Mechanicsburg High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, OH)

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75 SCENES ACT I. The blue and white room of Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street. ACT I I. Ten years later, the same room but with grim, scholastic furniture ACT III. A pavilion at a ball celebrating the return of soldiers from the Battle of Waterloo. ACT IV. The same as Act I. Harold McLane Marjorie Resides Annabelle Glenn Thelma McFadden Dorothy Gochnauer Madalene Grissinger George Hurst .lohn Dietz John Sanders Director . . Class Dean . Scenery . . Costumes . . Usbers. . Music . . Harry McLaren Mabel Rider Velva Stoner Mildred Waggoner Harry Reneker Rozella Souder STUDENT COMMITTEES Advertising Myra Prowell Virginia Wagner Tickets Victory Anderson William Hoffman Eugene Neibert Costumes Hazel Cressman Lydia Kunkel Louise Whitman Property Matilda Bowman Vera Stansfield Roy Walter FACULTY ADVISERS Paul Stine Goldie Beistline Thomas Koser Virginia Wagner Matilda Bowman Maribelle Ashburn Hazel Cressman Ben Rickert Howard Shetter . . Miss Rama LONGANECKER . . Miss MARGARET STAUFFER . MR. EDWARD THOMAS . Miss EMMY KOCH Miss MARY GORRELL . . . Mas. ADAM Onms . Miss M. LOUISE HETRICK USHERS William Boyson David Hughes Hazel Moyer Sara Milligan Samuel Simmons Victory Anderson Pauline Lear Miriam Gouse Goldie Beistline Marlin Beamer Marian Zerbe Ruthanna Rowles Fern Becker

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Back row, left to right: F. Myers, R. Glenn, W. Wells, L. Unger, L. Dick, F. Bradley, R. Gutshall, B. Forney, B. Beitzel, C. Blosser, C. Hopple. Front row: R. Weber, S. Milligan, M. Rider, V. Merris, M. Waggener, A. Williams, W. Shaull, B. Lindemuth, S. Adams, R. Arnold, R. Blumanstock, J. Rockwell. QUALITY STREET ' UALITY STREET, a comedy in four acts, proved a great success as the Senior Play. The story centers around the life of the two sisters, Phoebe and Susan Throssel, in Quality Street, during the Napoleonic Wars. Miss Phoebe, expecting a pro- posal of marriage from Valentine Brown, is disappointed when She hears of his enlisting. The two Sisters, in order to make ends meet, open a school for genteel children. Ten years later, Valentine Brown returns to find Miss Phoebe an old maidg she, however, cleceives him by pretending to be her niece, Miss Livvy. The three old maids, Miss Willoughby, Miss Henrietta, and Miss Fanny, through inter- fering in the life of the Throssels, hasten the denouement, and every- thing ends happily for Valentine Brown and Phoebe. Miss Susan . . . Miss Fanny . . . Miss Willoughby . Miss Henrietta . . Miss Phoebe . . , Patty, the Maid . . The Sergeant . . . Mr. Valentine Brown Isabella ..... Arthur Tomson . , Miss Beveridge . . William Smith . PLAYERS . . ANNE NVILLIAMS . BLANCHE FORNEY . . . LOUISE DICK . FRANCES BRADLEY . BETTY LINDEMUTH . . LAVINA UNGER . WENDELL WELLS . . WALTER SHAULL . . . RUTH ARNOLD . . JACK ROCKWELL RUTH BLUMANSTOCK . . . FRED MYERS Georgie , . . . . ROBERT WEBER Charlotte . . . . . BETTY BEITZEL Ensign Blades . . CLAUDE BLOSSER Harriet . . . . . VIOLA MERRIS Spicer . . . . CLARE HOPPLE A Gallant . . . ROY GUTSHALL Old Soldier . . School Children: SARA MILLIGAN MILDRED WAGGONER . . RICHARD GLENN SARA ADAMS MABEL RIDER 74

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Balcony, left to right: W. Boyson, M. Zcrbe, B. Beitzcl, R. Woll. On steps: V. Hart, M. Bowman. Standing: W, Shaull, L. Unger, M. Bcitzcl, H. Reneker, M. Prowell, M. Gouse, C. Blosser, B. Lindemuth, R. Mcndlcr. Sealed: H. McLaren, J. May, F. Bradley, C. Konhaus, J. Bahn, A. Williams, H. Ruth. GROWING PAINS NNE WILLIAMS and Robert Mendler played leading roles in the first annual Junior Play, Growing Painsf' a three-act comedy by Aurania Rouverol, in the high school auditorium, November 15, 1935. Previously the Junior Shows had been several sketches and this new type proved highly successful. Growing Pains was a fresh and amusing comedy portraying the trials of adolescence. It is a play written especially for young people, treating the bewildering youth on the wings of sixteen. George and Terry are the son and daughter of Professor and Mrs. Mclntyre who struggle valiantly to lead their children through the dillicult phases of adolescence, so familiar to us all. Terry is shown outgrowing the tomboy stage, and unable to play with the boys on an equal status. She finds herself thrown back on feminine resources. A study of feminine psychology is made when one sees Terry try these out for the Hrst time. George Mclntyre, the boy adolescent, goes through the customary symptoms of his age, begging his parents for a car and falling victim of the wiles of Prudence, a vamp in the neighborhood. At a party the Mclntyres give to reward George for having parted with his tonsils, he is sent after more ice cream. Hurrying to get back for his dance with Prudence, he passes a traflic light and is pursued home by an ofhcer. In his endeavor to raise himself in the eyes of Prudence, he is disrespectful to the law and is hauled off to jail, ruining the party and causing a family uproar. Next morning George seeks consolation from Prudence only to be informed that he is too young to interest her. His interest in life is restored, however, on the arrival of a natural blonde in the neighborhood. 76