Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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The Butler High School Band, under the direction of Mr. Clare Ulm, was composed of forty-five members, several of whom were junior high school pupils. During the past year the band made several public appearances. In July it played at the annual Fisherman ' s Jubilee at Angola, where it won second prize in competition with bands from several other schools in northeastern Indiana and northwestern Ohio. It also ap- peared at the Auburn Fair and the Fremont Halloween Festival. The band played at each of our home basketball games, and put on special performances at two of them — just before the Christmas holidays and on Valentine Day. As a climax to its season, the band participated in the local Spring Music Festival on April 4, and the DeKalb County Music Festival at Auburn on April 11. The music festivals have taken the place of the State Band contests. Band Page 29

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Glee Club The high school Glee Club, under the direction of Mr. Clare Ulm, met every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Miss Marilou Smurr was the accompaniest. Although the Glee Club did not make many public appearances during the year, the members received a great deal of music appre- ciation from the large number of vocal selections which they sang at regular meetings of the group. On October 23, Elinor Carpenter, George Smith, James Haas and Linda Harding represented our Glee Club in the All-District Chorus which sang before the Northeastern Indiana Teachers Association at Fort Wayne. Like the band, the Glee Club climaxed its season with the local Spring Music Festival and the DeKalb County Musical Festival. First Row. lejt to right — Betty Sawvel, Joan Elliott, Darlyne Dickson, Elnora Miller, Lois Gunsenhouser, Gloria Sudborough, Martha Moughler, June Keller, Carol Scoville, Evelyn Wilson. Second Row — Donelda Miller, Marilyn Moughler, Betty Dielman, Helen Evanoff, Charlotte Johnson, Frances Cox, Loretta Lyon, Lila Moughler, Charlene Flynn. Third Row — Genevieve Boyer, Frances Wilson, Sue Cather, Marilyn Darby, Jeanette Rohrer, Louise Oberlin, Elinor Carpenter, Linda Harding, Margaret Rohrer. Fourth Row — George Smith, James Haas, Bill York, George Oberlin, Wayne Frakes, Nyal Casebere. Pianist — Marilou Smurr. Page 28

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Footloose —The Senior Play— The Senior Class of Butler High School presented Foot-Loose, a comedy in three acts by Charles Quimby Burdette, in the gymnasium Wednesday evening November 12, under the direction of Mr. Francis E. May. The four over-supervised Early offsprings have a chance to try their own wings when their parents — spurred on by travel bul- letins, the urging of their children, and the neighbor ' s example — go off on a long- delayed cruise. Bob (George Kandel) finds out about living your own life. It means ironing your own shirts when you can ' t find a clean one, with wise-cracking Buzz (Rich- ard Freidenberger) haunting him with sarcastic remarks. Mary (Jeanette Rohrer) who was get- ting pretty fed up with being treated like a child, learns about cooking too — the hard way. Hope (Emmajean Hagerty) finds that the job of supervising is no picnic when she lets the purse-strings get a little out-of-hand. After many struggles through great dif- ficulties, the play is brought to a happy con- clusion with the aid of the rest of the cast: Randolph (Randy) Cunningham (George Smith) , Delphie (Louise Oberlin) , Dick Early (Wayne Frakes) , Emily Early (Don- elda Miller), Richard Early (George Ober- lin), Miriam Walker (Frances Wilson), Jenny Malloy (Elinor Carpenter), Jack Millford (Jack Michael), Mrs. Forestor (Marilou Smurr) , and Sanford Welles (J ames Haas) . The Production Staff consisted of: Prop- erties, Everett Newcomer, Genevieve Boyer and Betty Sawvel; Stage Manager, Calvin Rickerd; Assistants, John Willard and Jack Oberlin. Prompters, John Briegel, Everett Newcomer, and John Willard. This class will be long remembered for the high standards of entertainment which it set in its ' 47 and ' 48 dramatic presenta- tions. Paee 30