Mount Ayr High School - Ayrian Yearbook (Mount Ayr, IA)

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1927.AYRIAN' + 6 AYRGUERS Top Row-Mosier, Liggett, Supt. Hamersly, Mr. Leffingwell, Price, Buck, Campbell. Middle Row-Caldwell, Dinkel, Mr. Henderson, Williams, Kirkendall, Saltzman, Bastow. Lower Row-Lay, Lesan, Robinson, White, Mrs. Bliss, Lown, Hudson. Seated in Front-McCandless, Calhoun, Swank. DEBATE Resolved, that Congress should enact legislation embodying the prin- ciples of the Haugen Farm Relief bill, constitutionality waived, was the state debate question for 1926-'27, Two teams debated the bill for High School debate this year. The affirmative side of the question was debated by Ruth Robinson, Wilbur Lay, and Charles Bastow, the negative by Katherine Liggett, Charles Lesan and Marian Williams. The first debate with Leon was very successful for both teams won. The second, however, ended less happily as the negative team lost to Bedford and the affirmative team lost to Corning. March 9, a team composed of Marian Williams, Charles Lesan, Wilbur Lay and Charles Bastow went to Des Moines and debated in the Drake Tournament. There, they won from Van Meter in the first round but lost in the second to Humboldt. Remarkable work has been done in debate, and the coaches as well as the debaters are to be congratulated. -Naomi Price '27.

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- 1927 AYRIAN -2- - cf:- BAND AND ORCHESTRA First Row-T. Liggett, Rogers, Buck, T. Lown, Jack Dalbey, Davis, Forest Leffingwell-Director, Taylor, Trimble, Poore, Bastow, Lesan. Second Row-Shidler, T. Lown, Irving, F. Bastow, Sheldon, Mapel, Manners. Third Row-E. Bastow, Saltzman, A. White, Beard, Mary Allyn-Ac- ompanist, K. Liggett, M. White, Swank, Kirkendall. Not in picture-Haih rison Link. T The orchestra meets three days a week, and the band two days a week in the music room, the eighth period, under the direction of Mr. Leffingwell. The orchestra made its first appearance at P. T. A. The orchestra is preparing the following selections for the District Contest at Lamoni, April 16, 1927: Valse Danseuse ................ ....... M iles Ballet Music from Rosamunde .... .... S chubert Minuet in E Flat ........c.............,c.... Mozart The band will not enter the contest this year, -Marion White '27.

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JI' 1927 AYRIAN, 'C' li' DECLAMATORY CONTESTS Saturday, Feb. 12, 1927 PROGRAM ORATORICAL CLASS 'kMari0n White ---- ,,,-,,..--,---.-..-.... ' 'Battle of G9ttySbl11'g'! Joe Robinson --s ......................... ----..-w- ' 'BCH Hur DRAMATIC CLASS Fern Burnsides ....w. ................ . .-.--- --- The Death Disk Pauline McAninch .... M.-- -.-- ............. COHH01 ' Margaret McCandless .... ,...e.....,n - .- The Littlest Rebel , , ,L,Y,,,,-,.., ,, ................ 'tWh1te Hands Ruth Robinson ..... XAHHH White ....,.......,e...... Fear God and Take Your Own Part HUMOROUS CLASS Margaret Beard -U ....,.,,........... i'What William Henry Did Gladys Calhoun -.-nr ......... Auto Suggestion Bernadine Downie -H .11 ..,... -.- .--- H0bs0n's Funeral Thelma Lown ..,wL,, ,- -.-.....L,,.,... , ........... The Bath Hour 'tDarline Smithson ...........,L.,........... Dad Says S0, AI1yhOWH Stars mark the winners in these contests. Those marked above won all of the first places in the four school contest at Blockton. SUB-DISTRICT DECLAMATORY CONTEST Mount Ayr, March 11, 1927 8:00 P. M. PROGRAM Music ............ 1......-.......1..,,. . , .... ..,.. B rass Quartet ORATORICAL CLASS WEmmett's Vindication .......,............. ....... W ill Aiken Social Responsibilitiesj' Gough ,-..,. .,... .... F rances McKee Triumph of Peace, Chopin ..............1 ,... A rdyth Sutherlen Battle of Gettysburg, Mason ,..,,,--,...... ,.., M arion White DRAMATIC CLASS Cigarette's Ride and Death ..1.. ,, ...,...... ...1 D orothy Johnson The Little Mixer, Shearn .......-.....,1.... ..... M ary Walker Strongheart, Wm. C. de Mille ..........1..... ..... I la Warden t Fear God and Take Your Own Part, Brining ............ Anna White HUMOROUS CLASS DOtty Dippendalef' Anon. ...................,.. Lavaughn Archibald The Anti-Gossip Club, Palmer ....,.. .......... L ois Garver 't Sister in the Medicine Closet, Blatt .1................ Dorothy Kline Dad Says So, Anyhow, Anon. ....... .. ..,......,.. Darlien Smithson Critic Judge-Mercedes McGinnis Dildy, Des Moines. The three firsts from this contest will represent their respective high schools in the pre-district contest to be held March 25, 1927. High Schools represented in this program: Garden Grove, Kellerton, Lamoni, Leon, Mount Ayr, Tingley, Weldon. Anna White represented Mount Ayr at the Pre-District Contest at Afton, March 25, 1927. Although one of the judges gave her first place and the other two tied her for first, through some curious form of elimi- nation, she failed to place. Anna received more honor than any Mount Ayr contestant has ever received. Much credit is due her and Mrs. I. J. Dalbey, her coach.