Westport Junior High School - Iris Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Thanksgiving Pageant PERSONNEL OF THE PAGEANT Edward Zanimur-First prologue and Indian dancer. Genelle Roland--Second prologue and Mrs. Brewster. Geneva Jones-Columbia. Paul Sturm-Iagoo. Norman Lockhart-Indian runner. William Coerver-Indian youth. Henry Fisher-Elder Brewster. Richard Shaw--Miles Standish. Edwin Johnson-Governor Carver. Norman Imes-Winslow. Claron Bartholomew-Massasoit. Ivor Bowen-Interpreter. Indian Men-William Frank, Nat Jones, William Manion, Darwin Bowen, Louis Nelson, Bernard Jester, Ralph Oelfke, Merrill Bradley, and Russell Swanson. Indian Dancers-Ellis Wormington, chief, Everett Fee, John Ward, Edwin Bunce, Warren Simpson, Bernard Carl- son, Ben Bell, Lester Israel, Thurmund Drane, Curtis Keller, Walter Lyman, Kenneth Hohlren, Edward Zammar, Wil- liam Stevens, George Cartlich. Indian Women-Irene Billings, Nadine Dorton, Dorothy Douglass, Frances Fair, Virginia Hall, Lavon Oden, Lillian Man- love. Beatrice Waller, Mary Lou Jackson, Marinita Trevis, Dorothy Shelton. Indian Children-Arline Ekstrovn, Jes- sie Pickell, Hazel Cooney, Retha Ehlerd- ing. Betty Cooper, Homer Collins, Edwin Doss, Ben Givens, Russell Martin, Ber- nard Jester. Indian Youth-William Coerver. Puritan Men-Robert Baldwin, Clar- ence Barrows, Ralph Barta, Rudolph Greenbaum, Lloyd Hueton, Gordon Ru- bottom, William Fulkerson, Herbert Hy- mer, Robert Werbe, Richard Koenigsdorf, Robert Phoenix, George Rosenberg-er, Charles Crane, Arthur Myers, Vincent Johnson. Puritan Women-Sara Lee Levine, Lu- cerne Toler, Laurel Charlene Allen, Max- ine Stanley, Bernice Hohn, Virginia Flora, Marguerite Turner, Margaret Hindson, Frances West, Evelyn Crews. Puritan Children-John Allen, Donald Jackson, Beverly Hockaday, Mary Louise Booth, Doris Rader, Helen Lightner. States-Marjorie Allen, Anna Martha Cox, Annabelle Dorman, Roberta Wad- dell. Leah Wood, Inez McClaren, Eliga- beth Faust, Marvel Brotherton, Marie Doney, Marcella Keys, Frances James, Betty Smith, Helen Rowlette, Frances Richards, Lucille De Laney, Lorene Crad- dock, Martha Chapman, Mary Louise Deacy, Hazel Overstreet, Mary Louise Coleman, Juanita Miller, Betty Bondeson, Ethelyn Morris, .Ieweleve Hornbeck, An- netta Mae Shields, Maxine Hadaway, Alma Lee Sissom, Margaret Dyer, Ade- lyne Terwilliger, Mary Scyster, Esther- mae Reppert, Maxine Willard, Mary Ewing. Loreane Leonard, Alice Eleanor Crag, Emma Jane Turner, Elsa Carlson, Madiline Brown, Emanell Beasley, Eliza- beth Osborn, Helen Peters, Dorothy Pen- nock, Marian Karner, Mary Scanlon, Ruth Esther Brigzham, Martha Hensley, Miriam Naster, Mary Lee Bell, Imogene Anderson. Flrrx-sus:

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Patriotic Cantata i Tl-IE STORY OF THE CANTATA The cantnta, Our First Flag, bi Hosmer, was presented by the boys' and girls' glee clubs on February twenty-six. T e story, told entirely in song, centers about the making of the first American flag by Betsy Ross. General Washington, accompanied by George Ross and Robert Morris, comes to Betsy Ross, a seamstress, and asks her to make a flag according to his designs. She agrees to do so but suggests that they use a five-pointed star instead of a six-pointed one. Introductory remarks concerning the cantata were made by Ben Swofford. He announced the names of the soloists with the exception of the name of the one singing the part of Betsy Ross, whom he introduced as one of the leading stars of the Metro- politan Opera Company of New York City. As the final curtain was being drawn, Betsy removed her wig and proved to be Westport Junior's boy soprano, Darwin Bowen. Other principal solo parts were taken by Kenneth Holdren as George Wash- ington, Clark Kidd as Robert Morris, Lester Harding as George Ross. Descriptive so os were sung by Sam Chaney and Jack Korg. The accompanists were Nadine Hancher and Alma Berta Hatten. .. , Ak- az: '. Fl Pri'-I: imlr

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