Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Advertising Staffs The Business Stafl! Mr. CooKsey and his assistants hrew schemes to inveigle the business man into tremendous ad ertising for the IQjQ Annual. Annual Staff Picture The Annual anxiety! Words, words, vvords — and that most hor- rible vord — Deadline! Miss Oauner and the Annual staff look over the copy, and go slowly mad! Editors J he four Annual musketeers. Betty Applegate, Art Editor; Elaine Van Horn, Business Man- ager; Betty Murnan, Editor-ih- Chief; Clara June Bosson, Liter- ary Editor. ANNUAL After protracted struggles, disappoint- ments, and loads of fun, the 1939 annual staff produced this pictured review of a year ' s accomplishments. Editorial Staff: Miss Louise Dauner, Lit- erary Sponsor; Betty Murnan, Editor-in- Chief; Clara June Bosson, Literary Editor; Mary Anne Blessing, William Ashby, Frances O Connor, Phyllis Hyde; Marian Chapman, Rebecca Irwin, Fred Kurman, Tom Herrin. Advertising Staff: R. Nelson Cooksey, Ad- vertising Sponsor; Elaine Van Horn, Busi- ness Manager; Wayne Thompson, Adver- tising Manager; Murray Rudd, Jack George, Florence Cramer, Sam Dungan. Art Staff: Miss Marylizabeth Mooney, Art Sponsor; Betty Applegate, Art Editor; Vance Wilkinson, Robert E. Allan. THE RIPPLES The Ripples, 1939 spring-time vaude- ville production, was presented March 29, at John Strange auditorium, before an appre- ciative audience of over six hundred parents and friends. Five slcits, under student man- agement and sponsored by faculty members, were: Beauty Rhythm by Margaret Gates and Rebecca Irwin; Mrs. Grundy s Doll Shop by Kathleen Burrows; Romantic In- terlude by Dorothy Steck and Sara Crooks; Mountain Music by Peggy Million and George Cornelius; and Night Shadows by Clara June Bosson and Robert Lawson. There were the very cute manicurists, the feather merchant , dancing dolls and many other interesting attractions. Dale Van Hart, Betty King, Margaret Miller, and Reid Chap- man provided entertaining intermission acts. Faculty sponsors were: Miss Varin. Mrs. Richards, Miss Colsher, Mrs. Eaverson, and Mr. Hall.

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LIFE Life, a sphere [or effort grand; A ratnomless sea without a shore; An Hour-glass with wasting sand; A realm of mystery to explore. Vance Wilkinson, Jr. a t 7x71-1-1 r t n ' - t AUN 1 CHLOh (An exercise in realism) In a three-room, not-too-clean shack wedgea in between two of Tennessee s middle-sized mountains, hves Aunt Chloe. She has Uved here for only two or three P months, so nobody seems to know who she is or where she came from. We don ' t know exactly how old she is, except that she is old enough to claim an Old Age Pension. She wears loose-fitting, print dresses which suggest that she has barely enough energy to lift her arms above her head and let the garment fall to where it finally hangs, limply, over her large body. Her hair is short, straight, and grey. She has coarse features and a dark mole on one cheek, nearly concealed by a grey, bristly trace of beard. Shoes are not in her wardrobe. Out in back of the hut is a field where she raises enough corn and tobacco for her own use. At regular intervals she travels the fourteen miles to town to buy bales of cotton which she spins into thread. W e suppose that she must use her pension for this, because there isn ' t much money around here. Like all Tennessee mountaineers, she lives on ham, beans, and corn. She gets the ham Irom neighbors. In a box under the bed she has a collection of variously patterned quilts which she has made, but refuses to use. Among them is her own original pattern, The Rattlesnake, plus several pairs of home-knit socks. There is something about the house that subtly suggests the lack of one modern convenience- — a bath. She is hospitable, though uncommunicative, and all the small children in the neighbor- hood like to go there. The only thing not in keeping with her character is that she is so afraid to stay alone that she pays a girl from a family of twelve across the road to stay with her nights. All day long she spins, works in the field, or cooks, taking time out only to spit. Betty Murnan STEEL BIRD j- Look at that giant steel bird, its immense shiny wings, and huge blunt beak. See how it stares at you with its mournful bulging eyes. Listen to its angry roar as it strains to be under way. Carrying passengers to distant cities and lands. Its flying power is controlled by a crew of men. When it becomes rather angry and burns a bearing. It has to be doctored and repaired by men. When it becomes very enraged, it takes its revenge. Plunging to earth, freeing itself from slavery. Doris Greek

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SENIOR PLAY Amid the muttered protestations of an inde- pendent, spirited, high school boy, the hysterical wainng or his widowed mother, and the excited shouts of football fans, Apron-String Revolt, the 1939 Senior Play, rose to successful heights. Its simple plot and light hnes kept the audience in hearty gales of laughter. There was just enough mystery to make the play interesting and enter- taining. The cast included: Frances O ' Connor, Armand Mauk, Rebecca Irwin, Mary Louise Friedrich, William Ashby, Betty Applegate, Jack George, Florence Cramer, Sam Dungan, James Millhoi- iand, and William Fuller. Miss Elizabeth Johnson w as sponsor. Senior Play Good Gravy, Ma! is the theme-song of our hero as the cast and Miss Johnson discuss what is commercially known as Apron- String Revolt. But to Broad Rip- ple, it was the excitement of the Senior Play. Romantic Interlude You re precious, you ' re dar- ling, you ' re terribly sweet! —The same old line! But used advan- tageously for a Romantic Inter- lude. Mountain Music We like Mountain Music — and so did the audience, judging from the reception accorded this Ami- tur Musik Sosiety.