Winterset High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Winterset, IA)

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nv I S PURPLE TOWERS is GIVEN MARCH if at 8 Forty-Six Crlee Club Members Take Part In Opere-tta , Purple Towers, a two act musical comedy, was presented in the high school auditorium March 7 and 8. There were ton main characters, supported by a mixed chorus of sixteen members and a special chorus of twenty girls. Mar- garet Willi.ams, as the lady of .mystery had the lead, playing lopposite Junior Brock, a young artist. 'John Elderkin, as Snowball, Brook's valet, had an iri- teresting comedy part and played it Well. Bob Hollen and Gene Bass were men of mystery. All the characters were well portrayed. D. V. Clement and Miss Esther Stearns directed the operet- ta. Miss Stearns played the accompani- ments. GLEE CLUBS SING AT MUSIC FESTIVAL Pella., Knoxville, Indianola, Vall- ley Junction and Wbiiterset Take Part The Girls' Glee Club, the Boys' Glee Club, and the Mixed chorus journeyed to Knoxville, April 20 to enter the an- nual Music Festival held there. There were five high schools represented-H Pella, Valley Junction, Indianola, Knox- ville .and Winterset. The Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs from these five high schools sang their individual numbers, and then, under the direction of Profes- sor Ham from Simpson College, the Girls' Glee Clubs sang two songs as an ensemble, as did the Boys' Glee Clubs. A mixed chorus from each school was selected, each chorus having 24 meni- bers. These mixed choruses were coin- bined land they sang two numbers a negro spiritual and the Crusaders Hymn. 5 ' TICKLISH SITUATIONS tr I've .met you be- Eileen Miles- My brother has' an job fore Eileen Miles- I Wouldn't be surprised. I've been around. 'Kate Orr- I had a terrible accident the other dayp I backed my car out of the gargef' Emma M.- Why, what's the matter with that? Kate- Weill, you see, I had backed in Did you hear about Maurice Ryan wearing his old clothes because he was going on a blind date? rf Kathryn Orr-- I lost my temper last night. Dick Paton- I-Iere's hoping you never find it. Lloyd Bond- You can't imagine how nervous I was when I proposed to you. ' Doris Laizure- You can't imagine how nervous I was until you did. Wayne Thrift- VVe certainly had a good time last night for fifteen cents. Josephine Spence- Yes, I wonder how my little brother spent it. with a thousand men undei him Isabelle Smith- What doing? Mowing a cemetery lawn? ' Druggist- Ah, you will feel your pores fairly dance under our wonderful fac- ial creamf' f Mary Bellman- Yes, I wouldn't be sur- prised if they clog. Margaret Vvilliams: CAfter devouring a whole package of peanuts on the way home from Knoxvilleb Miz Johnson, let's stop at Indianola for a coca co1o. Mr. Johnson: No, we're going straight home. Margaret: But, Mr. Johnson, my lips are all withered up. Mr. Johnson: VVell, I can't help it. What do you want me to do about it? Lois Mease-'fEmily Alexander dlidn't speak to me today, but I got even with her. John Jackson- I-Iow'? Mart-- I didn't speak to her yesterday. Mrs. Renard- Donald, did you count ten before you hit the boy. Don- No, mother. The referee counted ten after I hit him. 21 I Y , ,.,, ,WW 9

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MUS C ACTIVITIES GIRLS' GLEE CLUB The Senior Girls' Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Esther Stearns, had a very successful year. The Glee Club sang at several entertainmeiits-for Par- ent-Teachers' Association, at the Meth- odist church during character week, at the Knoxville concert, at the May Music Festival, and also sang Commence- ment. Those in the Senior Girls' Glee Club are as follows: Helen Black, Ilo Comp, Maxine Harrell, Bess Embree, Ann Drennan, Helen Wray, Magdaline Morrissey, Clyde Bird Wiley, Bernice Comp, Evelyn Ward, Doris Estell, Cora Miles, Joy Fairholm, Monica Hays, Mary Lucas, Mary Bellman, Dorothy Sankey. Mildred Powers, Verna Estell, Marguer- ite Agan, Isabel Smith, Lois Eve Mease, Eileen Miles, Margaret Williams, Helen Percy, Katherine Olmsted, Helen Wor- ley, Mary Hollingsworth, Ruth Kuntz, Darlene Chickering, Vivian Gamble, Ger- trude Alexander, Marguerite Elderkin, Marjorie Gaekle, Mary Brownlie, Mary Ann Barrus, Virginia Hylton, Vivian Ey- erly, Helen Bunker, Eleanor Roach, June Simmons, Louise Busch, Della Mae Leinard, Doris Grout, arjor' Mulphy, and Roberta Cooper. The Junior Girls' Glee Club sang at the May Music Festival. Miss Stearns has given these girls some excellent training for future glee club work. The Junior Girls' Glee club is composed of the following girls: Avis Compton, Mary Farlow, Edith Brown, Helen Haines, 'Orpha Hammock, Fern Hoyt, M-axine Hymes, Mary Knight, Geraldine- Herrick, Mary O'Laughlin, Rosemary Schirm, Virginia Peed, Rae Lena Addy, Kather- ine Driscoll, Laura Alexander, Naomi Hammock, Beulah Landers, Henrietta Spurgin. The members of the girls t-rio were Margaret Williams, Roberta Cooper and Mary Ann Barrus. BAND Sz ORCHESTRA The band and orchestra were directed by Mr. Clement. There were sixteen members in the orchestra and twenty members in the band. The band con- sists of: John Elderkin, Ralph Wilkin- son, Carl Hircock, Raymond Cameron, Harold Johnson, Raymond Anderson, George Montross, 'Robert Hollen, Kath- ryn Orr, Rex Powell, Chas. McDonald, Lucille Ogburn, Maxine Ogburn, Roy Busch, Fred Graham, Robert Tollinger, BOYS' GLEE CLUB The Boys' Glee Club under the direc- tion of D. V. Clement, also had a suc- cessful year. They, too, sang for Parent- Teachers' Association, at the Knoxville Concert, at the May Music Festival, and a concert in Earlham, April 10th. Those' in the Boys' Glee Club' are as follows: Robert -Addy, Junior Alexander, Floyd -Craven, Robert Crouse, Thaine McKee, Willard Mease, Dick Paton, Maurice Powers, Arthur Goshorn, Claude Alex- ander, Chas. Beeler, Junior Brock, Eldon Fife, -Willard Finney, Chas. McDonald, George Montrose, Dale Murrell, Gene Bass, Frank Wade, John Grout, Claire Boyd, John Elderkin, Robert Murphy, Kenneth Murphy, Paul Newton, Glen Johnson, Roy Busch, Leo Gillespie, Floyd Addy, Robert I-Iollen, John McLees. Wayne Ridout, Walter Vance, Rex Wade, Harold Eyerly, Jack Vierling and Maui- ice Haines. X The boys' quartette was composed of Junior Brock, Robert Crouse, Robert Hol-len 'and John Elderkin. The boys' quartette and the girls' trio Went to Ames and broadcast over WOI. The mixed chorus consisted of twen- 'ty-four members-twelve girls and twelve boys. They entered the Music Festival at Knoxville and sang Class Day. The mixed double quartette was coin- posed of the boys' quartette, the girls' trio and Marjorie Murphy. The mixed quartette sang at la Music Festival in Peru, for Parent-Teachers' Association, at the Rotary Club and at Commence- ment. Carey- I am -almost tempted to give this class a test. Class- Yield not to temptation. Emily Alexanderz' tWorking on the Boomerang? Now on this page, instead of jokes, We'll put the faculty. Lois lGrifFith, Ruth Alexander, Walter Vance and Leland Cohow. The ,members in the orchestra are as follows: Josephine Neidt, Mary Hollings- worth, Wayne Griffith, Claude Bearnan, Ruth Kuntz, Isabelle Smith, Claire Faust, Arlie Elliott, Elizabeth Corkill, Lucille Ogburn, Raymond Anderson, Rex Powell, Harold Johnson, Fred Graham, Leland Hope and Lois Griffith. 20

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4 THE SENIOR GI T Painted by Edwin Baslifield The main idea of the picture West- ward is a symbolic representation of the pioneers led by the spirits of civili- zation ancl enlightenment to the con- quest by cultivation of the great west. Considerable of the picture shows a prairie schooner drawn by oxen across the prairie. The family ride upon the wagon or walk at its side. Behind them and seen through the growth of stalks -at the right come crowding the other pioneers and later men. In the air and before the wagon are floating four female figuresg one holds the shield with the arms of the state of Iowa upon it: one holds the book symbolizing enlightenment: two others carry -a basket and scatter the seeds which are symbolic of the change from wilderness to plowed fields and gardens that shall come over the prairie. Behind the wagon and also floating in the air, two female figures hold respect- fully a model of a stationary steam en- gine and of an electric dynamo to sug- gest fortunes which come with the later 111611. In the right hand corner of the pic- mellons, pumpkins, etc., among ture which 'stand -a farmer and a girl, sug- gest that here is the fringe of cultivation and the beginning of the prairie. At the left a 'buffalo skull emphasizes this sug- gestion. 'Considered techincallyithe dominant motive of the composition of the picture is the festoon or Roman garland. This is carried out by planes of light color, commencing, at the left with a group of spirits, carried downward by White bo- dice of the girl gathering flowers, on- ward through the mass of light through the center to the White overdress of the girl leading the child and finally toward the right and upward, in the figures of the farm girl and the spirits of steam and electricity. The dark accents in the composition are furnished by the three men grouped together and by the skirt of the flower-gathering girl. The hour chosen for this picture is late afternoon, since VVestward sug- gests going to the setting sun. The scheme of color of the picture is based upon this choice of hour being in the main made up of orange-pink sunset Painted by Guido Reni The original painting in the Rospig- liosi Palace, Rome, is painted on the ceiling of the pavilion. A little girl once said she likes Guido Reni's Aurora, because the people in it seemed to be in such a hurry. So young and old have found one reason or another for liking the picture. Few in all the kingdom of gods are more belov- ed than Aurora. She is the loveliest of all the goddesses, she is the white-robed messenger of light, joy, peace and giver of all good things. The stars, the morn- ing and evening breezes are her child- PGH. In The Aurora, Apollo is driving his sun chariot. Aurora in flowing draper- ies, flies -ahead, scatter-ng he clouds of night and showering roses and dew- drops over the sleeping earth. She looks back toward Apollo, the sun god, to see if he is following her on his journey around the heavens' in his chariot of the sun. The horses are restless and eager and it takes ia steady hand to guide them. ' 1 light and its natural complement. Blu- ish shadows, with a few spots of dark blue and brown are given as aforesaid by the costumes of the men and the skirt of the kneeling girl. For the sake of preserving the unity of the composition certain liberties have been taken with average probation. Thus t-he driver of the 'oxen is upon the side which is not inventorially correct because had he been placed in the cor- rect corner of the canvas he would have thrown the composition out of balance. Advantage was therefore taken of the fact t-hat he might Inomentarially have left his place. Again, a very small child would not very often hurry along keep- ing up with' striding men -and women, but on the other 'hand children did wish and need, for the sake of exercise to run along wild with the procession. From the point of view of composition, a small mass or figures was needed just at the point where the child was introduced: a d-sg would have mae 'a spot of about the right height, but two dogs were ali-early in the picture, and a figure of a smzul child therefore served the purpose. 22