Horace Mann High School - Horace Manual Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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THE YEAR IN The Auditorium department has been kept busy presenting departmental programs and preparing special features with seasonal motifs. Hallowe’en was memorable because of an entertaining ghost story: An Impossibility in One Act.” In November Mrs. Sheehan and Mrs. Higgins offered the operetta, Plymouth Rock.” With the lovely and inspiring Spirit of the Ages,” Horace Mann’s annual Christmas pageant, everyone was imbued with the spirit of the time. Miss Flanders, Miss Winters, and Mrs. Sheehan are responsible for its increasing success from year to year. The Declamatory, Oratorical, and Poetry contests aroused widespread interest as usual. The oratorical selection was Patrick Henry’s Address to the Virginia Assembly;” the declaration from Shakespeare’s immortal Romeo and Juliet.” The cantata, Ruth,” next claimed the spotlight as a Mothers’ Day program new to us. The work of the speech classes culminated in a poetry chorus of ten members who ably represented our school in the inter-school competition.

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MEMBERS OF THE CLUB, 1936-1937 The Dramatic Club, sponsored by Miss Gorrcll, presented Heidi” as its first play. The contest plays, Spreading the News” and Jephthah’s Daughter,” followed in rapid succession. Their dramatic season received its final dash of spice when the club gave Shall We Join the Ladies?” Besides producing their own plays, the members were in charge of the makeup in all other school productions. They took time to see Pride and Prejudice” in Chicago and act themselves” at chili, spaghetti, and waffle parties during the year.

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Miss Williams admits she is fond of social functions, but still prefers tees” to teas.” . . . You take the South, Miss Flanders will take the West. . . . Chautauqua has always interested Miss Gorrell. She never tires of recalling Chau¬ tauqua days back home.” . . . Miss Smith is a kegler— popularly known as a bowler. . . . The beach and books are Mrs. Doherty’s favorite recreations.