Dover Area High School - Memos Cope Yearbook (Dover, PA)

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JUNIOR CLASS PLAY Seated, left to right-Lois Miller, Raymond Lankford, Warren Miller, Anna Mae. Shellenberger, Ethel Garrett, Betty Stambaugh, Fay Miller, Donald Kunkel, JCSSIC Rae Gross. Standing, left to .right-Judith Oberlander, promptress, Wayne Emig, Miss Mayme R,.McDowel1, dlrectorg Delores Flohr, Stanley Gross, Romaine Deardorff, George Lalrd, Betty Lentz, promptress. SO HELP ME HANNAH The class ot I948 made their tirst dramatic appearance betore a large, ap- preciative audience when they presented as their class play, the dramatic comedy, So Help Me.Hannah, written by James F. Stone. The plot revolves around Willie Bascomb who can't say No . Soon things begin to happen. A mysterious stranger, Willie the Whisper, appears with a violin for sale. -Willie buys it with Mother's money. But that's not all! Freddie Baldwin comes to Willie's house raving about his latest heart throb. Freddie makes a wager with Willie-titty dollars-that Willie can't say No tor twenty-tour hours and Willie agrees to the bet. Trouble brews thicker. Mrs. Van Astor comes to dinner: Annie, the cook leaves: Hannah, Willie, and Joan prepare dinner, Freddie becomes the butler, and to top things otf, Willie thinks he has bought a stolen violin. Mrs. Bascomb returns and is quitelcontused to learn ot the happenings. Finally the worry is over, Willie wins his bet and the Bascomb household is again peaceful. 30

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY Seated, left to right-Janis Cook, Ruby Yankey, Wilde. Perry, Eva Bentzel, Luella Leibenknecht, Stanley Glatfelter, Delores Stambaugh. Standing, left to right-Jacqueline Kunkel, Gurney Gross, Mr. Richard Walters, directorg Doris Shellenberger, Richard Paules, Maxine Gentzler. THE LIFE OF RILEY I'm leading the lite ot Riley! , Oh really? No, Oh Riley! Yes! the senior class ot I947 took pleasure in present- ing as their class play, The Lite ot Riley. The cast was delighted to give the audi ence a play filled with bright comedy and clean entertainment with one continuous explosion ot laughter trom curtain to curtain. The story runs smoothly along the lines of a young modern couple, recently married. Terry Riley, a swimming champion, elopes with Lovey Masters. He leaves his automobile behind to be repaired and his close triend, Warner E. Steele, promises to bring it to the bungalow where the newly married Rileys are staying. Terry's sister- in-law arrives and tells Terry she believes her little son Hal has been stolen, so Terry leaves immdiately. Terry's triend Warner C. Steele is mistaken tor Terry. By the time the final curtain was reached, poor Warner is a wreck, Lovey is almost out ot her mind, the real Terry has been mistaken tor a kidnapper, and the audience was limp with laughter. The play was directed by Mr. Richard E. Walters. Promptesses were, Maxine Gentzler and Jacqueline Kunkel. 29

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DOVER HIGH NEWSETTE Front row, left to right-Phyllis Hoffman, Helen Gerber, Grace Quickel, Donald Kgnkel, Ruby Yankey, Marie Drawbaugh, Eva Bentzel, Maxine Gentzler, Louise Mil er. Second row, left to right-Anna Mae Shellenberger, Jacqueline Kunkel, Luella Leibenknecht, Ruth Nell, Doris Shellenberger, Ruth Spahr, Lois Miller, Fay Miller, Helen Limbert, Miss Mayme McDowell, advisor. Third row, left to right-Alma Jacobs, Ruth Miller, Betty Stambaugh, Glenn Baughman, Glenn Reeling, Charles Haas, Evelyn Edgar, Dawn Small, Ethel Garrett. Back row, left to right-Earl Pipher, Raymond Lankford, Glenn Baublitz, Glenn Snelbecker, Gurney Gross, Warren Miller, Stanley Gross. fStanley Bolton not shownl. The Dover Hi Newsette, an eight page newspaper is published monthly. The pur- pose ot this paper is to keep the students intormed ot school activities and to establish a close relationship between the school and the community. The Newsette began as a tive column, I5 inch, 4 page paper but in l945, be- cause ot the increased amount ot news, it was decided to reduce the size to tour IZVZ inch columns and to increase the number ot pages to eight. In this torm it is truly a Newsette. Ruby Yankey is the editor-in-chiet tor the current 'term with Marie Drawbaugh her co-editor. Associate editors are Maxine Gentzler, Eva Bentzel, 'Donald Kunkel. Jacqueline Kunkel has charge ot the teatures, Doris Shellenberger is Alumni editor and Ruth Nell takes care ot exchanges. Gurney Gross heads the art statt. The business ot the paper is in charge ot Earl Pipher, Ruth Ellen Spahr and Louise Miller. All departments have able assistants. 3I