Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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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

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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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Footlights Club Don Abbott, president: Michael Roth, vice-presidentg Vir- ginia Glasgow, secretary, Roberta Wurst, treasurer. Back Row: Dorothy Keller, Virginia Richardson, Paul Mc- Adams, Edward Hammarskjold, Frank Meyer, E. Allen LeDuc, Mildred Moss, Cleda Arnold , Row 2: Muriel Dierlam. Evelyn Johnson, Yvonne Jones, Joyce Robertson, Marion White, Bobbe Edwards, Eliza- beth Leach, Doris Peek x . . Row 1: Roberta Wurst, Michael Roth, Don Abbott, Virginia Glasgow, Mrs. Bertha Bright Knapp To further, enjoy, and originate the dramatic art in all forms is the purpose of the Footlights Club. During the term, instead of sponsoring a dance as other clubs do, the members, numbering thirty- three, gave special plays and dramatic fea- tures. Some of its members wrote original skits, which were presented at the Country Club and the Children's Village. They also demonstrated for lectures, given by Mrs. Bertha Bright Knapp, at the W0men's City Club, for the Beta Sigma Phi, and for the Rosedale Park Literary Coterie Club. The club provided special entertainment at the Christmas dance, and held an auction for Alai, says Joyce Robertson as doctor Jim Ghmart tries to diagnose her ailment while Dan Abbott and Roberta Wurst look on. His verdict was heart trouble and his recommendation for recovery run up and down the stairs until you're killed or cured. Later on the doctor proved himself a victim of the same disease, and as a remedy,--married his own patient. the benefit of the soldiers at camp. A trip to Ann Arbor provided interest and entertain- ment as well as education. The group toured the School of Music and the old theater building and the newly built carillon. A delicious dinner was eaten at the Womewn's League Building and then the party watched the Blue Bird from the front rows of the Nlendelssohn Theater. Nine schools, under the leadership of the Footlights Club, formed the Detroit Metropolitan Drama Council, for high school drama groups. Over one hundred and fifty students attendedr the dinner on December 5, which was given in the Redford High School dining room. The purpose' was to concentrate interest and offer a wider selection of talent. The council will also be active in the USO program and will endeavor to benefit the community. 1 . The council will gradually expand to include all the city school dramaclubs. Provision has also been made for those students who are interested, in dramatics but have no organized club in their school, to join the council. The council members graduating from the high school group may join the senior group, the Nletropolitan Drama Council. Photo