Patrick Henry High School - Orator Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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wMy Worthy 0|I|»oii miI ...” Knowing that speech may be “a glib and oily art, or used only to give ‘‘the windy satisfaction of that tongue. or to conceal their thoughts,” speech students work to make their speech “a mirror of the soul. They study the techniques of molding flat, nasal sounds into pear-shaped tones. They learn to speak in phrases that fall pleasantly on the car. (Right) Mr. Karl Hocrschgcn, debate coach. Having acquired the power of effective speech and learned to engage the favorable response of their audience, students devote themselves to finding stubborn facts in sup|K rt of their arguments. They take |xirt in intra-city debates with teams from other high schools. Three times this past year they discussed the affirmative or nega live sides of issues aired in Junior Town Meeting broadcasts on WTCN. Featured in these programs to date were Barbara Benson, Donna Shohe, Sally Milton, and Jim Scedcn. Darlene Shogren, active member of Henry's debate team, is snapped at the moment she's catching her breath preparatory to nullifying all tile (want presented by her opponents. Many of the Patrick Henry speech students become members of the National Forensic league, requirements being that they rank scholastically in die upper one-third of their class, and qualify for the Degree of Merit, league members at Henry include Sally Hilton, President; Jim Scedcn. Vice-President; Darlene Shogren, Secretary: Donna Shobc, Treasurer: Marilyn Oilman. Dick Stacy. Lila Hictala, Klcta Sanderson. Carol Swenson, Dick Erickson, Dennis Jordan, Marjorie Knapp, Muriel Tometz, Dianne Ondrey, Jim Fclknor, and Barbara Benson. Below: Marjorie Knapp, affirmative, approves the arguments presented by Sally Hilton, her colleague, as F.Icta Sanderson and Lila Hictala, the negative, listen intently to detect errors in fact or logic.

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Flush! TIm I’ufriol! Patrick I Icnry’s newspaper. “The Patriot.” readable and entertaining, colorful, dramatic, and as amusing as the staff can make it. goes to press ten times each school year. Made up to capture reader interest, featuring pictures of major school events, the paper's publication dates arc red-letter days on the school’s calendar. Patriot Staff: Seated -Patricia Hoff. Tom Coughlin. Bob Swenson. Dale Flaknc, Marcia Newman, Patty Jaeger. Marion Firw n, Carol Gilbert. Standing—Richard Saucier, Jacquelyn Krieg, Patricia Fdwards, Joyce Elofson. Barbara Adams. Marlys Sturman, Marilyn Johnson, Dale Larson, Barbara Schacr, Dolores Haroldson, Sharon Willard, Marilyn Mug, Joyce Saarcla. Barbara Benson, Marlene Ringland. Corwyn Saari, Barbara Troevik, Joyce Nelson. Co-editors l‘H9—Patricia Hoff and Marion Pinson. Co-editors 1950- Barbara Trosvik and Patricia Jaeger. Mr. Emil Newstrand Patriot: World History Chief and section editors: (below left) Dale Flakne. Barbara Trosvik. Sharon Willard. Patricia Hoff, jnd Marion Pinson. Circulation Staff: (below right) Marcia Newman, Dale Larson, Carol Hilbert (manager), Dolores Haroldson, Barbara Benson, and Tom Coughlin.

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TIh» World of Mako-lloliovo Its aim is not to instruct but to please, wrote Somerset Maugham of the Drama, a purpose which Henry's drama department happily fulfills. Every student with a streak of ham in him, whether an inch or a mile wide, may learn to walk and talk and to create a new character in the best dramatic tradition. If the footlights are not for him. there is work to be done in staging, lighting, make-up, costuming, and production. Rehearsing for ''Three's a Crowd, one of several one-act play prut I turd by the drama das this year, arc Delore Wassom, Carol Amundsen, Dick Stacy, Margie Burnett, Kenny Bohn, and Betty Solcy. Giving a gal a lace to remember is the work of the make-up artist. Behind the footlights, mere prcttincss blurs into nonentity. Accentuate the positive is the slogan of the make-up man here placed by Donna Shobc at work on Sharon Willard’s pretty face while Marly Goga and Jo Anne Videen look on. The Henry drama department, like Horatio Alger, started from nothing; it had less than no props. Girlish hands, whose sole exercise to date had consisted of opening a stubborn lix'ker, suddenly reached for bit and brace, saw, and |uint brush in a frenetic attempt to stock the stage storeroom. Engaged in this uiifjniiltar occupation arc Dawna Mohr, Sally Devins, and Barbara Bannister. 23 Each member of Henry’s drama class has lus fling in ap-pea ring in a role selected to test his powers of creating an illusion in the minds of his audience.