Muscatine High School - Auroran Yearbook (Muscatine, IA)

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4 .l l i r- Basketball players, the male ballet in the homemaking carnival,and the lfun-Niters helped to cram this year full of red letter days. Cur past year at Muscatine created 0 Many exciting events which occurred between early September and late May served to liven up the 194-ll--l-1 school year. During the basket- ball and football seasons our athletes occupied the spotlight of student attention. Assembly entertainers also basked in the lime- light when they appeared before the student body in the highschool auditorium. Among the most outstanding speakers and concert artists were Rubinoff, a Well-known violinist3 VVilliam VVright, a basso-baritone3 Bob lfeller, a big league baseball pitcherg the Fraunfelder family, Swiss yodelersg Captain Theodore Stern, lie-de- tector demonstratorg and Captain Corley P. lVlcl7arment, aviation lecturer. About the biggest thrill of the year came when the school board appointed Harold lfreese as band director. A tireless worker, he has organ- ized Nluskies into one of the most promising highschool bands in Iowa. Another big event happened during spring vacation when the powers that be installed the new address system. The debaters, the dramatists, the journalists, the agriculturists, the declaimers, the musicians, and the athletes attended contests and conven- tions which added to the year's highlights. -l0..

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0 This is a favorite corner of the social room. Most everybody man- aged to look into the recreation room at least once a day to listen to popular recordings on the comhina' tion radiosphonograph, and to diss cuss the latest happenings. During the noon hour industrious students studied lessons or read popular mag- azines in this cheerful atmosphere. XVhile the intellectuals pondered over chess lmoards, the Nluskies with extra pep engaged in spirited games of ping-pong. Yerdant freshmen lost their self- consciousness and learned social ease hy lwecoming informally acquainted with poised upperclassmen. :Xll stus dents learned to improve their mans ners and appearances with the result that many of them have lwecome more versatile individuals. I 'Ito the casual passerhy the exf terior of M. H. 3. presented a trans quil picture of industry. That is, unless he walked hy at I I 2511 or at 3:55 when students were dismissed from school.

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