Euclid High School - Euclidian Yearbook (Euclid, OH)

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THE BUZZER 1926 JUNIOR PLAY SEVENTEEN Cast William Sylvanus Baxter - - Mr. Baxter - joe Bullitt Genesis - Johnnie Watson George Crooper Mr. Parcher - Wallie Banks - Jane Baxter Lola Pratt - May Parcher - Ethel Boke - Mary Brooks - Mrs. Baxter - SENIOR PLAY THE BOOMERANG - Virgil Camm Thurlow Phypers Orin Wadsworth Marvin Saefkow - Carl Wedler Edward LeBreton John Korencic William Rogers Catherine Hall - Annette Walter Alberta Laufer Hester Ensminger Florence Lindeman Catherine Moeller Cast Dr. Gerald Sumner - - - - john Hattendorf Budd Woodbridge - - Merle Noles Preston DeWitt Paul Kurtz Emile - - - Robert Smith Hartley - - Gerald Glover Mr. Stone - - Gorham Hester Virginia Xelva Theodora Deringer Marion Sumner Dorothy Edwards Grace Tyler - - Helen Irwin Gertrude Ludlow - - - Grace Chapman Mrs. Creighton Woodbridge ---- Alberta Lyons Guests at the party-Cleotha Cook, Alyce Strople, Robert Smith, Gorham Hester U31

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THE BUZZER 1926 THE STRUGGLE ON THE TUNDRA ROBERT SMITH '26 Three men toiled through the powdery snow of a windswept tundra, a thousand miles north of Fort Dupre. The men in the rear stumbled along, falling often. Across their eyes lay a blood red film, which to men of the snow-country spells snow blindness. Encircling the waist of the leader was a rope to which the others clung. The faces of all three were grotesque in the black masks which their frozen breath had formed. No sound except the labored breathing of the men disturbed the intense quiet of the arctic night. Occasionally the sharp crack of a tree, split asunder by the terrific cold, broke the silence from the dark line of trees that marked the edge of the tundra. Trapping had been good that fall and the men had lingered at their lines until imminent failure of their provisions had forced them to pack and leave for the little post two hundred miles south. Their departure had been delayed too long, for about noon of the second day the mercury began to fall rapidly. By evening they were overtaken by a raging blizzard. The storm had lasted three days, during which time traveling was impossible. In their more or less snug shelter of a clump of scrub pine the men had watched with growing concern the rapid diminish- ing of their foodstuff. Toward the evening of the third day the storm had abated, accompanied by a further drop in temperature. The next morning had dawned clear and intensely cold. Then had followed a struggle across the tundra toward the line of timber just visible across the dazzling open. When night came, they were almost within the shelter of the timber. But the damage had been done. Two of the number were stone blind from the glare that had beaten itself on their unprotected eyes all day. As the three trappers sat huddled around the fire in the edge of the timber, two stared sightlessly into the leaping flames while the face of the third showed signs of an intense inward struggle. He looked from his comrades to the meager stack of supplies. Little more than half the distance to the post had been covered, the provisions were almost gone, his comrades were helpless. Without them he could easily reach the post and home. Where did his duty lie? With his family or his helpless friends? Then he thought of Marie, her raven hair, her rosy cheeks. I-le remembered how she had looked when he had last seen her, standing in the doorway of the cabin holding little Pierre up so he could see daddy before a bend in the trail hid him from view. A determined look settled on the trapper's face. Rising quietly, he moved rapidly over to the supplies and began to pack them into a small bundle, Then an ugly thought entered his mind. Would Nlarie welcome him under the circum- stances? He remembered how she had admired his fair play in rough and ready bouts with fellow trappers. Slowly, with bowed head, he resumed his seat. Three days later the factor at the post saw three gaunt, starved-looking men stumble down the trail. In the eyes of two of the men he saw the ravages of snow- blindness. In the eyes of the third he discerned a light that he was at a loss to understand. l17l

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THE BUZZER 1926 MIKADO lGilbert and Sullivan! Presented by The Musical Clubs of Euclid Central High School April 16, 1926 Characters The Mikado of japan ---- Edward Le Breton Nanki-Poo this son, disguised as a wandering minstrel and in love with Yum-Yuml - Ko-Ko fLord High Executioner of Titipul - Pooh-Bah tLord High Everything Elseb - Pish-Tush lA Noble Lordl ---- Yum Yuml Pitti-Sing lThree Sisters, Wards of Ko-Ko - Peep-Bo I Katisha lan elderly Lady in love with Nanki-Pool ------ Chorus of School Girls, Nobles, Guards l 19 l Rocco Vinciquerra - Merle Noles - - Paul Kurt: john Hattendorf fPauline johns - lAlyce Strople lDorothy Hess Annette Walter