Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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The Arsenal Cannon 30 The Cannon Staff January Magazine Stall' Writing Stall' Magazine Editor-in-Chief ...,... ,.,,.,........... G ertrude Walsh Staff I Staff II Layout Editor ...................................., ............. D 61112011 Littell Editor-in-Chief ..........,. lane Bosart George Messmer Art Editor ..,,..................................... ,......,.......,..........., R ay Poole Associate Editor .......,, L orril Harper Alma Bernhardt ASSiStaIlt Layout Editor ...,..............,...,. Alfred Henderson School Editor ...,........... Mary J. McGaughey Marjorie Hargon Assistant Art Editor .,...,,.,..... ...............,, I rvin DuChemin Copy Editor .................. Martha L. Cook Jean McLeay Layout Advisor ....r.....r.....,...,.,., ..r.......... M iss Frieda Lillis Page s Editor ,.........,.... Martha Hudgins Margaret Oldham R. O. T. C ..................,... G ustav Klippel Gustav Klippel Business Sports Editor ............... Warren Confer VVarren Confer I . Assistant Sports Business Manager, ........... ...,..,,..,,,. W alter Sinclair Editor ......................... .George Worley George Worley Circulation Manager ........ ...,........., D aniel Gleich Exchange Editor ........ Alice Hart Bernice Jones Publicity Manager ,,,,,,,,4,,,,,A,,,4,,,,.,,, ,,,,,,A,,,,,,,, R Obert Mikels Assignment VVritel'...Mildred Brown Grace Noblitt Printing Manager .,..,..............,..,.........,......,.........,.... James Wade Typists ....,...,...,......,..,..,..........,.,...........,,.....,..........,,.....,.. Jane Howard, Miriam Vollmer, Dorothy Thompson Reporters-Staff I-Mary Mae Endsley, Bernard . Flaherty, Maralyn Julian, Margaret Kendall, Advlsory Board Alice staufenbell, F 1 0 r dia M 0 nic al, Alice Organization and Policies ...........................................,.,.,...... Kautsky, Miss Mabel Goddard, head of English depart- ment . Directing Sponsor ................,,...... Miss Ella Sengenberger Reportersfstaff. H-'Ruthl Plerpont' Norval Jas- Business ................................... ....,...,.......... W erner Monninger P913 A1106 Helne, Beatflfle Rlsk, Leola KZWIOIG Printing ,.....,......,................ .....,.........,.....,. G eorge R. Barrett Helen Karch, Myla Udell, John St. Helens. The Cannon Agents THE ARSENAL CANNON

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Concert Orchestra Vocational Music is a course only for students interested in making music their life-Work. The classes are usually composed of seniors, but under- classmen are permitted to include it in their studies. Members are required to Work off their college en- trance requirements before taking the subject, as it necessitates the spending of four periods daily. Sight- reading, ear-training, harmony, and music apprecia- tion are required, but a student may choose any subject in which he is specializing. Included in this list are band, orchestra, voice, choral Work, directing, and accompanying. At the end of two years of suc- cessful Work, the pupil is given a Vocational Music certificate to signify the satisfaction of Work com- pleted. Sight-reading is a study of musical intervals in both major and minor modes and all rhythmic pat- terns and meters. In advanced work, it is the study- ing and singing of parts without thc aid of any in- strument. Ear-training is the study of melodies through hearing them in various meters and rhythms. Harmony is to music what grammar is to Eng- lish. No pupil who is seriously studying music can afford to exclude this from his course of study. It takes up key formation, chord formation, melody Writing, and accompanying. Appreciation is a two-year course. The first year is spent in the studying of grand operas everyone should know, and the second year deals With sym- phony orchestras and the literature that they play. The voice classes are non-credit classes. Voice building, breathing, voealization, and song interpre- tation are taught. Senior Orchestra The Music Department 29 THE ARSENAL CANNON J 'T

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Cast of characters for 66Daddy Long-Legsn: Ruth Cradick, William Hebert, Ruth Funk, Jay Fix, Alma Bernhardt, Ruth Brown, Katherine Kerrick, Jean Gorton, Winifred Hickman, William Gray, Walter Duane Jones, Bob Kent, Francis Hawkins, Jean Booth. Mary E. Daniel, Carl Cotterman, Margaret Heagy, Martha Hudgins, Dolores Ferrer, Marjorie Hargon, Dorit Graybill, Katherine Auch, Raymond Hardy, Lillian Hart, and Bernard Flaherty. Director: Miss Clara Ryan. Daddy Long-Legsf' by Jean Webster, was pre- sented December eighth in the Tech Auditorium by the A-K division of the senior class. Musical selec- tions from well-known operas were played by a Tech ensemble at the opening of the program. The first play given by a graduating class was in 1915, when Mi-dsuinmer Night's Dreamji by Shakespeare, was presented. Grounds east of the Arsenal served as a stage, and as the cast called for more characters than there were seniors, the remain- ing roles were taken by undergraduates. The Murat, Keithis, and the Masonic Temple have had Tech seniors before their footlights. Hilarious comedy, an elusive oriental mystery, a fast-moving railway drama, beautifully costumed pageants, and light romances have all seen their day as Tech productions. Today Tech boasts of a large auditorium of great seating capacity and highly cfhcient stage equipment. The stage is one of the largest and best equipped of its kind. The extensive lighting equipment for the entire auditorium is operated from one switchboard and every type of lighting effect can be obtained. lilvery possible device necessary in stagecraft activities is either at hand or can be contrived there. Thirty- five members are in the Stagecraft class, their duties ranging from designing and constructing settings and properties to shifting scenery and operating the play of lights. In the production of a senior play, many de- partments combine that the finished performance may be a success. One of the major problems in- volved is that of costuming, capably handled by a Scene I Daddy Long- Legs group maintained for that pur- pose. The Uostuming depart- ment makes a careful study of each play or pageant to be pre- sented by a Tech group in or- der that the costumes will be authentic for the period repre- sented. Not only does the group design the special char- acter costumes, but it also fashions them, members of the Home Economics de- partment assisting. Hand in hand with the intricacies of costuming Miss Ryan come that of make-up. Even as costuming is studied so as to iit the type of characters, so must make-up be studied. The Make-Up staff studies the characters weeks in advance and practices types of make-up pre- vious to final duties on the night of the performance. Advertising is done by placing posters and in- teresting projects pertaining to the play on the campus, issuing daily bulletins to roll rooms, by hold- ing an assembly, and in various other ways. To ad- vertising classes belong much of the credit for se- curing the large audiences present at the senior plays. They advertise each production in such an enthu- siastic and convincing manner that it is a settled question that everyone wishes to attend. Newspaper publicity is handled by the publicity writing group. Tickets and programs for the plays are designed in a Printing Design class and printed in the school print shop. The sale of tickets is handled by the six senior class treasurers with a faculty member in charge. Tech has a state-wide reputation for the eXcel- lcnce of its Music department, and the senior play takes full advantage of the fact. The musical selec- tions rendered introductory to the play rival the pei'- formance itself. All in all Tech has a complete stage company. The smallest detail is capably handled with seven departments cooperating in making a production a success. Il Ill-I I -u -inn in The Senior Play 31 THE ARSENAL CANNON