Abilene High School - Orange and Brown Yearbook (Abilene, KS)

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1 Nuts, to you! Toughie Stevens Which is the-? Little Women Just an ographers They all look alike Pint size Pinson's pet Sentimental gentleman Love ? ? ? More love Y ? Kentucky derby entrants Oh, look at the monkey Talking as usual! l Aln't love grand? . Where'5 the other link? . Future policemen . The Solomon shiek . Lyceum entertainers I t'ink you're right Two dumb seniors n Those men again Playing postofficc Um! Dear! Thurber, future Paderewskiamissus Shine and Co. Look at the ears on him! Us kids!

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junior Play Cavender, Kean, Young, Todd, Engle, Dawson, Baker, D. Zook, Christmore, Taylor, Bear, Hesselbarth, Welch, Lucier, W. Zook, Nottorf, H. Kauffman, Larsen. S THE FIRST DRAMATIC PRODUCTION . of the year, the juniors presented, It Pays to Advertise, a three-act comedy written by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett. Leading, roles were portrayed by Eugene Daw- son, lag Rodney Martin, and Faye Verla Engle, as Mary Grayson. Cyrus Martin, played by Ellwood Baker, was young Rodney's father and a soap man- ufacturer. He had hired Miss Grayson to encour- age Rodney to become a successful business man. Meanwhile, Rodney discovered an old soap recipe. Ambrose Peale, i11 reality Dwight Zook, was a very capable advertising agent, and he decided to go into this new business with Rodney. Another of their agents, Ellory Clark, played by Wayne Zook, is the sou of Mr. Martin's worst enemy. Meanwhile, Countess de Beaurin, Elinor VVelch, arrived from France, and, in speaking that language, made a soap contract which later proved false. Finally, the news of Rodney and Miss Gray-- son's .marriage is revealed. Other members of the cast were: Harold Larsen as William Smith, Robert Nottorf as Donald Mc- Clfiesneyg Harold Kauffman ag George Bronson: Mary Jane Lucier as Miss Burke, Pauline Bear as Marie, Emmett Hesselbarth as Johnson, and four sandwich parade 'men: Harold Todd, Kenneth Kean, William Young, Hllfl Ward Cavender. EVEN CHANCES was presented by the seniors as the last dramatic production of their high school careers at the'City Auditorium, April 27. The able coaching of Misses Esther Christ- -more and Marjorie Taylor together with the ef- forts of the cast made the play all that is required of a senior class. ' Jimmie Shannon, portrayed by Jack Nelson, was a bashful young bachelor who fell 'heir-to his grand- father's millions, if he were married by his fast- approaching thirtieth birthday. A dinner party was arranged by Jin11nie's right-hand 111an, Billy llleekin, played by Robert Froelich, after which Jimmie went through seveniproposals. For one r.ea- son and another all seven refused his offer of mar- riage, and prospects began to look bad until in all seven cases the girls-reconsidered. In the meantime,.the supposedly confirmed bach- lor had fallen in love with Ruth Hurd, who carried the role of Anne Windsor, and with only thirty min- utes before the deadline, gained her consent, Other members of the cast included the members of Shannon's club: Don Duckwall, Lynden Gamber, Glenn Weber, Bruce Nemecheck, and Lowell Lauer, as houseman. Hazel Huston played the part of Nemecheck's dominating wife, and Stelouise Hockensmith, Lenore Hatter, Gwendolyn Romine, Lydia Long, and Juanita Reneau were the girls in- vited to the dinner party. . , Senior Play Lauer, Huston, Romine, Weber, Stevens, Nemecheck, Reneau. J. Nelson. Hurd, Froelich, Christmore, Taylor, C. Shearer, F. Kauffman, L. Long, Hatter ,D. Duckwall, Hockensmith, Gamber.

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Athletic Department URING THE PAST NINE YEARS, Marvin Van Osdol has coached the athletics in the Abilene High School, and has produced three C. K. L. championship football teams and two basketball championship teams. Van received his high school education in Pret- ty Prairie, Kansas, where he received four letters in basketball. He attended college at the Kan- sas State Teachers College of Emporia and received a B. S. Degree in Education. Wliile in college, he was awarded three letters in both basketball and football. This year Van,' was both coach and principal of A. H. S. Next year he will give up coaching and devote all of his time to his position as principal. During the nine years Van has been in Abilene, the athletic department has grown, not only as to the making of good teams, but it has been self- supporting. Abilene now possesses one of the best FLOYD S. CURRIER, B. S. in Ed. . Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia ALBERT W. HAWKES, B. S. in Ed. Kansas State College, Hays MARVIN W. VAN OSDQL, B. S. in Ed. Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia University of Chicago athletic fields in the state. Floyd Currier went to high school at Dodge City, Kansas, and while there received two letters in football and two in track. He received a B. S. De- gree in Education at the State Teachers College of Emporia, where he was awarded two football let- ters. Newt,' came to Abilene six years ago to teach mathematics in the junior high and assist in coach- ing. He helps Van Osdol during football season and coaches the junior high and freshman basket- ball teams. This year Newt,' coached the track team. Albert Hawkes attended high school and col- lege at Hays, Kansas. Last year he received a B. S. Degree in Education and came to Abilene to teach mathematics. He ably assisterl Van', in coaching both football and basketball, and helped Currier with track. l .L