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

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BAGPIPE TART the day with a song, chorus begins at eight o'clock sharp, In the next fifty minutes thirty-five throats swing-I mean sing- on down with tl1e aid and assistance of old Prof. Booth. Each and every Tuesday ends equally wvell-with orchestra practice. IH between these musical interludes the stu- dents find time for their studies and such practices as may come up. The trio- Love, Laughter, and Loyalty, or the three little words, the Misses Blevins, Shoemak- er, and Ukena-sing their prettiest for Prof. Booth. The quartet-Messrs. Henry, Batson, Chilcote, and Parsons-have a Whale of a time wailing for Miss Culbert- son. The ensemble enjoy their public ap- pearances, they practice regularly so that they will be asked again. Throughout the first semester the chorus worked toward one goal, the Ves-V per Service. Assisted by the grade and high school choruses, this service made a Sunday afternoon radio broadcast over Thirty IQ!-IYTI-IM KFEQ, St. Joseph. This broadcast is be- coming an annual event, each perform- ance being better than the preceding one. lf at any time during the school term a program needs filling, the trio, quartet. or the ensemble is glad to oblige. In addition, the quartet makes a spring tour to the high schools of Doniphan and Brown counties. Professor Booth has been teaching here for three years, and in that time his personality has won him an enviable place among the Eds and tio-eds tespecial- ly the Co-edsj. Unfortunately, they have to share their Professor of Sing and Swing with the high school and grade schoolg this is hard for Prof. Booth toog he really has to rush around. Add to a group of enthusiastic pupils an opportunity for them to show their talents, and a director supreme, and what have you? As good a department of musical knowledge as ever came out of Highland Junior College!

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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

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q5,g,,G'aNuM' - The trio. Prof. Booth. Ward Henry fRObi1lSOHW g'l 39 Kern fHam1inJ and Lois Mace iWil1isJ, the four hands. Virginia Shoe- maker fHighlandD and Dorothy Kortlianke CRobinsonJ at the key board. Robert Parsons fHiawathaJ. Josephine Davis QI-Iighlandj. Maurice Batson CRobinsonJ. Audrey McCormick and Helen Richards, duo. Orchestra at T , Nazis. Chorus. The quartet. The ensemble. Music: