Findlay High School - Trojan Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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Doris Lindner: l Said My Pajamas. Carl Johnson sings Chattanooga Shoeshine Tom Roth does an ocrobatic routine. Bay. Under the sponsorship of the Student Council, Talent Day was held March 9 with a program ranging from ocrobatics to popular music, Auditions were held during the week preceding Talent Day. A committee from the Student Council selected the acts which it believed would best please the student body. lim Larkins served as chairman of the ar- rangements committee. Bill Tell acted as Master of Ceremonies for the program. The student numbers included Roger Sprague, guitar solo, lim Covert, Willis Powell, Ned Roberts and David Cryer, trom- bone quartet, Bob Pauline, Keith Miller and Gene Gray, piano solos, Clarence Peterson, Doris Lindner, Rosalind Lieb and Carl john- ston, vocal solos, Shirley McRill, .accordion solo, Rebecca Lear and Tom Roth, acrobatic acts. The high school dance band presented selections at intervals during the program.

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aqua H-H1 American Legion Essay Winners SEATED: Marianne Highsmith, Rav Wink, Alice Charpiot, STANDING: Dan Grieb, David Vance. Every year one of the required projects in most English classes is the writing of an American Legion Essay. This year the subject was The American Constitution in a Modern World. Each contestant was required to limit his essay to from 400 to 600 words. Each of the Hancock County winners received Seventeen Senior girls, nominated by faculty members in the American History and Social Prob- lems departments, took the DAR preliminary test. The nominations were based upon dependabil- ity, service, leadership and patriotism. The test covered citiz- enship, civics, Ohio his- tory and United States history. This year marked the seventeenth time this test has been given. DAR Test SEATED: Jean Beard, Peg Fox. STANDING: ,loan Young, Sally Stack, Nancy Shilling. lO silver dollars. Their essays were then sent to Toledo for the district judging. Five of the six winners from Hancock County were from Findlay High School. Judges for the local contest were Dr. Bernita Dreitzler, Mrs. F. Parker Dinius and Mrs. Ralph D. Cole, jr. ky I

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With casts chosen by a committee of Thespian members, the Thespian Troop 451 presented three one-act plays 'February 21 in the auditorium. The plays were directed by the students under the gen- eral supervision of W. E. Hall, club sponsor. The first play, Let's Make Up, was a story of two teen-age boys who, angered at their girl friends for putting on make-up in public, shave in a hotel lobby to ridicule the antics of the girls. The story of a bachelor who gives lectures on why he maintains his status of celi- bacy was the theme of Why I Am a Bachelor. Winter Sunset, a more serious play, portrayed the sorrow that a young doctor and his wife caused his mother who was living with them. Between plays two l95O graduates gave humorous readings. Ronnie Yox- simer presented The Cremation of Sam McGee ' and Charles Dowdell gave a cutting from the play Green Pastures. Myrl Gephart offered his Prince of Peace oration, Have We Forgotten? for the approval of the audience. Why I Am A Bachelor Bill Tell, Jane Porter, Barbara Hum- phrey, Cherie Rahal, Doris Lindner, Rosanna Laws, Cal Johns. Winter Sunset Ivan Thomas, Suzanne Moyer, Bob Smith, Mariorie Hutchinson, Frances Watkins. Let's Make Up Norman Smith, Gloria Lupton, Rachel Bright, Bill Hess, Robert Welton, Pat O' Dell, David Robinson, Kay Krueger.