Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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1st row—Left to right—Betty Mitchell, Caroline Henninge, Betty Feenstra, Hazel Seidel, June Strode, Eleanore Woodworth, Dorothy Woidke, Rachel Krause. Lillian Chester, Doris Rhodes, Aline Waters, Jeanne Rand, Mar- garet Pethtel, Mabel Roddy. 2nd row—Left to right: Gladys Seifert, Rita Nagy, Gladys Rose, Helen Keener, Ronnie Hall, Ruth Rhodes, Marie Baggu'.ey, Jane McLean, Marie Grabski, Jean Leyde, Barbara Greene, Charlotte Crum, Bertha Erbacher, Virginia Dawson. 3rd row—Left to right: Rupert Atkins, Phil Greene, Gertrude Kuback, Mal- tha Wheeler, Joy Wonner, Sylvia Laurie, Virginia Maltbie, Margaret Quirk, Marel Walding, Jean Anderson, Helen Bingham, Lorine Distler, Phrocine Bailey, Charlotte Rand, Edvvardine Cone, Lois Mitchell, Dona McEl wee. 4th row—Left to right: Adabellc Smith, Loraine Nash, Muriel Bates, Sylvia W'ymor, Anita Ford, Evelyn Miller, Jean Dillon, Virginia Wright, Marjorie Spencer, June Ford, Ruth Smith, Miss Ad lard, Amelia Newby, Margaret Ward, Ernest Ulle, Robert Seifert, Mr. Trescott. 5th row—-Left to right: Dallas Candy, Ralph Prouty, William Newby, Robert Orcutt, Willard Dodge, Kenneth Whipple, John Hutchinson, George Scott. Ray Whipple, Harry Bingham, Merle Billington, Lynn Miller, Robert Stimpert, Ralph Martin, Gilbert McLean, James Roddy, Edwin Waterman, Bill Diehl, Junior Northeott, Wayne Herrick. GIRL RESERVES AND Hl-Y GIRL RESERVES The customary thins to do every fall is to get acquainted with all the girls in High School, and we find the best way to do this is to have a hike, so last September 26, with each Junior and Senior girl acting as a big-sister to one or more Freshmen, we hiked to the river. A few weeks following this, the Club gave a tea for the Fortnightly Club, and it was at this time that we had our initiation services for the new members who had joined at the beginning of the year. Now, to tell you a little about the way in which our meetings are con- ducted. We have adopted a different plan this year, and that is we have a general meeting every Wednesday when the entire Club meets, instead of the group meetings that we had the previous year. It has been so arranged that at each meeting we have either an outside speaker or some girl from the Club talk on any subject that she is especially interested in. Our aim this year has been to carry out the idea of vocations, and instructive talks have been given. Not to forget our Halloween Kid Party (I don't believe any of us ever will) at Caroline Henninge's house, where we were all little girls again wearing either short skirts, or rompers with big hair-ribbons, and bows. Later, Mrs. Behm was so nice as to extend us an invitation to her home. The Club furnished the food, and we all ate supper there. Our guest of honor was Mrs. Overturf, the gneious matron of Andrews Institute who gave us an inspiring talk on Vocations. (Continued on Page Twenty-eight') Twenty-seven

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DRAMATIC CLUB The Ca ii I (I ron The present Dramatic Club grew out of the Dramatic Group or the Girl Reserves. It was thought there would be people outside the Girl Reserves organization who would be interested in this kind of work, so the present Club was started. At the first meeting cn October 16, work began among the thirty members. With the aid of our advisor, Miss Johnson, we worked for several weeks on exercises of voice control, modulation, memorization, etc. We devoted two weeks to the art of stage make-up. This was enjoyed by everyone although most of them had to suffer from the ordeal of being a clown at least so far as facial appearances were concerned. By the time we began work on plays, several of the members had had to drop out, due to so many other school activities. The first play Latchkeys was given for a Friday morning program and was announced by Dorothy Waterman. The cast, Gordon Martin, Alzora Water- man, Robert Morlan, John Hutchinson, Helen Pitschman, Betty Feenstra, Doris Rhodes and Lillian Chester, repeated this play for the Little Theater Group of Madison. The story of the play was cut considerably for the presentation given at school. The play took place in the living room of the mansion of the Pendle- tons. Mr. Pendleton was a very wealthy business man who was handicapped with a nagging wife. Mrs. Pendleton was a very portly society woman who was desirous of maintaining the social position of her family. The daughters of the household were all mixed up in their love affairs, and finally Mrs. Pendleton had to go to Europe to get away from it all. Harold, the scion of the Pendleton family, is the comic character of the play, and although all the members of the cast are supposed to be very serious in their manner, they offered much enjoyment for the audience. n wfhe.r play Bills with a cast of Marel Walding, John Hutchinson and Robert Morlan, was also given for assembly. This one-act play concerned a newly wedded couple who are trying to keep off the bill collectors, and who mistake a lawyer who has come to give them some money for one of the too familiar bill collectors. The antics the couple go through to realize that the awyer isn t a collector and doesn't want any money, and the time the lawyer has trying to explain (he is afflicted with the stuttering habit) that he doesn t want any money, keep the spectators in an uproar. The Girl Reserves in the Club prepared the play Not a Man in the House with Dorothy Waterman, Doris Rhodes, Lillian Chester, Lois-Jean Mitchell and Hazel Seidel, for the Mother-Daughter Banquet in March. Ihis was the story of a woman who was prejudiced against men. She vowed she would never have any man in her house and went to great lengths to furnish her house so conveniently that there would never be any necessity. The Irish maid sees to it that there are plenty of opportunities but her plans are always thwarted by the man hater. m€ 9Unnt0°ik CfW9e °tf the County Riding and Oratorical Contest held here March 22 In the preliminary local contest our members, Loraine Nash, Rachel Krause, Helen Keener, Robert Morlan and and John Hutchinson took part. The officer of the Club are Rachel Krause, president, Loraine Nash, vice president, and Gordon Martin, secretary-treasurer. The Club intends to present another play sometime in May. Rachel Krause, '35 Twenty-six

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GIRL RESERVES T h e Cauldron (.Continued from Page Twenty-seven') At Thanksgiving time the G. R's filled boxes of goodies which the Hi-Y boys delivered to a number of shut-ins in the community. Then at Christmas the Girl Reserves gave a party for forty under-privi- leged children, and each girl brought a toy for one of the children. There are a group of G. R's who are under the leadership of Marie Bagguley and are especially interested in nursing. Through their efforts, they have made it possible for anyone who has received a minor injury to be taken care of by the nurse on duty. Several months ago the Club sent three delegates to the convention which was held in Columbus. They were Carolyn Bates, Helen Keener and Charlotte Crum. Lastly, we come to our final social gathering, the long anticipated yet sad Senior Farewell Party. Virginia Dawson, '35 THE HI-Y CLUB This year the Hi-Y Club was again under the sponsorship of Mr. Trescott. The first important event (at least to the incoming members) was initiation. Whoever had the brilliant idea of having the candidates step into a waste-basket and slide, fall, roll and tumble down the stairs must have been conferring with Harvey Hejduk. He's an expert in that line. If you don't believe me ask Willard Dodge. Harvey demonstrated his ability on Willard at the Junior dance. However, all the candidates survived it and later ordeals and were received with due ceremony into the Club. On October 19, members of the Club attended the theatre in Painesville and saw Saturday's Millions. During the year we had several night meetings during which we were entertained by various speakers. Three of the more interesting talks were by Rev. Grover Diehl, on Choosing Your Life Work, Dr. Parks of Paines- ville whose topic was The Biological Facts of Life, and one by Alex McColl, Geneva member of the Washington Senators' pitching staff who spoke on his ex- periences in big league baseball. We were sorry to hear that Mr. McColl was released this spring to the Chattanooga Lookouts. This year the Hi-Y Club had the privilege of using the Y. M. C. A. pool at Painesville on the first Wednesday of each month. We took advantage of this opportunity on every occasion but one, when there was a lack of trans- portation. The Hi-Y again took over the responsibility of securing the Friday morning assembly programs which we hope were enjoyed by everyone. The crowning glory of the year, however, was the party that the club threw for the Girl Reserves. What a party! In addition to dancing there were games throughout the evening and the most popular one of these was that combination of sports called Ping Pong, or Table Tennis. In fact, the Ping Pong tables seemed to be more attractive than the dance floor. The sport was carried on during noon hours for several weeks until the stock of celluloid balls was depleted. The club helped out the Girl Reserves later in the year by acting as waiters at the Mother-Daughter Banquet. We hope that none of the diners got nervous prostration watching Bob Miller pour coffee. I almost forgot that at Thanksgiving time we delivered baskets of goodies that the G. R's had made up for the shut-ins. Officers for the past year were Dallas Candy, president; Gilbert McLean, vice president,- Lynn Miller, treasurer, and James Roddy, Secretary. James Roddy, '35 Twenty-eight