East High School - Eastonian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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1926 and of Booth Torkingtons Seventeen, The Woman in the Shoe was the theme of the Eighth Annual Outburst. The 1934-1935 school year was the first year that a cadet officer in the East High R. O. T, C. Battalion was, as a result of competitive majors' examination, commissioned Cadet Lieutenant Colonel. Under the leadership of Master Sergeant Harry E. Strider, the new R. O. T. C. instructor, and of Lieutenant Colonel Carl Hall, the unit progressed rap- idly. The Senior Class offered an educational as well as entertaining feature when it presented Hazelton and Benri.mo's Yellow lacketu as the Senior Play. The Mid-Year Play, The Tavern, by George M. Cohan, and the Outburst were other high points of enter- tainment. East High tied with Central High for third place in football. Taking three firsts and a second place in the Literary Contest of 1935, the Hamilton Literary Club won with a total of eighteen points. This last school year opened auspiciously on September 3, when 1,357 students thronged the halls. This record attendance was increased to 1,451 in Ianuary. On December 13, Three Faces East, a World War drama by Anthony Kelley, was presented as the Mid-Year Play. East placed third in football, but tied for last place in basketball. Bill Gibbs was promoted from the rank of Cadet Major to Cadet Lieutenant Colonel. He is the second successive Lieutenant Colonel to be promoted from the East Battalion, The Class of 1935, for the third consecutive year, elected Kenneth Heady as their President. Leland Gordy was awarded first place in the American Legion Oratorical Contest on the Constitution. On Saturday night, April 11, a charge of dynamite mysteriously exploded at the main entrance of East, wrecking the front doors, blowing out or cracking nearly every window on the east side of the building, and defacing the first floor corridor. Despite this, classes were continued throughout the following week. On the Friday and Saturday nights of April 17, 18 the music department repeated The Mikado. The Eulexia Club, having three firsts and one tie for third place, won the Ninth Annual Literary Contest, which was held till Facade

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