Grossmont High School - El Recuerdo Yearbook (El Cajon, CA)

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MOUNTAIN WEDDING Left fo Right: Dorothy Patten, Lloyd Donahoo, J. K. Hat- cher, Adrian Phillips, Lenore McCray, Wilna Roberts. ALL THE HORRORS OF HOME Lefl to Right: George Bailey, Richard Mallow, Bill King, Ruth Bagby, Geraldine Grable. LOVE IS LIKE THAT Left I0 Rigbl: Roberta O'- Grady, Leola Jamison, Rita Bashore. Cl RCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES Lefl 10 Rigbl: Barbara Havens, M a rj o r i e Wight, Frank Remick, Richard Nelson, Jane Dunbar. aroma epartment This year the lack of stage, equipment and facilities has made it impossible for the dramatics department to present its usual number of three-act plays. Except for the Senior Play, not yet chosen when this annual went to press, the drama classes have devoted their presentations entirely to one- act plays. The plays were given before such groups as the Lakeside and La Mesa Women's Clubs, and certain night school classes. Especially good showings were made at the Girls' League Dad and Daughter Ban- quet and the Quill and Scroll Banquet. The one-act plays which have been worked on and presented besides those listed above are: USUNBATHI' with Frances Pettingill, Margie Kephart, Marjorie Wight, Olive Walker, Estella Brown, Leola Jamison, Al Gardner, Richard Nelson, A1 McKay, Harold Johnson, Frank Remick, Roberta O'Grady, and Irma Wilder. PEARLS with Ralph Miller, Vaughn Stewart, Earl McCray, Jean McKinney, Jane Dunbar, and Bar- bara Havens. UFAREWELL CRUEL WORLD with Olive Walker, Winona Richards, and Roy Orne. QUOTE AND UNQUOTE with Willard I-Iam, Patty West, Billie Danks, and Alice Monnett. Twenty-three

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Ee, ,. 1 BH... 99? , ORCHESTRA Members of the orchestra are listed below. The dnstrumentaf Department The Instrumental Department, under the direction of Mr. Edward Ortiz, plays an important part in the musical activities of Grossmont District. The Band played at the football games, and made a splendid ap- pearance in the Armistice Day parade and the La Mesa Silver jubilee parade. The Senior Orchestra pre- sented a program at Santee, played for the Senior Play, the La Mesa Rotary Club, and the P.-T. A. The junior and Senior Orchestras will play for grad- uation exercises. The Instrumental Department pre- sented the Annual Spring Concert, May 14, assisted by the Women's Chorus of the Grossmont Evening High School. Twenty-two THE BAND Fin: Raw: jack Taylor, Eu- gene Robeson, George Trean- tafeles, Lottie Luton, Bettie Lynn Robeson, Bettie Bishop, Adalaida Treganza, james Hurley, jose Cota, Judy Park, Frank Marple. Second Raw: Surtes Shepard, Augustine Villavicencio, La- verne Jackson, Bill Burns, Virginia Lee Armstrong, Claude Morton, Vincent Villa- vicencio, J ul i a Huddleston, Guy Miller, Jimmie Nelson, Dorothy Killman. Third Raw: Le Roy Jorgen- son, Harry Hill, Douglas Wright, Oscar Matson, jean Conant, Marjorie Flinn, Eve- lyn Gould. . Illfllemoers of tfze Qrcbestra Firrt Row: Frances Meinke, june Jain, Gene Hick- ethier, Lucille Keiber, Dorothy jorgenson, Carol Swink, jean Carr, Vera Miller, Dorothy Nettke, Victor Howard, Ray Cunningham, jack Mason, Maris Haley, Nubiko Morishita. Second Row: Edwin Junghans, Eugene Settle, Jimmie Hardin, jose Cota, john Murphy, Frank Chidester, Trixie Ferguson, Jimmy Lewis, Peggy Lou Peters, Sazette Blair, Marilyn Gaudaur, Ella J. McKinney, Lenore McCray, George Ham, Yukio Miyamoto, Bill Wolford. Third Row: Marion Castle, joe Flegal, Elliott Rice, Bill Burns, Margaret Schwalm, Betty jane Crotzer, Neva Steath, Virignia Lee Armstrong.

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The Speech Department While the majority of the inter-scholastic speech activity at Grossmont is carried by students in ad- vanced classes, many programs of high interest were presented by the beginning speech students, under Miss Edith Grassmueck. Most interesting of these was the Shakespearean program broadcast over KGB in April. In the field of interscholastic competition, coached principally by Mr. LaZelle Smith, the following are some of the activities of the current year: EXTEMPORE SPEECH Three contests were enjoyed this season with San Diego and Hoover high schools. The first contest was held at State College, and among the twenty- three entries, Victor Howard placed fourth. In the second contest held at Hoover, Victor Howard, Mary Hayes, and Russel Irwin entered, Victor placing first and Mary fourth. In the third contest, at Grossmont, Mary Hayes, Winona Richard, and Mildred Durham competed, placing fourth, fifth, and seventh, respec- tively. At the contest at El Centro with that school and Holtville, Howard won second. ORATORY Two contests were held with Hoover and San Diego. In the first, at San Diego high, Mary Hayes placed fourth, George Bailey, fifth, and Wilfred Smith, seventh. The second contest was at Gross- mont, where Mary Hayes took hrst, George Bailey, third, and Mildred Durham, sixth. DECLAMATION At a contest held at El Centro with Holtville and El Centro, Bill King won first place and Harriette Walz, second. Two declaimers, Bill King and George Mukai, represented Grossmont in the State tournament at Redlands, where they won first and second place, respectively. In the Grossmont eliminations which these students won were also Harriette Walz, Winona Richards, Marjorie Walz, and Richard Grau. DEBATE Winning debate teams at the contest with Holt- ville and El Centro were George Bailey and Mary Hayes, and Paul johnson and Victor Howard. At Redlands, George Bailey and Mary Hayes lasted through several rounds of preliminaries, and the team including Paul johnson, Victor Howard and Frances Twenty-four Coughlin made a good showing. Finals in the county debate league were held too late to be included in this record. THE REDLANDS TOURNAMENT The exceptionally fine showing 'made by Bill King, Mildred Durham, and George Mukai in the speech tournament at Redlands in April entitled them to enter the national finals at jacksonville, Illinois, early in May. Through the interest of school organi- zations, community clubs and public-spirited citizens, and the faculty, a fund was raised to send our two first-place winners and a second-place holder, with their coach, Mr. Smith, to Illinois. Bill's first place was earned in the Held of oratory, with his impressive delivery of This Is War! George Mukai, after leading in points through the various rounds of competition at Redlands, bowed to his fellow Grossmonter in the finals. He delivered with superb effect the distinguished selection, I Am Innocent of This Blood. In the field of humorous declamation, a new division in the state contest this year, Mildred Dur- ham won first honors with her entertaining delivery of Immune to Flatteryf' In the other divisions of the tournament, Gross- monters made a good accounting of themselves. George Bailey went to the semi-finals in original oratory before meeting defeat, Mary Hayes, in the same event, Went two rounds. Winona Richards and Victor Howard, in the extemporaneous speaking section, lasted into the second round, and Winona reached the second round also in the humorous de- clamation event. In debate, Paul johnson and Frances Coughlin defeated El Centro, to whom they had bowed in an earlier three-school encounter, and the team composed of Mary Hayes and George Bailey defeated Huntington Park and San Bernardino, the latter the winners of the state debate finals. This contest furnished several of the nine stud- ents who entered with sufficient points to entitle them to National Forensic League Membership. OTHER ACTIVITIES With the county debate league contests and the Toastmasters Contest still on the schedule, the Speech Departments usual active schedule was completed. Plans for the National Forensic League Banquet were also incomplete, but a large important affair was anticipated.