Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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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”

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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 i i i i i i i j i i I I I I i i I i Top row, left to right—Junior Musser, Roland Morris, Maurice Thrush, John Wisener, La Rue Metzger, John Louis Smallwood. Second Row—Leonard Line, Robert Ewing, Margaret Bush, Ruth Hermann, Ruth Koch, Mary Neidemire, Richard Wisener, Junior Taylor. Third Row—Billy Martin, John Diegel. Mark Bowsher, Lee Haman, Jacob Boesel, Bus Clark, Henry Distelrath. The band is probably the outstanding music organization in a school. It would be almost impossible to think of Blume Hi without its triumphant band. Mr. Steiner has organized and led the band throughout this year. The band has played at most of the home football and basketball games, at musical festivals held in the Blume Hi auditorium, at the county fair, at the annual Hallowe’en Masquerade held in Wapakoneta, and many other times throughout the year when it was asked to play by the school or community. It has always responded willingly whenever it was asked to help. Every student is proud of this organization because of the excellent spirit it showed. It seemed to put pep into our football and basketball games. As the arrayed band would come marching down the football field in perfect rhythm, the air seemed to fill with a deafening roar of applause from the onlookers. Lee Haman is our tall and gallant drum major. We can’t tell whether he practices much or not, but we can see that he “knows his stuff.” ••• ♦ ••• ♦ ••• •