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

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Cross currents — that ' s the only way to describe the multitude of extracurricular activities carried on at Manual. Those BMOC and BWOC Redskins really get crossed up when everything starts happening at once. But I certainly didn ' t get cross when I saw all the fun they had at those events. There were lots of red letter days on the Redskin calenda r, but one of the most important was Jan. I 6, the night Man- ual ' s first postwar vaudeville was presented. A full house saw the recording of the ' 48 Musical Review, which consisted of four acts, The Plugged Nickel, Hoosier Hayride, All Aboard and Scrapbook of Memories, supervised by a gen- eral committee of students and teachers. With the vaudeville on one turntable, musicians kept the other busy with programs for churches and clubs, the annual band concert and the Music Week Festival. The choir, glee club and orchestra even gave parents a sneak preview of their Yuletide programs, but they relinquished the spotlight to the Indiana Central College Choir for the all-school Christmas program. Nine of the concert artists who represented Manual in weekly solo festivals at Tech included Barbara Hallock, wood- wind; Carolyn Kenyon, Lucille Prentice and Viola Reifeis, string; Jean Tutterrow, piano; Bernard Matthews and Louise Mei- bohm, voice, and Don Kelly and Larry Holland, brass. Parents were invited to school again for Education Week, when they heard a talk by Dr. I. Lynd Esch, president of Indiana Central College, saw movies and then attended a reception in the boys ' gymnasium. Night school set a new high in registration with more than 800 students. While hundreds of alumni returned on Feb. 1 4 to wish their former sweetheart, Dame Manual, a happy 53rd birthday, Roines alumni honored their sweetheart, Miss Arda Knox, with a birthday party in the Severin Hotel for the other side of the disc. Manual ' s students provided entertainment at both celebrations and took off one whole afternoon to celebrate the school birthday with moving pictures and a dance in the boys ' gymnasium complete with waltz and jitterbug contests. Speaking of dances, the Girls Glee Club hatchet-ed another successful Cherry Tree Hop with Rosina Hays and Roy Turley reigning as Martha and George. And on the flip a real, honest-to-goodness Leap Year Frolic, co-sponsored by the Hi-Y and FHA clubs, attracted each Tepee Town Sadie Hawkins and Li ' l Abner. Elections, elections and more elections! But this time it was all Hail to the queens! Elected by Booster subscribers, Martha Dougherty was crowned track queen and runners-up, Mary Ray and Florann Greeson, served as her attendants. As for May queen — it ' s a deep dark secret as Currents of ' 48 goes to press, but television in retrospect shows Marilyn Morical as wearer of the crown last year. ROTC boys even had their own election. They named Mary Ray, Kathlyn Kuhner and Jean Glass girl sponsors to march with the unit for parades and at federal inspection. Sandwiched in between all these activities were pep sessions, honors programs and special assemblies. But evidently nine months of these activities didn ' t prove enough for some Redskins who even put a series of novelty numbers on wax last summer. Janet Weaver attended a National High School Institute at Northwestern University, six Booster cherubs at- tended a two-week Indiana University Journalism Institute and the IHSPA convention at Franklin and five Thespians, the National Dramatics Conference at I. U. Barbara Snodgrass went to Girls State and William Green, Robert Scheib, Rob- erf Stuckey and Roy Turley represented Manual at Boys State. Little wonder, isn ' t it, that with the cross currents of all these activities, record making at Manual was just one big blowout after another? ( Scrapbook of Memories and Hoosier Hayride pictures courtesy The Indianapolis Times; The Plugged Nickel, The Indianapolis News.)