Hancock High School - Owls Hoot Yearbook (Hancock, MN)

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Pagezs THE OWLITE 1940 SENIOR PLAY v The Last of the Ruthvens, a mystery play in three acts, was given by the senior class on April 22 under the direction of Mr. Hiemerl. This play gave the experienced group an opportunity to exhibit their dramatic skill after giving a comedy the year before. The students who assisted in the production of the play were: Vera Foss .... Frank Fiedler - Doris Berg - - - - - student director - stage manager - - - - prompter The cast was made up of the following: FTHIICGS BOIIIHLH. - - - - - - Lady Helena Robert Steirrbring - - Verne Delp , - -- Donald Domek - - - - - Grantly - .... Lord Alan - - - - - St. Albans Patricia Estensen - Riosamond Sylvester Betty Blackmun - - - Dorothy Swenson Jane West .... William Grandjean Vicky Van Dyne Monica Sheridan - - Peggy Brent Terence O'Rourke Milton Giese ...... The Stranger Gladys Pearson - - - - The Aparition The play centers around Lady Helena and her son Alan who live in Beresford Manor in England. Rosamond Sylvester, acting as chap- erone to Vicky, Monica and Peggy Cyoung Amer- ican girlsb, is a guest of Lady Helena. Lady Helena is in need of money so she decides to have Alan fall in love with Vicky and marry the Van Dyne millions. Alan agrees and begins his business of trying to win Vicky. Peggy is always wishing for something ex- citing to happen, and it soon does. She gets all the excitemlent she can stand for a long time when the apparition appears on the scene. And still more when a stranger stumzbles in from a. secret passageway. He is bleeding quite badly and is taken care of by the ladies. , There is still more excitement when there is a suicide case and a murder. The play does not end exactly the way the audience wants it to, but because of the variety of characters the cast gained worthwhile experience in acting and pro- ducing a play.

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1940 --THEOWLITE- Page228 be proud to -be possessor of the runner-up trophy after defeating such strong competition as A1- berta and Morris. Of this year's team there are three lettermen graduating. Donald Domek, Bill Grandjean, and Frank Fiedler will certainly be a great loss to the team next year. Domek has played four years of basketball, being a regular for three years. Last year he was captain of the team, and this year he and Grandjean were co-captains. Be- sides being co--captain Grandjean has played for two years, being an exceptionally good man on tip-in shots beneath the basket. Frank Fiedler also played two years on the regular squad. Al- though these boys are graduating and their spirit will be mtissed at basketball games, the next year's team is expected to be fairly strong With a number of veterans returning. Those returning for next year are Bill Fiedler, Harold Foss, Ben- nie Schmidgall, Waldo- Thurston, Henry Quase- barth, Junior Wiese, Junior Sandine, Jack West, Robert Reese, Robert Giese, and Donald Thomp- son. With such a. group of boys Coach Wartman expects to work up a fairly good team because of the splendid cooperation and team work which most of the boys realize is the basis of a good basketball team. During the seas-on the team! played good, clean, and hard-fought games-Winning 1.2 out of 16 games. This excellent record is the result of the cooperation and stick-to-itness of the boys which Coach Wartman has done a line job of developing in them. The various duties connected with the team were performed by Milo Thompson, the masoot- manager. Mr. Heimierl accompanied the team to all games and kept score and time for nearly all the games. rf.:1':, r- S Y Q N 1 1, tl? x1 -' O' Junior High Tournament Herman was host to the junior high school basketball teams of this district on March 15, following the example which was started by Hancock last spring. Hancock's junior high team drew Tintah for the first game. The juniors came out on top with a score of 22 to 10. Winning this game, the Hancock juniors next played Alberta for the championship. In this game the boys could not get started and lost by the score of 19 to 1 which gave them the runner-up position in the tour- nament. Hermyan juniors rated third place, and Tin- tah rated fourth.

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1940 OVVLITE STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Editor ........ Class SECUOD ..... Activities Section --- -- Bette Blackmrun ----- Vera Foss ---- Jane West Writers: Twelfth grade --- --- Patricia Estensen Gladys Pearson Eleventh grade --- --- Lorraine Haldorson Tenth grade .... ...... B etty Eackstein Ninth grade -- Eighth grade --- Seventh grade ---- Warren Morton Marion Domlek -- Maxine Suhrbier ----- Arleen Cary Calendar ....... .......... D oris Berg Dorothy Swenson Rose Ellen McCarthy Football --- --,- William Grandjean Eldon Reese Basketball --- -- Henry Quasebarth Donald Domek Junior play --- -- Irene Allenspach Senior play --- ....... Verne Deip Band ........... --- Frances Bouma Mixed chorus .... ..... H elen Cushing Junior banquet --- .... Doris Schmidgall Other music groups Editorial adviser ..... BUSINESS STAFF Business manager -- Advertising assistants --- Business adviser .... Patricia Mecklenburg ---------- Mr. I-Ieimeerl -- Robert Steinbring --- Bette Blackmun Jane West Vera Foss Donald Domek William Grandjean Doris Berg Patricia Estensen -- Mr. Loken Thank You Mr. Heimerl, for your supervision in the editing of our yearbook. We appreciate the time and care you have given to it. THE OWLITE STAFF