Cochran Junior High School - Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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COCHRAN AERIAL Bob and Betty had an argument about their School Bond Issue posters. They both agreed to use them to good advantage by exhibit- ing them to the rest of the family and persuading them to vote for the School Bond Issue. History Play Our weekly Assembly, held Wednesday, November 11, featured an Armistice Day program. Under the directions of Miss Standish, a Term I History class gave a history play. The following pupils took part: Revolutionary'soldiers-Dick jones and Donald Lenhart, Civil War soldiers-Ralph Sharp, Walter Wolford, Richard Meyersg poem, Catherine Torrg VVorld War soldiers-Glenn Kuhn and Harold Iacquesg Red Cross nurse, Catherine Nadrashg girls in song-Margaret Varner, Margaret Berkey, Ruth Ickes, Ruth Meyers, Mary Hamonko. These pupils helped to convey to us the spirit of Armistice Day. Birds' Christmas Carol The last Wednesday before our vacation we had areal Christmas Assembly. Some members of Miss Neary's English class gave the dramatic version of Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wig- gins. As a prelude to the play, a boys' choir directed by Miss Keim sang Holy Night. After that Eileen Mahan recited a poem inter- preting the first act. The boys' choir responded. with Angels from the Realms of Glory. The members of the cast were: The Bird Family- Carol ......................... .... V enora Uphouse Uncle Jack .. ...... John Wesner Mr. Bird .... Curtis Henning Mrs. Bird .......... Elfrida Clifford ........... The butler ................. The Ruggles in the Rear- Mrs. Ruggles ......... Sara Maud .......... Peter ........ Perria .... Kitty ..... Clement .................................. Cornelius ................................. . . . . .Dorothy Ressler ... .Hilda Teitlebaum ' .... Lincoln Sawyer ....Josephine Guzik ....Jane Morissey ... ......Gus Gleason . . . . . . . .Edna Snyder Mary Louise Owings ........James Custer ...........Ray Dyer Larry ............................................ George Davis During the intermission between the acts, the student body, led by the choir, sang Christmas carols. Before We left the auditorium, we all had the real Christmas spirit, The graduating class of 19255 presented this play on the night of their Commencement. The characters interpreted their parts very successfully under the direction of Miss Moses. The Song of Hiawatha Scene I-Hiawathals childhood. Scene II-Hiawatha's adoption into the Ojibway Tribe. Scene IH-Hiawatha starts on his wooing. Scene IV-Hiawatha's wooing. Scene V-The famine. Scene VI-Hiawatha's departure to the Blessed Islands. CAST OF CHARACTERS Reader ............................................. Margaret Berry Hiawatha, as a child ........................... Hiawatha, Chief of the Ojibway Tribe .... Nokomis, grandmother of Hiawatha Arrow-maker, of the Dacotah Tribe ..... Minnehaha, daughter of Arrow-maker ..... Ctwenty liveJ .. ....... Paul Gogel . . . . .Anna Gohn . . . .Fern Weaver . . . .Warren Shaver . . . . .Phyllis Wright

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