Winterset High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Winterset, IA)

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GIRLS GLEE CLUB The membership- of the Senior Girls' Glee Club was limited to thirty-two members this year. The girls sang at the Teachers' County Institute in September and the C-ctober P. T. A. meeting. They also gave two numbers at the Winterset Night School graduation. Winterset was host to the five schools of the South Central Music Festival on March 1. The schools were Valley Junction, Knoxville, Pella, In- dianola, and Winterset. The glee clubs, girls' and boys', from each town sang two numbers. A boys' en- semble, a mixed chorus, and a girls' ensemble sang under the direction of Mr. Harold Tallman, supervisor of music at East High in Des Moines. The last performance of the year was at the commencement exercises, when many of the girls in the glee club performed for the last time. The girls' trio-Anne Drennan, Rfob- erta Cooper, and Clyde Bird Wiley- sang for a P. T. A. meeting and an assembly program. The male quartette-Joe Alexander, Floyd Craven, John Elderkin, and Robert I-Iollen-sang at an assembly program and for the Masonic Lodge. Isabelle Thornton, a freshman, gave an unusual performance for several programs this year by whistling. ..1..0 -1. 'BAND The band was called together for re- hearsal, under the direction of Mr. Clement, the first week of the school year in preparation for the football season. Music was furnished for the games on the home field and for pep meetings in the auditorium. Nearly all the band members were new and worked hard to perfect new selections for the various occasions for which band music was needed. The band numbered eighteen members. The South Central Association Band Concert was held in Knoxville on April 12. Winterset's band played two selections as group numbers and join- ed with one hundred and twenty-five other band members from the associa- tion in playing five ensemble numbers. ORCHESTRA The orchestra was organized by Miss Stearns soon after the opening of school. Many old members returned, and several new ones tried out, mak- ing a total of twenty-five members. The first public performance was at the junior class play in the fall. One of the first P. T. A. meetings was a musical program, and the orchestra furnished two selections. Several weeks later they played at a meeting of the Masonic Lodge. The orchestra played between acts of the op-eretta, South in Sonora. The Crchestra Festival was held at Pella in April, and each orchestra from the five schools-Knoxville, Valley Junc- tion, Pella, Indianola, and Winterset- gave three numbers. The music at the commencement exercises, the last program of the year, was also furnish- ed by the orchestra. OPER-ETTA The operetta, South in Senora, was held March 14 and 15. Its great suc- cess depended on Miss Stearns and Mr. Clement, who had charge of the music: Mr. Biggs, who arranged the stage settings: and the Misses Shep- erd and Danforth, who had charge of the costumes and dances. Leads were taken by Isabelle Smith, Anne Drennan, Clyde Bird Wiley, Kathryn Driscoll, Monica Hays, Floyd Craven, Arthur Goshorn, Ernest Muel- ler, Dale Fairholm, and John Elderkin. l.,Q., Detour: Roughest distance between two points. School: A place to meet the One and Only. Teachers: Unnecessary pay checks. Books: If they were all piled in the Grand Canyon, it would be a good thing. . Roberta: And you say he doesn't know how to kiss? Monica H.: I said he didn't know how to kiss. ....,..-0 Mr. Clement: A man is no older than he feels. I feel like a tWo-year- old. Mr. Biggs: Horse or egg?

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DEBATE The debaters this year took part in twenty-five debates, including non-de- cision debates with Osceola, Mt. Ayr, Jefferson High of Council Bluffs, Cres- ton, Bloomfield, East High of Des Moines, and Indianola. In the decision debates Winterset de- feated Valley Junction, Decorah, Boone, North High of Des Moines, and Jefferson High of Council Bluffs. De- feats were received from Roosevelt High of Des Moines, Lincoln High of Council Bluffs, Boone, Perry, North High of Des Moines, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Early in the season a debate clinic was held here with six schools attend- ing. Non-decision debates were held. and an open discussion was conducted by Mr. C. C. Carrothers, debate coach for Drake University and Roosevelt High of Des Moines. A similar series of debates at Os- ceola was attended by the local debat- ers. The feature of this tournament was a debate between an affirmative team composed of a speaker from Mt. Ayr and George Montross of Winter- set against a negative team of speak- ers from Indianola and Lamoni. In the preliminary debates of the state series, the affirmative team, Elizabeth Corkill and George Montross, qualified to compete in the next con- test. The negative, Charles Melroy and Robert O'Liaughli1i, Won one de- bate and lost one, but were eli- minated by the system of ranking speakers. Robert O'Laughlin and George Montross, the affirmative team, entered in the next contest, lost two debates and won two, but were elimi- nated by the speakers' ranking system. In the Drake debates Winterset was put out in the first series, winning one debate and losing two. Those tak- ing' part in this contest were: affirm- ative, Elizabeth Corkillg negative, Rob- ert O'Laughling and alternate, George Montross. Others who debated this season were Phillip Grout, Katherine Olmstead, and Robert Graves. Mr. Crawley was coach. 'DECLAMATION Many pupils entered declamation this year. Those who qualified to en- ter the home contest and their selec- tic-ns were as follows: Oratorical The Unpardonable Crime .......................Phillip Grout In Memory of Our Heroic Deadi' ....................George Montross f'iCalvin Coolidge ..... Eileen Stevens The Economy Bill . .Thelma Umphrey Dramatic f How the La Rue Stakes Were Wont' ......................Agatha Adams Camille ................ Monica Hays The Blessed Damosel' .....................Josephine Neidt Flaming Rampartsi' ................Katherine Olmstead in Humorous T The Leading Lady ................Ruth AnnAlexander Football Romance ........ Mae Breen xc Bottle Sunshine .......... Dan Roach Laugh Clown Laugh .,.Glenn Stover 'Eileen Stevens and Agatha Adams were not able to compete because of illness. The Winners were Gieorge Montross in oratory. Monica Hays in dramatic, and Mae Breen in humorous. Thelma Urnphrey in oratory, Kath- erine Olmstead in dramatic, and Dan Roach in humorous, winners of second 1:-lace in the home contest, entered the county contest at Elt. Charles, Where Katherine Olmstead and Thelma Uni- phrey won first place in their divisions. Mae Breen and Monica Hays entered the state preliminary contest at St. -Charles, but were eliminated. Since the southwest district contest was held here this year, Winterset was entitled to one entrant in any one division Without participation in the prelimin- ary contests. George Montross took 1:-art in this contest. . --0lL Maurice Hassel: I-Iey! What do they mend shoes with? Paul Bruns: I-Iidef' Maurice: What? Paul: Hide, hide,-the coW's out- side. Maurice: Aw, who's afraid of a cow?

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'llll flD6l110l'iLlm The friends and fellow students of Sharlene Travis, who would have been a senior this year, were deeply grieved by her death last fall. To know Sharlene was to admire and love her brave and cheerful manner. In memory of Sharlene Travis, the classmate whom we all loved, we dedicate Longfellow's beautiful The Reaper and the Flowers. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. I Shall I have naught that is fair? saith he: Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again. He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves: It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. My Lord has need of these flowerets gay, The Reaper said, and smiled: Dear tokens of the earth are they, Here He was once a child. They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear. And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did loveg She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that dayg 'Twas an angel visited the .green earth, And took the flowers away. .T..i.0,-li Before we had an opportunity to become fully acquainted with the beginning students in Winterset High School this year we were saddened by the loss of one of our freshman girls-Neva Cummins. Although we regret that she cannot ex- perience with us the happiness of our high school days, we may find comfort in the thought that Neva -Cummins has found a greater serenity and happiness in God's heavenly Training School. To her sister, Doris, and other members of her family we extend our deepest sympathy. 18