Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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CLASS DAY OFFICERS voted for the traditional White dresses and for carrying small French bouquets. The boys will Wear the dark coats and White trousers. An April 28 Class Day ofhcers were elected. They are, Harriet Cra- craft, historian, Dave Allerdice, giftoriang Margaret Parrish, prophetg and Wesley Martin, will-maker. Rachael Feibleman was chairman of the girls' program and Richard DeMars had charge of the boys. The date of Class Day was Tuesday, June 2. Vesper Services, conducted Sunday, May 31, in Caleb Mills Hall, were exceedingly beautiful and impressive. On Wednesday night, June 3, the class of nineteen hundred and thirty- six was graduated from Shortridge High School in services at Cadle Tabernacle. Embelle Waldo. BUSINESS STAFF

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C . mates of the Seniot Class Election of officers, November 5, marked the beginning of the activities of the class of 1936. The successful candidates were as follows: Max Bartley, president, Lue Mc- Whirter, vice-president, Embelle Waldo, secretary, Bob Garrett, treasurer, and Ruth Zitzla1T, annual editor. The Porter Studios were selected as official class photographer, not long afterwards, by the Senior Home Room sponsors. At the first meeting, held November 14, Miss Theek, sponsor of the Shortridge President dramatics, announced that the Senior Play would be The Swan by Ferenc Molnar. The leading parts were given to Roy McCormick, Ben Latting, Ruth Rehm, and Jean VanVoorhees, at the final tryouts, November 23. The play was presented May 1, and was excellently performed. Maxine Roberts was placed in charge of the ushers. The Seniors held their party December 20 in the gym. Gifts were presented to the Seniors by Simon P. Roache, the Santa Claus. After a floor show, dance music Was provided by Bob McKittrick and his orchestra. For the first time, there was organized a President's Cabinet. Three student representatives were chosen from each Senior Home Room and these met from time to time with the ofiicers and Joel Hadley, Class sponsor, in order to keep the class informed as to Senior affairs. Jean VanVoorhees, chairman of the colors committee, announced at a meeting March 12, that two shades of blue had been selected for the class colors. . The commencement committee put before the class the idea of hav- ing caps and gowns for graduation, but on April 3rd it was rejected by a three-fourths majority vote of the class. At a separate meeting the girls MAX BARTLEY Lue lICWhiFtQl' Bob Garrett Embelle VValdo Ruth Zitzlaff Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Annual Editor

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STM Swan Lights-music-curtain-and on Friday, May the first, the Senior class of '36 launched what it fondly considers the best Senior Play ever produced. Of course it was good-how could it help but be? The play was Ferenc Mo1nar's World-Wide success The Swan -the director Was Miss Eleanor D. Theek. The beautiful princess was Ruth Rehm, the luckless, lovable tutor, Roy McCormick and the winner of the lady in dispute, Ben Latting. Jean Van Voorhees emoted splendidly as Bea- trice, the ambitious mother who schemed to marry her daughter to Prince Albert and incidentally a royal throne, instead of the charming but in- significant tutor. Jean M. Smith and Margaret Parrish thoroughly en- joyed their parts as the fourteen and twelve year old boys. As Father Hyacinth, Edward Wagnon interpreted a difficult character part. Vir- ginia House was the excitable and fussy Symphorosa. Elegant in uniforms as Colonel Dunderlich and Count Lutzen, David Platter and Russel Bohlke yes-manned the Prince. Betty Firth played Princess Maria Dominica to perfection. CAnd ask anybody in the play about the grand party they held at her house after the final curtainll Clifford Scholey and Bob Craft were the heights of polished ser- vants With Virginia Stoddard a runner-up as maid. As ladies-in-Waiting, lackeys and hussars, Nettie Dulberger, Margaret Ottinger, Jane Preston, Mildred Benson, Harry Ferris, Bill Steinmetz, Harry Hadd, and David Hocker made impressive background. The back stagers who saw that everything went off just as it should, in other words, the Production Staff included Betty Jane Mock, prompter, Jane Bottorff, property chairman, Edward Dirks, stage manager: Betty Jane Scott, wardrobe mistress, Betty Lu Miller, program design, Vern Vanderbilt fJuniorJ, electrician, Clifford Scholey, call boy, Mr. Richard Hoover, make-up, Rosemary Treanor and Emily Stine, co-publicity, Bal- lard Smith, business manager, George Shively, house manager, Mary L. Powell, Treva Johnson, Richard Stradling, Noble Lehner, Donald Mal- colm, Jim Hawkins, and John Farley, general committee. Margaret Parrish.