Lowpoint Washburn High School - Quill Yearbook (Washburn, IL)

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3. kg, XVA i '.f ,X- HILARITY HOUSE In Aprul the .Iunuor Class presented Hularuty House a comedy un three acts durected by Muss Aluce Morruson From start to funush thus delughtful farce us one long hularuous carnuval of fun and un comparable entertaunment The actuon of the play beguns when Jeff Jordan from out West suddenly appears on the horuzon of hus wudowed suster un law Isobel Jordan and her two vuvacuous daughters of hugh school age Kathu and Betts Uncle Jeff hughly dus approves of the manners and dress of Young Ameruca Thunkung he wuII drop dead un a few weeks from heart trouble he unforms hus young nueces that he wull make them hus heurs PROVIDING they stop uutterbuggung wear ankle length dresses and not date boys untul they are eughteen' The gurls sadl agree to these terms and Uncle Jeff leaves for St Louus to see a heart s ecualust Decu ung to have one last flung the gurls unvute two of theur boy fruends over or a jam sessuon Suddenly un pops Uncle Jeff' From then on the sparks fly One of the funnuest characters un the play us the mournful maud Lucundy Peck from Cabbage Neck who keeps the auduence roarung wuth murth Ou THE CAST Isobel Jordan a wudower Rosemary Zeuger Kathu Jordan her eldest daughter Irma Dell SCIIW-iff! Betts Jordan her youngest daughter Betty Anne Peabody Lucundy Peck the cook PBUIYICIIIG Sli'-WCI' Buzz Bassett Betts heart unterest Elmont OIWCY Stan Lawler Kathu s boy fruend No 2 JBCIK Telfer Jefferson Jordan the uncle Wallace Kllef Dora Devune Jeffs old sweetheart Rachel Ann Thompson Duxue Devune her son Eldon S Yde u 4 T , 'J f It I ' Cla, H , - ....,,....,...u.,u..,,cuu...........uu ' as I Il ...,...,.... I .V .I ,I .V .4 .V .I .t .V .V .I ,I .I .I ,I .I .I .I .I .4 .I .I .I .I . . . .W Wally O'Shane, Kathi's boy-friend No. 1 ..................,....... Frank N. Ireland fu-N ,H . , . ....,.....,...,....,......,..,......... up , ..........,.,..,........,. u u as - , ususI susss c t tucsutctuu utc , s wg.,

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DRAMA AUNT CATHIE S CAT Felrcra Metcalfe The play Aunt Cathre s Cat was given by the Sensor Class on Frrday evenrng Novemer 30 1945 and was drrected by Mass Alice Mornson The settmg was a spooky old mansuon that had been shut up for a long trme Two refmed maiden ladres wrth thenr two attractive meces and dumbdora mard rented the place unaware that anything mysterious was going on When the real estate agent toolr hrs prospective renters over the house two queer rough loolung men scur ned across the stage carrylng the bloody faced body ol a man The ladres moved an at once and then the excitement really began Finally at the herght of their terror the solution came and the whole mysterious business was cleaned up THE CAST Bull Pryor real estate agent J0l1f1 Hawk Mass Jane Tnmble marden aunt Beth Jury Mass Cathle Tnmble marden aunt Marilyn Myers Margaret Tnmble niece Evelyn Wifnke Dorothy Tnmble teenager Rene Rae FlIClI Mana Garcla Spanish servant Ruth Ann Schwartz A G55 man Dale Gerber Olhcer Ray Moulton Mr David Brent retrred businessman Ph Jlrdslsnbgaw Elrzabeth P or snster of Bull y IS 0 IPS Tully Pltts t e mard Lorna Adamu if-A.-K Mrss Walker saleslady Betty WlllIdmS .. bv f , ' -' . ' G: f Jose Garcia, 'her husband ,..a.,,,... H. . .t ,4... Walter Fitschen X I y ' .... A ' - T rl, ' ....,....r ' .',t.'.'r ,T ,','. . ' ' I -v -

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fun- af J1-1.2 Af' And? A, ni Walter Fltschen E elyn Wafnke Left to right Eldon Snider Walter Fltschen Wesley Held Judson Faw Walter Fitschen received 1st place in Boys low voice at the District Contest in Peoria Illinois March 2. He is eligible lor the State Contest to be held May 3 and 4 in Peoria. He sang The Blind Plough- man by Youman Marilyn Myers accompanying. Evelyn Warnlre received 2nd place in Girls high voice at the District Contest singing My Johann by Grieg accompanied by Marilyn Myers. The Washburn 4 were rated 3rd at the District Contest. They sang the Negro Spiritual l Got Shoes. They were handicapped at the last minute when Eldon Snider developed a sore throat and head cold. Danny Schroeder lrom the Grade School sub- stituted lor him. LITE RARY Our high school entered contestants in live events ol the District Speech Contests held in Eurelra March . - 9. Rena Rae Fliclr represented us in Dramatic Read- ing Lorna Adami in Comedy Reading Jean Robin- Qfg son in Verse Reading and Robert Hendriclrson in Original Oration and Extempore Spealring. Robert who is a sophomore won a first lor us in both events. The girls ,gave a creditable account ol themselves but were not so fortunate as to ranlr lirst or second. Robert will advance to the Sectional Contest at Lincoln on March 23. The subject ol Robert's oration was The Fair Employment Practice Commission and the Negro.