Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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l l Senior Band fupper photo, Back Row: Gene Flamboe, Al Hope, Harry Ramsay, Bob Mc- Vittie, Sheridan Lyddy. Jimmie Jacobs, Dalton Heltz, Bob Her- mann, Jack Radcliffe, Virginia Richardson, Ralph Gawlas, Dean Kindred, Dave Parker, Fred Sanquist. Neil MacLean, Tom Clark, Barbara Wheeler, Al Hyde, Floyd Billard, Bill Osborn, Jim Brum- mel, Bill Neuville, Bill Beagle, Ted LeForge, Mr. Frenzel Row 3: Robert McFee, Nick Schooley, Kalin Johnson, Jim Nich- ols, Bob McHugh, Marian Hodgins, Jacqueline Leimeter, Bill Greenman, Clark Whitehorn, William Seibert, Richard Jimmink, James Amick, Ed Patch, Jack Morgan, Gerald Mason, Wallace McKim, Jim Ohmart, Richard Leibold, Bill Young, Bob Muys- kens, Ramon Krohl Row 2: Gerald Steadman, Bruce Drumm, John Amick, Robert Kiley, Gilbert Hague, Raymond Gruezke, Gordon Jacobs, Joseph Aut, Dick Hardenbrook, Robert Vreeland, Arthur Miller, Roy Lord, Winiield Holden, Harold Mankin, Jack McIntosh, George Rutenbar Row 1: John Emery, Donald Baker, Edward Mano, Edward Hill. Jack Lyngklip, Nadine Leitch, Joyce Heeney, Gene Page, Bob Crawford. Lawrence Winchester, Jim Simon Senior Girls' Glee Club flower photo, Back Row: Barbara Forrester, Janet Shaw, Margaret Christenson. Audrey Book, Shirley Chapman, Dorothy Hough, Helen Vaptisma, Virginia Lucier, Marion Sharkey, Edythe Jarman, Rosemary Beall Row 5: Shirley Nielson, Dorothy Wilson, Gloria Mann, Gretchen Glasson, Florence Phillips, Mabel Rowley, Mary Gillard, Betty Dickson, Florence Kerciu, Virginia Glasgow, Florence Sayle, Row 4: Martha Grady, Doris Burrusc-h. Betty McMurry, Mavine Cavette, Estelle Zourdos, Bette DeForest, Shirley Leonard, Ruth Merritt, Betty Stiers, Darlene Schmalzriedt, Pat Franzblau Row 3: Elaine Smith, Doris Reagan, Barbara Dean, Norma Becker, Shirley Hill, Jean Rasmussen, Louise Hines, Ruth Brannon, Mary Collison, Shirley Walton V Row 2: Joan Lewis, Alison Gbodrich, Barbara Fearnside, Norma Hill, Beverly Cammarn, Vada Stephenson, Helen Amick, Betty Hill Row 1: Betty Rybolt, Wilma Murray. Ruth Blair, .Janet Curley. Betty Kreger, Dorothy McKinnon, Betty Wark, Mar1anna Hancock

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Capaciiy Crowds filled the auditorium three nights to attend the lVlusic Department's annual fall con- cert, in which every music student, over seven hundred in all, took part. Dedication of the newly purchased Hammond electric organ gave this year's concert special significance. Mr. Love played a group of spectacular selections, includ- ing a composition of his own, to show what the organ can do. Other highlights of the program were jack Ringstad's baritone solo of The Fleag the senior orchestra in the modern music number. Mefropo'lisg the senior band in a patriotic and military medley, with drum majors A1 Hope, Ted La Forge and Gene Flamboe twirling lighted batonsg and the Hinale, combined choruses and instruments in Fletcher's Song of Victory. For the concert finale, The Song of Victory fsee photo abovel, soul-stirring effect wlas pro- duced by adlding to the full-stage chorus, sections of singers in the wings and at the back of the auditorium in the balcony and downstairs, the directors, Mr. Frenzel, Mr. Picken, and Mr. Fenby, working in perfect co-ordination with Mr. Love, who led from the podium. With the -concert proceeds, the department has been able to pay back into the general fund all but three hundred dollars of the two thousand Photos by Hughes which the organ cost and which, it seems certain, will be completely cleared by next spring. Redf0rd's seventy-four-piece band, one of the three R.O.T.C. marching bands in the city, again led the Navy Day and Armistice Day parades downtown and ofhciated at all the school football games, including the Cooley game at U. of D. stadium. The novelty orchestra, traditional at Redford, kept its unbeaten record of serving at all school dlances, for the eighth year. A smooth new dinner orchestra, originated by Mr. Frenzel, enter- tained at the Drama Council banquet, for the Cosmopolitan Women's Club, and at the Detroit Golf Club's Christmas party. In the vocal division, the select mixed chorus did Redford proud by singing for the Kiwanis Club at the Statler Hotel, at a dinner dance in the Crystal ballroom of the Masonic Temple, and numerous other local gatherings. Let us not forget the juniors. They not only per- form as well trained units, but from the ranks of the junior orchestra, band, and choruses come the dependable new members who are constantly moving up to keep Redford's senior groups among the top-flight high school musicians of Detroit.

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Photo by Hughes The dramatics division has forged ahead and cut a wide lane of activities. The senior play was the outstanding regular school production. Two drama classes entertained the student body with a Christmas program presented in two assembly periods. A prologue, an original work by Joyce Robertson, IZA, was followed by five tableaux relating the story of Christ- m.as. Mr. Love and Mr. Fenby directed the Glee Club in carols played by Mr. Bennell on the organ. The adult dramatics group, The Redford Faculty Play- ers, organized in l94l, began work on their annual play, You Cdn't Take If With You, to be presented in the spring term. The leads cast are Mrs. LeFavour, Mrs. Hedwig Taylor, W. Bostick, Miss Barbey, and Jim Taylor. This year's officers are: G. Manson Taylor, president: W. C. Picken, vice-presidentg F. Hojnacki, treasurer: Hedwig Taylor, corresponding secretary, Taylor, recording secretary, B. B. Knapp, directorg 'and Earl Roger,s photographer. On December l, this group was host to a dinner at Red- ford, to thirty-five dramatics groups, totalling one hundred twenty-five members in the metropolitan district, and they formed the new Metropolitan Drama Council. The pur- pose of the council is to concentrate community dramatic interest into a co-operative unit and to aid in the U.S.O. program. Among the ofhcers elected, are Bertha Bright Lights! Music! Thus the curtain rose on the climax of the senior dramatic activity, New Fires, the class play, presented Janu- ary I6 and I7 by a cast of twenty-eight l2A's. Written by Charles Burdette, the three act comedy had a definite moral, which distinguished it from previous productions. The plot concerns the difficulties over- come by an author to bring his parasitic family to sustain itself. The setting, a rundown farm, inherited by the family afforded many comical situxations. Mr. Frank Meyer, stage technician, and his stage crew made all the props needed instead of renting them as in previous years. The cast, as a part of the USO program, planned to give the play entertainment at army camps. Knapp, president, and Lena Doll, second vice-president, from the Redford group. The council plans, as its first activity, a week long festival of original one-act plays to be presented in June, climaxecl by an original work stimulating patriotism and loyalty to the United States, in which all groups will participate. Senior Play Cast fphoto below, Back Row: Ralph Gawlas, Don Abbott, Jim Ohmart, Ru- dolph Downing, Bob Henderson, Bob Rader, Richard Nette, Jim Wallis Row 3: Gordon Palmer, Lillian Moray, Virginia Bricker, Jeannette Bounds, Frank E. Meyer. Rose Jean Agee, Alice Biddinger, Monica Seibert, Bob Webb Row 2: Billie McIntyre, Betty Mehoke, Joyce Robertson, Bill Cox, Roberta Wurst, Yvonne Jones, Lucille Macomber. Muriel Dierlum Row 1: Phyllis Morrell, Virginia G-lasgow, Dot Keller. Bertha Bright Knapp, Audrey Beaugrand, Del Boustead, Doris Peek