Colo High School - Memories Yearbook (Colo, IA)

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MUSIC GROUPS The Music Department under the direction of Miss Mildred Chapman started on a very good year of remembrance The bend consisting of twenty-tour members played at home basketball games, at Grade Operetta, and Memorial Day The big high lights of the year were the Grade and Senior high operettas. These were 'Tom Sawyer' and NHeart end Blossoms. The entries and their ratings in the Preliminary Stat Music Contest in Marshalltown were as follows: Cornet Solo. . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . Jack Koch 'Lake ot Bays'--Clarke Tube Solo. . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . , . . . Gene Boster 'Tempesta Polka'-Harris Solo . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Veda Thornton 'Souvenir'--Drdla A Saxaphone Solo . . ,'2 , . . . . . . .Velda Thornton 'Estilien Caprice'--Paul Flute TIHOI' Plano Solo , . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . Merybelle Hemplng e 'Prelude in g minor'--Raohmaninotf Vocal Solo . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . .Frances Stokesbary 'Trees'-Rasbach ' 'Morning'--Speaks Vocal Solo . . . . , . . . 2 . . , . . 4 . . Margaret Bell 'Hold Thou My Hand'--Briggs Vocal Solo L . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . .... Martin Riese M 'Bong or the Open Road'--Stickles 'Sea Fever'-Andrews Bextet 1 . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . ...... 'Donna Dawson Veda Thornton, Marybelle Hemping, Velda Thornton, Kathryn Fish, and Frances Stokesbary. p 'Sympathy --Friml 'A Brown Bird Singing'-Wood Colo can be proud of the results of the Preliminary State Music Gontest held at Marshalltown. A11 entries rated either e Division I or Division II. Frances Stokes- bary, Jack Koch, and Gene Boster will compete in the State Oontest et Mason City April 27 and 28th. The girls glee club consisted of sixteen members and lads several appearances. The girls sextet sang at the Methodist Church, School Activities and various other programs. ThelBn18LsQg played their contest numbers at the Com- munity Club inner end in between acts of the Grade and Denier High Operettes. They were: Jack Koch, Gene Boeter veea Thornton, end Velda Thornton. S 6 I

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N AUNT SUSIE SHOOTS THE WORKS W The earner Class Play waspresenteld April so, 1945, ln the Colo Gymnasium by a very well chosen cast under the able direction of Mr. K. H. Orr. ' ' Cast of Characters Aunt Susie Stowe . . . . . . . . . . . Betty Rogers Joy Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Bell Scarlet Deane . . Donna Dawson Laura Dawson . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Davis Madame Zola . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Andrew Mrs. Edward Dunning lCynth1al . . Dorothy Halsted Portia Lark . . . . . . . . . . Velda Thornton Omar Graves . . . . .... . Martin Riese LaSalle Johnson . . Tommy Williams Johnny Rogers . . . . . . . . . . Ray Weir Slick Conway . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Cummings Story of the Play The entire action of the play takes place in the living room of the King residence in a medium-sized Eastern city. The time is the present. Act one takes place on a late afternoon in May, Act two, several hours later, and Act three is half an hour later than act two. Aunt Susie Stowe, an eccentric and man-hating splnster, lives entirely alone. When she learns that her late lamented schoolmate, Cora King, has willed her her property, she wires her favorite niece, Joy Herbert, telling her to meet her at the King residence on the following afternoon. While Joy and her maid, Scarlet, are awaiting Aunt Sus1e's arrival, they experience many hair-raising events. Aunt Susie arrives, calms their fears and boasts that she has inherited not only the late Cora's house but the factory next door as well-- a sausage works! However, Cora's lawyer relates that Aunt Susie will only inherit the property providing she is married to one of Cora's cousins a man named Omar Graves, within thirty days. Aunt Susie nhits the ceiling' and pre- pares for battle. To make matters worse, Jo y is secretly engaged to young Johnny Rogers, who turns up unexpectedly 'bent on a mysterious mission and disguised as an old man. Aunt Susie mistakes Johnny for Omar and poor Johnny is on the verge of nervous prostration when the real Omar arrives accompanied by his colored man-servant, LaSalle. Lights flash on and off, characters disappear into nowhere, strange visitors run in and out and at midnight, weird sounds are . heard coming from the factory. Aunt Susie investigates and goes into the factory alone. The climax is reached when the eccentric old maid 'shoots the works.n with the aid of some love lozenges, LaSalle woos and wins Scarlet, and Omar gets Aunt Susie s promise to merry him. Johnny solves the mystery of the King residence with the help of Laura Dawson, and Aunt Susie consents to Joy's marriage to Johnny. 'All's well that ends wel1,' which truly describes the ending of the story

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'HEARTS AND ELOSSOMS' High school operetta T Cast of Characters Mba Horace Manning . . I U I I I e 0 0 0 e 0 5 Mr. Matthew Brandon . Philip Brandon . . Jerrv Higgins . Malindy . . . . . Samson Bonapart . Eileen . . . . . e Q o a a Bruce . Bob . . . Pianist . Reeder of Poem . . Aunt Polly . . . Tom Sawyer . . Joe Harper . . Amy Lawrence . . Becky Thatcher . Huck Finn . . . Injun Joe . . . Muff Potter . . widow Douglas . Jim . . . . . . Dr. Robinson . . Sid! I I O I l Ben Rogers . . . Alfred Temple . Rev, Walters . . Judge Thatcher . Gracie . . . . . Sally . . . . Suzie . Mary e Pard . Billy . Johnny . . l ir O TOM SAWYER' Frances Stokesbary . . Margaret Bell Marybelle Hemping . . Gerald Wengert . . Nyle Hartwig . . .Gene Boster . . . Donna Dawson . . . Martin Riese Doris Jean Branon . . Shirley Andrew . . . .Jack Koch . . Tommy Williams Barbara Stevenson . Grade Operetta in 5 Acts Cast of Characters Small Parts . . Mary Liston . Martha Hopkins . , Dean Yeager . . . .Vern Weir . Marilyn Hartwig . Janet Templeman . Richard Settle . . Jimmy Heintz . . Clyde Gargus . . Helen Hopper Kenneth Stokesbary . . . . Ross Weuve . . . . Jim Marsh . Laverne Shickell . Marian Nehrlng . . . . Tom Manley . Richard Thornton . Ruth Stevenson . . Ardeth Hambly , , , Naomi Farren Mary Lou Untrauer . . . Allan Hambly . . Harold Davis . Harold Brinkman