West Lafayette High School - Welahi Yearbook (West Lafayette, OH)

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Slnmlinpz. la-l't lu right Mrs. flt'lll'Ql', dira-clrvssg l-fslln-1' lligglv, 1ll'l.lL't' Hinds, llv1'lwl't xvllllll, Robert Nh-l.lux'o-, .luck Slmw. .ll-an Slmw. Se-ntwl, lm-I't in right 'I-Irma xx,l'ill21ll'lh, FITIIIL'-S McAllisl4-V, fl0llSf:lllK'1' Mcilrm-gov, GXYl'll0Vt'l'0 Hnser, Mu Lloyd licmla-r and xvlllllil Lyons. ruling, I4-I't lo right Mrs, G1-nrgv. mlirz-ctw-ss: Wayne 'l'nyInx', Ninn l'0l'll'lIS. lilvzmm' llullglu-rty xlilllll1'XY Pnrll-us, .lnhn Nluvkr-y, Sum .le-un l'lu-lps, Xvllllzl llurr, lla-lpllin Hz-mlm-rsml, Me-rlv Bak:-1' lmnnis llanll. Sf-utwl. 1:-I't tn right' Doris .Xrunlmlt and lie-ity Smith. CLASS PLAYS The Senior Class prcscntml 'lllotty anal Duffy, zx f:n'cc in three acts, in the High Sulmnl ,-Xnflitnrinnm, lfrialuy evening, May 1, 1930. The junior Class presented For l'1-tc! Fake lfrimlny ox'cning, Nnvcnmlwcr 22, 1935. Ruth plays were u success, dur- to the nntiring uilnrts ul' Mrs. llcnrgn-, tln- mlirectress, unml all others who ussistml in the produc- Liun ul tlnl plzlyx 'flu-y wurc clljwyccl lay all who Llttelnled. I30l

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if t i . -M .QV OPERETTA ASK THE PROFESSOR! The operetta, Ask the Professor! was presented in the High School Auditorium .lfebruary 26 and 27 with a large crowd attending. THE STORY The story takes place on the campus of a fashionable girls' school on commencement day. The usual crowd of relatives and friends is present to witness the crowning of the queen and to join in the festivities that follow, john Ainsworthy, who comes to see his sister June graduate, meets Maryida, the sis- ter of his roommate at college, and is much attracted to both her and her friend Emily Lee, who is a student and an assistant teacher in the school. Because lXlaryida's mother does laundry work for the girls in the school to help Red, her son, through college and to keep Maryida in night school, she does not want it known that Red belongs to Maryida and her, fearing it will hurt Red's standing in college. Red, who is helping all he can, thinks she is foolish and rebels, but to no purpose. john has a discussion on heredity with Professor Breakeasy of the Girls' School, and to prove that heredity is all bunk as he has always believed, decides to send Maryida to the Girls' School and give her the same chance that girls from wealthier families enjoy. Klaryida promises her brother Red that she will not accept the offer of charity from john. However, when she learns that Iohnis old aunt is the one who makes the offer and that the professor thinks she is an ignoramus, in a lit of pique she forgets her promise to her brother and gracefully accepts John's offer before the whole school, Act two takes place on the same campus on commencement day one year later. Maryida surprises everyone with her splendid work during the year. She has been crowned queen and everybody is waiting for the linishing event of the day, the com- mencement ball, when it is learned that john's aunt is not coming, and, according to an old rule of the school, Klaryida cannot attend the ball as she has no chaperon. The events follow one another rapidly. Maryida learns that instead of an aunt, June and john have paid her Way through school. Miss Stone. the president, angered by their subterfuge will not allow June to chaperon Maryida, and recalls john's and ,lune's invi- tation to the ball. Naryida indignantly leaves for home. ln the meantime Red and his mother arrive. Th-ey were summoned by Tommy, the comedian of the play. Tommy is sent post-haste alter lllaryida on his motorcycle and she is brought back. The professor is quite overcome by the beauty and poise of lXlaryida's mother and de- clares that the source of lXlarvida's eoorl breedinef and Iinf- mind is at last made plain, in spite of johns seeming proof to the contrary, he still believes in heredity. Red. who has found a fine job and won a wonderful prize for an invention. pays llaryida's debts in full. The president forgives john and june and so the wash lady's son and daughter make good and all ends happily. Emily Lee, friend of Maryida who is working her way through school .... ....... Maryida 0'Neal, the laundress' daughter attending night school ....... 1 Professor NVill Breaks-asy, English instructor ..........,........... .. John Ainsworthy, wealthy young college senior ............ .. .. June Ainsworthy, his sister attending the Girls' School ........... Polly, also -attending the Girls' School, likes the Seniors ............. Red O'Neal, Maryida's brother, and roommate of John at college .... . . .1 .... NVilma Lyons ... . . ,Dorthesr Tedlie .. .George Nicholson . . . . . . . . .N'Villium Young . . . .Constance McGregor Tommy Freslnnan, an irrepressible collegemate of John and Red ............. lst, 2nd, 3rd Girls, pupils of Girls' School who speak for themselvesn.. .... . ........................................... Irene Sprague, Kathryn R isale. Mrs. 0'N4-al, mother ot' Red and Maryida ....................................... ....Marjorie Porteus ... . . . . . . .Jean Shaw . ..... James Berlean Elizabeth Van VVinkle . .Helen Scarborough lf'29 fl

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DOTTY, AND LDAPFY., SYNOPSIS vj , What is the duty of a pair of pretty daughters to a beautiful mother when the family funds are low?-Q Obviously to help their mother to catch a rich husband. At leasttnat is what Dotty and Daily Travers decide their duty to be. So, when their mother returns from Florida with a supposedly wealthy widower in tow, they gladly consent to disguise themselves as little girls, so the would-be husband will think their mother younger than she is. The Frances of Dotty and Daffy, Freddie and Jimmie, however, are angered to see that their uncle, who is also a suitor to mamma Phyllis, is being jilted. They dressias twin boys and present themselves as sons'of Phyllis. The boys anger the suitor of,,Phyl- lis so much that he breaks the engagement. The undaunted Phillis, however, presents the girls as her younger sisters, Dorothy and Daphne, but the boys wreck this plan falso. Finally the jilted uncle comes and straightens out.the whole mess. A Q, CAST ' Hilda Johnson, the Swedish maid ............ . ....... Grace-' Hinds Alfred Hopkins, the English butler ......... . ........................................ Jean Shaw Molly O'Mulligan,fthe lrish cook .............. i ............................. Esther Riggle Dorothy Travers, Phyllis' older daughter, Dotty .... Constance McGregor Daphne Travers, Phyllis' younger daughter, Daily ........ Gwenevere Buser Jimmie Rand, a collegian in love with Dotty ................ Francis McAllister Freddie Rand, his younger brother, in love with Daffy ........ Lloyd Bender Mrs. Phyllis Travers, an impetuous widow ............,,. , ............ Wilma Lyons Paxton Belmont, a rich widower ........................... Q ................ Robert McClure Aunt Hester Harley, who hates men ................ ......... E rma Weingarth Hugh Rand, uncle of Jimmie and Freddie ,....... ......... , Herbert Waud Jack Belmont, the rich widower's son ......i...... ............... J ack Shaw FOR PETES SAKE SYNOPSIS Peter Pepperdine has all the qualifications to tit him for a magnilicent liar. NVhen his exasperated aunt, in an eitort to discipline him starts on a summer tour of Palestine without him, he rents her mansion against her expressed desire, to her dearest enemy, the mother of his ladylove. He masquerades as her butler, disguising his pal Bill as her gardener, and Muggsy, the despised college grind, who is supposed to tutor him all sum- mer, as her house maid. All this madcap scheming is planned not only to provide Peter and Bill with ready cash, but to enable them to discover whether their respective lady- loves are flirting with older and wealthier suitors. The boys soon put a crimp in the suitors' wooings, especially after turning Muggsy loose on them to vamp them in his housemaid's disguise. Aunt Sarah spoils everything by suddenly cancelling her trip and returning home. Once again, Peter, while teetering on the brink of comic catastrophe, manages to save himself and Bill by quick thinking and masterly lying, invoking the aid of a spook and some fictitious robbers to cover up his tracks. Of course, all is well that ends well. CAST Miss Sarah Pepperdine, Peter's Aunt .....,....,......... jasmine Jackson, Aunt Sarah's darkycook ............. ,.....Doris Aronhalt .........lfVilma Carr Cicero Murglethorpe, Dean of Elwood College .................... VVayne Taylor Peter Pepperdine, always in hot water ..........,............................. Uonnis Hall Bill Bradshaw, Peter's pal .................................................. Thorndyke Murglethorpe, a college grind ..,..,.... ..... Delphin Henderson .............Merle Baker Mrs. Georgiana Clarkston, a social climber .............................. Betty Smith Nadine Clarkston, Peter's sweetheart ....,. .......... . ........ E leanor Daugherty Peggy Clarkston, Bill's sweetheart ..........i...... ................ S arah Phelps Malvina Potts, Muggsyis goddess ................. .. john Bolivar, a wealthy banker ...........,................. ..... Dupont Darby, the poet of Elwood College ..... .. .. ...........Nina Porteus ....Matthew Porteus ............J0hn Mackey II311