Rowe High School - Viking Saga Yearbook (Lakeville, OH)

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The Class of 1940 This year the Juniors under the leadership of their President Dorothy Bankston were active participants in sports, dramatics, musicals and scholastic activities. Our stairs in the sports world were Louis Palagyi and Helen Hirsimaki. Louis was a member of the champion basketball team and on the track squad. Helen was a forward on the girl’s cage lineup and a member of the track team. Fred Ollila was the find of ’39 as he played the slow-witted constable in “Small Town Romeo.” Donald Cline played the superstitious “Bud” to perfection. Literary laurels were carried off by Phyllis Whipple who won awards for her essays in a local merchant’s contest and the annual W. C. T. U. temperance contest. Margaret Langdon and Regina Stephenson did an excellent job of taking care of paper selling. Of the group representing the Juniors in the elimination tests at Jefferson, Marjorie Wright and Fred Ollila won honors with a first in typing and a second in physics. V The Junior Play “Small Town Romeo”, under the direction of Miss Tobin and Mr. Curie, proved to be a high spot in the entertainment year at Rowe. This wholly delightful production played to a capacity audience in early March. In the story the charming heroine (Shirley Paananen) is about to lose her hotel to the greedy villain (Henry Brooks). The resourceful and witty hero, (George Rector) saves the day, the hotel, and the heroine. Brilliant comedy relief comes into the play on the part of Sly Perkins (Fred Ollila), Bud Williams (Donald Cline), and Aunt Sarah Higgins (Marjorie Wright). For all his sleuthing. Constable Perkins uncovered nothing but the enthusiastic goodwill of his audience. Sarah did more discovering, for she found her long-awaited love in old Sly. Bud did tangle with his dreaded ghost, as we thought he would. Mr “Ay” Lloyd (Merl Childs) was but a sheep in wolf’s clothing, a detective, not a crook like Miss Gates (Doris Thompson). Margaret Langdon and Edna Jones played supporting parts, and the entire cast was congratulated on the best mystery play of the past three years. V The J unior Red Cross The Rowe High Junior Red Cross Chapter supervised by Miss Watson has completed many worth while projects during the ’38-’39 school year. During Thanksgiving time the group made favors and nut cups for patients at Brown Memorial Hospital. As their Christmas project, food was collected and distributed to needy Conneaut families and games were given to the Kiwanis. Sick patients were cheered up on February 14 by Valentines received from the club. Rowe was a leader in contributing money to the Red Cross fund. A way of securing money for various projects was selling donated candy at the different school functions. On March 18 our club sent a representative to the Junior Red Cross Rally at Edgewood High School and the Ashtabula Hotel. President George Rector Vice President June Britton Secretary Ethel Bennett Treasurer Shirley Blood Sponsor Miss Thelma Watson

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A Cappella Choir Rowe’s newest musical success, the A Cappella Choir, won marked prominence in Ashtabula County this year. These 23 students under the direction of Miss Tailing: made three radio appearances, one a full half hour program, and were the welcome guests of school and civic groups in Con-neaut and vicinity. In early October they began practice in sight reading and singing without accompaniment. Enthusiastic over this promising start, the Parent Teachers Association supported the choir in their appeal for robes. In December they made their first appearance in maroon robes and white stoles, guests of Conneaut’s Masonic order. As the season progressed, the choir made seme 23 appearances. Among these were the assembly programs of East Geneva and Jefferson, the County Teachers’ Institute, Monroe, the Ashtabula Church of Christ, Fierpont and Mill Creek, Pa. Conneaut performances included those for the First Congregational-Christian, the Baptist, the Methodist, and the East Conneaut Methodist churches, and programs before the local Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. Of these 23 well blended voices, only eight are seniors. These probably will be replaced ty a like number of dependable students who have good voices, the ability to sight read, and a reputation of dependability. They will be depended upon to carry on the reputation established by Rowe’s first A Cappella Choir. Junior and Senior choir members are to have gold pins as a distinction for their service. T Yellow Lanterns On March 10th, the music department of the school presented the operetta “Yellow Lanterns” under the direction of Miss Tailing. The leading parts were taken by: Ersel Dye, Yu Kong, a miserly old mandarin; his wife Li Lee, Doris Thompson; Toy Ling, Joe Dickey; His daughter Ling Ming, Mary Louise Ryan; her lover, Chan Ting, Francis Dickey; Kay Choo, Yu Kong’s doctor, Edward Powell; and Fay Ling, Ling Ming’s aunt, Marjorie Montgomery. Dancers and Tumblers in gay costumes were the main attraction at the Feast of Lanterns. Also, a huge dragon made by the Art Class added to the Chinese rituals. T Instrumental Music Creative work in music composition was undertaken by nine students in the Music Theory class. They studied harmony and fundamentals of music composition, and later each worked to produce an original piece of music. Those successful in composing an individual selection were Durward Olds, Francis Dickey, Joe Dickey, Doris Thompson and Warren Rogers. Other members of the group were Mary Alice Hall, Alberta Bennett, Bernadine Dewey and Marjorie Cook. One of the students’ own creations was featured in the band and orchestra concert May 16. These two groups have played for such school occasions as plays and basketball games. In directing our 24-piece orchestra and the l and of 35 members, Mr. Mackey has done a creditable piece of work. The interesting experiment in music composition is an innovation in our schools and the only work of its kind ever known in the county.