Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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iddle Joyce Blair in the opening scene of the play. ower right: You mean it goes down there? -How umior Ffa? STRICTLY FORMAL With the Senior Dance only eleven days away, Jane and Sally still have no dates-and George and Jim haven't said a word. Then Mar- cia, who is Sally's house guest, arrives from New York City and snares one man after another with the old go-getteml' tactics. All, that is, except Elroy who is constantly practicing the shot-put and isnlt nearly as dumb as he seems. Finally reinforcements arrive for the girls in the form of Cindy. She is a movie fan and solves all prob- lems on the basis of how Ginger Rogers landed Fred Astaire. She also has to play her horn in order to think, which produces some wierd sounds in the course of the play. When George and Marcia return from the show, Cindy has Jane stretched out on the sofa and powdered a deathly white. George is quite concerned until Marcia suggests that Jane has the mumps and then he scrams. Cindy's next venture runs into a real case of mumps, and in the course of helping Elroy put the shot, it lands in the prize peony bed. What was a worry over dates ends in a battle of Dads and peonies, shot- puts, mumps, movies, and heart-warming laugh- ter. Other players are: Agnes, the maid, Andrew Cutler, his wife, Nettieg Mr. Ahern, a neighbor, Rose, who gets the mumps, Josie, and Mrs.Tiltong and Mar- ilyn chases Elroy. X 'S An Air Forceman, O G Lt. Bob Cunning- ham, arrives to fur- nish the lacking date. J Upper left: t'You Western men, you all tie your ties like Clark Gable. -Jerry Beebe, Anne Korsmeyer Upper right, first row: Jerry Beebe, Carolyn Rensch, Carol Scoville, Lois Gunsen- houser, Sondra Rosenberry, Shirley Woodcox, Esther Rickerd, Lenard Keller Second row: Neil Hankey, Wayne Brown, Howard Zerkle, Joyce Blair, Anne Kors- meyer, Marilyn Darby, Myrtle Bal, Max Little ower left: 'tMust you make that awful noise?',-Joyce Blair, Myrtle Bal. ard Zerkle, tle Bal.

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right: If, I may say so, Mother, it's because you spend so much on those causes of yours. Beverly Carr, Sidney Long, Joyce Dornoff Lower left: Oh-pardon me. I-I left my purse here, I think. Linda Harding Sidney Long Lower right, first row: Onalee Knox, Linda Harding, Sidney Long, Garcille Mc Donald, Grace Robison, Robert Wolfe, Estell Jchnscn Second row: Dorothy Burdick, William Hathaway, Patricia Souder, Mr. May CCoachD Beverly Carr, Joyce Dornoff, Robert Imler, endow pfag It is 7:55 on the evening of December 10, 1949, the house-lights are down, everyone is sit- ting tensely, waiting-waiting for the spectacular production, A Broom For The Bride , starring those talented mem- bers of the class of 1950, and produced under the able direc- 9 cis E. May. 8:00 o'clock- Curtain! I Action! l Here, in a nutshell, is the nucleus of the 1 -, tion of Mr. Fran- play. Linda, the daughter of a socially pretentious mother, is set to marry Ernest, the mama's boy of a supposedly wealthy mother. Linda's ex- fiance, a reporter, turns up to break the match as one hilarious incident after another unfolds. The wealthy aunt of the family-they've not seen her for many years-turns up, is mistaken for the new maid, and is put to work. A crook, posing as a society reporter, enters the house with his niece, he is after some valuable letters known to him to be concealed behind a family painting. The reporter disguises himself as the Aunt from Boston, disrupts the plans for the wedding, and partially exposes some of the phony guests. Linda realizes she really loves the reporter. Together they dispose of her ex- fiance's mother and enable Ernest to marry the niece of the crook. The reformed crook makes a match with the wealthy aunt, his former sweetheart. This performance was repeated on the afternoon of Sunday, December 11, and again was enthusiastically received by the audi- ence. t -zo-

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First row: Sandra Lee Doolittle Second row: Charlotte Johnson Marlene Doolittle Grace R b' , , 0 ison Third row: Linda Harding, Don Imler, Onalee Knox, Joyce Blair, Barbara Tom, Mildred Kessler, Loretta Hankey, Beth Hankey, Joan Elliott, Neil Hankey, Shirley Harris, Marilyn Darby Z?W!5 Fourth row: Janice Funk, Anne Korsmeyer, Nila Michael Joyce Adams Patricia Souder D' k R ic oan, Freddie Ferrah, Jim Smith, Maxine ierkle, vaughfi Billings, Janet Jenkins, Dee Michael, Joyce Jenkins, Lois Gunsenhouser, Howard Zerkle, Eileen Moughler, Melva Young, Gus Higley Fifth row: Wilma Shultz, Helen Bacon, Evelyn Knox, Lucy Zimmerman, Dean Casebere, Max Warstler, Wayne Brown, Richard McBride, Jim Brown, Robert Wagner, Janet Smyth, Richard Hankey, Jerry Call, Donna Hook, Margie Grable Sixth row: Marilyn Ginder, Sondra Rosenberry, Wanda Brade, L'Dea Handy, Rolf Ger- hardt, Bishop Hathaway, Joyce Funk, Helen Coll, Helen Evanoff Seventh row: Br H th ' ' uce a away, Sue Casebere, Marilyn Rimmel, Glen Newcomer, Judith Parker, Jack Maxton, William Hathaway Music Maestro! The band became familiar to the people of the community through playing at the ball games. Its peppy numbers helped the crowd catch the spirit of the game. During the year the band appeared at the Kendallville and Auburn Fairs, the state march- ing contest, the district band festival and a spring concert. Don Imler, Dick Roan and Margie Grable, representing Butler, in the All District 100 piece band directed by Igor Buketoff of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra at the North- eastern Teachers Association. The band, directed by Mrs. Lida Stage, is -22- composed of 72 junior and senior high school pupils. It makes no difference as to the section- brass, woodwind or percussion-they all work toward perfection. The addition of a set of tym- pani added much to the band. Soloists and ensembles in the district solo and ensemble contest won nine superior and five excellent ratings. Participants were: Don Imler, Dick Roan, Helen Evanoff, Helen Coll, and Mar- gie Grable. Clarinet quartettes-Don Imler, Onalee Knox, Myrtle Bal and Joyce Blair, Jewell Beebe, Helen Bacon, Wilma Shultz and Lucy Zimmerman. Brass sextette: Patricia Souder Bill Hathaway, Beth Hankey, Helen Evanoffi Janet S th d my an Wayne Brown. Trombone Trio: Helen Coll, Joyce Funk, and Bishop Hathaway. Cornet trio: Dick Roan, Gene Smith and Vaughn Billin s C t g . orne quartette: Dee Michael, Joyce Jenkins, Janet Jenkins and M . . axine Zerkle. Saxophone quartette: Margie Grable, Donna Hook, Howard Zerkle and Gus Higley. Vocal trio' Jo ce F k . y un , Marlene and Sandra Lee Doolittle. Piano solo: Marlene Doo 1, . . . . ittle, Helen Coll, Marjorie Smith, Lenore Ringenberg and Jewel Beebe. The band members had many good times together under . the leadership of Bill Hathaway, president' Onalee Knox vice- president, Patricia Souder, secretary, and Mildred Kessler, treasurer. First row: Helen Coll, Joyce Funk A Second row: Richard Roan, Sandra Lee Doolittle Third 1ow: Donald Imler, Marlene Doolittle