Union City Community High School - Successus Yearbook (Union City, IN)

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BAND Betty Jean Shierling, David Kaucher, Robert Ely, Winifred Barth, Marcile Tritt, Shirley Garver, John Sutton, Rosemary Harrison, Victoria Barth, Ivan Keever, Anna Ruth Romeiser, George Hill, Joan Veit, Robert Chattin, Arthur Beachler, Jane Jellison, Lois Veit, Wendell Riffle, Harvey Weimer, Raymond Fox, Evelyn Manning, Martha Jane Mangas, Leland Anderson, Robert Ungericht, Leatrice Barr, Jack Caron, Donald Bartholomew, Joe Sutton, Bill Romeiser, David Dean, Richard Weimer, Bob Guernsey, Billy Seibert, Charles Gray, William Chattin', Junior Fraze, Billy Shreeve, Gerald Boyer, Paul Barth, Fernando Chenault, Richard Lollar, Harriette Robertson, Gail Weimer, Stanley Riffle, Gordon Glunt. The officers of the band are: Bob Chattin, president; George Hill Jr., vice-president; and Harvey Weimer, secretary. Joan Veit is the music librarian and Robert Stebleton, custodian of the uniforms. ART Art is given as part of the regular course in the elementary grades and junior high school, but it is an elective course in high school. The elementary art work is of various types such as: water color, pencil, crayon, cut-paper work, and picture study. The junior high school works in perspective and with pencil and water colors, does crafts such as bead work, needle-point, weaving, basketry, burned wood designs, tooling and lacing, and soap carving. The high school art consists of pencil sketching and study of perspective; some poster work, sign painting and lettering; crafts such as: basketry, weaving, home arts of various kinds, metal etching, leather tooling and lacing, block-printing and modeling in plaster-of-paris. The Successus is indebted to the art department for the splendid drawings which have been used as division pages between the various sections of this book. 22

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ORCHESTRA Shirley Garver, Marcile Tritt, Betty Jean Shierling, Winifred Barth, Robert Eley, David Kaucher, Rosemary Harrison, Victoria Barth, Ivan Keever, Anna Ruth Romeiser, Harvey Weimer, Raymond Fox, Evelyn Manning, Martha Jane Mangas, Robert Chattin, Jane Jellison, Arthur Beachler, George Hill Jr., Joan Veit, John Sutton, Wendell Riffle, Leland Anderson, Robert Ungericht, Jane Davis, Mary Elizabeth Barr, Evelyn Ellis, Lois Veit, Elaine Aukerman, Betty Booth Fitzgerald, Stuart Riffle, Marion Davis, Joyce Ann Fraze, and Peggy Warner. The music students in our high school have had a very active year. During the early part of the school year the orchestra and band gave two programs, assisted by the girls' glee club and special numbers. The boys' octet sang for several outside organization and school affairs. Individuals in the band, orchestra, and glee clubs assisted in many church and club programs. The biggest projects of the year, however, were in the spring. The boys' and girls glee clubs presented the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera The Mikado in April. This was a very pretentious undertaking and is very seldom attempted by high school students. Mr. Earl Carroll coached the dramatics and Mr. Howard Brumfield had charge of the music. A committee of three, composed of Miss Brady, Miss Rubey, and Mr. Carroll, picked the leading characters at a try-out. The Mikado of Japan was played by Robert Stebleton. Nanki-poo, his son, (disguised as a wandering minstrel, a second trombone, and) in love with Yum-Yum, was played by Stuart Riffle. Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Titipu, (who couldn't even kill a blue bottle, but was a very fine diplomat,) was played by Paul Leatherman. Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else, a very haughty and exclusive person of pre-Adamite ancestral descent, was played by William Sweeney. Pish-Tush, (a noble Lord) was played by James Thokey. Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Peep-Bo, three sisters and wards of Ko-Ko, were played by Betty Brandon, Harriette Robertson, and June Hart. Katisha, an elderly lady who was in love with Nanki-Poo, was played by Jane Jellison. A chorus of school girls, Nobles, and Coolies completed the cast. The band and orchestra both entered the state band and orchestra contest last spring. The district contest was held at Knightstown and the winners then went to Frankfort. Several members of the band and orchestra entered solo and ensemble contests in connection with this event. The band and orchestra both entered in class C. In preparation for the contest and to raise funds for transportation and entrance fees, the band and orchestra gave two concerts in February and March. They also sponsored a program of original compositions by Union City composers.i A small but appreciative audience attended the concert and were surprised at the fine quality of the music. 21

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Wildcats Front row, left to right—James Wickersham, Richard Flory, John Jacobs, Paul Leatherman, Emerson Porter. Second row—Bob Chattin, Ralph Buckingham, Bob Ely, Bob Hilderbrand, Harry Porter, Bill Sweeney. Alan Ortlip was absent. The 1935-36 varsity basketball team had a very successful season. Out of one of the most difficult schedules the school had ever faced, it was able to win twelve of the seventeen games played for a percentage of .706. The Morton game which was lost early in the season was forfeited to the Wildcats because of ineligibility of one of the Richmond players. In the country tournament, held at Winchester, Union City defeated Farmland, 38 to 17, in its first tilt, but lost to Winchester, winne of the tournament, 14 to 31. The second team played on even terms last f'v.son by winning eight and losing eight. The squad was made up of thirty-two players. Those on the first team were: James Wickersham, Richard Flory, Alan Ortlip, forwards; Ralph Buckingham, Robert Hilderbrand, centers; Jonn Jacobs, Harry Porter, Paul Leatherman, William Sweeney, guards. The players on the second team were: Emerson Porter, Robert Kaucher, Paul Price, John Minnich, Harold Buckingham, Harvey Weimer, Kenneth Worland, Eugene Bruss, Robert Ely, Robert Chattin, Glen Dillon, John Fisher, Lacy Scott, Robert Brierly, Phil Tibbetts, Paul Wigger, Jim Cotter, Elden Lindley, Glenn Strait, Dick Hilderbrand, Walter Lynch, Paul Shafer, and Dick Whitesel. Those lost by graduation are: John Jacobs, Harry Porter, Richard Flory, Ralph Buckingham, William Sweeney, and Eugene Bruss. The lettermen this year are the following: Harry Porter, John Jacobs, Richard Flory, William Sweeney, and Ralph Buckingham, seniors; Paul Leatherman, Alan Ortlip, and James Wickersham, juniors; Bob Hilderbrand, sophomore. 23