Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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First Row; Rankm. Brown. Moss, Obenhaus. Ruth Holmen. Chubb, Langley, Abels. Second Row: Pooler. Stapleton, Flohrschutz. Cusic, I. Krch, Gott. M. Krch. Third Row; Conner. Pressgrove. Whitehead. Iwig. Disney. Casebeer. Fourth Row; Bailey. Anderson. Thompson. Tebben. Music Department Has Active and Successful Year The Music Department has accomplished commendable work this year under the direction of the music supervisor, Miss Holmen. The orchestra consisted of twenty-seven pieces, and participated in several of the concerts given by this department. The glee clubs had a membership of one hundred voice, which as a whole comprised the mixed chorus. The quartets were composed of the ablest singers at Highland Park and in- cluded, in the girls ' quartet: Allene Barbee, Julia Etta Miller, June Disney, and Adrienne Krallman, and in the boys ' quartet: John Buckmaster, John Richardson, Dick Taylor and Beryl Whitehead. The school entered both the individual and group contests this year at the state meet at Emporia. Last year Allene Barbee, Contralto, was rated excellent, and Marvin Flohrschutz, Tenor, and Glenn Barbee, Baritone, good. This year Marvin Flohrschutz, advanced to the excellent class and John Buckmaster, Baritone, received the rating of good. The A Capella Choir and the Mixed Chorus were classified as excellent and good, respectively. During the year several concerts were given, the most outstanding of which was the Christmas Pageant, The Star of Hope. They proved to be very entertaining and of unusual quality. Page Twenty

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Whitehead, Bower. Smith. Williams. Wells. Butner. Reedy. Walters. Tomlinson. Thespian Aspirants! DRAMATIC CLUB OFFICERS President Norma Stitt Secretary -Treasurer Peggy McCartney Sponsor - Miss Pitts The Dramatic Club had a membership of twenty-five this year under the supervision of its efficient sponsor, Miss Pitts. The meetings were held on alternate Wednesday noons and each meeting dealt with the life and works of some famous actor. Each member has presented for the approval of the Club as a whole, a project. These projects included the writing, and preparing of settings of plays, and taking parts in the productions. Good notebooks of dramatic in- terest also were turned in. The three-act comedy. In Came Alary Ann , was presented by the Club, March 23, 1934. with Lois Bowers and Beryl Whitehead taking the leading parts. THE CAST Mary Ann Brandon Martha Brandon Rosalie Clark Joan Marshall Mrs. Jones-Wright Robert Whitney Randy Gardner Jim Belton Archie Teckor Lois Bowers Kathlyn Williams Vivian Wells Helen Walters Wilma Reedy Beryl Whitehead Charles Tomlinson Rolland Smith ... Cornelius Butner Page Nineteen

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GIRLS ' GLEE CLUI First Row: Chubb. Eberhart. Pratt. Hogg, Disney. Hopkins. Root. Ruth Holmen. Hall. Bcronius. Baker. Bram. Obenhaus. Heidt. Stapleton. Second Row: McCartney. Norris. Miller. Rankin. Burkhart. Wiscombe. Buckmaster. H. Hatha- way, M. Stadler, Tebben. Gott. P. Hathaway, Morand. Stitt. Third Row: E. Cusic. H. Foltz. Whitney, Kekar. Howard, Templeton. Shepard. Wells. Wolfe. Little. C. Stadler. Williams. Weaver. Fourth Row: Lutz. Dahlstrom. Conner. Krallman. Harris. Fairbanks. G. Foltz. ' . Cusic. StuU. Wells. Leunburger. Cox. BOYS ' GLEE CLUB First Row: Brown. Moore. Krch. Richardson. Ruth Holmen. Pratt. S. Iwig. Reynolds. Disney. Casebeer. Second Riw : Clark. Bates. Wootcn. C. Iwig. B. Taylor. McClenahan. Prcssgrove. Cowell. Cooley. Hooper. Third Row: Anderson. Flohrschutz. Cloud. Whitehead. Butner. Tebben. Preston. Petrik. Nussbeck. Fourth Row: Decker. D. Taylor. Lommasson. Buckmaster. Ransdell. Smith. Burrell. Weir. Elmore. Page Twenty-one