Ashley High School - Ashlian Yearbook (Ashley, OH)

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The play Her Step Husband, an up- roarious comedy in three acts, was given November 18th and 19th by the Senior Class under the direction of Miss Toby. SENIOR The setting is in Harvey Marshall's pLAY bungalow near New York. The fun begins CAST when Mary Marshall receives a telegram from a rich aunt saying she intends to pay them a visit on the following night. Since Mary had been corresponding with her aunt telling her about their beautiful home, limousine and servants--all of which exist only in her vivid imagination--the telegram puts her on the spot. She must mend the shabbiness of her home and produce a maid and a butler. Mrs. Allen, a neighbor, rescues her by lending her silverware, drapes and furniture. She secures the butler by pressing her husband into service much against his will. When the aunt arrives she insists upon seeing the husband, this compels Mary to get one immediately. Mrs. Allen again comes to the rescue by phoning Jerry Niles, a friend of her brother and a perfect stranger, and asking him to pose as Mary's husband for the evening. Thus is created the step husband. Then the play becomes a riot, for the step husband makes many bad breaks in the presence of Aunt Emmy and Mary's real husband, now the butler. Stella, the maid hired for the evening, creates the funniest situations when she falls for Mr. Marshall, who she thinks is a professional butler. Meanwhile Aunt Emmy enjoys herself immensely, for she knows from the beginning that .Terry is a young man engaged to her other niece, Florence, and that the butler is really Mr. Marshall. How does she know? She knows Mary and Mary's imaginative power! THE JUNIOR PLAY As this annual goes to press, members of the Junior Class are making plans for their first important dramatic undertaking, their class play. They have chosen a comedy, A Mind Of Her Own. The play concerns the difficulties of .Tim and Delia Bartle and their adolescent daughter, Bunny, who is very impressionable and tries on the personality of each of her friends in turn. Through a series of uproariously funny situations Bunny finally learns that she must change her tactics or lose her admirers. A wide variety of other characters help to make the play a most amusing and entertaining comedy. The talent in the Junior Class looks very promising and there is every indication that their performance under the direction of Miss Toby will be a long remembered event. , PAINTING SCENERY Z7

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SCHOLARSHIP Scholarship is booming in Ashley School this year with a strong group of twenty- five students holding berths on the honor roll. As the reader scrutinizes the picture on the opposite page, he will note that of the number, twelve fall under the Junior and Senior flags, the Junior Class claiming the highest percentage of honor students. The annual Senior scholarship examination, held at Berlin High School February 5, found five studious Ashley Senior delegates grinding away on the difficult problems therein. A twelve years' foundation of persistent pursuance of knowledge paid rich dividends to Richard Boring, who, from a possible score of 300, captured third rating in the county with a score of 2075 David Thurston, who followed close in fifth place with a score of 2065 Jean Carper, who won seventh place with an enumeration of 1993 Dale Benedict and Martha Lang, who received honorable mention with scores of 181 and 166 respectively. As all five placed in the upper twenty-five percent of Delaware County, we conclude that teachers and pupils have co-operated rather well along the path of high learning. Further evidence of good scholastic attainment came through the Every Pupil tests in the various subjects, in most of which class medians were above those of the entire state. Just as scholarship teams from Ashley have repeatedly gained uppermost place, or nearly so, in the county, so this year's team will bring its share of honors. For as this Annual goes to press, many capable students are preparing for the preliminary District State Scholarship tests, which will be held on April 8. Other scholarship projects which have interested students are as follows: The Westinghouse Science Talent test which caught the interest of David Thurston, a nation wide essay contest on Why Democracy Works which drew essays from the pens of Joyce Nolting, Betty Thurston and Richard Boring, a county essay contest, Fire Prevention, limited to the Tenth Grade, which appealed to Norma Staley, Wanda Mattix and Betty Thurston. The latter's essay, Fire Prevention on the Farm, gained the judge's approval for first place. The students who have participated in different scholarship activities can testify that they always gain by trying, though they may not always rank in highest place. For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it. - Proverbs 8:11 ATTENDANCE Many pupils have made a commendable record this year in regular and punctual attendance. Incidentally, not a few barely have squeezed under the ropes by literally racing for their seats in hopes of reaching them before the bell stopped buzzing, having darkened the drorway just as it began. Here are those who were neither absent nor tardy during the first semester. lZth grade: Martha Lang, David Thurston. llth grade: Norma Jane Knauber, Joyce Nolting, Gloria Powers. 10th grade: Kenneth Jackson, David Masters, Norma Staley, Jean VanSickle. 9th grade: Helen Boring, Harry Clark, Jean . Cramer, Mildred Hatten, Tommy Williams. 8th grade: Doris Corwin, Barbara Doering, Crystal Coodman, Earlene Jenkins, Nancy Lang, Barbara Main, Lou Ann Martin, Alden Nolting, Joan Veley. 7th grade: Walter Borchers, Barbara Hatten, Bernard Jordan, Carolyn Kohler, Darlene Pankin. Z9