chorus or Advanced Girls’ Glee Club. The Mixed Chorus and Girls’ Glee Club presented their annual Christmas Concert on December 21. They also participated in the Spring Concert and the Music Clinic. The Mixed Chorus were presented at the Woman’s Club and in a Sheridan High School Assembly program. The Advanced Girls’ Glee Club also sang at the May Day Fete. Both groups will sing at the Commencement Exercises. The Boys’ Quartette consists of four boys selected from the Mixed Chorus. This year the Quartette is composed of Eddie Brantz, first tenor, Maurice Campbell, second tenor, Gene Johnson, first bass, and Phil Cooley, second bass. Besides appearing at the Music Clinic and the Spring Concert the boys sang at the Newcomers’ Club, Presbyterian Church, Rotary Club, Sheridan High School, P. T. A., Lion’s Club and in various school activities. The Girls’ Sextette is a selected group of six senior girls. Elaine Wallen-gren and Shirley Seid, sopranos, Rose Mary Gillis and Nadine Hoiten, second sopranos, and Nadene Case and Marian Redle, altos, make up the group. The Sextette appeared at many school functions as well as such local organizations as the A.A.U.W., Alpha Kappa Class, Junior Woman’s Club, Taylor P.T.A. and the Presbyterian Church. The Mixed Quartette is a newly oi-ganized group consisting of Meredith Ann Wallace, soprano, Barbara Scott, alto, Eddie Brantz, tenor, and Gene Johnson, bass. This group presented numbers at the local Rotary Club, A.A.U.W., Woman’s Club, as well as at Sheridan High School assemblies and the Spring Concert and Music Clinic. The entire vocal department appeared in a joint concert on March 15 with the school band to raise funds to finance the annual Music Clinic on May 10. The Music Clinic is held to show the various musical groups of Sheridan High School how they rate with other musicians on a comparative basis. The adjudicators for this year were Mr. George Gunn of the University of Wyoming Music Department and Mr. Robert Vagnei', also of the University of Wyoming Music Department. The instrumental groups were judged in the forenoon and the vocal department in the afternoon. An evening concert was presented jointly and both of the adjudicators were guest conductors during the performance. INSTRUMENTAL The Instrumental Department consists of the Sheridan High School Band and Orchestra, which are both dii ected by Mr. Eric Becker. The orchestra, which had an enrollment of eleven, performed at the Junior A Play, at the Senior A Play, during an assembly, and will play at the Commencement Exercises. The forty-eight piece band appeared at all home football and basketball games, and made two out-of-town trips to Buffalo. It presented its first concert on January 25. With the Glee Clubs it presented the Spring Concert on March 15. The entire band and orchestra and several instrumental soloists, quartettes, sextettes and other groups appeared in the Music Clinic on May 10 and selected groups at the evening concert. Band officers for this year consist of Eleanor Cornelius, president; Millard Meredith, vice-president; Bill Sare, secretary: Esther Brown, efficiency manager; Betty Wondra, majorette and librarian; and Beverly Waddell and Esther Brown, joint-managers of advertising. — 29 —

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To Ralph Foster we leave the friendship of Kenneth Colman for another year. To Hugh Jones we leave the right to be a brilliant history student next year. To John Porter we leave the right to be S.H.S.’s shortest (?) senior. To Bill Miller we leave a pack of white excuses so he can go to the Ritz to shoot pool. To Mary Poulos we leave the right to protect her brother “Mike” from the “She” wolves. To Betty Lou Kerbel we leave the right to be as timid as she is. To Edward Brantz we leave the right to continue his singing to the girls. To Madge Shell we leave the right to take manual arts next year. To Gene Schreibeis we leave the right to have more dates next fall. To Helen Braun, because she wanted “Blonde” hair so bad, we leave here Beverly Poehler’s long blonde hair. To Dorothy Maxwell we leave a crew-cut for next year. She doesn’t have far to go. To Rodney Ramsey we leave the right to be as wolfish as his AWOL friends. We leave to Dave Rinker the right to be a second Gene Kelly. To Margie Thornton we leave an engagement ring to make it permanent this time. To Patty Towns we leave an everlasting friendship with Dorothy Hamilton. We leave to Duane Donahue the right to go steady with Dolly McKenzie again next year. To Jeannette Shell we leave a few white excuses to keep her out of trouble. To Gloria Varacalli we leave the right to make another corner shelf next year. To Mary Jo Portwood we leave the right to enjoy herself in study hall again next yeai To Richard Shanor we leave the right to be the 1947 “Glamour Boy” of S.H.S. To Nita Wellwood we leave the right to remain as sweet and lovely as she is. To Florence Stegmire we leave the right to keep things exciting in the halls of S.H.S. for another year. 28 —

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Dramatics JUNIOR PLAY The Junior Play “A Little Honey” was presented November 20, 1945, in the high school auditorium. It was produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of Chicago. “A Little Honey” is the story of a typical American family. Diana’s mother taught her that the way to interest a man was to talk fluently on subjects dear to a man’s heart—baseball, carburetors, the stock market. After trying these methods she tries her own ideas—and a tumultuously funny scene results. The cast was as follows: Jerry Minton, a teen ager Jo-Ann Kirchman Albert Parker, from next door Jimmie Bondi Caroline, “Scoots,” Jerr ’s younger sister Evelyne Wilson Diana, Jerry’s older sister Patricia Golden Dolores Megglehammer, the cook Helen Kavalok Tom Corning, in love with Diana John Porter Roger Minton, the father Bill Strickland Eve Tyler, an attractive widow Janie Franklin Martha Minton, the mother Dorla Fagan Mrs. Simmons, a trained nurse Mary Green Grandma Thornton, Martha’s mother Barbara Scott The Sure-shot Man, an exterminator Malcolm Hutton Production Staffs: Director Mrs. Ruby G. Embry Class Sponsor Miss Jeannette Johnson Class President Ray Hobbs Stage Managers Lawrence Lofgren, Marillyn Small Stage crew, under direction of Mr. Scheibe—Carl Smith, Bill Porter, Joe Zowada, John Marshall, Frank Mediate, Jack Switzer, Bob Day. Publicity and Tickets Dave Fuller, Olive Marie Wilson, Bill Emery. Programs Maurice Campbell, Helen Braun Properties Nita Wellwood, Donna Rose Sound System Berdon Smith Ushers Dixie Aldrich, Gladys Baker, Nadene Case, Mary Lou Chiesler, Joan Dauderman, Norma Kohl-russ, Catherine Neeley, Florence Stegmire, Beverly Urbaczka, Carol Woods. SENIOR PLAY The Senior Play “Spring Green” was presented April 26, 1946, in the high school auditorium. It was produced by special anangement with the French Publishing Co. This play takes place in the Cassell home in Elmwood. Nina Cassell, the charming and youthful mother of two daughters, has turned over a wing of her rambling residence to help the government house the military personnel of a nearby airfield. The officer in charge of the construction, to Nina’s amazement, once lived next door. The younger set is all “a twitter” over the son who was born in New York. However, the absent-minded, gentle son, Newton, who has just been expelled from a fashionable school and who has a passion for the scientific breeding of earthworms, disrupts his father’s romance and barely escapes jail. — 30 —