Clearwater High School - Aqua Clara Yearbook (Clearwater, FL)

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John Sever for the second semester. Next came the elect- ion of the Aqua Clara Staff with Wreath Gathright as editor. Other presidential offices apportioned to seniors were that of the National Honor Society to Rita Bie; National Forensic League to Agnes Westervelt; Quill and Scroll to Jane Anne Lewis; Masque and Gavel to Martha Jane Hotchkiss; Ko-Op Kouncil to Bettie Wilder; Los Gauchos to Jacqueline Belcher; F. L. S. to Glenna Smith; and that of newly formed Key Club to Ernest Currie. , ' J In February a group of aspirants to the art of acting began work on “One Mad Night”, one of the most hilarious and successful plays ever presented by a C. H. S. Senior Class. In some mysterious way, Mr. Fred Chapin, former director of the Clearwater Little Theatre, molded the raw r ecruits into a group of future stars. Who will forget those ‘‘memorable scenes” between Harold Barber and Catherine Speir, Fraser Siple’s snakes, Dorothy Jean Stonehouse’s pipe, or Don Munger’s “Danny Siletto— dat’s me”? Senior skip-day began the wind-up of the year. Taking over the Jaycee Beach Club for the day, we swam, played baseball, badminton, ping pong, pitched horseshoes, and received a group of beautiful sunburns to remind us of the best days of the year. Then in rapid-fire succession there came the long awaited time when the juniors played host to us in an air-raid shelter; the Senior banquet; and a long series of banquets and events all leading up to one might, our night-graduation, the happiest dream of all our yesterdays.