Fernald High School - Echo Yearbook (Fernald, IA)

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Junior - Senior Banquet The theme Beyond the Blue Horizon was carried out during the Fer- nald junior-Senior banquet, which was held Saturday evening, May 10. XVe were hosts to the ten senior members and high school faculty at the airport in Des Moines. The occasion being formal, the girls were dressed in beautiful formals and corsages, and the boys were attired in their best suits and bouton. nieres. A three-course meal was served in the Cloud room. The menu in'cluded: Fruit Cocktail Swiss Steak Peas VVhipped Potatoes fwith gravyj Relish Plate Tossed Spring Salad Apple Pie leeffream Beverage The following program was carried on throughout the meal with Mr. Begg presiding as toastmaster: .. Prayer ............................,....... Michael Kendall VVelcome .. Junior Class President, Janet McBride Response ..... .. Senior Class President, Allen Anderson Mixed Quartet .................................... Blue Skies Solo .... ......... D ean' Handsaker, Beyond the Blue Horizon Duet Mrs. Miller and Elaine Crosby, Look for the Silver Lining Solo .............. Gay Huhn, f'Somewhere Over the Rainbow After the dinner the group enjoyed the show Bells on Their Toes at the Des Moin-es Theater. Our sponsor was Mrs. C-hitty, an'd we wish to thank her and all others for their wonderful co-operation. 24

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unior Class Play CAST OF CHARACTERS Minnie Brill-The Honsekeeper ............... Helen'xVheelock Peters-The Butler ....................... ..... G ay Huhn Sally King--XVho wants to be a Detective ............ Kay Huhn String Beane-Sally's Shadow ............ .. Dean Handsacker Hester Storm-XYho owns Storm Heights . .lanet McBride Gayla Grande-An Actress ............... .... E laine Crosby Posy May Purdy-A-Her Colored Maid .. Barbara Cawthon Crazy Nlell-N-lN'lio roams the hills ...... Donna Danielson llal Charterisf--A Playwright .... .... ..... IN l ike Kendall Eli Gandy---'l'he Sheriff ....... ....... R ay Couser Ned jordan-An Fx-convict .... .... G erald Klonglan' A Woman of Mystery ....... Florence VVatt Tanya-The Gypsy Bride .... .... E velyn jarboe The Ghost of lithau Storm ..... Phyllis Stevens Stage Manager and Prompter .. Margaret Miller Lighting and Special liffects Gerald Hitchings GANG.-XNYAY FOR GHOSTS The Fernald High School junior Class Play was presented October 31, 1951 in the high school auditorium. The gym was filled to capacity and the crowd enjoyed the performance. To Storm Heights, a rambling old mansion on the crest of a cliff- over- looking the Hudson, comes Sally, accompanied by her admirer, String Beane, a nervous lad, who believes in giving ghosts plenty of gangway. She is pursuing a ch-arming young actress, Gayla Grande, to demand of her why she has broken her engagement to Brother Hal. But Gayla can only plead a mysterious tragedy in her life, because of which she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and has fled for refuge to Storm Heights, with her colored maid, l'osy May, who has de galloping creeps on account of spooksf' Sally, who has taken a detective correspondence course, soon has her hands full of detecting. Strom Heights is occupied by the eccentric spinster, Hester Strom, hei neurotic housekeeper, Minnie Brill, and her appalling but- ler, the one-eyed Peters. It proves to be haun'ted by a couple of blood- chilling phantoms: lithan Storm, a violin maker, and his gypsy bride, whom he murdered in order to entomb her golden voice in' a master-violin. 23

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