Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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SENIORS... . . . REMINISCING In September of 1938, %ve, the present senior class, entered Plymouth High School. Wc were inconspicuous and intolerably green, anil our jokes were corney. Our jokes are still corney in 1942, but we are not green, and we re far from inconspicu- ous. Many of our members have been out- standing in various fields. As freshmen, we staged the usual freshmen party with bingo anil winkum providing a large share of the entertainment. Jim Kubley started his four year basketball career on the var- sity squad. Knox won the sectional. In our sophomore year we began to blossom out. We had our annual party with Ed Ward as general chairman. Pat Pelt and Jack Clarke were yell leaders. Panel discussions came into being at P.H.S. Our junior year we elected officers: Jim Low oil Ayr Os Kay Barton Raymond Blahaugh Joel BottnrfT earl Bradford 05uy Breeding Robert Bumbarger Jack Clarke Charles Cleveland Leroy Crum Richard Dipert

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ART COMES TO LIFE AT P. H. S. IN K FEVER Production on '‘Spring Fev- er” begins as Miss Cornetet, Miss Hass and Miss Steven call a tentative cast together. A backstage shot shows the crew which consists of a prompter and stage manager, working behind scenes. With the play definitely cast. Miss Cornetet plots out the action on the stage. At 6:30 on the night of the performance, the cast gathers in the make-up room to smear itself with grease-paint. The Bolshevik scene begins to take definite shape as the cast members “get into char- acter with the aid of foot- lights. rope, hat-rack, and artist’s easel. Curtain going up! Mrs. Spangler starts the unfolding of the plot in her college boarding house. The audience enjoys the antics of the hero Howard Brant (Jim Kubley) and his “heart interest Ann Purcell (Pat Orr). The cast poses for pictures, and five weeks' work comes to a close in a blaze of flash bulbs. 18

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Frederick Drubcrt Tom Eley Donald Elkins Audrey Engel Arlene Everly Beverly Falconbury Glenn l :«rson Marianna Lee Gordon Link Mary Alice Long Rose Malder Ruih Mangun Kubley, president;jean Lara more, vice-presi- dent; Pete Wilson, sec- retary; and Lois Marsh, treasurer. Richard Rentschlcr went to the state track meet in the broad jump. Marjorie Menser and Mickie Scip won honors in art. Lois Marsh went to the state Latin contest two years. Bev- erly Falconbury proved to be a whiz in mathematics, and Normadeane Smith in shorthand. 20 The Junior-senior party was planned like a trip on the train, bound for “Yehudi”. Railroad tickets entitled us to one or two cokes, depending upon whether we went by coach or by puliman. And oh!—when the train went through the tunnels! Our prom had as its theme, Latin America, and with the artistic talent of Diana Shamas who designed it, and the enthusiastic work of the class, supervised by Nancy Knott, the back ground and at-