Greensburg High School - Tower Tree Yearbook (Greensburg, IN)

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Classical Club White ch med figures haunting our h ills ghostso Look closer Must b ohe o' Cicero s populi Romani usiting C HQ Still when did the Pom ins ewei wean spiked heels and chcckeied sox ' It s rust the Classical Club gettlng readv for some pi ogram 'lhat program was an impersona tion of the Muses The next one was to celebrate the Saturnalia This was a unique and xery interesting meet ing., a parodx on the Roman Christmas festiwal The school library was dec oiated in red and green the Christ m is colors oi both ancient and mod ern times and a king of the revels commanded the frolic of his subiects lhen we studied Roman homes and customs and after that we learned about Pompeii. Roman art and sculp- ture followed that and then another Roman party. 'lhe Classical Club is a new' organi- zation in C.H.S. succeeding the for- Page Twenty-Fo mei Llnguxge qocietx It IS spon sored ly the linguige instructors Nliss Rosenmund and Nliss EVK21lfl ind the members are 40 foreign lxn guage stud nts who 1re intciested in studwing the cixilmation and histoix which lie brck of Latin ind the Ro mrnee lmnauiges A regulu constitu tion was drawn up bx 1 committee composed ot Jethro Meek Janet lei man and Mrrg lret Donnell and adopted by the ociets At the meet ings features of classical lite were presented in a manner to arouse the interest of the members lhe cluo has had a promising beginning We wish it success and a long lite During this first year these officers have guided the club: President.. .i.o,eeY..........,eeoe.... Hazel Hite Nice-President eeee..e,........ Janet Jerm in Secretary ........l.......e. Ewelvn McDermit Treasurer ......ie........ Margaret Donnell

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I The Play Shop has had an unusually successful season ln 1924 28 Smce its foundmg three vears ago lt has progressed from a club whose member shlp was open to any freshman lnterested ln lead mg dramas to an orgamzatxon of thlrty members selected by competltlve try outs whlch produces plays for the publlc The endeax ors of thls year have centered around the erectlng and equlpplng of a stage ln the glrls gymnaslum of the hlgh school This project has been executed wlth the co operatzon of the manual tralnmg home economlc and art departments The w1th Booth Tarklngtons The Ghost Story and a Chrlstmas plav Mlml Llghts the Candle A two act comedy The College Stlck, was presented March 9 Seml monthly meetings of the Plav Shop are held at the homes of the dlfferent members Wldely dl N6!'Sl56d programs afford the students an opportun ltv for the expresslon and development of their ovsn talents and at the same time broaden thelr appre c1at1on of the varled field of dramatlc art It has been due largely to the untlrlng efforts of Mlss Helen Hopkms who has sponsored the orgam zatlon for the past two years, that the Play Shop has attalned the po ltlon whlch xt now holds ln the Hlgh School and ln the Clty of Greensburg The offlcers who haxe served the club for the veal Wllllam Woodfill President Dorothea Dobyns X166 Presldent Mae Loulse Batterton Secretary Lols Patton Treasurer I I 1 -'I' Page Twenty Three I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Little Theatrevwas forrrrally opened Decennber 21 arez' 'I :Ru - ,, 'H ' - ' oooo oooooooooooeeeooo ooe e ' I ' .. ' ' IIIII,,II.. ,IIIII, Q IfIIQIQQIQQIIIIIIQ,,,Qffff I 'Q'

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Melody Glrls I f ffl xy Nlelody Culs of C HQ' And lsnt that such an applopuate name tm thls cho1 us of twenty lOLl1 mem their costumes bels' Not only are uoyyded at the hem l1ne w1th aome we know from themselyes are some beautlful mle 01 melody but experlence th It they capable ot rendermg melodles ard songs About three or four years ago the glrls chorus 1n the hlgh school could boast of less than a dozen mem bera wh1le for the past two years the memberahlp has conelsted of twenty fiye or thlrty gxrls all lntereeted and eager 1n thelr muelc work French folk Qongs Negro splrltuals a short zmgarese operetta and XSFIOUS classl cal numbers haye been studied during the vear so that this year has been a yery succesaful one for them. Iou1 g11ls Esthel Xankuk Janet Jelman D01 tht Coddald and Ey ely n NlLD9lHllt were chosen by llXOUt as delegates flom the cholus to the All State Chorus at lndlanapolle The 'ou1 numbels g'lX9ll by that mlxed chorus of nye hunched yoxces yye1e broadcasted and the chorus also sang for yallous gloups at the Teachels Conyentlon Clor11 Good Nlght Beloy ed Carmallna and The Qong of the X lkll1gQ were the four songs glven The Melody Glrls haye been called upon sey elal tlmes durmg the yen fox numbels on programs among those extendlng my ltatlons were the Nluelc Clrcle of the Depart ment Club the Allegro Club the West End School and the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches. Page Twenty