Bryant High School - Hoosier Owl Yearbook (Bryant, IN)

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Hillbilly Courtship The Senior Class of 1947 gave a comedy play, Hillbilly Courtship , which was a great success. As the title suggests, the play is a good old hillbilly play. Ma Peppin CRuth Polingl owns a shack in the mountains in which chaos reigns. Ma Peppin is the meanest old White woman on Hog Mountain. She has every- body quaking in their boots including Pappy Stilsby CGerald Dicksonl who was continually fighting with her. Luke Stilsby fGlen Theurerj is infatured with Emmy Peppin CJoan Myersl, but since their families are fueding they cannot see each other. When the mountain nitwit tlsfarion Loganl mixes up some letters which were sent to the matrimonial bureau to get Ma a husband and Pappy a wife, Louis Cattaro tKeith Steinj and Bridget O'Flannigan lThelma Mumbyb come to answer them. There is some misunderstanding and trouble boiled some more. To complicate matters, Lula Triffet fAlma Bergmanl and her sister, Seedie CCarolyn Baileyj come from the city for a rest, and their Manager Sol Silverstein tliorman Tullisj came along with them to get some more hillbillys for his hillbil'y circus. Ma Peppin tries to marry Sol and ends up trying to shoot him. Reverend Boswell CV-erlin Craig? comes to the mountains to marry the critters that Wash had written wanted to get married, but all the characters clash and Bridget O'Flannigan marries Louis Cattaro. It is one of the most clashing episodes to occur on the stage.

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Junior Play of '46 Wild Oats Boy which proved to be a great success, was given by the Junior Class February Sth and 9th, 1946. Eddie fGlen Theui-eil according to his fathers will was supposed to get 350,000 if he was in bed at 8:00 every night for three months. This was a hard task for Eddie, but he undertook it, however, in the presence of all the family relatives who would have benefited if he had fallen down on the job. Judy fVelma Rittenhousej his sweetheart, was to inherit the fortune with him, she has quarreled with him on account of his dissipated habits and he was having a hard time winning her back. With the he p of Pat CAlma Bergmanl, Eddie made Judy very jealous. Pat was really in love with Chuck Benton QGe1ald Dicksonl. Eve Martin CRoseanna Fiferl a friend of J udy's fell in love with Jake Peters fKeith Steinl who tried to keep Eddie from going to bed at 8:00 and providing he could marry Judy, he would benefit with money. The household was really in a uproar when Danny Murphy fElvan Towelll dressed as a woman was hired as a cook. 'Della CJoan Myersj fell in love with the c0ok's brother, who was really' Danny. Prue CMaxine Mastersl and her pestiferous son, Trout CMarion Loganj were typical country cousins. Aunt Ann fRuth Polingj kept the house down to normal. Mose KRalph Ashcraftl, the darky servant claimed he had seen Uncle George's ghost. Seth iNorman Tullisl turned out to be Uncle George. Eddie and Judy patched up their quarrel and Pat and Chuck got engaged. Danny turned out to be a detective following Jake, who ran away from his wife and baby. Mr. Schramm did an excellent job of directing the play.

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Class Prophecy No one knows what the future beholds, so we'll make a wild guess, without intentions of seriousness. Ralph Ashcraft, the great student chemist, known as Haskal Atom to public, discovered a new ray machine. In this machine, one can look into the future. We, the class of Forty Seven, were very anxious to see into the future, so Haskal turned the dial to ten years. As the machine moaned and the fog disappeared, we stood in a daze and then we could see the year of 1957 just as clear as if we were there. The nation's television sets were going to feature a great program. The President of the U. S. was to make a speech. The president walked down the aisle of a great building of beautiful design 3 beside him walked a hugh sturdy man. As the president came closer, we noticed the president was none other than James Monroe. The crowd was roaring, Monroe reigns again I Also we were shocked to find that the president's body guard was Gerald Dickson! The machine quickly changed to the wide open plains when Joan Myers sought her future. She owned a ranch and over a hundred horses. Riding down the trail came none other than Doc Craig. He was riding an animal which was part horse and part cow. He was raising these animals in great quanities with the information he had gained from Wayne Haffner's Ag. class. Glen and Keith desired to see their future. They were sitting in an office buiiding on the 199th floor in New York City. They had been in the automobile business but now were building rocket ships. They made two models, the T heurer Clipper and the Stein Streamer! They had taken four trips to the moon and found it quite livable there and planned to move there the next year. Marion Logan turned the dial and gazed into the machine. There was a great brick house and in front of it was a sign which read, The Friendly Undertaker. Inside the house, he was preparing a corpse. He had chang- ed physically. He was a little chubby and walked with a limp. He seemed to enjoy his work and had a fine establishment. The machine went into a fog and then cleared to find Alma Bergman posing as Norman Tullis painted her picture. Alma's face was on all popular magazines. Norman had painted her picture many times along with many motion picture and television stars.