Wheaton Warrenville South High School - Timberline Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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Iahp uf Ipnns Caste of Characters. Claude Mclnotte ........................ Colonel Damas .... L .... . . . Beauseant.... .... Glavis Monseur Deschappelles . .. . . . Landlord . . ., ............ . . . . Gasper ............... . Captain Gervars Captain Dupont .... Major Desmouline .... Private ............. Notary ...... - ...... Servant .... Butler ................ Pauline ................. Madame Deschappelles .... Widow Melnotte ........ . . . . .George Dawson . . . .Albert Schryver . . .Frederick Hanson .........Clare Hunt . . .William Wakelee . Thornton Hogaboom . . . . . .John Newman . . . . . . .Elmer Sorsen . . . . Walter Lovelace .. . . . .John Newman . . . . . . .William Helt . . .. .Arthur Granger . . . .Walter Lovelace . . . . .Roger Grange . . . . Lenore Pelham . . . . . . Harriet Taylor ...Elizabeth Savage . . . .Genevieve Grote . . .Lucille Campbell janet................. Marian.... ,li-T. Court Dancers: Roberta Maxey, Elizabeth Husted, Marion Robinson, Imogene Gilpin, Marion Kellogg, Gertrude Mellor, Geraldine Kennan, Marjorie Blair. Village Dancers: Norma Brown,-Beatrice Brooks, Bernice Brooks, Alice Frazer, Josephine Lambeau, Genevieve Grote, Marcella Black, Marie Stolze. ' Women of Lyons: Frances Hollingworth, Gladys Puckey, Gertrude Yackley. -,.i.1-... . . 1. Now, it came to pass at the end of the first year of the second admin- istration of Woodrow Wilson and in the twelfth month, that the chief scribes of the High School which was of Wheaton, deliberated among themselves concerning a Junior Playg 2. And all were kindly disposed toward Barbara Frietchie and decided thereupon. 3. But the wisemen of the east sought for gain and attached the price of many shekels to the playg . 4. And the junior Class were poor in gold and silver and could not pay the price. . . 6.311 ..T.'?.-i52..a..x..r2Z1.L'..' im.-.4