Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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Mo ale Um? No. 2 The Dramatics Club usually gives two plays each year, a junior class benefit performance and a serious Christmas program. Membership is by tryout with a limited number accepted. Due to war restrictions, Hash bulbs were not available to take snaps of the plays. The cast for the junior class-Dramatics club play, Ameri- can Passport, included Claude Akins, Diana Magnus, Harriet Blackwell, Raymond Alexander, Betty Fowler, Catherine Leahy, Maurice Cibull, Mary M. Kern, Frances McCormick, Tom Richards, Tom Wynne, Phyllis Armstrong, Ray Lavendar. Make-up assistant was Suzanne Lanz, costumes and properties, Betty Atkinson and Catherine Byers, promptors, Mary Ann Davis and Anne Dixon, stage, john Merrell and Bill Ridge. The Senior play was Don't Take My Penny. Diana Magnus, Kay Montgomery, Harriet Blackwell, John Day, Vavra Martin, ,lack Mapes, Catherine Byers, Ed Sohn, Frances McCormick, Adele Liva, Emma Browning, Jane Marshall, Lovetta Peyton, Edna May Wykoff, Tom Wynne, Dean Brock and Donald Wfykoff comprised the cast. Miss Helen Gunn, head of the speech department, was in charge of both productions. DRAMATICS CLUB

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ROTARY DISCUSSION NAVY DAY ESSAY Ylg MATH CONTESTANTS LATIN CONTESTANTS Sfmrp boo fer: Claude Akins, speaking on the subject Rotary's Place in the War Effort, won the local contest, the group contest at Bloomington, and the District at French Lick. The District is equivalent to the State as it is the highest contest. Miss Gunn coached Claude on his speech. Local winners of the Navy Day Essay contest were Tom Wynne and Henrietta Meno. The essays, on the subject Our'Navy-Why We Must Keep It Strong, were judged by Miss Georgie Mitchusson, head of the English department. Richard Veatch and Sogi Soder were winners in the Comprehensive Math contest. Local winners in the Geometry contest were Burns Henderson and Bob Hall. Contestants in the Algebra division were Marcia Tomey and john Priest. john Priest and Earl Harris were winners in the first year Latin contest. Second year winners were Minerva Henderson and Burns Henderson. Because of transportation difficulties a new method of holding the contests was inaugurated this year. Examinations were given in the same manner as has been used for the local contest in years past. These papers were then sent over the state for grading. After they were returned to Indiana University for ranking, a complicated system was used whereby the one test was used to determine local, district and state winners. This system was used for both Math and Latin contests.

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Speak! Serwke Squad on III-Y Under the sponsorship nf Mr. Claude Kelley, I-Ii-Y Club bought a bond as its aid to the war effort. X-lx GIRL RESERVE The Girl Reserve took as their aid to the War effort the making of kits for men in service. They also rolled bandages for the Red Cross. The group is under the direc- tion of Miss Belva New- som and Miss Marjorie Priest. ALLIED YOUTH Allied Youth, with Miss Elizabeth Spear as sponsor, un- dertook the collection of old rags for their aid in national defense. They also aided the Girl Reserve in their Red Cross work. Nlx VICTORY CORPS CHARTER MEMBERS The Victory Corps is :1 war- born organization. Under the leadership of Mr. I. M. Me- Fadden, the group sponsored a twenty-Eve day defense stamp and bond campaign to raise 551,800 to purchase two jeeps. Stamps and bonds amounting to S2865 were purchased dur- ing this time.