James Whitcomb Riley High School - Hoosier Poet Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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The Senior Drama Club HE Senior Drama Club of Riley has long been one of the most important organizations of our school. Some of you may still remember the Drama Club when it was sponsored by Miss Richmire with that prominent pair, James Perry and Betty Fitch. For a short time after Miss Richmire left us, the direction of this organization went over to Miss McDavit. At the present time it is under the able direction of Miss Estrich. The Drama Club has always maintained the highest of standards. They have as their purpose the improvement of MISS ESTRICH drama and they aim to present the best. This organization was established and is maintained for the purpose of discover- ing and developing those who are gifted with such talent or acting ability. The present membership is over fifty students whom you have seen, and will con- tinue to see until they leave Riley, on our stage in class plays and various other types of assemblies as well as their annual Drama Club production, which is a three-act play given every spring. This year it is to be presented on February 24, 1939. Although spring is their big season, the Drama Club has presented two delightful programs this semester: The Flattering Word given to assembly ll, and Dicken's Christmas Carol, their Christmas production. The chief character figuring in 'AThe Flat- tering Word is a minister who is deadly opposed to the theatre. The complication in the plot appears when his wife's friend, a prominent actor, comes to visit. However, it happens that the minister is a human creature at heart, and is susceptible to The Flattering Word, which is You should have been on the stage! He comes to the conclusion that perhaps the theatre isn't as bad as he had made it seem. Starring in the immortal work authored by the famous English novelist of the nine- teenth century, were Walter Koester as Scrooge, Dick Miller as Bob Cratchit, Joseph To- rok as Marley's Ghost, and many other talented members of this club. The ofHcers who head the Senior Drama Club at this time are Barbara McCaughen as President, Jeanne Weaver as Vice President, and Myrtle Horning as Secretary-Treasurer.

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Glee Club HE Riley Glee Club has grown immensely in the past few years. At the present time, two periods a day are devoted to it. There is an approximate membership of one hundred and sixty in this active organ- ization. Members are: Duane Bowerman. Junior Faulkner, James Faulk- ner, James Cary, Bob Frazier, Phil Fry, Jack McCune. Philip McGeke, Harold Noggle, John Clark, Louis Minnes, Bob Smith, Bill Stevens, Robert Swinehart, Carmen Castrejon, Betty Cifra, Virginia Eckhart, Helen Jerue, Doris Miller. Catherine Schiltz, Irene Schultz. Delores Wilke, Adal- gisa Bada, Ruth Ann Boss, Irene Geal. Mary Gilliom, Nadine Harper. Gladys Hughes, Barbara Keller, Audrey Knepp. Jean Lucas, Gerry Ober- man, Phyllis Riddle. Kathleen Simmons, Mildred Boss, Ruth Borough, Janet Goffeney. Agnes Haney, La Verne Kepschul, Freda Korkhouse, Florence Kristowski, Marilyn Luthman. Betty Jean Rowe, Ernestine Steg- man, Edna Bair, Sarah Ann Berger, Beatrice Boberg, Jeannette Bowman, Zoe Brainerd, Doris Bunch, Billie Jean Conrad, Dorothy Duker, Delores Eber. Barbara Fites. Maxine Frisk, Marguerite Gillies, Wanda Hartel, Marthajane Hively. Irene Jolche. Mary Kalabiska, Virginia Kindig, Josephine Koontz, Constance Lewis Ste- phanie Lukasiak. Evelyn Moore, Alma Much, Betty Peet, Ursula Petzke. Patsy Roberts, Edith Schultz, Betty Bernice Smith, Rose Staleri. June Walz. Elsie Weinstein, Marie Woters, Joe Acito, Robert Gibson. John Gil- liom. Bob Perkey. Carleton Sinclair, Arthur Reed, Harry Strauss, Dick Swisher, Eugene Barnes, Maynard Erickson. John Leader, Ed Lewieki. Earl Meilke, Arthur Regan, George Rodibaugh. Jack Rowe, James Treacy, John Joyal. Kitty Amos, Racyn Barber, Victoria Capatina. Gretchen Crowell, Lucile Ellis, Gloria Jean Ide, Josephine Jambrich. Marjorie Maloney. Josephine Poyser, Anna Lu Reed, Lisa Skillern, Elaine Weber, Donna VJintz. Kathryn Zaworska, Alice Zillmer, Virginia Abrams. Mary Dubin, Alma Jean Exaver, Esther Ewing. June Foster. Florence Fites. Mae Lewis, Betty Priester, Ruth Shrimer. Paula Staley, Barbara McCaughan, Nina Montgomerie. Jeanne Schultz, Mona Steele, Jeanne Weaver. Evelyn VJegner. Gertrude Vylolfe. Verna Bowman, Jean Bell. Catherine Baker, Vera Bryleske, Nellie Lee Cary, Vida Mae Castle. Jane Ditsch, Eileen Dunbar, Lucille Gargoszo. Glenna Garn, Betty Hall, Romona Henry, Margaret Huryon. Mary Kertai, Rosemary Mason, Esther Nikoley. Eileen Nusshart. Patricia Orrison, Billie Ostheimer, Alice Strickland. Dorothy Swanson, Eve- lyn Torok. Fannie Valchoff, Joan Vanderbosch, Marjorie Vaughn, June Wagener, Dorothea Vilaldvogel, Dor- othy XVilliamson. Donnabelle Wynn, Eleanor Edwards and Helen Weidman. MISS BARBARA KANTZER The oflicers of the Glee Club are: Doris Bunch, president: Bill Stevens, nrst vice president, and Helen Wleidman. second vice president. The ofiice of secretary-treasurer is filled by two people, Patsy Roberts and Virginia Abrams. because of the two periods. Librarians are: James Cary, Phyllis Riddle, James Treacy and Glenna Garn. Some of the music which has been prepared by the club is: Christiansen's Lost in the Night, Donkey Serenade by lirimlz Music of Life by Cain. and some Latvian Folk songs, The credit lor this nne organization goes to Miss Kantzer who, through her splendid cooperation and tireless efTorts has made the club one of the most outstanding musical groups of the city.

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Football FOLLOWERS of Riley football looked forward to the 1938 season with no exceeding trepidation. After a magnificent eastern division cham- pionship team in 1937, little was expected for the Wildcat unit, now rid- dled by graduation. Two lone regulars, Owen Evans and Jake Galloway, and an alternate, Earl Hartup, formed the nucleus of the 1938 squad. When Coach Forest M. Wood, whose 1938 team culminated ten suc- cessful years of football coaching, and his right-hand man, Line Mentor Harry Koss, issued the call for the first practice session one sunny July day. they were answered with the largest gathering of football talent in the his- tory of Riley. Some one hundred and twenty-one candidates reported to the coaches, hopeful of securing a choice position on the first eleven. In spite of the tinyness of the Wildcat gridders. the smallest teambeiferhto represent Riley, a page was written into the annuals of Riley foot al t at COACH WOOD would not soon be forgotten. After ten years of constant building, Riley had finally and assuredly arrived in the real of athletic competition. RILEY, 18: HAMMOND TECH, 6. The Hammond Tech grid- ders invaded School Field boasting their strongest team in years. Greatly outweighed and supposedly out- classed. the Wildcats upset the provincial dope bucket with an 18-6 victory . . . a successful beginning. Owen Evans was by far the outstanding man on the field as he carried the pigskin over the Tech goal on three occasions, personally accounting for the Riley score. SCOTT OF TOLEDO, 20: RILEY, 6. Short lived was the Riley winning streak. The Wildcats took their longest trip of the season, and although they thoroughly enjoyed the over-night journey, were disappointed on the gridiron. Scott High School trotted eleven nifty gridders into their giant horseshoe sta- dium, and despite a first quarter nfty-eight-yard touchdown run by Evans, came back in the last three periods with an invincible drive to down a scrapping Riley team, 20-6. 4 , RILEY, 18: LA PORTE, 0. Amidst all the festivities of dedicating revamped School Field and dis- playing new band uniforms, Riley's small but mighty pigskin cohorts touched off a gala evening with a con- vincing exhibition of football tactics. Jumping back into the winning column once again, the Wildcats trounced their first conference foe, 18-0, before 16,000 delighted spectators adorning the new stands. Port Guard Paul Bohm batted down a Slicer punt and struggled fifteen yards for the initial touchdown. Soon after Owen Evans and Allan Bell augmented Bohm's tally with touchdown plunges. The victory captioned Wood's charges as definite factors in the championship race. RILEY, 25: NILES, 0. A low-hanging London fog and nippy session of collar-raising weather was apparently beneficial for the Cats. In their next journey to football pastures, they traveled to Niles, Michigan, where they brutally crushed the meager Niles eleven, 25-0. This game was the chance for the reserves to get into the fray, since after the first team had hammered the Tornadoes almost into complete submission, the Riley subs took over and added the final flourishes to an easy victory. Fleety Allan Bell crossed the last stripe twice for the Wildcats, both times on end-around jaunts. Tomi Bullock and Owen Evans added their share to the total, Evans scoring on a 19-yard sprint and later converting the first successful extra point of the season. Bullock's tally was emblematic of the sub's contribution to the field day, coming after a forceful down-field drive. ELKHART, 13: RILEY, 12. Dame Fate did not always accompany the Riley footballers. Even though the Cats exhibited their finest football of the season and fought to the bitter end, they finally suc- cumbed to the potential NIHSC champion 13-12. The Wildcat-Blazer tussle was unquestionably the most thrilling bit of football seen at School Field in 1938. No other team had come as close to halting the pow- erful Blue Avalanche as did the Riley men. The teams battled on even terms throughout the entire game. ex- cept when the Riley team took an early lead and threatened to make it a one-sided affair. Allan Bell and Owen Evans provided the Wildcat twelve points. Winning factor of the game was a momentous extra point strategem on the part of the Blazers, successfully completing a pass, Swihart to Ronzone. As for the indi- vidual star, they were many-but one stalwart Riley end, Earl Hartup, stood out as he captained his gallant Wildcats to a worthy defeat. RILEY, 25: MICHIGAN CITY, O. Even though they had been outweighed by their opponents all season, the Wildcat met the heaviest team of the year when they motored to Michigan City, Indiana, one pic- turesque autumn day and turned a football game into a '2Iack, the Giant Killer dramatization. At their best the Red Devils were only able to reach the Riley 23-yard line. Evans set the Cats off on their scoring spree, racing around his right end eleven yards for the first tally. Immediately following, he aided Earl Har- tup in the most comical incident of the year when he tossed a touchdown-pass to End Hartup, who gathered it in while sitting contentedly in the end zone. James Killer Knapp gave the spectators the biggest thrill of the afternoon a bit later, as he thundered through the Imps' line and slipped past the secondary for a 65- yard touchdown. When the varsity had done their quarum, the subs spiced the program with another touch- down, Emil Firtl passing to Tom Bullock. RILEY, 7: WASHINGTON, 0. The greatest triumph of the season. Satisfying the cooped up re- venge for a 1937 loss, Riley aggressively scalped a member of their own feline family, the Washington Panther, 7-0. The first half was largely a headache for the Cats, barely turning back the Washington scoring thrusts and being unable to count themselves, but the second portion of the game found a different Wildcat unit on the field. Functioning with all the efficiency of a well-oiled machine and attacking savagely, the Ri- ley eleven marched into position for the winning tally, furnished by Owen Evans. With the chips down, End Earl Hartup planted the conversion squarely between the uprights and completely disheartened a defeated Panther aggregation. It was the first conference game existing -between the two, and brought the football relation to a Riley advantage, having won two of the three tussles.