Sheldon High School - Shehian Yearbook (Sheldon, IL)

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Shehian DRAMATICS LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! ALL YE ARTISTES! The S. C. H. S. Dramatics Club reorganized again this year in October. The old members welcomed new members and elected officers for the school year. They were: president, Martha Thompson, vice president, Elmore Clawsong sec- retary, 'Virginia Bowtong treasurer, Donald Ewen, sponsor, Miss Gentry. The members appointed a general program committee with the vice presi- dent as chairman. Others were Bill Zumwalt, Jean Alice Jones, and Dorothy Hall. They were to make out a topic for each month, appoint individual com- mittees for each month, and collect material for use in the program. New members who were initiated this year into the club were: Virginia Darling, Charles Disosway, Elaine Disosway, Phyllis Ingalls, Ivan Kusch, Mary Disosway, Doris Hall, Harriett McKimson, Dorothy Platt, Rosalie Tapp, Nelson Waity, and Rosemary Wishnieff. This year the aim 'of the club was to promote more interest in dramatics. We were granted one hour of school time each month for our meetings. Some topics discussed were: The History of Drama to the Present Day, Debating, How to Conduct a Business Meeting, and Parliamentary Procedures. The seniors gave their play, Aunt Susie Shoots the Works, Dec. 10, 1941. All the seniors participated as actors, stage and property -managers, business managers, and ushers. A resume of the play follows: Aunt Susie Stowe, an eccentric and man-hating spinster, lives alone. When she learns that her late lamented schoolmate, Cora King, has willed her proper- ty to her, she wires her favorite niece, Joy Herbert, to meet her on the follow- ing afternoon at the King residence. Joy arrives, accompanied by her colored maid, Scarlet, and while waiting in the supposedly deserted house for Aunt Su- sie, they are confronted with a series of mysterious and hair-raising events. Just as they are preparing to make a rapid exit, Aunt Susie arrives. She boasts that she has inherited not only the late Cora's house but the sausage works next door! Cora King's lawyer appears on the scene and tells Aunt Susie that she must be married in order to inherit the property and to make it worse, to Cora's cousin, Omar Graves. Joy is secretly engaged to Johnny Rogers. The climax is reached when Aunt Susie shoots the works by marrying Omar, and .Toy announces her engagement to Johnny Rogers. The Dramatics Club was the sponsor of the Christm-as program and enter- tained the entire assembly in the gym. The crowd sat intently awaiting the ar- rival of Santa Claus and was not a bit surprised to see one of his helpers come waddling out to greet us and to distribute the gifts. He was none other than our own Nelson Waity. The committee in charge of the program was: La- Verne Haberkorn, Robert Hootman, Betty Malany. Marge Quinn, and Eleanor Silvers. Robert Hootman wrote the play which was given. The Dramatics Club also sponsored -the speech contests. The county con- test was held at SCHS this year on March 26th with the local club as host. Those from our club who took readings this year were: Dramatic declama- tion-Dorothy Hall, who placed third in the county contest with Submerged g Geneyieve Morrison. Alice White, Robert Hootman and Doris Darling, who were picked from the first judging for the preliminariesg Bonnie Sanders, Eunice Buck, Jean Hogle, Doris Hall and Louise Rice. Humorous declamation-Virginia Bowton, who represented Sheldon at the county contest: Bill Zumwalt, Marjorie Quinn, Dorothy Rock, Mary Disosway and Rosemary Wishnieff, who appeared in the preliminaries. Oration and Extemporaneous Speaking-Martha Thompson, who represent- ed Shgldon in the county contest: and Elmore Clawson, who placed second in the county contest with Production and The War. l9lI-2 Christmas Vespers - - Impressive - - Mm! Mm! - - Stop