Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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L . ' I Ji 3-yy' ,, I . I . MLM V P I . -iff' ,ft iff, ,, .-.,.4 1., --.-QF, -,-QL' ll--:'.,!.-g I i. A -. ' Mother Machree and 'tDashing Thru' the Snow on the night of Feb. 4-the Father and Son Banquet in which Rosella went strong on the violin from six to eleven - why, they even held up the show just to wait for the troubadours to eat a bite! VVhat a thrill we got at our First Chautauqua program exper- ience before the East End Progressive Club with Marvin Butler's debut sing- ing Slumber Boat ! Keith had made his saxophone debut at the January P. T. A. as usual pouring out his dear heart into My Wild Irish Rose and When Irish Eyes are Smilin' U. January 5th we also sang around the Xmas tree and on the Armistice Day program the faculty women and some of the girls voiced their patriotism in the beautiful Oh Columbia, Columbia, Beloved. Jan IT, Prohibition day, we almost made a mistake when we had planned to have the glee clubs sing On the Road to Mandalay 43rd stanzab. Some of us thought we'd die of fright Feb. 21 when thirteen glee club girls gave their first solo recital-the time when Mary Theriault sang Rosary in English and Rosella Williams in French. None of us tainted by the wayside March 15, when we gave the St. Patricks day recital of Irish solos before a group of thirty guests - the time Grace Bjorkgren sang The Little Irish Girl so well that Miss Mensch felt ashamed to sing her song Dennis after that. Donlt forget the practice of Too-ral-loo- ra-le , the Irish lullabye, Once we had twins! Somehow when in dreams we see you t'Shamrocks of Ireland sit two by two along Bendemeer's Stream at the March P. T. A. with Marvin and Mary fighting on the bridge and Keith and Rosella holding hands and looking at each other so pretty f and Free- man sing 'tThat Old Irish Mother of Mine - we feel lonely,f'l'hose Indian songs we learned to the drumbeat of three and four-L'By the VVaters of Minne- tonka , From the Land of the Sky Blue WVater , Pale Moon , and the beau- tiful L-ove Call from Rose-Marie vand what joy, fun, creeps and sorrow we experienced in 'tThe Feast ot the Red Corn , all of us brown Indian girls with beads, pretty veils and arrows, whirling, shouting, singing and crying! Wasn't Frieda a real queen, Dora a genuine squaw, Katie a typical Impee Light? Georgia played the Sax, Rosella the violin, and Doris the big bass drum, How shocked we were when Fudgee, Pudgee, and Wudgee jumped up and cried, We aren't dead. And it was so nice to study and sing Beautiful Savior' with the orchestra from the St. Olafs Choir selection for our Baccalaureat, also Thanks be to Godu, and Praise ye the Father . That December we sang Integer Vitaeu, We Hail a Risen Lord and ln the Garden at the M. F.. Church. And for Mothers Day we gave the Symphony of Roses eSymphony! All Year's a symphonyuabut that fatal May 17, played a grand finale and from within those walls come no more the beautiful strains of Roses of Picardyv, Bells of St. Marysw, 'AI passed by your Window , A Night in June ,- for Miss Sealls has closed the Steinway Concert Grand-and Miss Mensch has gone to Alaska! Mrs. Vaughan fin assembly! t'Marvin, have you accomplished anything this period? You certainly have not remained long enough in your seat to do so. Marvin, H0h, Yes! Blisters on my feetll' Page 29

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SNITLLI O-its GLEE CLUB ' ' May 1930 Dear boys and girls! y Strolling down Memory Lane how can we forget you fifty plus in glee and orchestra and you many in the students sings! As the year rolled by the way we used to sing together in parts re-echoes louder, more beautifully. and more sweetly than ever in our hearts then did ring forth in the assembly and the music room A chime forth the unspeakable language of the soul - of many souls! Oh, that certain inexpressible SOMETHING that sometimes either litt- ed us up to Heaven or brought Heaven down to us! That SOMETHING that carried us to a 'tDream VVorld of our own and not until the harsh gong sound- ed or Times Cp were we hoisted back again to this bare terrestial globe! Who wouldn't be carried back to you when Johnny Comes Marching Home is sung f or the Soldiers Chorus , The Barcorolle , even Silent Night , Juanita , XVho wouldn't grow homesick for you when the melodies of Bend- emeer's Stream , Shannon , Roses of Yesterday and Among My Souveniers' we hear. Who wouldn't just want to pack up and go back to you When the bell goes to ringing and the old gang's a singing and the heart begins to throb and beat the time of Schooldays are Happy Days on the Stormy Sea of Life, or when that same heart thunders out drum beats of Oakville High School! Oakville High School! For Union High! or even Old MacDonald had a Little Farm , with a hearty E-I-O or the record 'The Sextette from Lucia with Galli Curci's unexpected ah's at which you laughed and just for pun- ishment you had to listen to the song again. Never can we forget Dora's Dumb-bells at the Carnival featuring Freeman Theriault as Caruso, and the English Carnival dance to the tune of 'Come down to Kew in Lilac Time - Paul Whiteman's Orchestra at the Vaudeville with Harold Murray's Smilin' Thru - The Spanish toreadors in HLa Spagnolau dancing away to Follow Follow! La Spagnolau and Senoritas were born to dance ! The dimpled dainty and even daring ten Apple Dumplings at the Junior play melting the wax in one's ears with the old old song ln the Shade of the Old Apple Tree' presenting Katie Baker's Irish Blush Mush! Just step on the Tail of My Coat . Frieda W'iniecki's Prune Song and the Double-header piano Blue Grass . XVhat of the Limburger Band Boys at the Senioris t'The Big Cheese , April 19? Who has forgotten the stirring Sonny Boy , Little Boy Blue , Page 23

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'F , I I L-,LJ XL: f f4l:l.'jiff4 g , ' i ljlhix in YF Qfv, .va 1-QI-:M ,V lv Vw? ilu' -IH XJ ki I Q .11 if. A J ldlxyxif 3 V F A I 31-1- s APPLE BLOSSOM TIME The Junior play, Apple Blossom Time was given March 22. The characters were very well chosen and all played their parts nobly. The following characters were chosen: Bob Matthews, alias Donald Clark .......... Freeman Theriault an unwilling visitor at the cross roads Charlie Lawrence .................................... Keith Murphy his go-getter friend S'pud McClosky .................................... Leonard Wilson direct from Sunshine Alley Mickey MaGuire .......... - ........................... Eugene Ames also from Sunshine Alley Cal Pickens ........................................ Harold Lemmon the village constable Betty Ann Stewart .......................... ...... G race Bjorkgren a human, little whirlwind Nancy Prescott ................................... -- Alta Everson a pretty neighbor Loretta Harris ...................................... Ruth Norgard the prettiest girl in the village Polly Biddle ......................-..-.................. Elve Wilson caretaker of Tad Forest's home Malvina Kurtz ........................................ Georgia Irvin whose ambition is to have a beau Mrs. Forrest .......................................... Beatrice Irvin the haughty sister-in-law of Tad Forrest Annabel Spriggins .................................... Bernice Irvin A the village old maid Bob Matthews flees to the crossroads village and assumes the name of Donald Clark, at Charlieys suggestion, in order to prevent being put under arrest for accidentally taking a car which he thought was his own. To his dismay he finds that under the name of Donald Clark, he has also assumed the guardianship of a girl, Betty Ann Stewart whom he supposes to be about ten years old. His first experience in the village is a violent encounter with an eighteen year old Himpudent whirlwind of a girl who upsets his dignity, rouses his ire to the boiling point, and then laughs derisively at his threats. I-Ie is horrified, later, when he finds this is the girl over whom he is supposed to be guardian. Many complications follow, but is all clears up at the end. Bob and Betty are going to Europe on their honeymoon and Spud, Malvina and Mickey are go- ing to Niag1-y Falls . -Grace Bjorkgren. Page 30