Ponce de Leon High School - Cavaleon Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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744 'Mech 7454 Encore! The Top Hatters Club has just presented one of their super deluxe, never-to-be-for- gotten plays. With drama as their specialty, these black silk toppers perform with the great- est of ease. They tackle the job of sponsoring stage activities at Ponce de Leon. These dramatic minded stu- dents must be at least sopho- mores and voted in by the majority of the club. Now headed by Mrs. Claire Marley, Top Hatters was founded at Ponce in 1936. A member of this emi- nent club can be recognized not only by his looks but by the black and gold pin symbolizing a top hat and cane he's wearing. Left to right, first rom: Rhea Grafton, joy Cobb, joan Browne, Katherine Hardeman, Recording Secretary Ann Richey, jackie Geiger, Corresponding Secretary Harriet Quillian, Dottie Powell, Jean Mixson, Nancy Hinckley, Anne Morrow, Phyllis jackson, Ruth Sullivan. Second row: Con- nie Ronde, Dolores Xlifright, Maynette Avery, Anne Chap- man, Helen Giersch, Mrs. Mar- ley, David Batcheller, Fred Scheiss, Read Montague, Hugh XVood, President John Dick, Al DeFoor. ffbird row: Mary Fran- ces Vlilkerson, Treasurer Barbara Fosgate, Nell Champion, Bertha Moore, Vice-president Bill Gobat, Talbot Trammell, Edgar Mon- tague, jack Raudenbush, Mort Guilford, Kirk XVestcott, Frank Wilcox. Tourfh row: David Mc- Donald, Robert Kirkland, Jimmy Fielden, Brad Wfhite, jim Har- rison, Henry Betts, Billy Wfarcl, jack Wlilkins, Bob Schiess, Don- ald Brown. Not pictured: Kitty WHEN GRANDMA HIT THE TOWN WAIT A MINUTE, Grandma, not that! The above is a scene from this year's senior play, Grandma Fought the Indians? Pictured is Jackie Geiger as Grandma Morrison, Al DeFoor as Barry Douglas, Dot Powell as Millie, Ruth Sullivan as Nettie Doubleday, Lynn McGibboney as the mayor and John Dick as M. C. Saunders. The rest of the cast who are not pictured are Patsy Denning doubling as Nettie Doubleday, Bill Shuts as Claude Stacey, jimmy Fielden as Slim Montana, Wlinnie Burton, as Susie Droop, LaVerne Sebastian as Myrtle Doop, Brad Vfhite as Lem Burton, Nancy Hinckley as Gladys, and Mary Wilkersoxl as Laurel Lovely. Pankey. e g 4 'S' B F Aix D L T X ll A et. Eff f-12,455 L T ' sexe--'..:if-1.2:

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AMONG THE smart little plays the dramatics classes have put on this year is this melodrama Fatal Quest. The quest, so small it's strange to believe it was so devastating, was the search by the duke for the Prin- cess' beautiful angora kitten. The Duke finds it all right, but when he returns and the king refuses him the hand of his daughter, he unsheathes his sword and kills the king. And so it goes, the queen dies of grief, the duke takes poison, and the princess dies from mental strain. Boy! that fatal quest surely was fatal! tain , Xlifinifred Burton, the princess 5 Bette Dillard, the queen , Al DeFoor, the king, Patrick Coffee, the duke. Characters of the play are, left to right: Bettie Bollinger as the Cur- q X 86 WHEN DRAMA CALLS, IT'S THESPIANS CURTAIN como uv! to introduce to our readers the National Thes- pians, whose individual dramatic achievements of one major role or two minor ones in plays have won them membership in this national honorary club. On call these achieved dra- matists meet in the Little Theater and under the able direction of Mrs. Claire Marley, they plan and discuss such big issues as the annual senior play. They are the proud possessors of the Thespian pin, which symbolizes two masks of drama-comedy and tragedy. Left to right, seated: Mrs. Marley, Joy Cobb, Secretary Dottie Powell, jackie Geiger, Ann Richey. Standing 1 Treasurer jimmy Fielden, Bill Gobat, Dol- ores Xllfright, Robert Kirkland, President jim Harrison. lax f' A if in BK

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'MGWZWJ HTHAT STORY should have gone on page one, not four might be heard from Jimmy Fielden as he and Thomasina West, co-editors, try to make up the other's mind during a struggle to get out an issue of the Ponce Tribune. Put that in the marginf, Where,s a copyreader? janet, have your car here for us to go to press tomorrowf' Slug it! Fill that spacell' Denis, that ad isn't paid for!U Rewrite that lead. No time element. And so we could go on forever, but being jour- nalists ourselves and seeing a nearing deadline, we must get down to facts. Wixmniiig a Medalist rating from the Columbia Press Ass'n. and an All-American rating by the N.S.P.A., the editorial and business staffs of Ponceis bi-weekly paper worked and worked to carry out their editorial policy of school better- ment. a JJ Left to right, seated: Betty Pultz, copy editor, Bar- bara, Rothschild, headline editor, Jimmy Fielden and Thomasina VVest, eo- editors, Mrs. Helen Ev- ans, faculty adviser, May- nette Avery, feature edi- tor, Helen Giersch, copy reader. Sfamling: Evelyn Fitzpatrick, news editor, Doris Jacobsen, typist, Denis O'Donovan, Patsy Denning, and John Rob- erts, business editors, Janet Edgar, girls' sports editor, Betty Jane Tyler, busf iness staff, Johnny Bran, boys' sports. Left fo right, sealed: Dot- tie Powell, art editor, Sally Brinkerhoff, art staff, Anne Chapman, junior ed- itor, Betty Newman, soph- omore editor, Carol Gul- liver, freshman editor, Rita Ginn, senior editor. Slamling: Ben Klotz, art stag, Barbara bleyers, art staff, Maynette Avery, editor-in-chief, and Bar- bara Rothschild, associate editor, Denis O'Donovan, business editor, Johnny Bran, boys' sports editor, Janet Edgar, girls' sports editor, Evelyn Fitzpat- , i. rick, club editor. BEHIND THE BOOK COME THE 'LEON STAEEERS STOP! STOP, 1 SAY! And the rubber cement, razors and rulers shoved their guns in holsters and the Cavaleon staff member again tries to make the photograph hit the diagonal in time to make the deadly deadline. A thud, a scream, and Mr. H. N. Rath, staff photographer, collapses after finding there was no Film in the camera when he took the last dozen pictures. A siren, little men in white coats, a stretcher and Mrs. Helen Evans, adviser, is carried off for a shot of adrenalin so that she will survive. lt has been said that the only difference in work- ing on a yearbook and being brutally annihilated is that annihilation is a speedier death than falling slowly into oblivion with your damaged permanent record staring you in the face.