West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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1101 a Dramatics A well-rounded dramatic season included three plays and a pageant. Ellen Flelschmann, presi- dent; Ariel Wood, vice- president; Margery Hem- meter, secretary; and Frank Muehlenbeck, treasurer; manned the Arts-Dramatics Club this trip. The presentation of the three-act play Little Wo- men set a new precedent with the group. In the cast, standing, are Frank Putnam, Catherine Gaus, Robert Sauve, Frank Mueh- lenbeck, Maurice Lock- wood, and Ariel Wood; seated, Reva Hoag, Ellen Fleischmann, Emma Neu- wirth. and Eleanor Mc- Wethy. Eleven juniors staged Lewis Beach ' s The Goose Hangs High. Players in- clude, standing, Barbara Tillson, Frank Putnam, Har- old McCray, Florence Car- mell, Marvin Cooper, Em- ma Neuwirth, Robert Sauve, Arlene Nikolai, Claude Pound, and Edwin Hender- son; seated, Mary Louise Smith and Jane Louise Brown. The cast for the senior play, Mr. Pirn Passes By, included Betty Cobb, Je- rome Brenner, Ariel Wood, Frank Muehlenbeck, Wal- lace Plonta, Ellen Fleisch- mann, and Reva Hoag. The finale of the Christ- mas pageant, Why the Chimes Rang, which was given at the Temple The- atre during the Christmas season. 60 193 8

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English Passengers are encouraged to use better grammar, to study literature, and to enjoy outside reading on the English deck. It offers such studies as poetry, plays, novels, and short stories, not merely as a list of enumerated facts to be absorbed by the passen- gers during the voyage but as their potential interests after crossing for the last time. Tracy Ellis and Donna Jean Francis survived thirty-nine debates to become school champions. The Parent-Teachers Association wit- nessed the semi-finals, and the finals were held at the Lions ' Club. Clarence Block, senior passen- ger, interviews Miss Crump con- cerning the subject of an English 8 theme. Miss Stockdale gives aid to struggling intellectuals. Charles Hlad demonstrates the effectiveness of his miniature guil- lotine constructed to illustrate A Tale of Two Cities. Students employed in library research find the library shelves a fruitful hunting ground. Donna Jean Francis ' ingenious sugar castle illustrates her concep- tion of Arthurian castles in Idylls of the King. Norma Heasley and Don Rae take their turn at the mike to entertain a speech class and try their voices and materials on an audience. Dick Redfern and Evelyn Rabi- deaux contribute to the literary supplement of the Arthur Hill NEWS. Leaenda 59

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1937 Commencement Over 350 passengers disembarked last June never to sail again on the good ship Arthur Hill. After the boat docked at the City Audi- torium, the younger passengers on the drama and English 6 decks portrayed the making of the United States Constitution. Landlubbers, passengers, and sailors witnessed eight scenes. Introduction, left to right: Vernell Bartlett, Bert Schleicher, Jack Cappell, Warren Farm- er, Jerry Brenner, Delmar Ruthig, Julius Las- singal, Jack Fleischmann, Kenneth Hemmeter. Columbia, Marjorie Aldrich. Spirit of 76, Robert Stark, Walter Seibel, William Sheldon, LaVerne Spyker. Constitutional Convention, Kerrmore Case, William O ' Brien, Elmer E. Simon, William Stone, Maurice Lockwood, Frank Muehlen- beck, Jack Ault, Jack Dersch, Russell Johnson, Peter Koinis, Ray Ellsworth. John Marshall, Virginia Andre, Ariel Wood, Dorothy Sharpe, Margaret Neumeyer, Ann Doerfner, Edwina McMann, Robert Sauve, Eleanor McWethy, Beverly Seaman, Marion DeLong, Helena Hanson, Margery Hemmeter, Catherine Gaus. Abraham Lincoln, George Curbey, Ralph Newton, Nelson Curbey, James Woolever, Harold McCray. Woman Suffrage, Jean Lutzke, Catherine Gaus, Marjorie Aldrich, Jean Ellen McDonald, Mary Lou McAvoy. Grand Finale, Virginia Andre, Ariel Wood, Dorothy Sharpe, Ann D oerfner, Margaret Neumeyer, Emma Neuwirth, Ellen Fleischmann, Dorothy Puffpaff, Lucille Suhan, Dorothy Bricker, Edwina McMann, Marjorie Aldrich, Eleanor McWethy, Helene Nagel, Virginia Solms, Beverly Seaman, Marion DeLong, He- lena Hanson, Margery Hemmeter, Catherine Gaus, Betty-Jo Achard, Reva Hoag. Legenda 61