Schleswig High School - Banner Yearbook (Schleswig, IA)

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Senior Class Play Lying as a fine art certainly calls for a strong head, a stout heart, and a good memory, and Peter Pepperdine has all these qualifications to fit him for a magnificent liar in the Senior play ' For Pete s Sake When his exasperated aunt in an effort to discipline him started on a summer tour of Palestine without him he rented her mansion against her expressed desire to her dearest enemy the mother of his ladylove and masqueraded as her butler d1Sgll1Slhg his pal Bill as her gardener and Muggsy the despised college grind who was supposed to tutor him all surnrner as her housemaid And all this madcap scheming not only provided Peter and Bill with ready cash but enabled them to discover whether their respective ladyloves were flirting with older and wealthier sultors The boys soon put a crimp in the suitors woo ings especially after they turned Muggsy loose on them to vamp them in his housemaid s disguise And then Aunt Sarah spoiled everything by suddenly canceling her trlp and coming home Once again Peter while teetering on the brink of comic catastrophe managed to save himself and Bill by quick thinking and masterly lying He invoked the aid of a spook and some fictitious robbers to cover up his tracks CHARACTERS Leila Benmgsdorf Elaine Kuehl Miss Sarah Pepperdine Peter s aunt Jasmine Jackson Aunt Sarah s darky cook Cicero Muxglethorpe Dean of Elwood College Peter Pepperdine always in hot water Bill Bradshaw Peter s pal Thorndyke Murglethorpe Muggsyj A college g Mrs Georgina Clarkston A social climber Peggy Clarkston Bill s sweetheart Malvina Potts Muggsy s goddess John Boliver A wealthy banker Dupont Darby The poet of Elwood College Director Student Director Stage Helpers :ind 15 Gex ry Lyman Beep Sonksen Gene Evers Lodean Koi ner Betty Bielenberg Arlene Miller Lois Jensen Richard Pickel Al Stoneking Mr EI VanKooten Marilyn Christiansen Harris Grill Richard Wehner Gene Koepke 4 - --y- --,l---,-- Nadine Clarkston, Peter's sweetheart --av--V -- 1 --------- ----- - - --V -LaJune Baeth

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Harrxs Grlll and Dlck Plckel always up 1n the amr Who love to take chances and perlls to dare W1l1 very soon be world famed av1ators As noted as Llndbergh perhaps even greater Our frlends Lo1s Jensen and Marllyn Chrlstxansen have very small vomces But great blg emotxons and dlctxon qulte cholce So they ll be radxo crooners some day And sob all themr troubles 1n ether away A plumber workxng overt1me Wzth charges huge and nerve subllme R1chard Wehner s future plaln I see A very wealthy man he ll be Not fond herself of overwork She can t endure that others shxrk So Lella Bennlgsdorf w1l1 run wlth glee A great employment agency Gerald Lyman likes to speculate And takes h1s fun xn temptmg fate So he ll become the reckless Joker A very lucky Wall Street broker Her fertlle braln and ready Wlt Proclaxm at once the job she d f1t Betty B1elenberg w111 Wrlte the perfect story Thus covering herself wmth lots of glory He argues mornxng noon and nlght And wins zf he be wrong or rmght So Gene Koepke w1ll be of course A lawyer crlmmal and dlvorce Arlene Mxller w1ll be an artxst who Wxll mural decoratxons do And be as well a portralt pamter Who 11 make poor Rembrandt s glory fa1nter Beep Sonksen and Gene Evers have great ambltxons They 11 be wxly pol1t1c1ans To Congress by admirers sent And next perhaps be Presxdents Wxth gestures wlde and volce lntense At speakxng pieces she s xmmense And so Elalne Kuehl upon the stage W11l soon become the natxon s rage I hope thls very generous sample Has proved to you my powers are ample And that the outllne of your noses Your future honestly dlscloses 14 1 1 1 ' 1 , . 1 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 . , . - 1 1 . 1 1 1 , . 1 . 1 1 ' 1 -- . . . . , . 1 1 . 1 1 1 . . . . 1 1 1 1 , . 1 1 ' 1 1 ' . u 11 , . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . , . 1 . . , 1 .

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