La Cygne Rural High School - Swan Yearbook (La Cygne, KS)

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X! ix amor play A READYFMADE FAM LY The juniors, under the direction of their sponsors, Mrs. Clara Handley and Mrs. Lois Irwin, presented their play NA Ready-Made Family,n on November 15. ,The story centered around Agnes Martyn,a widow, and Henry Turner, a widow- er, who were married against the wishes of their children--Sammie Turner, Doris Turner, Bob Martyn, Marilee Martyn, all in their late teens,and eleven year old Gracie Martyn. Epileptic fits,baby talk,and practical jokes were the children's efforts to try to get Henry to divorce their mother. The story had a happy end- ing when the children finally admitted their pranks and Henry and Agnes decided to stay married. The cast included Miss Lydia Martyn,a neurotic woman,Norma Dean Kyle:Grac- ie Martyn, a mean little girl who constantly played mean tricks, Doris Hoover, Marilee Martyn, a grown girl who constantly talked like a baby, Lorene Ellen Pease, Sammie Turner, who pretended to be a kleptomaniac, Gene Rockwell, Doris Turner,who loved to bore everyone with her talk of her operation,Roberta Gage, Agnes Martyn and Henry Turner, a widow and a widower, who fell in love, Georgia Lou Harper and Carl Wade, Begonia and Nicodemus, two colored servants who pro- vided laughs through the whole play, Ernestine Butts and Dick Banks. Each member of the class had a part in the production of the play. Roy Shields was stage manager, Rozella Newman, prompter, Ellen McCammon, wardrobe mistress, Evelyn Miller, Fontella Butler, Marian Hoover, Betty Phalen, Fauna Hobson, and Ferne Hobson were ushers. A short band concert preceded the play.For between act entertainment Bobby Banks played a saxophone soloWCaprice Viennoisenby Fritz Kreisler,and a girl's sextet,Ruth Matthews, Joan Scott, Illene Mendenhall, Joan West, Dorothy LaMast- er, and Marjorie McClanahan sang NBy the Waters of the Minnetonkau, accompanied by Patricia Zimmerman on the clarinet and Darlene Tolman at the piano.

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Q CJl7Z6? CT lst Row: Betty Montce, Patricia White, Berneice Long,Beverly Barker, Ferns Hobson, Esther Kerns, Marjorie Boyer, Charlene fglzg ' Johnston, Rose Anne Miller, Joan West, Ferne White. 2nd Row: Lorene Pease, Rozella Newman, Jean Knox, Marilyn ' Rose, Jeannine Karr, Vivian Reynolds, Fauna Hobson, Ernestine Butts, Carol Galvin, Ruth Matthews, Joan Scott, Marjorie Mc- Ginnis, Wilma Rhynerson, Margaret Russell, Patricia Zimmer- man. 5rd Row: Joyce Boone, Deloris Borders, Illene Mendenhall, Ellen McCammon, Betty Phalen, Evelyn Miller, Mrs. Handley, Norma Dean Kyle,Dorothy LaMaster, Darlene Tolman,Marie Smith, Waneta Mooney, Marjorie McGlanahan, Estaline Butts. Future Home Makers of America One of OUT Club SOHSS' Tune: Jingle Bells OFFICERS Joan West .... ...................... President F. H- A- OUP F- H- A- Evelyn Miller ....... . .... Vice President F.H.A.-F.H.A. La Cygne's on its way Dorothy La Master ..,, ,, ,,,,, Secretary Toward new horizons we do strive Joan Scott ......... ...... Treasurer to maKe OUT homee more say- Lorene Ellen Pease... .... Historian Red Bhd white, Ted end White- OUT Norma Dean Kyle .... .... Song Leader Colors pure and bright- Betty Sue Phalen... .....Reporter With Steady PUTPOSG, hope ehd trust, g Our goals we'll gain with might. COMMITTEES Constitution--Esther Kerns, Patricia Zimmerman, Fauna Hobson, Jeannine Karr. Membership ---- Marie Smith, Ferne Hobson, Beverly Barker. Program ------- Ruth Matthews, Darlene Tolman, Norma Dean Kyle. Social -------- Ernestine Butts, Margaret Russell, Waneta Mooney. Service ------- Ferne White, Lorene Ellen Pease, Wilma Rhynerson. Finance ------- Rozella Newman, Deloris Borders, Joan Scott. Executive ----- The chairman of each of the above committees. On January 15 at 5:50 o'clock the girls of all the home economics classes met to organize their club which was to be affiliated with the state and national high school girls' home economics clubs. The purposes of this organization are: to improve personal, home, school,and community livingg to stimulate and further interest in home economics, to provide opportunities for leadership and cooperative participation in group activities, to provide activities that will aid the personal development of the individualg to foster international good will. In conforming to the purposes of the club some of the activities in which the girls were engaged were: preparation and serving of refreshments for all school party, chili supper for football boys and pep club, and the junior-senior banquetg club picnics, teas, sunrise breakfast, and hikes, a style show with colonial cos- tumes: making wool lapel ornaments, discussions on leadership, friendship, and per- sonal development. 22 '

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Si. . Q9 men we G The science department under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Handley offers three courses of instruction: general science, physics and biology. The general science course, open to any beginning student in science, consists of the fundamentals of the major fields of science. In biology, the study of plant and animal life, experiments are made by the stud ents and demonstrations presented by the instructor. In the fall and in the spring the students go on field trips to observe wild life ann collect specimens for nocn ing and study. Also on the field trips we collected animals from a pond and sent off for plants in order to achieve a balanced aquarium. I Physics, one of the two required laboratory courses offered by this high school is va- luable both to fu- ture college stu- dents and to the student Whois int- erested in radio or engineering work. Sw K5 OXX Here we are studying as usual.