Mars Area Junior Senior High School - Planet Yearbook (Mars, PA)

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t Mars High School Senior Class Play The Senior Play ‘Kicked out of College’? was presented in the audi- torium of the High School building. The characters in the play were as follows: poe tiecp ben Dawei aa. Ash Opulat SEMIOLss ratte ee Loyal Purvis MideGnescidine. ...... 6s. +. The College Cut-Up..-....... Milton Ellis emGlEN SMA Gr oe Sercs uss eds Fs alrevAce: of opAdesyn ee ante Paul Steiner peotche WicAllister: «0. 2... Do Lardostudentsana te ae ee David Roberts BMOCEYEUONG eter. es ts On the Glee Club.............LeRoi Norton BlivetsUViavee.. 268 2. ates. es Apiappyva| UlIOGs. qatar, © oem Graham deCoux Merapenjamime |. Benbow... Bootles Father: 3.0.2.7. .22. 5... Alfred Morrow MipoanrdyVvicCann:. 5.24. Coach of the Dramatic Club. ..Loyal Walters Oiicemhiley.. 2 aie fois os From the Emerald Isle. 4). George Harbison WAC ADS M chon girant. cree Of the Speed Motor Car Co... .Clyde Frisbee email Gray ioe: as) oi. a ‘abe Littles Ghattier, 28 aerecces Vera Hyett Betty DenbOW. cii4.2 6c... = Bootlessupist Chigast vac. cee tee Edna Hill VLEs he DeTLDOW vo... 2: Her Mother, a Sufferagette....Jean Vandervort MipsmeVi CC annie testes. wo ates Atlealouss Wy ies seer eee Mabel Werner PehnawNicGanh ©. s.e0.. 220: Aeoed= Lhirt een ivase 4 geet Mabel Cashdollar Miss: juliet Snobbs......... The College Stenographer..... Jane Stitzer Mies Mimi Fleurette....... Auirench Costumer 2c. ase Helen Boyle Salamanca Spivins.........A Black “Wash Lady.......... Edna Seaburg Story of the Play: Bootles Benbow, the most popular boy in college, is so busy with inventing a patent air brake and with his various social and athletic activ- ities that he finds it impossible to go to class. Accordingly he is dropped from the roll and is “kicked out of college.” This news is received at the college boarding house when the lads are in the midst of a rehearsal for the annual college play. Bootles’ father arrives and is furious to think that his son has wasted his opportunities at college. He threatens to disinherit Bootles but promises to relent if Bootles will marry and settle down. Sandy McCann, the coach of the dramatic club, is a lways trying to ietixastiinus 1On his friends. He therefore informs Mr. Benbow that Bootles is already married and introduces Bootles’ roommate, Tad Cheseldine, who is the “leading lady” of the college play, as Bootles’ wife. The scheme works successfully. -Bootles and Tad move to “Honey Moon Flats” and live off the fat of the land, entertaining the college boys every night and doing as they please by day. Bootles completes his blue- print drawing of his patent air brake and sends it to the Speed Motor Car Company. A colored wash lady, one Salamanca Spivins, calls to collect nn Page Twenty-one

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Mars High School eo open to the public. Among these was Carnegie’s Room or the Founder’s Room. We also visited the bone department, stuffed animal department, the Indian department and several others. About three thirty we left the Museum and returned to the city. Some went to the theatre and the.rest came home. We all enjoyed the trip and learned many new wonders of our wor ld. On the twenty second of May we held a social in the Robertson Hall. Our aim was to raise the money we had pledged for the new High School Building at the dedication exercises. Although the weather was wet and stormy a good crwod was present and all reported a good time. Our Junior year was not very eventful. We elected Anna Longdon Secretary for our class, our former Secretary, Clarissa Crawford having left our ranks. We had twenty six members, the same as when we were Soph- omores. Our last year in High School has not been very exciting but nevertheless | we have enjoyed it. This term we have a new professor Mr. Clarence A. Conley, who tis a graduate of the Class of 1910 of Mars High School. The school curriculum has been arranged so that the students only need to carry four studies. This year there is an enrollment of twenty-nine members on the Senior class roll. Katharine Smith of Charelvoix, Michigan, who attended High School last year at Spencer, W. Va., and Edna Seaberg of Fireburgh, New York, entered our class the first day of school. A few days later George Harbison of South Hills High, moved to Mars and added his name to the Senior Class Roll, then last but not least came Helen Boyle of the Sharpsburg High, who joined our ranks a few days before our Thanksgiving vacation. In the fall the Sophomores challenged us to a game of foot-ball. Our see won. We also played a game of basketball with them and came out the victors. After the Christmas vacation a committee was appointed to choose a class play and they decided on “Kicked Out of College.’ Miss Waldorf, dramatic instructor from Carnegie Tech, was hired to coach the play. At one of our late class meetings we chose as our class motto, “Launched, but not Anchored,” and for our class flower the American Beauty Rose. Now as we are about to leave forever Mars High School, and as we are preparing to leave school life and enter life’s school, we turn to wish our followers the greatest of success, and we earnestly hope that those who come afte rus will profit by our mistakes. Catherine Hooks, ’21. Page Twenty

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Mars High School ton a bill and discovers the fact that the so called Mrs. Benbow is a man in disguise. She informs the police and immediate discovery is prevented by additional advice from the ever ready Sandy. Why not introduce another wife? No sooner said than done, and Mlle. Fleurette, a French Costumer, 1s introduced as Bootles’ wife. She is wife number two. s A suffrage parade is held and Bootles’ father and mother arrive to visit him. Both wives appear on the scene at the same time and Mrs. Ben- bow, Sr., is informed by the faithful Sandy that Bootles has joined the Mormans and has two wives. Bootles’ father is not easily taken in. He employs a detective to search out the truth. This detective is an absurd Irish policeman, and when he tries to disguise as a Freshman he is hazed by the students and tossed in a blanket. At last the truth comes out. Mr. Benbow threatens to disinherit his son, but the agent of the Motor Car Company accepts Bootles’ air brake and makes him a liberal offer for it. The faculty reconsider Bootles’ expul- sion and he is allowed to re-enter college. Under the circumstances his father relents and he wins the hand of Miss Jonquil Gray and promises soon to introduce her as his third little wife. i a... eee ee eee Page Twenty-two