Cissna High School - Review Yearbook (Cissna Park, IL)

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BEAUTIES OF SPRING A Oh, if you are a-searching for beautiful things- They are simply abounding about you, Be it only the gold of a butterfly's wings, Or a calm virgin breeze to caress you. When ,I peer int' the heart of a velvet-soft rose It is joy and a pleasure-not duty, For it tells me of all of the glory it knows, That in life there is nought but pure beauty. Oh, the verdant, cool voice of the Spring brings to me A soft balm for my Woes, for my troubles, See, now Nature is trying to make the earth glad, She is making our trials but bubbles. Oh, if you are a-searching for beautiful things, You will find them very near, all about you. When your soul with contentment does shout and does sing Tell it thus to the world about you! , -Nellie Sites. AN ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT Say not that this poem's a failure, Think not that it is in vain, For to get some grade in English Is my chief, yes, only aim. I have thought of writing essays, I have thought of many a plan, But when they're almost completed I think what a joke I am. -Leonard Berg. LIFE I like to sit a musing When day is almost done. I reflect on the tasks completed, Going through them one by one. I try to find with pleasure bent Of any great accomplishment, I find that there is nothing new, That I should like to have to do. And so I sit-watching it rain- Life must be just a Window pane. -Edith Reutter. l VUERMZQ H61

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Top Row fleft to rightbz J. Beebe, C. Berg, Miss Brown, M. Doan, L. Kogler, B. Steele. Middle Row: A. Morton, D. Pendergrast, N. Sites, W. Cluver, E. Brown, E. Weidner, E. Aeschliman, M. Rechkemmer. Front Row: G. King, W. Brown, D. Schmidt, R. Dryden, N. Meredith, D. Litherland, F. Rothery. The Orchestra was agafn under the direction of Miss Brown. The orchestration was as follows: Violins-Dot Litherland, Dixie Schmidt, Wilma Brown, Maxine Rechkemmer, Ellen Aeschliman, Naomi Meredith, Eleanor Weidnor, Roma Dryden. Saxophones-Wilbur Cluver, Eva Brown, Nellie Sites. Cornets-Aubrey Morton, Delbert Pendergrast. Clarinets- Bea Steele, Carl Berg. Trombone-Lester Kogler. Cello-Frances Roth- ery. French Horn-Joe Beebe. Drums-George King. Piano-Mildred Doan. The Orchestra appeared several times, including the Senior Play, the Operetta, and the Junior Play. Their repertoire included: Thoughts of Youth, Cherry Blossoms, March Militairef' Rosary, and others. We entered in the Whippet Six Meet and played March Militaire, placing third. New books were purchased this year and we hope by next year to be able to play all the selections in the book. l45l 9 X

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413. ll9. GTB. lltlll. S. T T T N J' JZONWO SIXTH ANNUAL INTER-soc1ETY CONTEST Every year an Inter-Society Contest is held to formally determine the representatives in each of the different literary fields-oration, extempo raneous speaking and declamation. This year there were participants in both piano and violin solo. The contest was held at the Union Church on March 29. Following is the program: Dramatic Declamation Swan Song ................... ............ F reda Rudin Going of the White Swan .... ---Velma Freidinger The Littlest Rebel -----------.---------- Lavonne Carlon The Volunteer's Wife .-----------.-.----- Edith Reutter Extemporaneous Speaking The Canal Is the Answer --------.----------- Dot Literland Our Changing Modes and Morals .-----.-.------- Ruby King Piano Solo Impromptu in A Flat ----------------------- Wilma Brown Humorous Declamation The Hazing of Valiant -----.------------ Helen Huebener Naughty Zell -------------------- --.-- V iola Freidinger A Study in Nerves ------------- Violin Solo - - - - - - - -Lottie Huebener Hejre Kati .-----.---------------- ---Roma Dryden Music by the Mixed Chorus. Orations Scotland ----.-.---------------- ------ A rthur Bauer Vision of War ----------------- ---- A rthur Freidinger The Hope of the Republic --------- ----.- F red Huebener The Unknown Speaker ------------- ------ E arl Brenner Music by the Boys' Glee Club. The judge's decisions were as follows: Dramatic Declamation-1st place, Lavonne Carlong 2nd place, Freda Ruding 3rd place, Velma Freidinger. Extemporaneous Speaking-1st place, Ruby King: 2nd place Dot Literland. CConcluded on next pagel I E471 ' 9 Vflfij'