McKinley High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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'IIIIII nlIIIIIlllIlllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIllIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII llllllllllIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 6lZi0l' JLUZ6 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 HH UZ 6 l'0llql The une Class chose for IKS Class Play Smxlxn Through a drama whxch IS consldered great and one wh1 h IS usual ly chosen by professxonals of mh1ch only the best can do lt Justxce The play was excellently cas and those fortunate enough to be asslgned roles played thexr parts Wlfh a Fmesse wh1ch belted thelr laclc of experlence behlnd the footllghts The success of the play was due 1n no small part to the able cl1rect1on of MISS Geraldine Green our Dramat1cs Coach The play ltself IS a romant1c comedy 1r three 'acts mth alternate scenes flrst m the year nxneteen fourteen and then flxtx years before m elghteen SIXIY four The scenery although not extraxagant was nevertheless very beautlful and 1m parted an authent1c atmosphere to the producnon The costum1ng was bv far tlae most elaborate ever seen at our school and the productlon s a whole was undoubtedly the most Dl 8CCDl'IOLlS that has ever been attempted at McK1n e The plot of the play 15 concerned mam ly w1th the attempts of ohn Carteret to prevent the lnarrlage of h1s nlece Kath leen played by eame Trumbull to Ken neth Wayne the son of erem1ah Wayne who fifty years before had madvertantly lulled johns fiancee Moonyeen played by Kathleen enlcms The part of ohn Carteret was played by Thomas Stewart and Kenneth Wayne by Dxclc Marnette Others 1n the nmeteen fourteen scene were lVlax1ne Humphreys as Ellen Wood row Boclchaus as Doctor Owen and Dean Klrlcpatrlclc as Wlllle In the elghteen SIXIY four sequences Owen Barry as ohn Carteret ames Mc Faddln as erem1ah wayne osephme Beadle as Ellen ohn Dabmett as Doctor Owen and Catherme Aulcerman as Marv Others 1n the cast were Paullne OCon nor eanne Larson Robert ordan Lo rena Musgrave 'ind lVl1lton Nemec T16 I V v -iq HS ,X, r iz ! 11 , . , ,, . , r Y , . . I Y. . . 1 C ' ' , ' J - , . . ' , - . 'f, , J , - 7 ,I 7 . . . , . T y 7 1 C ' 1 ' ' Q 1 Y - Q v ' 1 A ' ' Q' n ' 1 1 f ll - :mo lastly ln nmeteen-nmeteen. the corresponding ro es were as o ows. 3 A V I 1 J Y J . , , J . I . . . 3 I I 3 A . a ' . . J , J , - 'L , I f C , 1 . ' NTYFSEVEN IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIllIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIII IIIIIII Illlllllllllll

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llIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 6IZi0I' Qbkly, JHIZLLHVQ uumnummuuumunmunun 6,1 gowns Zafknzq The Whole Towns Tallclng delightful three act play produced wlth a cast of Senlors was a great success The story concerns a man Mr Slm mons that IS attempting to marry hls buslness partner Mr Blnnty to his daughter Ethyl Mr Bmney has had no experlence wlth women and so he 1 shy and awkward ln the presence of Ethyl However at the time Ethyl 1S Interested ln a French gentleman and to attract her to Mr Blnney he and her father pretend that Blnney has had a love affalr wlth a great movle actress Lettxe Lythe Thl catches Ethyl s 1nterest lmmedlately and very soon the two are engaged Unex pectedly Miss Lythe comes to town and out of Jealousy Ethyl breaks her engagement to Blnney The whole plot of the two men IS exposed and thnngs begun to come back to normal and Ethyl and Mr Bxnney are unlted and all ends well The lead1ng parts were very ably played by Corrine Melechar as Ethyl Fred Young as Mr Bmney Vern DeFore as Mr Simmons The rest of the superb cast lncluded Betty Allen der as Mrs Simmons Alfred Peter son as Elmer the tax1 drlvcr George Marsh as Roger Shlelds Ethyl s French Friend Mary Ann Pohorslcy as Llla Wllson Mary Ann Snouffer as Sally Oates Zona H111 as Annette Frank Fullcerson as Donald Sw1ft eanne Hamblln as Lettle Lyrhe Shxr ley Weaver as Sadie Bloom Mlldred Fltzgerrald Geraldme Foggy and Ar lene Lyons as Mrs aclcson and her glrs Th1S play was dlrectcd by our cap able dramatlcs coach Mlss Geraldlnc Green 7 1 6 0 6 et s - ,as a i - re- : ' ' 9 ' ' ' , , . . ' I 9 C - , l T , q D u s ' ' I . . . ' . 7 - 5 .- . , , v 9 . . , . I - , , . , ' 5 l , . . I v . . - , , . . 9 ' S . . . l s . ' - a 9 ' IIIlIllIIIIIllllIllIIllIllIIllIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll TWENTY SIX IlllllllllllllIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllIIIllIllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIII

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IllllllllllllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllHIllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Front Row left to rrghty E Plnney Krabbenhoft Nemec C Vejda D Moen ekerle R Marnette P Anthony llnstructorj Kacere R Gxltrap H Baley C M1 hannah H Love W Mltter Mxddle Row D Holmes E Compton Beadle D Lanpher V Harman M Humphreys I Brooks L Hansohn G Reams Lalson R Allen H Derby Top Row H Rlce G Lemllcka R Tucker W acus D Hersch Rxce V Laton C1 Gable W Hollingsworth R Arnold R ulxs C Blahnxk B Miller QR Rummel not ln pxcture The McKinley High School band proved d6ClSlV6ly this year that ll was an up and commg orgamzatlon f whnch thxs school may well be proud Under the able leadershlp of Mr Paul Anthony thls group entered mto varl ous and sundry act1v1t1es for the pro duction of worthwhile music and for the ralsxng of funds for the purchase of new unlforms The muslcal act1v1t1es mcluded par tlcxpatlon ln the Iowa Dairy Congress early ln the fall, and ln two mstrumen tal concerts Thus group also sup ported the football and basketball teams at most of the home games On April 77 the combxned bands of thc four hugh schools presented a program wlth the orchestras ln the Memorial Colxst um The uniform actxvltles centered around a mmstrel show, The Merry Macs presented by the volce classes, candy sales at all the home basketball games and other school actlvltles, ln cludlng the two mxxers and the class plays, the collection and sale of news papers, magazines, coat hangers and fruit jar lids, a carnlval, comprlsmg a fish pond, a fortune telling booth a freak show, and sklll games and challenge fund m whnch vanous mem bers of the band earned extra money and contrlbuted xt for the purchasmg of unlforms A Pennles From Heaven box was placed ln the band room m which members placed any extrr pennles they possessed This money was used nn the purchasmg of awards for those prnsons w no uumd mem 4 ' -. ' ,J. ,J. , , ' , . , J. , , . . . ' - - , . , J- , . . . - , . , - . , . , . , - J , . , JA . . . , . . . . . , , . , - , - J , - , - . . I -J . . . - - Q, . . . ,, . O , ' 9 . . , . . . . . - a U ' 77 . - ' . Y I .. , . nlIllllIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIII TWQNTYUGHT mmmHlmmm,ml,mumIHm,,,m,,,,m,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,m,