Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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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.” ••• ♦ ••• ♦ ••• •

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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 Top row, left to right Junior Musser, John Wisener, Leonard Line, John Louis Smallwood, Billy Wenning, Robert Ewing, La Rue Metzger. Second Row- Ruby Miller, Mary Ruth Smith, Edith Smith, Herbert Fessler, Margaret Bush, Mona Linder, Mary Neidemire, Richard Wisener. Third Row'—Clarice Underwood, Ruth Hermann, Ruth Koch, Lee Haman, Jacob Boesel, Bus Clark, William Martin. The Orchestra The first orchestra was organized at Blume Hi in 1903. Since then it has been a part of the extra-curricular activities of the school. This year, although some of the veteran members were lost in the class of ’31, many new members were added and the orchestra is fairly large. The orchestra offers a splendid opportunity for those writh talent who wish to join. This organization meets regularly once a week for practice in the music hall at the eighth period. It has helped put on the musical programs given during the year. Mr. Steiner is the leader of the orchestra this year. Through his able guidance the orchestra has assumed its present proportion.