Ord High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Ord, NE)

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' a cganficfasz 36 contents The week-end preceding March 18 finds faculty wives busily sewing yards of red material while Mr. Duncan and Mr. Bell tie threads and press garments. Why all the activity? New choir robes for the glee clubs and they must be ready for the Loup Valley Music Festival. The Annual Music Festival has become one of the most popular events in the Valley, and Ord feels honored to play host. The affair brings some five hundred visitors to town and gives the students training in public appear- ance. As soon as the Festival is over plans get under way for the District Music Contest. This year Ord entered at Albion and earned a total of fifty-five points out of a possible sixty-two. Five of Ordis thirteen entries were classified excellent, and eight, superior. The groups contesting were band, orchestra, glee clubs, and a reed quartet composed of Eugene Puncochar, Opal Miller, Leonard Sobon, and Dorothy Auble. Instrumental soloists were Jeannette Clements, Ruth Auble, Wilma Severns, Eugene Puncochar, Ed- warg Puncochar, and Dick Koupalg vocal soloists were Dorothy Auble and Reuben Coo . Ord's success in the District stimulated interest in the State Contest and instead of taking a vacation from their practicing our young musicians continued to work over-time, first, to prepare for a benefit recital, and second, to make a favorable ap- pearance at the State Contest where the band, orchestra, girl's glee club, and several soloists were entered. To the tooting of horns and scraping of violins is added the clatter of typewriters as the commercial students devote hours to working up the speed necessary to win a first place in the approaching commercial contest. March and April are busy months in our school for contest is in the air, music, dramatic, commercial, and agriculture. This year the District Commercial contest was held at Kearney. Ord entered teams in bookkeeping, novice typewriting, championship typewriting, novice short- hand, and spelling. The contestants earned four awards out of a possible seven by placing three individual firsts, three team firsts, and several seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths in the six contest events. The people who won the commercial honors for the school were Lorraine Kusek, Lillian Kusek, Lillian Nevrivy, Erma Novotny, Maxine Jones, Louise Petska, Kenneth Eglehoff, Virginia DeHart, Ruth Haught, and Eva Umstead. Individual firsts were taken by Lorraine Kusek in bookkeeping, Kenneth Eglehoff in championship typing, and Lillian Kusek in spelling. Teams placed first in bookkeeping, championship type- writing, and spelling. On April 24 a team of seven contestants made a second trip to Kearney to enter the State Commercial contest where they placed fourth among forty-eight qualify- ing schools. An impressive number of victories has been chalked up by the Ord Vocational Agriculture Department during the past several years. A summary published by the North Platte Station shows that Ord has won thirty-two first places since the contests were begun in 1929. This is twice the number received by the nearest competitor. Our trophy case was made the richer this spring by two cups brought back from North Platte by Ord for the third and last time. The crop judging team composed of Kenneth Koelling, Wilbur Fuss, and Harlan Wyrick took the crop judging event for the third time, entitling us to keep the trophy. Another trio composed of Koell- ing, Fuss, and Robert Jacobs won the dairy products cup for the third time. In stock judging Ord boys took two thirds, a fourth, and a fifth. Dodge and Koelling did outstanding work in this division. Koelling also placed first in dairy products. Wyrick took a first in poultry judging, and Dale Melia placed second in the speech contest. The success of these boys in contest speaks well for the Vocational Agriculture De- partment, and if Valley County does not have her share of efficient young farmers it will not be the fault of Mr. Kovanda. To supplement the regular work of the course a local F.F.A. club has been organiz- ed and affiliated with the National Organization of Future Farmers of America. I35

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Q CD14 046 Director Dean S. Duncan Buck row-.lack Petty, Allen Zikmund, Leonard Svlmn. Simon Dann-Zak, Kenneth Flglehoff, Kenneth Koelling, Paul Blessing, lleuhen Cook, Laverne Lakin, Dean Barta. ltldward Puncochar. Junior James, Arden Clark. Front row-John Rogers, Lloyd Sark, Paul i'nrl':'1n. Robert NVilliamson, Eugene Pum-ovliar, Dick Koupal, lidvvin Hitchman, Jack Janssen, Harold Stone. llcVern llvumey, Harrell Noll, XYilliam Goff. Charles Dlugosh. get am Who is privileged to wear one of these good looking red and white robes? The privilege isn't too hard to earn, but hard enough to make it a real honor and to set a high standard of excellence for the glee clubs. During the first semester all boys who are interested are admitted to the boys' club, but only thirty-five or six of the most talented and industrious are retained for the second semester pubic performances and contest work. There are two girls' clubs, Reserve and Senior. All beginners join the Reserve Club and as its members show talent, improvement, and good attitude they are promoted to the Senior Club which appears in contests and public recitals. Back row-llorraine Kusek, Virginia Klein, Joy Auble, Norma Mae Snell, Virginia Davis, Laura Sobon, Marjorie Coe, Erma Novotny, Virginia Sack, Irene XYl1itinp:', Barbara Dale, Ruth Auble, Ruth Koupal, Elsie NViberg', Julia Fuss, Josephine Romans, Front rowflvilma Severns taccoinpanistl, Armona Beth Achen, Charlotte Blessing, Evelyn Sharp, Ar- vella Benjamin, Margie Jean Smith. Dorothy Auble, Lillian Karty, Mildred Smith, Hope Bartunek, Violet Mae Guggenmos, Eleanore Verstraete, Jeannette Hughes, Myrtle Cornell, Ruth Haas, Jerrine Burrows. 341

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79 LOU! H61 Ru 'minutiae Ord High School auditorium, March 18th, 10:45 P. M.-a tense audience, expectant, fearful--a provokingly deliberate judge. At the close of a long day of readings, orations, and plays the schools entered in the Sub-District Declamatory Contest await the decision concerning the humorous and dramatic readings. Placings had been announced at the close of the morning and afternoon sessions, and now, the winner of sweepstakes is to be proclaimed. Taylor and Sargent tie for thirdg Bur- well, second, Ord, first. Applause, exclamations, congratulations! Who won that honor for Ord? Credit goes to: Evelyne Loft, who took first in the dramatic section with a cutting from 'fSmilin Through , Richard Burrows, who placed first in the extemporaneous divisiong Bar- bara Dale, who took a second with her original orationg and Mae Klein, who claimed another second with her humorous reading, Little Red Rid- ing Hood . Two more trophies for our case-for Ord not only took sweepstakes but also placed first in the one-act play contest with the drama Cloey in which Ruth Koupal plays the part of a domineering aunt, Barbara Dale, the niece whom she domineersg Kenneth Eglehoff, a would-be poet who loves the niece but must marry the auntg and Evelyne Loft, a lively young neighbor girl. This cast's successful presentation in the Sub-District entitled it to go to the District contest at Ansley where it placed second. Miss Servine then entered the play in the State contest at Lincoln where it failed to place, but made a creditable showing. Besides her successful work with plays and dramatics, Miss Servine has revived the school's interest in debate. Not for many years has Ord had a debate team, but this year several of the students in the speech classes became inteested in the question of State Medicine . Their first public appearance as debaters was before a small local audience and their next at a debate tournament in St. Paul. At this tourney Ord teams engaged in six debates and won favorable decisions in four At another time they spent an afternoon at Arcadia in a fiendly bout with Arcadia debaters. Considering the fact that none of them had ever taken part in, or even heard a debate, Barbara Dale, Lillian Kusek, Richard Burrows, Erwin Dodge, Dorothy Auble, and Norma Mae Snell made a fair beginning in one of the most useful of the speech arts. th Koulml Km-ullullx Eglelwff Barbara Dale XI S e livelvnv Loft