Arthur Hill High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Ilramatics Offers outlet for timid souls as well as talent Dramatics classes provide opportunity for voice training, the background of drama and the production of plays. In addition to play reading, notebook and class exercises, the drama classes presented three one-act plays for their friends in the Little Theatre, November 27. The plays were: Their Husbands, played by Betty Spatz, Annarose Guida, Virginia jozwiak and Donna Remington, The Brink of Silence, play- ed by Dick Burke, Bob Biggs and Ray Guerin, and Teeth of the Gift Horse, by Doris Muehlenbeck, Carolyn Michel, Dick Burke, Dick Wager, Virginia Eppert and Esther Nagel. ARTS-DRAMATICS CLUB Any student finding himself adapted to dramatics may enter the Arts-Dramatics Club by handing in a written application and maintaining a C average in all classes. In the picture Randall Robson, president, talks with Nancy Stine, vice-presi- dent, Phyllis Graebner, secretary, and Harold Sandow, trea- surer. The club was organized in 1927 to stimulate an appre- ciation for drama and the development of talent. SENIOR PLAY Almost every night for weeks, the cast of the senior play, Young Barry, spent an hour or two in the auditorium rehearsing to assure the student body of a flawless performance. The seniors presented the Barry family in Young Barry on March 7. The cast as in the second picture is from left to right: seated, jean Ann Granville, Randall Robson and Nancy Stine. Standing are Mildred Franz, Phyllis Graebner, Leonard Anaman, Betty Spatz, Mary Lee Grossman, Marjorie Rice and Marvin Page. Those not in the picture are Harold Sandow, Robert Fox, Robert Fellows and Rosemary Bartlett. The backstage crew came in for a lot of approval on this show. Wesley Peterson on lights, Linn Campbell, stage man- ager, john Goppelt on book and Harry Haft on the curtain. The boys had plenty of problems to solve in making a glowing Hre in the fireplace, bringing in the radio announcement, setting special spots of light for the action and learning to use the remote control switch. The stage set was unusually attractive on the new rug pur- chased for permanent property. And didn't those actors handle themselves with a great deal more finesse and naturalness on a covered floor! JUNIOR PLAY With the setting in the patio of the McIntyre's home in a University town in California, Mr. and Mrs. Mclntyre por- trayed by George Michel and jean Williamson casually discuss the problems of their children George and Terry, Phyllis Don- haiser and Howard Finger, as they pass through the trying years of later adolescence into the Young April of their lives. Young April was the junior presentation, May l and 2. The cast shown in the first picture, is from left to right: seated, Pat Bates, Phyllis Whyte, Ruth Hauffe, Pegge McNamara, Phyllis Donhaiser, George Michel and Howard Finger. Stand- ing are Helen Novack, Don Zoellner, Frances Fassezke, Don MacMillan, Wilmer Pierson, Bob Reetz, Herbert Saul, Ella Dee Ford and Jean Williamson. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT The first Christmas spent in the new school was celebrated by the production of Dickens' Christmas Carol, December 18. Among the twenty-six students chosen for the principle parts 16 in the cast as shown in the Nativity scene are Mary, jean Wil- liamson, Joseph, Wilmer Pierson, the three wise men, Don Zoellner, john Donhaiser and Bill McFarland and the four angels, Sally Schindehette, Doris Muehlenbeck, Marjorie Rice and june Willemin. Other players were: Scrooge, Bob Biggs, two gentlemen, Herbert Saul and Bill McFarland, Spirit of Christmas Past, Carolyn Michel, Spirit of Christmas Present, Rosemary Bartlett, Spirit of Christmas Future, Betty Spatz, Marley's Ghost, james Muehlenbeck, Bob Cratchit, Marvin Page, Mrs. Cratchit, Phyllis Graebner, Peter, Ray Guerin, Martha, jean Ann Granville, small boy, Ben Damberg, small girl, Janice Ward, Fred Scrooge, Dick Burke, Mrs. Fred Scrooge, Doris Muehlenbeck, Mrs. Scrooge's sister, Adeline Thom, Topper, Clinton Stroebel, Mr. Fezziwig, Randall Rob- son, Mrs. Fezziwig, Harriet Sarow, three Misses Fezziwig, Nancy Stine, Zoe-Lois Mason and Doris Hall, guests, Dick Miller and Bob Fellows, and apprentices, Kenneth Praay and Kenneth Katter. COMMENCEMENT Narrators George Michel and james Muehlenbeck provided the background for the scene of the pageant Our American Way june 13, at the city auditorium. An introductory tableau was offered by Ann Gilbert, Geraldine Esmer, Marjorie Rice, Sally Schindehette, Mary Surgeson and jean Williamson. This scene remained on the stage as a background for the entire pageant. The first pillar, Allegiance, was presented by Don Abbey, Marjorie Edwards, Bob Fellows, Mildred Franz, Mary Lee Grossman, Carol Heineman, jane Kingry, Bob Krause, Mary McQuistin, Wilmer Pierson, Randall Robson, Harold Sandow, Herbert Saul, Donna Scheidler, Bonnie Slabaugh, Harold Schick and Clinton Stroebel. Religious Liberty was portrayed by Lois Archangeli, Shirley Blacktopp, john Donhaiser, Betty Ernsberger, john Goppelt, Betty Haenlein, Ted Heineman, Coral Oberlin, Phyllis Sanford, Dorothy Vondette, june Willemin and Marilyn Witting who appeared in the scene depicting religious liberty. Civic liberty, the third pillar, was enacted by Linn Campbell, Louis Conzelman, Shirley Guilbault, Irene johnson, Irene King, Virginia Mclntyre, Marie Myers, Elmer Nestell, Marvin Page, Wesley Peterson, Geraldine Price and Betty Walton. Therese Beckett, Arlene Fish, Phyllis Graebner, Richard Griffin, Rita Stork, Betty Ann Young, Gerald Young and Jack Young depicted the fourth pillar, Social Welfare. Education was enacted by Jean Ann Granville, Norman Klemm, Ray McDonald, Don McMall, Verla Tietz and Dale Young.

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Y peech Offers public speaking, debate, declamation, oratory Students may take one semester of public speaking. The class studies voice, posture, eye contact and construction of material. The groups get practice in program building by sponsoring extra skits and chairmen for assemblies and pep sessions and meeting the numerous civic demands for program material. DEBATE Surviving sixty-nine competitive debates june Willemin and Mary Wood of Mrs. Krueger's advisory, pictured at the top right, became all-school champion debaters. Runners-up pic- tured below were Betty Ann Young of Miss White's advisory and Pat Brock of Mr. Damberg's advisory. Subjects debated were in the first round, Aid to Britain , in the second, Com- pulsory Military Training and in the remaining rounds, Labor Unions. SPEECH Chosen to represent Arthur Hill this year in the valley speech meet were Don Nuechterlein, in declamation, Marjory Rice, oratoryg james Muehlenbeck, oratoryg Nancy Byrnes, declamationg George Michel and Richard Weiner, extempo- raneous speaking. These students are pictured at the top right. This tournament brought a new combination of teams. VALLEY DEBATE For the first time since 1936 debaters entered the Valley debate tournament. Six schools, Arthur Hill, Bay City, Flint Northern, Owosso, Pontiac and Saginaw, had four teams of three members each. The three tourneys were to have two series of seven rounds each. Arthur Hill placed sixth for the season. The students participating were Donald Abbey, Richard Blackwell, Rosemary Bartlett, Daye Goodrow, Harold Miller, james Muehlenbeck, Bruce Otto, Marvin Page, Marjory Rice, Nancy Stine, Verla Tietz, Flistia Urban and Frank Wager. The hrst talking tournament was held at Flint Northern November 4, where jim Muehlenbeck, Marjory Rice and Nancy Stine, one of the four teams, won two of their rounds on the subject Resolved, That the powers of the Federal Gov- ernment should be decreased. The second round was held at Arthur Hill November 29. The preliminaries were started at 4 o'clock after which a supper was served in the cafeteria. After supper Arthur Hill placed in one event only. The last tourney was scheduled at Owosso, january 14, in which the same students participated but teams were reorgan- ized. This tournament brought a new combination of teams. One was composed of Don Nuechterlein, Jim Stenglein and George Michel who won their two rounds. Although Arthur Hill placed last in Valley debate, Mr. Senn predicts a better record next year with a few experienced students. ASSEMBLIES The assembly committee, composed of Marjorie Rice, Ted Heineman, Sally Schindehette, Harris Taubeneck and jim 18 Muehlenbeck, not in picture, pictured at the top center plan- ned a series of talks by interesting persons with the aid of Student Organization funds. The patriotic opening with the singing of the national song and pledge to the flag immediately followed the orchestra number at each assembly. Regular assemblies were held in the auditorium while pep programs were held in the gymnasium. The first assembly presented Mr. Ray Ramsey in a descrip- tive travelogue of Mexico. The Spanish department sponsored this assembly with Jean Ann Granville as student chairman on September 19. Two weeks later brought Captain William Campbell, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. Harris Taubeneck was chairman. The Homecoming program presented Queen Gertrude Forbes with Geraldine Esmer and Dorothy Geyer as her atten- dants. The ctowning of the queen took place in the gymnas-