Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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Let Me Grow Dp The Junior Class Presented their play on January 23rd. The cast consisted of the following: —Lugenia Rled-bl —Mary Griese —Eldon Amcan —Margaret Officer —Arlet Cherland —Joyce Geilenfeld —Stella Rachut —Jim Harvey —Doris Salisbury Synopsis Lerie----------------a young miss of 16----- Muriel— ------- —----her talented sister---- Matt-----------------her musical brother---- Nola Fleming---------their actress mother--- Aunt Lydia-----------their old-maid aunt---- Mary Jo-------—------a young friend-----—--- Arden Daly--—--------a local siren------—— Sill Henderson-------a soldier-------------- Mrs. Holden——————a producer———— Lexie'e boyfriend is coming, Muriel has a chance to be an actress, and Matt plans to play his cornet at a bond rally where all the name band leaders will hear him. But their glamorous mother wants them to set all their plans aside, for a movie producer is coming to sign her up for another youthful role. If she is seen with her grown-up children, she'll ntver get the parti So it's up to them. Matt can pass himself off as a hillbilly gard- ener. Muriel can act as a maid. And, since Nola has admitted to having one young daughter, Lexie must dress as a child of alne I So when Bill arrives he finds a perplexing Lexie--one minute she'll be with him, her charming self, but the next minute she van- ishes with a mysterious headache and no one is around but the little girl with the teddy-bear (really Lexie). To make matters worse, Lexie's flirtatious friend, Arden, means to take Bill away from Lexie. She tells Bm it's all nonsense about the headache—Lexie has really stood him up for an officer I That burns Bill, who is a private, but not half as much as if burns Lexie, who has to stand there and hear Arden Ladle it out. Then Aunt Lydia speaks her mind at last. She makes Nola realize what she is doing to her children. Sacrificing them to her personal vanity I It's a shock to Nola. But she proves she is a true mother after all. In a whirlwind fast finale she helps Muriel land her opportunity„ gives Matt his chance to play his cornet, and snatches Lexie out of her little girl trimmings intime to thwart Arden's snatch for Bill.

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Back row: Roger Chaffee, Edward Abbas, James Hhrvey, Emil Hasse Robert Riebhoff, Rani Hasse, Duane Habeger. Middle row: Merlin Madsen, Mary Griese, Margaret Officer, Rhodora Bussie, Stella Rachut, Eldon iiuncan, Miss Thompson. Front row: Arlet Cherland, Joan Mann, Joyce Geilenfeld, oris Salisbury, Phyllis McBride, Marine Dickmeyer, Phyllis Christensen. President Doris Salisbury Vice. Pres. Lugenia Riedel Sec. Treas. Mary Griese Student Council Joyce Geilenfeld Merlin Madsen

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Back row: James Garman, Harold. V.'ard, Lester Steward, Kaye Holding, Jack McMullen, Eugene Meyer, Harold Reimers, Leonard Larape, Gary Kienitz, Miss Spindler. Front row: Helen Gettman, Jane Keith Marilyn Ditsworth, Beverly Ditsworth, Helen Graham, Betty Jean Batt, Shirley Lockwood, Kathleen Groen, Gwen Mann, Jo Ann Shipler, Jean Leeper. resident: Jack McMullen Vice. Pres: Jane Keith Sec. Treas: Shirley Lockwood Student Council: Gwen Mann, Kaye Holding Why the teacher gets that drah, worn out look around 4:00- FROM: Answering Jim's stupid ouestions. Telling Jack, Gary, Kaye and Harold R. to get busy. Listening to Betty Jean, Leonard and Harold W. chew gum. Telling Marilyn, Helen and Gwen to stop that silly giggling. Commanding Eugene.and.Lester to quit moving their chairs around. Being unable to stump Beverly, Shirley, Jane and Helen G. with hard questions. Telling Kathleen, Jean and JoAnn to stop talking.