Maupin High School - Redside Yearbook (Maupin, OR)

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THE REVSIDE 7lteAspia+iA, FRONT ROW: Florence Wing, Lee Fischer, Hetty Jo Chastain, Marcia McLeod. SECOND ROW: Jack McLeod, Joe Woodcock, Dean Crabtree, Keith DeCourcy. THIRD ROW: Amylou van Laanen, Mrs. Monger, Bill Woodcock. Qinli' jHeaCfAte FRONT ROW: Eulalee Palmateer, Marian Hachler, Julia Ashley, I,a Vonne Crabtree, Harriett Endersby, Phyllis Troutman, Lu Vern Fulkerson, Dora Addington. SECOND ROW: Opal Cox, Florence Wing, Lucille Iiagen, Florabelle Davis, Laura Whitlock, Lee Fischer, Elnora Greene, Nona Ashley .THIRD ROW: Dorcas Crabtree, Beulah Richmond, Marcia McLeod, Betty Jo Chastain, Amylou van Laanen, Chloe Hollamon, Lillian Bryant, Grade Stout. FOURTH ROW: Connie B'ttrich. Laura Mae Tunison, Edith Walters, Norma Brittain, Nola Delco, Opal Wing, Nina Ashley. FIFTH ROW: Mae Walters, Miss Sprague, Vonna Lee Tunison, Erma Mayfield. Seventeen FORTY-ONE

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THE REDSIDE Ite pian 7nxuipe 447 In February eleven Maupin High School students took the National Thespian vows in the high school gymnasium. The colorful candlelight ceremony was performed by an initiatory team of twelve from The Dalles Ieska, troupe 3. The team wore black robes with the Thespian symbols. The eleven Maupin students repeated the pledge after Mr. Albert Hingston, adviser of The Dalles troupe. The Dalles vice-president presented each student with the Thespian colors, blue and gold and the usher awarded the certificates of membership. After the ceremony refreshments were served in the Home Economics room which was patriotically decorated in red, white and blue. The tables were placed in a “U” shape with red, white and blue streamers running down the center. The center piece was a huge cake with the word “Thespian” written on it and decorated in blue and gold. The tables were lighted with tall red tapers. The cake was served with ice cream of red and white with a hatchet center. The troupe officers are President, Marcia McLeod; Vice-president. Jack McLeod; Secretary, Betty Jo Chastain; and Reporter, Keith DeCourcy. The national Thespian motto is “Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Speech Glut). The Maupin High School speech class began the study of dramatics with a three-act melodramatic farce as their first project. “Laughing Gas” was the play chosen. The cast of characters was portrayed by James Paulson as Ambrose Rosenbloon. the ignorant policeman; Lee Fischer as Kitty Doe, his flashy chorus girl fiancee; Marcia McLeod as Penny Whitman, a new-comer to New York; Florence Wing as Vivian Whitman, her sister who seeks a job on the radio; Betty Jo Chastain, their old maid aunt; Amylou van Laanen as a “would be surrealistic poet, who in reality is a gun moll; Keith DeCourcy as Paul Van Doren, posed as a radio actor who is also in reality a gangster; Dean Crabtree as Cris Win, whom everyone believes to be a detective story writer but turns out to be a first rate detective; Frances Heilmeyer as Olga Swenson, the Swedish maid who turns out to be Chris’s helper on the detective case; Jack McLeod as the Judge; Joe Woodcock as Mr. Merlino, owner of the apartment house in Greenwich village, and Dale Savage as the corpse around whom all of the commotion centers. Bill Woodcock was the efficient stage manager and the play was ably directed by Mrs. Monger, the speech class teacher. The play was given a boost by “Mr. Hill of Portland who furnished a microphone, loud speakers, and other sound equipment for the production of the play. The cast enjoyed working together on the play and proved to be as good entertainment for the audience. After the play was over the remaining speech class periods were divided between debating. declamation, different types of speaking, parliamentary procedure, a radio program, and a puppet show. On February sixteenth eleven members of the speech class were initiated into the Thespian National Dramatic Honor Society, one of six schools in Oregon to belong. The climax of the years’ work was the field trip to Portland on which they visited the Oregon Journal building and KOIN radio station. They also sat in on a court session which proved to be interesting as well as educational. Eight een FORTY-ONE