Northeast High School - Nor Easter Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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 Varieties Dancing, and Comedy in the American Way Mr. Nevin E. Wosson, director of the Varieties, with the members of the cast and other faculty members, put in long hours turning out the finished show de- scribed os the best ever produced ot Northeast. Bob Bledsoe, assistant Bottom, The Wassonettes, in one of their Master-of-Ceremonies. several numbers, go Down Argentine Woy.

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Joey Bondon, troubodour Master-of-Ceremonies. Vi King Annual All-School Show Presents Singing The 194) Viking Variety Show, presented in Decem- ber, wos o super-extravaganza supposedly spon- sored by Mr. Peter Piper, manufacturer of Peter Piper's Prize Pop Corn. Using the American Way os its theme, the show feotured singing, dancing, and comedy. Below-top, The Grand Finale; center, the popular orchestra, fronted by Toddy Aikins.

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Populor Orchestra (upper) STRIKE UP THE BAND AHA. Band Officers: Front row (left to right)—Betty Caruthers, Georgia Lee Francis, Diodora Chiavetta, Virginia Kolar, Eva Marie Vose. Middle Row—Jimmy Fetters, Bill Schweer, Charles Aikens, Neal Doran, Allen Van Hoy. Back Row — Bob Bingham, Eldon Thompson, Merritt Powles, Paul Hartge, Bill Elliott. Orchestra Officers: Front Row (left to right) — Jean Lahr, Peggy Hallequist, Martha Lee Cain, Betty Galbraith. Back Row—James Sonders, Carl Hynden, Carl Johnston, Vernor), Leath, Dean Leslie. Marching Band (lower) Music is rhythm—so there is music in the hundreds of feet on the stairs at school, and even a kind of music in the crowded lunchroom. Yes, but there is a far more pleasant type of music here at Northeast—the bond and orchestro. When either takes the stage during assem- blies, it is greeted by rounds of applause. At those football and basketball games every student present swelled with pride and probably nudged his friend and said, There is our band! The players are as good as they look in those classy uniforms. That's abso- lutely correct; there is nothing thot makes a person wake up and live more quickly than good band music. Now while you are so wide owake, think of all the past honors they have won for the school. See those medols adorning those jaunty purple coots? There is going to be another one added this year. What? why. Northeast is going to ploce in the annual State Band Contest. The well-known Viking Varieties featuring the popular orchestra, and the annual Band Concert conducted by the director, Mr. Nevin E. Wasson, were again a great suc- cess. The large number of individuals interested in putting across good music, seventy-five band members and forty- seven orchestra players, assures Northeast of one of the Number One ratings in the Class A division of the city. 30