Wyandotte High School - Quiverian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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F uurteen are Martha Alice Horner, Maxine Atchison, Vern Watson, Owen Barnes and Ross Roach, seniors, and Peggy Rider, junior. The club is distinctly an extracurricular activity. No previous experience in drama is necessary for membership. It is open to any junior or senior in Wyandotte. To beconte a member, a student must prepare a reading tryaout of approximately ten lines to give the committee of judges an idea of the interest taken in the club and the person's ability. The lines may bc taken from any selection desired, but must be memorized. The committee listens to the pupils' trylouts and votes accordingly. Seventyftwo members were chosen, 41 seniors and 31 juniors. Nearly 200 students tried out for the club. Those on the waiting list will replace members who are dropped for absence from meetings or for not paying dues, which is 'Trl cents a year. Any member not attending the first regular meeting without a good excuse was dropped perf manently. Officers are Ross Roach, senior, presidentg Doris Rad' ford, senior. vice president: Martha Alice Horner, senior, secretaryg Maxine Richards, junior, treasurer, and Vern Watson, senior, sergeant'at'arms. The club meets twice a month after school. Standing committees for the year were announced by Ross Roach, president. Members of the playreading com' mittee, who select the play to be given by the club, are Bette Soward, chairman: Dorothy Walinow, james Bingham, and Charles Clary. The costuming committee consists of Lorna Rae Groomer, Mary McCroskcy, Bonnie .lean Pettit, Monte Gillespie, and Betty Good, Maxine Atchison is chairman of the casting committee, Other members are Bob Lucas, Harold Lind, Eva Stillwell, and David Evans. The program committee consists of Patricia Gordon, chair' man, Mary McMahon, Roy Edwards, and Tommy Batty. Members of the publicity committee are Marjorie Moss' man, chairman: Flavia Ann Tharp, Dorothy Marsh, Fred Cooper, Betty Baker, and Lee Surber. The membership committee, which determines the elif gibihty of applicants, consists of Bruce Roach, chairmang Ben Shanklin, Peggy Rider, Ruth Hamm, Helen Figlcy, and Maxine Klingman. The social committee is Clifford Stott, chairman, joan Darby, Virginia Bantleon, Mary Dorsey, Betty Welsh, Gloria Biechele, and George Grindrod, Staging lor the Dramatics clulw play is done by the Boards Club, under the direction of Vern Watson, stage lIIilIliigCr. The Boards club are the guys behind the scene who never get much recognition. They shift scenery and furnif ture and perform tasks that go to make the stage attractive for plays. Members of the club are automatically members of the Dramatic club. All members of this club are boys. Evidently the girl members eouldn't take it. SPANISH CLUB El Circulo Espanol, the Spanish Circle, was reorganized this year under the sponsorship of Miss -ludith Stapleton, Spanish instructor. Each class elected two delegates who act as the governing body of the club. Out of this group the following officers were elected: Robert Lopez, senior, prcsidentx Eleanore Bennett, sophol lllUI'L', vice president: Dorothy Marsh, senior, secretary: and john Arnold, junior, treasurer. Other members of the council are Stanley Lind, senior, and Selby Soward, Irene Hinze, Virginia Godfrey, Jeanette Kasner, Norma jean Roberts, Tom Batty, Irene Wolfe, Les' lie Wolder, Ilene Hall, Libbie Louise Yoakum, and Gwendof lyn Evans, juniors. About eight meetings arc held during the year, one each month. Martha Alice Horner, senior, the program chair man, plans a program for each meeting, and Nadine Knox and Dorothy Kirkham, senior, artists, make the programs and song sheets. Anyone having had six weeks study of Spanish is elegible for membership in the club. If a member has more than two unexcused absences or more than three tardies, he is automatically dropped from the roll, Dues for the organization are 30 cents. The speaker for the first general meeting was Fernand Rueda, Mexican consul. Senior Robert Lopez, president, leads in the Spanish group singing at the meetings. Instead of a regular meeting for December, the club had a Christ- mas party in the recital hall. A Spanish play, Noehef buena, directed by Dorothy Marsh, senior, was given by the members. The cast included Phillip Thompson, jeannette Smiley, Nadine Knox, Helen Eigley, Sidney Smith, Bernice johnson, Mervil Smith, Dorothy 'lean Stowers, Bonnie Lee Bacon, and Harry Shopmaker. Robert Lopez sang two Spanish songs, Afuera and Adentro el Senor. Stanley Lind, senior, spoke about Christmas in Mexico. Everyone sang Christmas carols in Spanish and played the Spanish game Pinata Refreshments were served by the refreshment committee, Clara Mae Carter, Margie Mae Fisher, and john Arnold. A RT CLUB Membership for the Art club, with Miss Frances Hamlin, art instructor, as sponsor, is limited to 35 students A IDENTIFICATION Naismith officers-Edwards, I-Iahn, I-Iukle, sponsor, Boring, Smith. Girls' W officers-Pearson, Nodler, Hamm, Bannister, Godfrey, Phillips, Boston, Baker, Toelle, Swisher, Reynolds. I-Ii-Wives officers-Harvey, Wilson, Neel, I-Ieady. Kay Cee officers-Vessels, Radford, Kelchner, Meeks, Ed- wards, Becker, Lucas, Wiles, I-Ielwig, sponsor, McCroskey, Horner. The group meets every other Wednesday in room 242, Officers are president, Charlotte Provonche, senior: vice president, Betty Boyer, senior, secretaryftreasurer, Bryon Martin, senior, and sergeanbat-arms, Bob Durkee, junior. The program committee consists of Kathleen Murphy, chairman, Byron Martin, Dorothy Mae Kirkham, and Phil Thompson, seniors. On the social committee are Winifred Boomer, chairman, Ellen Grimes, Bettie Capell, and Winifred Wooton. At each meeting lessons on sketchings are included. The year's program is as follows: The first meeting concerned the subject of water colors and Hazel Woodworth and Vera Wyatt, seniors, were in charge, Bettie Capell, senior, and Elizabeth Calovieh, junior, con- ducted the meeting, Dec. l. The topic for discussion was A'Modern French and included the life and work of Cizanne and Monet. The Christmas meeting concerned the masters, Raphael and Correggio, Gloria lreton and Kathleen Murphy, sen' iors, and Bob Durkee, junior, participated in the program.

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