Buchanan High School - Pines Yearbook (Buchanan, MI)

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SOCIETIES Usher Club Freddie Portz The Usher Club which has been in existance since 1925, has ably prov- ed that it is one of the most essential organizations in school. Its pur- pose is to accummodate, in a systematic way, the needs of the public dur- ing the school entertainments. The club consists of members from the junior and senior classes ex- clusively. Only ten members are voted into the society each year. The club is under the sponsorship of Miss Dorothea Chandler. The officers are: Doris Campbell, president, Ruth Cripe, vice-president: Mary Donley, secretary-treasurer: Freddie Portz, head usher. Debating Anita Andrews The timely question, Resolved: that the State of Michigan should adopt an Income Tax, was the question debated by the members of the state debating league. The year so far has been very successful. By winning three out of four debates in the preliminaries, we received a wall plaque, which en- ables us to enter the state elimination series. The first three debates were with Dowagiac, Paw Paw, and Comstock. The fourth debate was lost to Grand Rapids Union. The first debate of the elimination series was with Coldwater, the dis- cussion was won by Buchanan. Those comprising the debate team are Helen Mogford, Marvin Gross, and Thomas Quirk. Other members on the debating squad are Mary Jane Zerbe, Donald Burrus, James Everingham, Otis Flenar, and Una Kelley. With such support, the return of one experienced man, Thomas Quirk, and a large number of other members, the prospects for the year of 1933-34 look very bright. Twenty-Five

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SOCIETIES Microphone Staff Marjorie Weaver Our high school paper, the Microphone, appears weekly in the Berrien County Record. This year the journalism class, made up of juniors, seniors, and post graduates, under the direction of Miss Helen Hanlin, acted as the report- ers for the paper. These students collected news from high school, junior high, and grade classes. Special columns included school slants, the inquiring reporter, faculty facts, book reviews, who's who, and sport news. The editor-in-chief for the first semester was Bernice Newsom, a senior, Marjorie Weaver, also a senior, was appointed editor-in-chief the second semester. Since many of this year's staff will return next year, the high school paper should continue to be a success. Velmarian Literary Society Madeline Hamilton The Velmarian Literary Society was organized in 1923 by Mrs. Velma Dunbar, sponsor of this year's society. lt has proved a constant source of ease in public speaking and in stimulating interest in all literary writings. During this year three one-act plays, written and presented by mem- bers of this society, have been considered a great success. The plays, written by Alene Riley, Doris Campbell, and Dee Weaver, abounded in clever originality and variety. We are continuing the sponsorship of a creative writing contest which was inaugurated by last year's society. All high school members are privileged to enter this contest in the essay, the short story, and the poet- ry divisions. Medals will be awarded the contest Winners. Outside judges will render the decisions. Officers this year are: president, Marvin Gross, vice-president, Doris Campbell, secretary, Marjorie Weaver, treasurer, Lee Donleyg literary critic, Marjory Campbell, chairman of programs, Dee Weaver. We feel sure that the future members will do their best to keep up the good standing of the society. Twenty-Four

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DRAIVIATICS Senior Play The King Rides By by Lee Owen Snook was presented as the senior play of the class of '33. Mrs. Dunbar was the able director, and it IS largely through her efforts that the play was a success. The plot of the play is very clever. Judge Dorset iCharles Blake! and Cecily, his second wife CMarjorie Weaverj, are entertaining a certain European prince lEdward Rolenl and the judge's former wife fMarjorie Campbellj and daughter, Valeria CVivianne Wisslerj. Cecily has recently employed two servants, Simmons lRobert Ellisl and Loranda fA1ene Riley.D As it later turns out, the prince is a crook in disguise in league with the two servants who are planning to kidnap Valeria for ransom. The plot is exposed to the judge by Katherine Wells CHelen Mogfordj of the Chicago Tribune who recognizes the prince as a crook. The judge holds court in his own house, and the prince and Loranda make a clean breast of everything. The judge decides to give them another chance. Meanwhile, Simmons steals a valuable necklace but is caught, and the story ends with the prince and Loranda going to South America to start life over again. The cast is completed by Glenn Jesse, Dee Weaver, Doris Campbell and Tom Zerbe. The assisting staff and the business committees also did much to make the play successful, and they, too, deserve credit. junior Play The play presented by the class of '33 as juniors was Are You a Ma- son ? by Leo Dietrichstein. It was a success largely due to the patient efforts of Miss Hanlin, the director, who deserves much credit. The plot is formed because Frank Perry iMarvin Gross? and his fath- er-in-law, Amos Bloodgood fCharles Blakel, having promised their' wives CAlene Riley and Marjory Campbelll to join the Masons and, not having joined, have pretended that they are members of the lodge to avoid trouble. Also, neither knows the other isn't a Mason. Ernest Morrison CDee Weaverl, a friend of Frank who is really a Mason, now knowing the situation, invites the ladies to a ball given by the Masons. In the mean- time, George Fisher CEdward Rolenl, has consented to help Frank out of the mess by impersonating a girl, who is the daughter of an earlier mar- riage of Amos Bloodgood, in which the wife, Evangeline, was supposed to have killed herself. This complication forms humorous incidents, and the situation is finally straightened out. .Other members of the cast were Lee Donley, Thomas Zerbe, Harleigh Riley, Vivi.anne Wissler, Rosemary Thompson, Helen Mogford, Doris Campbell, and Marie Ellis. Twenty-Six