Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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the late senior day production had many highlights. Pictured above y y snug Centering around the “draft,’ are a few of the mainstays in the production including “F. D. R.” Hill, Pearl “Can-Can” Vitali, “Pied Piper” Hawkins, the “Pirate” lads, and a scene from the production. SENIOR DAY THIs YEAR’s Seniors dished up one of the most flavorable concoctions we’ve ever been privileged to taste. Ingredients for this taste thrill went something like this: one table- spoon of Oakley (hillbilly) Massey, a good portion of Ralph (F. D. R.) Hill, a sprin- kling of good corny wit, and a heaping tablespoon of comedy, music and variety. Mix together, stir well and serve piping hot. The result: A most hilarious production titled “Tf You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go.” Penned by student authors, the comedy centered around the adventures of a dumb and unsuspecting hillbilly, Oakley Massey, who unwittingly holds the lucky bingo number in the government’s new vacation game (the draft to you). Ralph Hill’s por- trayal of Franklin Roosevelt proved to be the highpoint in the breezy production. Following the performance, Miss Brooke, costume committee chairman, awarded prizes to the most cleverly costumed seniors. Winners were Pearl Vitali, dressed as a “can-can dancer,” and Fay Hawkins, portraying the Pied Piper of Hamlin. Noon periods found the costumed seniors free to roam the campus at their will, photo- graph one another, and dance in the Union. Characters portrayed by senior class members for the Senior Day celebration proved most original. Noteworthy characterizations included Carl Mayers, cleverly costumed as the “Mummy”; the chain gang had its showing also, when Marvin Elston and Keith Pennebaker trouped in in the proverbial striped suit, dragging the equally proverbial ball and chain. Looking as though he had just stepped from the Chaplin production “The Dictator,” LeRoy Graham ably took the cake as the “Little Furor.” No day could be complete without the presence of the bewhiskered, cigar smoking renegade of the Marx Brothers, Groucho, who was superbly played by Harley Carter. Everyone had his day; every kind of impersonation was presented by the wittiest bunch of seniors we've been privileged to see. From the familiar cowpunchers to the supposedly terri- fying “boy pirates,” Senior Day, this year, could easily be called “the best ever.”

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FRANCIS ENRIGHT President MANUEL ROosE Vice-President Luruine WHITE Secretary GLENDA HINER Treasurer COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1941 RicHMoND UNIon HicH ScHooL AUDITORIUM Eli “Light Cavalry Overture” - - - - Suppe “Festival March’—Processional - Mendelssohn ORCHESTRA Pledgetothe Flag - - - FRANcIs ENRIGHT President of the June Class Invocation - - - - - Rev.J.5. Doron Pastor of Episcopal Church of Richmond “In Great Gettin’ Up Morning” (Spiritual) - - - - arr. by N. Cain “The Two Paths” - - - A. Gretchaninoff ““Massa’s in de Cold Ground” - Foster-Robertson “Alma Mater” - - - - - Traditional A CAPPELLA CHOIR “Intermezzo” - - - - - George Bizet ORCHESTRA bie “Opportunity and the High School Graduate” - - - - - STUDENT SPEAKERS InIndustry - - - - - + = += Jack HUBNER In Science - - - - - - - Bessie BarBrkas In Professions - - - - - - NATHANIEL ALLYN In Homemaking - - - - - - Lupine WHITE Panel Discussion Chairman, MANUEL ROSE Presentation of Class... : - = 9! = = = = oe os = B.A ieee Presentation of Diplomas - - - - - - - + - + - + W.T. HEtMs School Songs 2 5 5° os a ew eS Fe “Victory March”—Recessional - - - - - = + = - = = Schoonmaker ORCHESTRA

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