Skidmore High School - Beacon Yearbook (Skidmore, MO)

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P o O y.0x -1s.,PEEcH. ACHIEVEMENT Q fcontinueo from the preceding pagej I On Monday afternoon, March 51, an elimination con s ' ' gtg' u , . H ' I was held in the high school auditorium to determine which of the last four plays named should represent Skidmore at ' the county contest. The play The Pro osal was chosen and this play was also given first ratgng in the Nodaway County Contest held Tuesday Evening, April l, 1941. READINGS On March 7, Kathryn Wright received a rating of II Wiul I the humorous reading nTipping off Teachern at the Tarkio Speech and Music Festival. Warbara Dearmont also entered l fx n i with the dramatic reading Uhidnapped,U but was not rated. On April 2, Kathryn Uright entered the Nodaway County Contest with the same humorous reading, and received a rating of I. , . . d a y a S, on-,Trove ' , r 4 Wilma Linville gave the eration HAnd Sudden Death,U by J. C. Furnas in the county contest and received a I. Kathryn Wright prepared an original eration which she T gave at the Maryville Festival, April 19. MARYVILLE CONTEST RATINGS The Skidmore High School mas represented at the Spring y Festival at Maryville, April l9, by four entries. Kath4 l ryn Wright, in Prose Reading, received a rating of Vg y Roger Lee Barrett, in Poetry Reading, received a rating of IIQ Kathryn Wright in 'Original Oration, received a rating of I5 and the play, The Proposal, received a rat- ing of II in the Une-act Play Contest. DEVATE J The debate question this year was, Resolved: That the Powers of the Federal Government Be Increased. Vivian Wilson and Mary Ann McClurg debated the affirmative and Wilma Linville and Kathryn Wright, ,f'., the negative. The teams did not enter the county tournament. SPEECH LETTERS Several people have earned almost enough points to re- ceive a speech letter for this year and by the ond of school will have made public appearances sufficient to comply with the requirements. At the close of the 1959- I 40 school year,speech letters were given to Guila Fletchf all, Wilma Linville, Barbara Doarmont, Paul Fletchall, Kathryn Wright, and Joe Littler. State Proficiency Speech certificates were earned by the above named pupils, and H also by Donald Bassett. S

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SENIOR PLAY f !4' n 'li Mistakes at the Blakes',' a three-act farce, was -r Q. gm' , 'f sented by members of the senior class of the Skidmore High School on Friday and Saturday nights, November 1 and 2, 1940. Tho play was well attended both nights. After having paid all of their expenses, the seniors were able to save approximately forty-five dollars, which was used for the senior trip that had been looked forward to so eagerly by the class all year. The action of 'Mistakes at the Blakes',' which was pro- duced by special arrangement with Row, Peterson and Com- pany, took place in the room' of Tom and Gary Blake, at Mrs. Perkins' boarding house, in a city in the Middle- West. The play program read as follows: CHARACTERS Cin order of appearanceb: Gary Blake, who tries to be an author . . Paul Fletchall Tom Blake, his brother, also with journalistic tendencies Ted Barber Mrs. Perkins, an unsympathic landlady . . Wilma Linville Herman Carter, a lawyer . . . . . . . . -Charles Lowrance 'Ducky Lucky' Larson, a girl who wants what she wants . . ' Irene Dolph Roberta Sims, a unwitting complication . Guila 'Fletchall Billikins, a prize fighter, 'Ducky Lucky's' brother . . . ' Charles Parman Mrsa Greengas, one of the nervous boarders.Kathryn Wright Ike, an expressman . . . . . . . . . . . Franklin Golwell Mike, an expressman . . . . . . . . . . . William Morton Mrs. Carter, the better half of Mr. Carter . . . .r. . . ' Beverly Masters Mrs. Zinkle, employed by the Home for Feeble Minded , . . ' Dorothy Jean Peter A nurse, Mrs. Pinkle's assistant . . . Genevieve Garrison Student Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . lilma Linville Stage Managers . . . . William Morton and Wilbur Hilbert Ushers: Jeanne jMcG1nnis, Betty Jean' McDowell, Dorothy Patterson, Jane Randall, Letha Murphy, and Barbara Dear- mont. ' Director . . . . . . Miss Mary N. Hash HNTH'ACTE A Senior Girls' Trio: Katherine Cottrell, Beverly Mastsrs, Helen Godsey. , SOPPHIIO Solo Q n o 0 0 0 o A o s 0 o a Katherine COttl'S11 Accompanied by Jeanne McGinnis Q 1 I 1 I A W