Odebolt High School - Trojan Yearbook (Odebolt, IA)

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LaVonne Roth, Dolores Huebner, Georgia Hix, Jerry Reynolds. llfllllf lfllllE Odebolt had two debate teams this year, the first for some time. The debate topic, assigned by the Iowa High School Speech Association, was Resolved that the American People Should Reject the Welfare State. Participants were chosen from the first semester speech class. The affirma- tive side ofthe question was handled by Dolores Huebner and LaVonne Roth, with Wally Duffy as alternate. The negative team consisted of Jerry Reynolds and Georgia Hix, and their alternate was Joan McCorkindale. The last four weeks of the first semester, those students worked on debate every day. Speeches were timed, the limit for the main speech being ten minutes, and for the rebuttal, four minutes. At the first contest, in February, Odebolt met Storm Lake and lost the decision on points. ln spite of their brief season, the debate teams felt that the activity was well worth while. PAGE SIXTY ONr:

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PAGE sixTY llli ill The junior class presented its play, The Tangled Yarn, on the nights of October 30 and 31. lt was written by Dagmar Vola, and directed by Frank Shaw. A double cast was used, each one being responsible for one performance. CAST A Margaret Zimmerman Beverly Bergman Carol Schaefer Gerald Huldeen Joan Taphorn Jean Olson Ruth Krusenstjerna Joe Kipp John Witt Marv Wolfe Bill Teaquist Marlene Albrecht CHARACTER CAST B Joan McCorkindale Janet Ogden Georgia Hix Wally Duffy Lois Kessler Camilla Page Vivian Page Cora Blake Stuart Brand Mrs. Morgan Michael Morgan John Rex Sadie Stringer Ruth Krusenstjerna Alexander Lawton Jerry Reynolds Joshua Page Donald Gunderson Mrs. Page Marlene Winter Speed Martin Bill Teaquist Mrs. Brand Donna Scanlan Three girls, Camilla Page, Vivian Page, and Cora Blake, share an apartment, food, and clothes. Their financial situation has become desperate when Alex Lawton informs them that Camilla has won five thousand dollars offered by his magazine for the ideal mother. Cammy had borrowed a costume from Sadie Stringer, a neighbor, and had sent in her picture, thus attired, together with a pathetic history of a deserted wife who had struggled to raise her children, Camilla, Cora, Vivian, and Stuart, not to mention Pinkney, who died a hero, and whose medals they were forced to pawn for bread. Stuart is infatuated with Cammy. He, along with the other two girls, hails her as a mastermind until her yarn becomes quite seriously tangled. Stu's mother arrives on the scene to inform him that she will disinherit him instead of giving him the money he needs to continue his writing, Sadie comes to claim her costume just when Cammy needs it to keep up her masquerade as a poor, old lady, Speed Martin comes to check up on con- flicting news stories about the Page family, Joshua Page enters on the scene and says he is the long-lost husband, and is returning to claim his part of the prize money, telegrams begin to pour in from the parents of Camilla, Vivian, and Cora, and as the last straw, Mrs. Morrison, who lives across the court from the girls, sends word that she suspects Skullduggery and demands an investigation. A picture, a telephone call, a few apologies, and lots of hair-raising incidents help clear the air, and, at last, Camilla's yarn is untangled. Everything ends happily, and even Sadie gets her man.

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llllt-All llllll This story portrays the feelings and emotions of six men who are stranded on the bottom of the ocean in a disabled submarine. Their hope for escape is shattered when they find out that their oscillator is smashed and their only means of communication to the outer world is destroyed. Finally the only real man in the sub, Shaw, portrayed by Kenneth Fertig, elects to be shot through the torpedo tube in an attempt to notify the outer world of their position. The play ends with the forward compartment of the sub. crushing in on Brice, the coward, played by Walter Duffy, while the others remain safe in another compartment. Others in the cast include Dunn, the lover, portrayed by Richard Swanson, the captain MacAndrews, played by William Teaquist, Jorgson, the bully, played by Jerry Reynolds, and a cockney, Nabb, played by Jean Olson. PAGE SIXTY TWO