Waukee High School - Warrior Yearbook (Waukee, IA)

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CHILDREN OF GRADUATES BACK ROW: Durwin McKinney (Erma Hinkson, 1928); Dale Leonard (Harold Leonard, 1922); Bill Fox (John Fox. 1922); Bob Aldrich (Marion Aldrich. 1926); Russell Hunter (Helen Stump, 1927). FRONT ROW: Darlene Merical (Velma Smith, 1925); Catherine Hanlon (John Hanlon, 1924); Catherine Jones (Vera Nash, 1911, and George Jones. 1902); Carolyn Hunter (Helen Stump, 1927); Martha Hanlon, (John Hanlon, 1924); Jo Ann David (Marie Dallam, 1925); Joyce Dougherty (Gladys Jones, 1919, and Lowell Dougherty, 1915); Ellen Aldrich (Floyd Aldrich, 1913) NOT SHOWN: Guido Croci (Katheryn Ceretti, 1930, and Phil Croci, 1929); Joe Mooney (Thomag Mooney, 1930). ★ ★ ★ BOARD OF EDUCATION BACK ROW: Henry Leonard, John Fox, Otis Fritz, Harold Leonard. FRONT ROW: John Carter, Floyd Aldrich, Evelyn Fox. —6—

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CLASS HISTORY This spring will end the successful, twelve-season run of the notorious play, The Waukee Class of 1949. Characters have come and gone, as have directors, but the theater still stands (through no fault of the actors). That first season was one to remember! Although the cast was an unruly one, and a trifle ignorant, they had an excellent director, Agnes Charvat, who managed to pull them through. The original cast was Mary Ann Grove, Ann York, Joyce Dougherty, Martha Hanlon, Joann Fritz, Bob Aldrich, Bill Fox, and Dale Leonard. The second season arrived and with it two promising young actresses, Pauline Bain, and Carolyn Hunter. Our director was Mrs. Helen Haughtelin. Before we pass on, some critics have insisted that the tale he told about one young ham actress who got so swayed by her profession that she imagined she was playing the part of an elephant and stuck pencils up her nose. (There, I've said it, and I'm glad!) During the third season the stock company at the Shuler Mine collaborated with the Waukee players and, as a result, the play gained three new actors, Alfred Ori, Gene Dluhos, and Frank Andreini. There were also two new actresses that year—Doris Ann Lux, and Dolores Meusburger. The director was Gladys Hood. The next fall was a triumphant one—the cast was promoted to the Big Building. During the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons, bit players came and went but the regular cast remained intact. The directors for those years were Edna Hertz, Bernadette Carroll, and Thelma Barger Jochens. In the seventh season, the cast was enlarged by the addition of four new stars, Jane Corbett, Roberta Clayton, Shirley Delay, and Donald Craig. During this and the following season, the group was directed by Mary Cline. Bill Cramer, Joan Creger, Marian Creger, Bob Cadwell, Bill Day, Gene Huston, and Dolores Paullin, members of various country theaters, were the last goup to join the Waukee cast. This was the ninth season—the season which was to start the most exciting era of the play. Now the cast will soon disband. The last performance of the group as a whole will be the eighteenth of May, but that will not be the end of the career of each actor. For each will be the star of his own individual play, and whether they be comedies or dramas, let's hope they will end happily ever after.