Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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THE RETROSPECT “The Nut Farm” Top row, left to right—Don Davis, James Telljohn, Paul Jacobs, Bruce Miller, Ned Dingier. Second Row—Emily Swink, Donna Metzger, Miss Ziegler, Ruth Clapp, Mary Ann Shaw. Member of cast not pictured—Gertrude Lyman. The situation of the play all revolves around the purchase of a nut farm in order to get away from California. Willie Barton, James Telljohn, hears that his sister, Helen Bent, Donna Metzger, has been influenced by a scenario writer, Clarice Bidde ford, played by Mary Ann Shaw and Hamilton T. Holland, Ned Dingier, to try and persuade Bob Bent, Paul Jacobs, to let her make a moving picture with Bob’s money. He tells his mother, Mrs. Barton, Ruth Clapp, about it and they both are quite excited when Bob consents to make the picture which they know is a fraud. All the while Hilda, the maid, Gertrude Lyman, plays her part unconcerned with what is happening. Willie, after Holland said that he could direct the picture, at first refused and then accepted in an effort to make Bob withdraw his money. Some of the parts get turned around until the “play” is not a tragedy when Van Horton, Bruce Miller, who is the hero of the movie, kills Helen, of course only in the play part. Everything goes wrong and Bob loses his money: so it seems. After the picture was made, Bob and Mrs. Barton are quite upset—Willie has gone and finally Ezra Sliscombe, Don Davis, the yanky farmer, announces that his daughter, Agatha, Emily Swink, is gone and that Willie must be responsible, for he has fallen in love with her. They decide to go back to Newark because of the lack of money when Miss Biddeford comes to Bob, offers him $5,000 for his share of the picture. This astonishes Bob very much and he is about to sign the contract when Holland rushes in to offer Bob $i0,000 for his share. It all leads up to a climax when Willie steps in and makes his announcements. He had turned the movie into a comedy, bought Holland’s rights, had a check for eighty thousand dollars for Bob, had a contract for himself with Mack Sennet, and had married Agatha. So the Bents bought the nut farm after all! !

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THE RETROSPECT m ' ■ :it, ., m ,:w,. r Top row, left to right Dorothy Goetz, Mary Ruth Smith, Kathryn Wentz, Emily Swink, Donna Metzger, Miss Postle, Betty Sheets, Mary Anne Schragle, Annabel Bowsher. Second Row—Kathaleen Wolfe, Mary Ellen Maxwell, Eleanor Jane Abe, Lula Mae Terwilliger, Mildred Rinehart, Ruth Clapp, Ruth Koch, Louise Tumbleson. Third Row—Jane Seitz, Dolores Case, Fern Brookhart, Pauline Metzger, Wilma Jane Shaw, Florence Liokumovitz, Rose Buffenbarger, Ruby Miller, Ruth Stinebaugh. Fourth Row—Mary Ann Shaw, Louise Disney, Frances Brodbeck, Lena Ruth Vossler, Carolyn Weimert, Mary Jane Youngs, Carmen Shaw, Florence Kentner, Gertrude Lyman. Fifth Row—Laura Alice Youngs, Marcelle Bimstein, Margaret Bush, Mona Lin der, Shirley Kolter, Elizabeth Cartmell, Margaret Seitz, Norma Stinebaugh, Marie Naylor, Virginia McCormick. Girl’s Reserves Club The Girl Reserves Friendship Club is the Junior Y. W. C. A. and an international organization. Definite work with younger girls in the Y. W. C. A. began as early as 1881 when Oakland, California had as an auxiliary a “Girls’ Christian Association.” So rapidly did activities for girls grow and so varied were they in their scope and variety that in 1918 unity was brought about by the use of the name “Girl Reserves.” This organization was started in Blume High School in the spring of 1924. The purpose of this club is “to find and give the best” which means to promote a spirit of good fellowship among all the girls of our school; to stimulate a sympath etic interest in the people and the problems of the world; to inspire clean, healthful living; and to foster a religion that expresses itself in straight forward conduct and in helpful relationships with other people. The triangle and circle is the symbol of the Girl Reserves Club. The three sides of the triangle represent body, mind, and spirit. This organization has as its slogan “Face life squarely.” All upper classmen, who are willing to fulfill the pledge are eligible to member ship. The officers of this club for this year are as follows: president, Ruth Koch: vice president, Elizabeth Cartmell; secretary, Mary Ellen Maxwell; and treasurer, Ruth Clapp. The Girl Reserves movement is not a plan; it is an idea. It is not a set of ways of doing things, neither is it a tool: it is an understanding. This understanding has grown out of the experience of younger girls who have responded to encouragement to initiate and create, in other words to think for themselves and to make for themselves.

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THE RETROSPECT Top row, left to right—Wright Shaeffer, Lee Hainan, Fenton Hamilton. Second Row—Don Davis, Ruth Clapp, Mary Ruth Smith, Donna Metzger, Eleanor Jane Abe, Cornelius Loew. Third Row—Emily Swink, Miss Ziegler, Edward Stroebel. “Captain Applejack,” an outstanding success in all phases, was given as the under-class play this year. It is the story of Ambrose Applejohn, acted very well by Edward Stroebel, who suddenly, one wintry evening, tells his ward, Poppy Faire, portrayed by Emily Swink, and his aristocratic Aunt Agatha, Ruth Clapp, that he is tired of his old life and has offered the ancestral home of the Applejohn’s for sale! Of course Aunt Agatha and Poppy are quite astonished and go to bed greatly disturbed. In the course of the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Pengard, acted by Eleanor Abe and Don Davis, enter, pretending to buy the house but really having quite a different purpose. Shortly after they go, a lady who calls herself Anna Valeska, Donna Metzger, comes, claiming to have been followed by the Russian spy, Borolsky. Suddenly a loud knock is heard on the door. Anna hides and Ivan Borolsky, Lee Haman, enters in search of her. However, he finally goes away outwitted by Ambrose but determined to return and find her. Anna is then sent to bed and Poppy comes down to Ambrose. In the course of their talk they see a burglar’s tool left by Mr. Pengard beside an old secret hiding place in the wall. They search this place then and find an old parchment that says that a great treasure is hidden in the room and that Ambrose’s direct ancestor was Applejack, the pirate. The second act takes place in a dream that Ambrose has about the pirate ship. Tn this, Anna Valeska is a Portugese captain, and Pengard is a mate aboard ship. Borolsky heads a mutiny and finally by the decision of the cards, Applejack wins and Borolsky dies. The next act takes place when Ambrose awakens and realizes that he has to face a grave situation. His ancestra! pirate traits are carried over and he is quite a changed man. There is a meeting of the Pengards. Anna Valeska. Borolsky, and Bill. Wright Shaeffer, who pretends he is an officer. They are all thieves and plan to get the treasure. However, Ambrose and Johnny Jason, Fenton Hamilton, outwit them after finding a treasure of priceless pearls. The alarm clock goes off and pretending that it is the telephone over which he can phone the police, Ambrose wards them off. The plav is closed with the same ending as in act two—“Aces, All Aces”— Ambrose discovers that all romance is not outside the home—he has discovered Poppy! Applejack”