Hoaglin Jackson High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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SENIOR PLAY Dress Rehearsal Bashful Bertie Oh-la-la ! On the eve of November 16, 1951, the Senior Class presented their play entitled “Bash¬ ful Bertie. ” Here is a brief summary of the play: Bertie Barrett doesn’t dislike girls, it’s just that he becomes tongue-tied in their presence and just the thought of proposing to a girl makes his teeth chatter with fear and causes him to turn blue all over ! Through no fault of his own, but because of his friendship for Steve Darnell ' , Bertie is placed in a position where he has to pretend to be engaged to a girl (any girl will do) or else he’ll have to suffer dice conse¬ quences. Egged on by Steve, Bertie manages to blurt out a half-hearted proposal to pretty Pamela Petley but she won’t give him a definite answer. Spurred on by the necessity of his position, Bertie finally proposed to three girls in a row and finds that proposing isn’t nearly the chore he thought it was, especially when it isn’t the real thing. When the three girls get together and compare notes, they descend on Bertie in masse and demand an explanation. “I wan’t really proposing to you girls, “Bertie exclaims. “I was just practicing!” From this point on bashful Bertie is sitting on edge. Not until the very final curtain does Bertie cover himself with glory by trapping Lefty Frank, a desperate gangster, and at the same time he wins the hand of “the one and only girl.” Throught the play the laughs pile up until they reach the proportions of a landslide, and the fun is of that rich, clean kind that everybody reacts to with great glee. JOSEPH W. BEDINK McGinnis motor sales This page sponsored by EAST END BARBER SHOP MAHER’S ECONOMY MARKET 39

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OUR LIBRARY LEFT TO RIGHT: Miss Crawford, N. Burton, J. Shenk, W. Stukey, M. Plumb, R. Evans, C. Marez, D. Robey, C. Snyder. Books are like people. They are our friends some are our very best friends. Books are re¬ cords of ■what people think, do, see, and exper¬ ience. Books are records of what happens throughout the world, and what is being thought by other human beings. Books bring us exper¬ iences that we cannot have ourselves. While more than a hundred thousand books are published yearly, most libraries can buy but a few each year; therefore, their books must be selected carefully. Hoaglin-Jackson is no exception. Thus, nearly a hundred new books have been selected. Included are biographies, the ever-popular dog and horse stories, adven¬ ture and sports stories, stories of interest to girls and teen-agers, and a new reference volume--“Twentieth Century Authors.” Books can, and do enrich living. There is no one book which every one should read, for greatness is not in the books themselves, but greatness emerges only when the right book meets the reader. This page sponsored by WOODY’S WELDING SHOP FUNK’S BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOP MARK’S ELECTRIC GODDARD’S STORE

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Future Homemaker Isn’t Love Grand ! Speechless! MISCELLANEOUS This page sponsored by McCLURE’S MARKET BUETTNER WELDING SHOP KUEHMANN POTATO CHIPS 40