Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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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

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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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r Student Council Gordon Waltman, president: Ernest Keckonen, vice- president: Ruth Willey, secretary: David Thompson, reasurer. Back Row: Bill Cox. Robert McFee, Jim Wallis, H. Scott Hudson, Hal Neal, Vic Krohn, Bob Hughes, Don Wilson The Student Council took over the task of being Redford l-ligh's Home Defense Council this semester. In this connection they bought a. new six by ten foot Flag, to replace the worn out one above the old building. Also, they distributed information about how to turn scrap iron to use by selling it to junk dealers. The Student Council again took part in running the Used Book Exchange, which netted about I30 dollars last september. Of the profit one hundred dollars was donated to the fund for purchasing the Hammond Organ. Another project of the Council was providing half the money which financed the 32-page student handbook which will be distributed free to all students next semester. During the course of the term the Council cleaned house and attempted to get a new start. President Gordon Waltman promoted motions doing away with all old laws of the Council. Fol- lowing the president's proposal, several constitu- tional amendments were passed, one of which increased the membership from 36 to 40. Row 3: Shirley Nielson, Mildred Moss, Myra Church, geverlyk Bennett, Betty Rybolt, Elaine Faber, John ancoc Row 2: Shirley Gorman, Jean MacDougall, Gloria G'add, Barbara Darnton, Grace Scheurmg, Nancy Appelhof, Mary Ann Taylor Bow 1: L. G. Chickering, Ernest Keckonen, G-ordon Waltman, Ruth Willey, David Thompson Annual Staff Heber Hudson, editor-in-chlefg Janet Lisak, assistant editor- m chief: Bill Graham, business manager. Back Row: Frank Church, Neff Dietrich, Tom Kozlow, Bill IBcierl:virth, Bob Ginn, Rudy Pessel, Bill Clemons, Ernest ec onen Bow 3: Ronnie O'Donnell, John Christensen. Barbara For- rester, Hildegard Wintergerst, Adda Partridge, Grant Star- buck, Lawrence Stopke Row 2: Feme Lawless, Ethel Gray, Betty Hassing, Evelyn Partridge, Marilyn Masson, Monica Seibert, Dorothy Keller, Margaret Smith Row 1: G. E. Stewart. aiu Graham, Janet Lisak, Miss van Houten, Heber Hudson, Harry Shuptrine, A. D. Greene Outpost Staff Heber Hudson, editor-in-chief: Bob Ginn, news editorg Carol Siebert, feature editor: Ernest Keckonen, sports edi- tor: Monica Seibert, headline editor. Back Row: Vic Krohn, Jim Aliber, Rudy Pessel, Stuart Frey, Neff Dietrich, Grant Starbuck Row 4: Richard Bamett, Clark Whitehorn, Barbara For- rester, Adda Partridge, Hildegard Wintergerst, Marion Keith. Harry Shuptrlne, Bob Hughes Row 3: Ethel Gray, Jane Allmayer, Evelyn Partridge, Betty Heal, Joan Lawler, Margaret Smith, Christine Groef- sema Row 2: Anne Alberts, Bobbe Edwards, Cora Tombaugh, Gwen Switzer. Betty Hassing, Bobbette Marcoux, Betty Lou Scott, Maxine Humphrey Row 1: E. M. VanHouten, Monica Seibert, Bill Graham, Bob ginn. Heber Hudson, Ernest Keckonen, Janet Lisak. A. D. reene