Calamus and Wheatland High School - Echo Yearbook (Wheatland, IA)

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JUNIOR CLASS PLAY The Jumor Class play Spooky Tavern was presented on December 10 1948 under the dlrectxon of Supermtendent E L Gundacker The cast was as follows Lon Hacker Ghost Woman Lucy Hacker Joyce Wmgate Florabel Wmgate Bedelxa Ralph Channmg Wlllle Worgle Blackme Sxmms Farone Marlm Hoffman The owner of Spooky Tavern Lucy Me1er Who haunts Spooky Tavern Dolores Mueller A sp1r1tual1st1c medium Marlene Malmanger A resourceful college gxrl Marcella Staggs He r younger slster JoAnn Gundacker The two glrls colored mammy Ph1l1p Huetter A Semor an love wxth Joyce A Jumor ln the same f1x Frank Forret A stuttermg Freshman afraxd of ghosts Gene Untledt Farone s former henchman Lee Hovey Known as the Creeper SENIOR CLASS PLAY The Semor Class play George Washmgton Slept Here was presented Aprxl 8 1949 under the dlrectzon of Mrs Ramsey Newton Fuller enthuslastxcally buys a dllapxdated farm house m Pennsylvama because of the tradxtlon and because he wants to have hxs very own land and home away from the bustle of the cxty Many are the rxdxculous but trylng obstacles whxch he and hxs famxly have to overcome before peace reigns nn the home and xt ms hveable Hxs wxfe fmally and sardomcally resxgns herself to the worst water Japanese beetles a wayward mald and the wearmg v1s1t of Uncle Stanley the proverbial pretendmg rxch uncle who through some Clever prevarxcatxng saves the house from bexng confxscated by a cantankerous nexghbor Mr Prescott Z8 ' ll Ui U ' l TerryTanner-------------------JamesHendes I I ' ll ' ll , . . , . . . . . . . --no . . . ' . . 0 . . . , . .

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v- ?', JIM HORSTMANN I BOB HUETTER TERRY SCHWENNSEN Loral-:N CHRXSTENSEN DIVISION I WINNERS nos HANSEN Wxth Bob Hansen at the Stemway the Boys Quartet swung along to vxctory at the Muslc Contest at De Wxtt March IZ The only group ln 1ts class to be gxven such a ratmg the boys sang Swmg Along a Negro song They w1ll represent Calamus High School 1n Iowa Cxty nn Aprnl As Arla Mae Olson txckled the xvorxes the Gxrls Sextet warbled a neat DIVISION II ratmg ln the face of competltxon from fourteen other schools Thexr songs were Griddle Cakes and Bless the Lord In the solo dxvxslon Terry s fme barltone vo1ce garnered hxm a Dxvxsxon II bracket wxth hxs rendxtxon of The Lord s Prayer and Loren copped the same score m the trombone section wxth Fancy Free Mrs Mary Anderson and Iordxs Vetter were the respective accompamsts JEAN HASb BETTY MILLER VIVIAN MCNEIL JOANNJ GUNDACKER DOROTHY PORTH IFAN HANSFN ARL-A MAE OIBON Z7

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SCHOOL CARNIVAL On Frxday nxght November 5 the Calamus town authorltles mvestzgated the commo t1on ID the south part of town and found that xt was none other than The School Carmval under way The people were asked as soon as they stepped m the door to have thexr foot s1ze measured In thzs way an admnssxon prxce was determlned by one cent and mch Door prxzes were gxven for the largest and smallest feet Everyone then followed the crowd upstalrs and found that a program was presented by the 'frade and hlgh school students The program lncluded muslc recxtatlons and small sluts wh1ch were enjoyed by young and old After the program the crowd turned thelr attentxon to the concesslons ln the gy'mna sxum There was much enjoyment ln play1ng bmgo rmg a duck penny pltch basketball throw and cake walk Soon their sense of smell turned thexr attentxon m the d1rect1on of the Home Economlcs room where the1r hungry appetxtes were satlsfled w1th the dehghtful refreshments sold by the Home Economzcs gzrls Then came the bzg event of the evenlng An announcement came that there was to be a crown1ng of the Queen Many hard hours were spent by the varxous hxgh school classes to help thezr candxdate along to the top pos1t1on Chances were sold on several prizes thus each chance bought gave one hundred votes to a Queen Aloxs Mueller Junior Class classes drew for the wxnners of the varmous prxzes It was a wonderful evenmg an evenxng whxch shall never be forgotten by the people The proceeds from thls carmval wlll help the school buy the many tlungs It needs to make our school days much fuller The profzt on the entxre carmval was S708 61 CROWNING OF THE QUEEN One of the most entertaxmng features of the carmval here at Calamus was the crowmng of the Queen Each of the classes m hzgh school chose a gnrl ln thexr class that they thought was the most popular The candxdates were Freshman Jams Davlsson, Sophomore Jean Hansen, Jumor Alols Mueller, and Semor Dorothy Porth Each class made books of chances, ten chances ln a book Each chance sold for a d1me and the buyer also had a chance on some valuable merchandlse beszdes gettmg a hundred votes for the candzdate of that certam class he bought from The prxzes were an alumxnum kettle case of canned soup sack of flour and a sack of sugar The alummurn kettle was won by Gwenda Mae Davxsson, the soup was won by Bertha Croswaxte the flour was won by Fred Gran and the sugar was won by Adolph Langbehn A program was gzven by the gxrls and boys glee club a puppet show was gxven by a paxr from Coe College, and the grades also put on some entertainment After the pro gram, the crowmng of the Queen took place Each candxdate had an escort picked from thexr class The Queens were escorted by Terry Schwennsen Tom Green .Tzm Hendes and Bob Huetter Each of the candzdates drew one of the chances out of a large basket and the person name on the chance recelved the prxze Aloxs Mueller was crowned Queen and recezved a corsage of whxte carnatxons and a compact. Z9 . . , ' . . . . - candidate, was crowned Queen by Mr. D. Marston and each of the Queens from the four . ,S