Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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DRAMATICS This year besides the three tradltxonal plays the sehool put on a fourth the Sullly an and Bernand operetta Cox and Bot Thls plly pleasantly surprised many of us because owing, to the rather short notnce glyen the three actors and the short tlme deyoted to rehearsals we dxdnt expect much MeKee play ed Box Sewall was Cox and Riley acted as Bouncer Squeak Sewall drd exeeptlonally well although thls was hls hrst operatne performanee In the earlier Thanksgnmg play Curse you jack Dalton' lots of new talent was uneoyered and such promxsmg actors as uetton Mexsel McDufHe S Warrmer and Kesler were revealed Rxddervold was the hero 111 thls play and Vnnall the master vlllaxn had an approprlate role The Ireneh play presented just before the Laster vacation drew out Llbbey as a wood chopper doctor Lmmons as hxs good w1fe plus Quetton Mexsel Blackwell and Vrcker man whose part you may call what you wnll Iolanthe this years annual Gllbert and Sullrvan operetta IS btlllb presented wlth one third of the school partrcrpatlng The lead roles agaln fall to McKee as Lord Chancellor Sewall as Lord Mountararat and to another newcomer Armstrong as Lord Tolloller The femmme parts are taken by Rrlev playmg ueen of the Fames Quetton as Iolanthe and Emmons as the gurl all the fuss IS over Phyllns Wlth the excellent muslc and dx reetnon plus such a cast Iolanthe wrll be a fittmg finlsh for such a year as we have had lt'-Y 4 N A I Cr! ' 1 V I Q lv , 1 I I 4 l , . .. e ' ' T ' 1 L V 1 11 ' y 1 1 ' I' , - , 1 . , i s , , . V . 11 1 ' ' ' rr ' 11 1 y - 1 , .1 r . 7.V. U 1 ' 3, 1 ' 1 . V , Q 1 1 1 - 1 , . 1 1 '- , . 1 In - ' 1 I -, ' , ' - 1 - 1 4 1 1 1 1 ' , V . . , V . 1 . . ,. Y I . 1 . I I 1 1 1 1 - ,1 Q ' s , Q 1 1 7 r - 1 'f:rm3 1 X A, F r. .rmlf l' l 0 P r. I af' if . .f .1 00 -A f ., . . ' l X X as' ff ' Y l,':f nil' f, 'x' q r ' ..' .. I In A-'11-J ,. 1 .. tl .

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Standing R Warner Manley Mr Abbey Weld Crcclty Seated Quetton Nichols Vickerman DEBATING CLUB This year an experiment was tried at Holderness A comprehensive course covering an admixture of speaking both prepared and extemporareous and debating was inaugurated At the beginning of the winter term an opportunity to participate in the Bates Private School Debating Tournament appeared in the ofling, and the group decided to try for it A Debating Club was organited and a period of intensive practice followed A formal debate club for the climax at Lewiston Finally on March 14th Mr Abbey with Bob Vickerman and Ildric Weld of the affirmative and David Nichols and Bob Creeley of the negative went to Lewiston There I-Iolderness came in fourth out of the seven schools competing and Vicker man with his ready flow of facts, figures, and baloney won an honorable mention as sec ond best speaker Several things have become more apparent now that the season is over Firstly the club s career could not have even occurred without Mr Abbey the invaluable faculty coach Sec ondly we will start next year with seven veterans with nothing to lose and for both the veterans and any new members, much to gain QI' 3' 1 1 1 s ' before the school, with the addition of two more with Laconia High, helped to prepare the ' 1' 9 v ' s i 1 3 v Q . ' 5 - ' ' If YJ ' J J ' . Y . v . Y , ' Y v v . l 7, . v . - 3 A V Y , Y ,

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SCDCIAI. ACTIVITIES The 1940 41 Socrety Log Book opens wlth an entry as of November 9th On that date Grrls arrrved not for the usual Kendall Hall Dance but for the first ln hxstory Flfth Form House Party The eye opener and mutual attraction of the week end was the Proctor football game which mel dentally I-Iolderness won Many boys drd double duty Q1 e a glrl on each arm as they watched this game of this duty they were rclrewed at tea nn the Rectory when the footballers came to reclalm therr partners Followrng a buffet supper a la ones all reparred to therr dorms to make ready for the dance As usual the ordeal was awarted wrth mlxed emotnons some groans and some sighs Yet the terpsrchorean whlrl ultxmately drd begln and was accompanred by Paul Ross s orchestra wrth all IIS stops open and other unlque effects The dance was well attended and well run and left nts promoters the Frfth Form and the Student Councll somewhat well spent After the trlals and trrbulatrons of Mrd Years the campus agam rang wrth the srlver laughter of female volces It was Iarnday the 31st of january and agam the Grrls assembled some old vlsltors some new for the Wlnter I-louse Party T'l'1lS trme however was not to be just one more of those dances rt had a new wrrnkle After a battle rt was decrded to make the dance formal Thrs meant much work on the part of the males but rn the long run the work was from all reports worth It Friday mght there was a trrp to the Dartmouth Ravxne Camp and this trrp with 1ts barn dance at the Camp proved to be a one hundred per cent success Saturday morning the New Hampshrre Women s Slalom Champlonshlps on Hucklns Hrll whlch some attended others went sknng at Wendy s Mov1es and sknng were the chref attractlons on Saturday afternoon they provided a happy preparatron for the evenrng dance and desprte certaxn persons love for the Rhumba the dance that evenlng was a success M 1 1 - - 1 . 1- 1 - V . , . , . 7 y . . ., I . 1 . v . 1 1 - 1 1 s - I I D, - 1 - , . 1 . , . . . 1 1 ' ' 1 ' 1 1 , ' . 7 A - 1 1 1 - - I . . . Y 1 1 - 1 1 . U nh . . . . 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 . . , . . . , - 1 , , . . 1 1 . . , . A 1 1 ' 1 1 ' J . . -, L .. 1, . 4 .- a , 1'