Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

Page 25 text:

VIC7 K, 0.

Page 24 text:

M .usic, besides being the theme of our 1944 year- book, played a big part in our class play, Four Daughters, for it was all about composers and music teachers and musicians. I ' m sure the Lane sisters and Gail Page, who played in the movie version of Four Daughters, would have enjoyed every minute of Fannie Hurst ' s story with our super cast, just as the audience did. Bob Murray played the role of Felix Deitz, young music student and composer who tried to teach Adam Lemp, Bill Freije, to like boogie- woogie as well as he liked Beethoven. Ann Etherington as Ann Lemp was Adam ' s youngest daughter and the violinist of the family, with whom Felix fell in love. It seemed they both liked to swing on garden gates. But when Mickey Borden, Max Cohen, fell in love with Ann, she forgot Felix. Ann ran away with the despondent, pessimistic young composer on the eve of her marriage to Felix. In fact, t he wedding guests were already assembled and had to go back home without seeing the wedding. Ann and Mickey were quite happy, but Mickey was killed in an automobile accident after a few months of marriage. Naturally Ann turned to Felix for consolation and they were eventually reunited. Barbara Turley portrayed Aunt Etta, sympathizer and adviser for both the young folks in the family and her brother, Adam. Thea Lemp, Lucille Cassel, played the piano and was ambitious to meet and marry a rich business man. Gerald Tutterrow played Ben Crowley, who became Thea ' s knight in shining armor because he owned a big car and had plenty of money to spend on her. The part of lazy Kay was done by Betty McDonel. Kay brought the family hopes and predictions for herself into reality by singing over the radio. Emma Lemp, the cellist, was heartbroken when Felix an- nounced his love for Ann. But she concealed her feelings from all except Aunt Etta and, in time, fell in love with her modest but untiring suitor, the florist, played by Richard Deer. Viola Woodard was cast as Emma. There was a little matter of singing and playing the instruments which could have stumped the perform- ers had not members of the music department come to the rescue off stage. Virginia Swaynie supplied the singing; Elsie Stefan, the piano parts; Mary Rose Benjamin played the violin, and Mary Hittle, the cello. The disappointed guests at Felix and Ann ' s wedding which didn ' t happen were Helen Carter, Virgil Cron- ley, Victor DeFelice, Mary Fritsche, Josephine Penna, Louis Popeheff, David Stackhouse and Miss Swaynie. • •

Page 26 text:

w e ' ve all heard that old saying, Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make a mighty ocean and a pleasant land. During our last year we have recorded lots of little drops and grains of things that make pleasant memories of our alma mater. We shall recall eating at the lunchroom senior row of tables, passing the time of day with the gang before school in 217, breaking a test tube in chemistry, listening to records in music appreciation class or hunting for that book in the card catalog in the library. For the last time as students at Manual we shall have seen the sunshine scattering in geometrical bars on the floor as it gleams through the stair railings, the old clock down by the office, the rifle range, the Picture of the Month display. These high school memories are as jumbled as tho?e meaningless patterns and countless hues on the glass panel bottoms of our juke boxes, but added together, they make the modernistic design of our last year at Manual. We are remembering that in countries like Belgium, Holland, Norway and Poland kids like us don ' t even go to school anymore. Deep in our hearts should be the thought, thanks for America and Manual— Thanks for the Memories. Standing out clearly in our memories are those special occasions which made this last year different. Our first get-acquainted party was held just before first-3emester officer elections. Our senior roll room teachers led the grand march. We had a conga chain, too — a mixture of the old and new in dances! The really special occasion for that semester was Ivy Day, and we seniors contributed toys for the Day Nursery. We ' re old enough to do without our teddy bear and toy automobile anyhow. The big doin ' s this semester were on May 17 — Class Day. But June 12 is the night we ' re all waiting for, the night when we march down the aisle and up on the platform at Cadle Tabernacle to sing Tis June, the month of roses — and to receive our diplomas. Then we ' ll be full-fledged Manual alumni. 24