Mankato High School - Otaknam Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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. 4 fscrffw fr A Jia Eucnta Occzunncdl September began with its traditional initiations. The first lyceum program of the year was a presentation by Billy King, magician. Late in September the student body became serious with apprehension of a threatened National Guard call. A program of German songs and stories was presented on September 16 by Otto Schadt, physician, singer, and lecturer. Mankato's fourteenth Home- coming ceremonies on Friday, September 27, honored the class of 1915. Twenty-one high school journalists attended the Minnesota State High School Press Convention at Hibbing on October 18 and 19. October 31 Captain Frank Crilley of the United States Navy told of the adventures of a deep sea diver. An illustrated lecture on the Eskimos of the Far North was given on November 7 by Richard Finnie, an Arctic explorer. A varied musical assembly was presented by Eileen Hutton and Wilfred Cushing on November 26. The final assembly for the season was the Story of Flight by Captain Corley P. McDarment of the United State Army Air Corps.. Climaxing the fall activities was the junior class play, Going Places, a three-act comedy written by Glen Hughes. Q-fha Clllfintcn Sa-zctaon Five hundred people attended the annual Senior Carnival on December 6. Twelve Mankato High School-delegates attended the District 5 Future Farmers of America rally, Saturday, December 14. Mrs. Milton Mason was the guest speaker at the Christmas assembly on December 20. On January 21 Malcolm Rosholt, foreign correspondent in China, lectured on the Far Eastern crisis. At Madison, South Dakota, on Saturday, February 1, the debate squad won the Tri-state Championship trophy. Raymond E. Hughes addressed the assembly on Friday, February 7, at the basketball lettermen's reunion. Robert Rieke and James Bowen presided as principal and attendance officer on Student Day, February 12. Fifteen students participated in a speech festival at St. James on February 22. Albert Lea was host to the Big Nine Speech Festival on March 1. Twenty-live declaimers and debaters attended the festival. Cliccame the Spnincj Lelawala, an operetta written by Charles Wakefield Cadman, was pre- sented on March 5 and 6. At Worthington, on -Monday, March' 10, the debate team won the regional debate championship. Donald Scott-Morrison, a concert pianist, presented a conversational recital at an assembly on Wednesday, March 19. The work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was described by Sam Grathwell on March 25. The debate squad moved into the state Hnals against West High School of Minneapolis by defeating New Ulm and Stillwater in inter-regional debates. Tam Hughes, Robert Rieke, and Richard Pass, ac' companied by Mr. Alois Kiefer, the debate coach, represented Mankato at the National Forensic League speech tournament at Lexington, Kentucky, during the week of April 27. The senior class play, What a Life, written by Clif- ford Goldsmith, was presented on Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16. Col- ored pictures of Australia and New Guinea were shown by Stanley Osborne, an Australian born explorer. The final lyceum program for the year was a concert by the Bentley Trio, international marimba-xylophone concert artists, on April 30. On May 23 the junior class entertained the senior class at the annual junior-senior prom.

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I 'The 1941 Gtaiznam Presented hy the Senior Class of the Manicato Senior High School Manicato, Minnesota Betty Lou Phiiipson . . . editor-in-chief Jeanne Zumwinide . . business manager Robert Barnett . . photography Clarence Giasrud . . . . adviser Lerroy Jones . photography adviser

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