North High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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W l 1 COME RAIN OR SHINE PLAY CAST LEFT TO RIGHT: Dale Hulshizer, lean Heefner, Richard Russell, Kenneth Walker, Ioe Popple, Marilyn Gates, Chastine Webber, Lola Riqlin. Under the direction of Miss Helen Woodman. North's dramatics department presented the all- school play on November 15-16. The play, Come Rain or Shine, was written by Marijane and Ioseph Hayes. It was an up-to-the-minute story of an amus- ing American family trying to enjoy a simple sum- mer vacation at the lake. Until the theater came into their lives, the Gray- son family was an ordinary family. But when a handsome theater director and enthusiastic young actors and actresses descended upon the quiet of the summer home, confusion and hilarity took over. From then on the play was a merry mix-up of love affairs and differing personalities. With 10 girls and 5 boys in the cast, there was sometimes more action and noise back stage than on stage. Members of the cast often had to come every night after school, taking half an hour for supper, and then back again until 9:00. In between scenes on the stage they would busily start doing their home work for the next day. While other North students were enjoying Armistice Day vaca- tion, the cast was at school rehearsing for the play. The stage crew was kept busy putting up scenery, adjusting lights, and seting up electrical devices. The boys on the crew made doors and windows, a Dutch door and porch screen effect, and adjusted big spotlights, so as to give the appearance of sun- light shining in the windows. During the last re- hearsals, both the stage crew and members of the cast were on the stage at the same time, and it kept the cast busy dodging tall ladders and trying to make themselves heard above the hammering and pounding of the stage crew. Under the direction of Miss Genevieve Moore the girls on the costume committee kept the costumes of the various characters in order and in good re- pair. Helping the actresses change dresses between scenes and seeing that they wore the right costume for a certain scene were other tasks that kept the costume girls busy. The art, make-up, and property committees were important factors in the producing of the all-school play. Without the art committee to paint the sets, and the make-up committee to make up the char- acters so as to make them look natural to the audi- ence, the play wouldn't have been a success. The property committee had a big job in securing all the furniture and properties for the play. It was also the property committee's job to see that gun shots went off at the right time, and that the tele- phone rang when it was supposed to. Producing an all-school play takes a great deal of effort on the part of many people. Few students realize the constant work required of the director. Miss Woodman, who must not only direct the play. but must see that all things are attended to which make the play go smoothly. It is only through the whole-hearted cooperation of the director and cast, the sponsors and committees, that the all-school play is produced.

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COACHES Georqe Falk, Theresa Anderson, Francis Cretzmeyer, Coach George Falk started his career at North this year by coaching the football team to a fairly successful season. The team won three games and lost five. Coach Fa1k's grid- ders defeated North's oldest rival, East High, 26 to 6. Coach Falk also coached the cagers through the recent basketball season. Coach Francis Cretzmeyer took his second team football squad through a successful season, falling only to Roosevelt and East High. Coach Theresa Anderson took over the coaching job of the boys' golf team from Coach Mose Iencks because of illness of Mr. Iencks. Andy also coached the girls' golf team this season to second place laurels in the city series race. FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM FIRST ROW: Clyde Titus, Sol Kroloff, Harold Wolder, lack l-laller, Laverne Cox, jerry Lang, Don Burham, Tom Wallace, Conrad Iones, Don Hohnbaum, Brll Sodr, Bob Taylor, SECOND ROW: George Nrchols, Bzll Tucker, Cliff Ketch, Bob Vtlhlte, Rocky Gabriel, Gus Iones, Iohnny Campana, Robert Ewinqf lames Allen, Harold Brown, Ronald Capps, Glenn Stitzell, Ed Morton, THIRD ROW: Iim Edgren, Ed McDaniels, Bob Bias, Chuck Anderson, Gilbert Roller, Ierry Green, Dale Hammer, Iames Sylvester, Bev Roland, Forrest Epperly, Dick Barnett, Drew Tillotson, Ed Mur1z9UmCI1Gr, COGCH Georqe Folk.