Holden High School - Eagle Yearbook (Holden, MO)

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--..-...U -..........-.-...-.-.-,...1.4-...-ff,......n-,1. A...J4+g..-g,-wa-g,him.:-,,i1. + --q..,-?,gfw,,---.I L Senior Play The senior class presented the comedy play, Love Is Too Much Trouble, to an exceptionally large audience on April 28, 1949. The action takes place in the Elite Tea Room, affectionately known as the Poison Pot, located just off the campus of Ivy Gates College. The time is spring, shortly before the Junior Prom. Toasty, who is the proprietor, spends most of her time trying to keep her customers as well as herself out of trouble. She is assisted in her tea room by Connie Ashton, a girl working her way through college and Tommie. In the opening scene, Joe is lamenting his restric- tion and Pinky is racking his brain to find a way to pay for the orchestra for the Junior Prom. Oggy arrives with a check for 8200.00 which he has receiv- ed for submitting himself as a guinea pig in a hiber- nation experiment in which he is to take a sleeping pill and then be frozen in ice for six weeks. Pinky talks Oggy eout of the check and inveigles Toasty to help them dress Joe as a girl so he can go to the prom as Oggy's date. Joe's disguise is so clever that Shirley Bradford, Pinky's girl friend, does not recognize him and be- lieves he is a new girl. To get even with Piinky she tells him their date for the prom is off as she is ex- pecting a Harvard man for her escort, although she really does not know one. Sugar Lou Jackson, Joe's girl friend, is at loss to understand Joe's neglect and decides she also will get another date for the prom. Oggy accidentally spills the sleeping pills into the syrup at the fountain and when all the customers who leave the place fall asleep on the sidewalk and lawn, Dr. Pillsy and Mrs. Ross investigate. The Board of Health suspends the license of the Poison Pot. Oggy decides he just cannot go through with the experiment and when Cliff Hayward, who is real- ly the leader for the prom orchestra, arrives, he is kidnapped to carry on the work. His identity is dis- covered after he is frozen stiff. His dramatic rescue in time to play for the prom adds to the merriment. When Dr. Pillsy and Miss Ross visit the Poison Pot in an atte-mpt to clear up some of the mysterious ac- tions at school Dr. Pillsy meets Mrs. Bates, who is at once impressed and offers to advance funds for new dormatories and improvements at Ivy Gates. Dr. Pillsy is so carried away with the idea that he lifts all restrictions and all ends well with Joe taking Monica to the prom and Pinky escorting Connie. The Cast of characters are as follows: Toasty, Joan Williams, Connie Ashton, Marilyn Dillon, Tommy, Eddie Allen: Joe Burke, Robert French: Pinky Hamilton, Lloyd Westg Ogden Mc- Closky, Glenn Timmons: Shirley Bradford, Jeanne Briscoe: Sugar Lou Jackson, Betty Briscoeg Ebb Dun- ham, Janette Raker: Flo Dunham, Mary Ramsey: Monica Bates, Beverly Hobbsg Mrs. J. Worthington Bates, Loretta Guddeg Dr. Pillsy, Floyd Kendrick: Miss Emily Ross, Ruth Joyce Damerong Cliff Hay- ward, J. O. Markland: Sally Gilmore, Shirley VVarreng John Gates, Jack Jonesg Dolly Gates, Dana Rae Houghg Roger Campbell, Kenneth Carter.

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The individual nut cups were silver wagons with blue wheels and were hitched to a star which served as place cards. The programs and napkins were blue and white with Stardust written on them. The junior mothers prepared the food. The sophomore girls served as waitresses. The menu con- sisted of grapefruit and orange fruit juice, ham, escal- loped pota.toes, green beans, hot rolls and butter, vegetable salad, celery, olives, jelly, brick ice cream, angel food cake, coffee, mints, and nuts. The program with YVendell Daniel as toastmaster was as follows: Toastmaster, Wendell Daniel, Invocation, Miss Bessie Sprinkelg Starbeams, Franklin Guddeg The Milky Way, Glenn Timmonsg Solo--Vfishing on a Star, Light, Agnes Ann J. O. Marklandg Evelyn Garrisong To the Guiding Raberg The Guiding Light, Supt. Trio-Stardust, Evelyn Garrison, Beverly Harper, and Clyde Vlfilsong To the Guiding Star, Darlene Zum- waltg The Guiding Star, Dr. Kelly Rawlinsg Marimba Solo--Moonlight and Roses, Donna Lois Hammon- treeg Address-The Northern Light, Dean lrvin L. Peters. I Mr. Frank Malambri with Beverly Harper as ac- companist, directed group singing. Following the singing of Blue-NVhite, directed by Margaret Bullard, there was a short intermission in which the floor was cleared for dancing. Music was .furnished by Bob Cumming's Orchestra. Every- one enjoyed a very pleasant evening at the very suc- cessful Junior-Senior Banquet. ' . I Il 'o Pla The junior class of 1949 presented the football comedy, Two4Minutes to Go, on Friday night, No- vember 12 in the Holden High School auditorium. For three years Holton High School's football team has not lost a game. But the coach has been dismissed because the ones in ,power do not like his methods. Walter Spike Reagan with his young bride, Sandra, take over the new job. Superintendent XVilson calls on the young couple and pledges his full support of an athletic program that will give all a chance rather than a chosen few. As might be expected, certain of the seniors on the team, especially VVhiz Barton, Hippo Reynolds, and Russ Martin, have the feeling that they are indis- pensable. They take the training rules far too light- ly. They don't like it because Spike makes frequent substitutions in order to give the Whole squada chance to play. Eventually Holton loses a game, and the whole town is in an uproar over it. NVhiz and his friends threaten to quit the team. Spike holds firm against all the threats and criticism, and continues to build up a strong team of second-stringers. l Of all the substitutes, Rudy Bain is the most con- scientious and the most eager to make good. Not prominent socially and poor, he has never had a chance like other students. Sandra aids him in Eng- lish composition, and Spike tries to snap Rudy out of his self-consciousness. Terry Druggins, a five-year student, is capable of much better work in school, and likewise capable of better performance on the gridiron. It is Spike's influence on these two un- promising students that adds much to the perform- ance. , And so it is that Rudy, after untold hours of practice, is enabled to win the game that gives Hol- ton another championship--with a drop-kick. Terry is redeemed from mediocrity and set on a new path. Spike's theories about athletics are vindicated, and assistant coach Birchard-inclined to resent Spike's methods-is won over. ' The cast under the direction of Miss Bessie Sprinkel were as follows: Walter C'Spike J Reagan coach at Holton High A .................................... . .................................. Ed Clements Sandra, his wife ..................................,. Agnes Ann Raber James Wilson, Supt. of Schools .............. Carl Stumpff Mrs. Druggins, a neighbor ....... , ..... Barbara Ludlam Terry, her son ........................................ Herby Thomason Mimi Hopper, a high school senior ........ Lucille Carter Jo Craig, reporter for school paper .... Betty Jo Simpson Ken Whiz J Barton captain of team ........ Charles Park Russ Martin, a member of the team ....... I ames Daldrup Geo. QI-Iippoj Reynolds, also, on team .... Carl Hamilton Rudy Bain, an aspiring football candidate.. Dan 1-Iayes Beth Carney, cheer leader ................ Marion Kendrick Hope Longworth, cheer leader ................ Clyde Wilson Helen Meeks drum majorette, Donna Lois Hammontree Tom Birchard, Asst.- football coach ...... VVendell Daniel Luella Bickel, student at Holton High .... Doris Walters Announcer .................................................. Franklin Gudde Water Boy ..... . ............................................ Tom Famuliner Besides these were members of the team, band, and pep squad. The entire cast included a total of forty-six class members.