West Reading High School - Vaquero Yearbook (West Reading, PA)

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IUNIOR PROM UR Classes' greatest success was the Prom which We had in our Iunior year. It Was held on the evening of March 21, 1942, in the Mirror Room of the Berkshire Hotel. There Was a record attendance of 225 people, who danced from 8:30 to 11:30 to the music of lack Heath and his orchestra. A novelty which was introduced at this dance was a coke bar, destined to become a major feature at most West Reading Dances. The Iunior Prom was open to the general public, and boys and girls from our town and surrounding ones attended it. The Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Cobley, Miss lda Stamm, Miss Dorothy Myers, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Angstadt, and Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Schlegel. Earle Angstadt did an excellent job as general chairman of our Prom, and thanks should go to him and to everyone who helped to make this affair such a great success! 27

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY UN November l9, l942, the Senior Class pre- sented the three act farce Double Trouble. The plot of the play is centered about a typical middle class family which Was hit by the de- pression. ln an effort to get back on their feet financially, they seek the aid of their Aunt Deborah, a noted actress, who has come to visit them. However, it turns out that Aunt Deborah is really not Aunt Deborah but a bank robber who is using the Berry family as a front While he is cool- ing off. Through a sequence of hilarious attempts to beg, borrow, steal, or inherit some of Aunt Deborah's fortune, they find that he is in reality a fake. Art Samson, an enthusiastic cub reporter and the suitor of Alice Berry, and Iimmy Berry, uncovered the plot of the gangsters. After the real Aunt Deborah appears and the crooks make an unsuccessful at- tempt to escape, they are brought to justice. The money received from the reward pays off the debts and the Berrys are once more out of the red and on easy street. Art Samson gets his girl and everybody's happy about the whole thing. The antics of Dave Moyer, in the dual role of the phoney Aunt and the hardened criminal, kept the audience in constant merriment throughout the performance. 28