Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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Students Receive Speech Awards On March 11, 1973, nine Auburn students participated in the District Speech Tournament at Peru State College. Those receiving superior ratings were: Roland Barrett, Original Public Address; Brian Browning, After Dinner Speaking; Doug Holsclaw, Prose Literature; and Gloria Obermeyer, Interpretation of Poetry. Martha Russell received an excellent rating in Informative Public Address. Rob McKercher and Martha Russell received an excellent in Duet Acting. A superior rating was also received by the one-act play, student-directed by Doug Holsclaw. Cast members were Roland Barrett. Brian Browning, Valerie Coatney, Rob McKercher, Anne Ely, Kevin Casey, and Doug Holsclaw. Rob McKercher received the Besl Actor Award. All entries except the one-act play performed at the State Speech Tournament at Doane College on April 14. Contestants were judged in two preliminary rounds. Martha Russell was placed in the final round in her category. Brian Browning participated in After Dinner Speaking. His speech ex-amined the novel 1984. Doug Holsclaw. Brian Browning, Anne Ely. Roland Barrett. Valerie Coatney. Kevin Casey, and Rob McKercher performed in the one-act play. The King of the Castle”. Roland Barrett, who entered Original Public Address, spoke on the journalist's right to privacy.

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Martha Russell, portraying a night club performer, attempts to “influence and Americanized Chinese, played by Dennis Wininger. This scene look place in the park, and led to the production number, “1 Enjoy Being a Girl . Janet Genoa sings “A Hundred Million Miracles to Gloria Obermeycr. her prospective mother-in-law. Peggy Williams, a distraught seamstress, performs her solo, “Love. Look Away . Spring Musical Set in Chinatown San Francisco’s Chinatown was the setting for the 1973 Spring musical. On April 5 and 6, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, “Flower Drum Song, was presented in the Middle School auditorium. The production was a joint effort of the music and drama departments, directed by Miss Kathleen Krohn and Mr. Jeffrey Falter. The cast was composed of 62 actors, singers, and dancers, including several Middle School students. They performed such production numbers as A Flundred Million Miracles . I Enjoy Being a Girl , and Chop Suey . The principal players were Doug Crotty, Gloria Obermeyer, Dan Snodgrass, Martha Russell, Dennis Wininger, Janet Genoa. David Wininger, Peggy Williams, Brad Hahn. Melody Wininger, Bill Fitzgerald, and Valerie Coatney. Jim Adams was the stage manager. The plot concerns the generation gap between Chinese elders and their Americanized children. This theme is presented through the musical number. The Other Generation .

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For her Interpretation of Poetry, Gloria Obermeyer chose Vietnamese war poems by T. N. Hahn. Doug Holsclaw chose a story by John Updike for his prose reading. He also directed the one-act play. Martha Russell and Rob McKcrchcr entered a cutting in Duet Acting. Martha also gave an Informative Public Address on “Doodling 25