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

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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.

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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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mill Srinmk Mr. Wilbur Lundcll Miss Ruih Opsahl Mr. Arthur Anderson Miss Kathleen Harlow Miss Minnie Koehsel Mr. Glen Davis Geometry Elementary and Higher Physics, Junior High Chemistry, Junior High Biology Biology Mathematics School Science School Science One, two—buckle my shoe. Three, four—shut the door; Five, ox—pick up sticks . . . If you keep on counting and computing the many million combinations of numbers, you may qualify for enrollment in classes in higher algebra ami solid geometry. A mastery of math is the key which unlocks many of the mysteries of the universe. You iiijv not Ik an Einstein and evolve a theory of relativity, but if you sharpen your wits and solve your math problems, you will find life in an atomic age much less battling than if you stopped your study of numbers with Five, six—pick up sticks. Where once distance was measured in miles as the crow Hies, today's One World is spanned in a few hours, with distance computed not by crows but by mathematicians. Pictured are Tom Stolcc, Dale Johnson, ami Cynthia Mayhcw computing distances between point in our far-flung global world. Why was I born? Why am I living? You want to know : Some of the answers arc to be found in biology experiments: watching the germination ami growth of plant life; the reproduction and growth of animal life. The stuily of biology makes us truly aware of what a log, wide, wonderful world is ours to understand and enjoy. Assembled around a number of the biology department's exhibits arc Nancy Bmiglitoti, Marlys Carlson, Richard Story, I.awrcncc Anderson, ami Chuck Overton.