Gardiner Area High School - Quill Yearbook (Gardiner, ME)

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Z0 THE QUILL second Tuesday of every month. The first public event of the year was the annual Dramatic Club play presented No- vember ZO, 1937. A chosen committee selected the play, The Yankee King. It was considered by all one of the finest plays ever given at the high school. The cast of characters was as follows: The Yankee King-Pa Hinkle, Robert Newhouse, Ma Hinkle, Marguerite Waller, Marian Hinkle, Natalie Cousens, Wilbur Hinkle, Robert Fuller, Wayne Douglas, Thomas Demers, Stephen Kruger, Everett Ellingwood, Gs- wald Mahler, Paul Fleming, Melissa Des- tinn, julie Roberts, Duchess Augusta, Louise Quinn, julia, jane Ward, Leon, Lawrence Creamer, Emery, Lawrence Caney, Wanda, Margaret Church, Page I, Gloria Norton, Page II, Pauline Bailey. The next performance of the year was the presentation of the annual Athletic Fair plays. There were two one-act plays: The Ring and the Look , Tommie Tut- tle, Murray Shepherd, Marion Tuttle, Barbara Chase, Claire Burnhavv, Ruth Patterson, Mrs. Tuttle, Geneva Mann, Bertha, Natalie Cole, Doris, Ann Ander- son, Billy Martin, Thomas Kelly, Evelyn Granger, Kathleen Monaghan. Christmas Trimmingsn- lst Burglar, Philip James, Znd Burglar, Everett Elling- wood, Uncle joe, Carl Gardner, Aunt Kate, Mercedes Follansbee, Mrs. Saunders, Eloise Wood, Mr. Saunders, Roland Whit- tier, Ethel Saunders, Lois Farrell, Jeppy Saunders, Robert Fuller, Deborah Mosely, Imogene Caney, Barbara Shields, Kathleen Luttrell. The preliminaries in the one-act play contest were held in Gardiner this year. Hallowell, Cony, and Gardiner competed. Gardiner, with the play The Trysring Place, was the victor. They then jour- neyed to Cony High to compete in the semi- finals with Waterville High. Gardiner was again the winner. This entitled them to try out in the finals held at Bowdoin College, April 9. The cast of characters follows: Lancelot Briggs, Robert Newhouse, Mrs. Curtis, Julie Roberts, Mrs. Briggs, Marguerite Wal- ler, Jessie, Norma Nelson, Rupert Smith, Everett Ellingwood, Mr. Ingoldsby, Carl Gardner, Mysterious voice, Lawrence Creamer. PUBLIC SPEAKING The preliminaries in the Spear Public Speaking contest were held March 11, 1938, at Gardiner High School. Miss jane Ward, winner of last year's contest, was the winner again this year with the selection, Eyes Miss Betty Chase was judged second best. Others participating were Mary Clark, Lawrence Creamer, and Thomas Demers. Miss Ward, Miss Chase, Mr. Creamer, and Mr. Demers then went to Hallowell to compete with speakers from Hallowell High and Winthrop High. Miss Betty Chase and Mr. Lawrence Creamer whose selections were entitled Ma's Monday Morning and The Su- preme Menace won first prize for girls and for boys respectively. DEBATING Officers of the Debating Club were elected in the fall. Those chosen were president, David Nivison, vice-president, Carol New- house, secretary, Mercedes Follansbee, treasurer, Dexter Fowles. After tryouts, the team finally chosen to represent Gardiner High School was com- posed of Dexter Fowles and Charles Leavitt, affirmative, and David Nivison and Perley Leighton, negative. The question this year was: Resolved: That the several states

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THE QUILL I9 DRAMATIC CLUB

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THE QUILL Z1 G. H. S. ORCHESTRA