Highland Community College - Trail Blazer Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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,W as IJ. ll vfwav - - -f'-Q W-V-ff K DFGITIB Bette Hamacher fHighlandJ. I-C-H-H, Shad Ledue, Clarence Tubbs, David. God's Move. M. C. C. Cabinet in high. Let Slip the War Dogs. I-C-H-H, Lorinda, David, Dan Vvilgus. I-C-H-H, David, Lorinda, Frank Tasbrough, Editor Jessup. Hattie Smith fHigl1lauclJ. Voices of the mike. Director Cecil B. DeNeale. Play, Bill!

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MEETINGS TUESDAY MOFQNINGS OFTLY padded benches for lounging, light monkscloth drapes waving in the breeze, tables for studying. a coat rack nobly bearing the weight ot' loo many wraps, scattered books, pencil stubs, wads of paper-these are all distinctive marks of the Y. EW. C. A. room. Regularly weekly meetings and monthly cabinet luncheons blazed the trail for a successful year of Hpromotin' l'. Girls from high schools in northeast Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska dodged raindrops as they rushed from meeting to meeting, banquet to barracks, breakfast to chapel. But of course a rain was expect- ed-in fact the girls would have been dis- appointed if it hadn't rained. Anyway, the Retreat, with its theme, t'Every Girl and Her Quest, was obviously success- ful. This year, for the first time, the club sent representatives to the Student Chris- tian Movement of America held at VVichi- ta. Our delegates were: Anna Mae Kern, Virginia Shoemaker, Hattie Smith, and Mrs. Van Scoyoc. The Cabinet was composed of Maxine Banta. presidentg Hattie Smith, vice-pres- identg Betty Stetler, secretaryg Betty Lou Davis, treasurer, Luella Poister, pianist, Mrs. Van Scoyoc, sponsor. Committee chairmen were: Virginia Shoemaker, Hen- na Nawrocki, Dorothy Denton, Mary Jane Hanny, Dorothy Albers, Anabel Ledington, Jeanne Ukena. On September 15, a large group of freshmen and sophomore men met 'lo re- organize the Men's Club of H. J. C. The program and the policies for the year were planned. After the launching ot' the club pro- gram, the more serious endeavors were intermingled with recreational consider- ations of a. soft ball and a volley ball tour- nament. One of the outstanding events of the year was the CCC sponsored jointly by the Y. VV. and the Men's Club. In De- cember the club supplied the convocation program, featuring a clown band with Batson as a guest artist. Joint meetings of the Y. W. and Men's Club were held once each semester. In every way t.he club was a success. The old study table was replaced by a larger table with desk writing lamps. Soft padded benches around the room increas- ed the scholastic standing ol' the members noticeably, for by increasing the sleep- ing facilities the boys reduced their ten- dency to sleep in class. The significant accomplishment of the Men's Club, how- ever, was the good fellowship promoted among its members. Twenty-seven

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BRCDADWAY AND Tl-IE QUAD T.-XRS and Stooges, otherwise known as the M :sk and Curtain Club, kept the boards ofthe College stage well worn throughout the entire season tnine months, not five, dear Broadwayl- and what a season! One-act comedies, tragedies, t'an.t.asies, and one t'ull-length drama, It Crm? Hap- pen Here, made up the season. The short plays included Let Slip the War Dogs, a peace fantasy against a background of college lite, Box Cai' Head- tn' West, a psycliologieal study ot' ttfor- gotten men heading for the 'harvest fields, Goofs More, a study in character, and Her lvlajesly, the King, a travesty ou European royalty. Angels D0n'l Marry and Gallant Lady, a humorous study and a serious study, respectively, of mat.rimon,ial prob- lems, were double cast, and competitively presented. Maurice Chileote and Audrey McCormick were judged the Lunt and Fontanne of the t'our groups. At the beginning of the year, Mask and Curtain members, thinking it would be heaps ol' fun to take a group ot' one- act plays on tour, made seven trips to schools and to clubs in the surrounding towns. Taking a show on the road after it had run on Higl1laud's Broadway be- came a popular custom. A large cast. and a corps of workers made ready an entirely new stage dress for the serious and timely spring play, Ii Gantt llappen Here. Mildly amused by the antics of a man. who would hire time on a national radio network to broadcast his campaign theme, 'tl don't want to be presidentg I merely want to serve, Doremus Jessup, a small-town Vermont editor, blindly stumbles into the magnet- ic trap ol' a paranoid president. Though propaganda t'or dictatorship has not pros- pered in America as it has in Europe, the possibility ot a national catastrophe is made credible and the t'ight against it, heroic. Cut of the play grows a new l'aith in America and in her people. Adding equipment to the stage has been the accomplishment of the project committee. t'Spots and other lighting ef- fects, as well as new 14-foot flats, are the present evidence ot' their careful planning, buying, and building. Hopes are still high t'or a cyclorama with tracks and every- thing. , VVith pride in its successful run, the Mask and Curtain Club rings down its curtain on the year's drama. with a re- statement of its purpose: To t'urt.her dra- matic activity in Highland and the sur- rounding communities. Tw enty-nine