Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Senior Inter-class Contestants Spelling—Margaret Meanwell, June Pooler, Thomas Lawrence. Mary McCann, Wilma Scott, Catherine Darby, Dorothy Hall, Clara Webber, Elsie Hubacher, Harrison Welsh. Pronunciation—Elizabeth Harwick, Margaret Meanwell, Carl Smith, Arthur Forche, Wendell Miller, Mary Mosher, June Pooler, Geraldine Youngs, Harrison Welsh, Clara Webber. Extemporaneous Speaking—Emerson Stanley, Arthur Forche. Boys’ Basket Ball—Max Dolby, Darrel Gunn, Arthur Howard, Emerson Stanley, Glenn Seaver, Robert Blakeslee, Jack Mc- Leod. Girls’ Volley Ball—Bertha Delaforce, Muriel Ollett, Mildred Bowman, Marguerite Robson, Martha Alban, Ruth Wheatley, Josephine Lechlitner, Helen Yost, Elizabeth Harwick, Mar- garet Bowman, Gertrude Casler. Girls’ Basket Ball—Bertha Hayes, Elizabeth Harwick, Muriel Ollett, Beulah Hankinson, Martha Alban, Mary Mosher, Josephine Lechlitner, Gertrude Casler. | Short Story—-Muriel Ollett, Emerson Stanley, Carl Smith, Pearl Wilson, Arthur Forche. Be . Boys’ Swimming—Greame Conrad, Darrel Gunn, Richard Young. Girls’ Swimming—Beulah Hankinson, Elizabeth Harwick. Twenty-five

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Senior Class Play eigete Senior Play commitee, consisting of Mary Mosher, chair- man: Robert Blakeslee, Helen Springer, Arthur Forche and Dorothy Hall, chose ‘““The White-Headed Boy,’ a comedy play by Lennox Robinson, as the play to be presented by the class of 1925. The class chose Carl W. Gustke to act as coach and Lois E. Donaldson as assistant. Mr. Gustke has taken leading parts in several of the University of Michigan’s plays and his experience in this line placed him as first choice for this year’s senior play coach. Miss Donaldson, while having no previous extensive dramatic experience, proved of valuable assistance to Mr. Gustke. To them, for their long and persistent work with the cast, belongs the credit for the success of the play. “The White-Headed Boy” is an Irish play dealing with a poor family who are sending their youngest son, Denis, to Trinity College. The lad fails in his examinations three times and the family, much against the will of th e mother, decides that he must leave college. They plan to have him go to Canada and strike out for himself; but to save their reputation they decide to give it out that he is going to a big position there. This means that Denis must give up Delia, his fiance, whom he was to marry as soon to be graduated from college. Duffy, Delia’s father, hears of the plans of the family, and, thinking Denis is going to a big position in Canada, says that if Denis does not marry Delia he will sue for one thousand pounds. ‘This startles the family and they tell him the truth, but he refuses to believe it. He gives them ten minutes for their answer. The aunt, Duffy’s old-time lover, agrees to pay Duffy one hundred pounds and marry him if he will drop the case. Not knowing about this transaction, George, older brother of Denis, pays Duffy two hundred pounds to drop the case. Then the mother, unaware of both of these transactions, gives Mr. Duffy a handful of bank notes to drop the case. In the meantime Denis and Delia get married. The family hears of this and at first they are angry because Denis is in work- ing clothes and has accepted a job with a street gang, - After a lot of coaxing the family finally get Denis to accept the position as manager of a shop, which the aunt was going to give to Denis’ brother, Peter. They also give him the money paid by the aunt, George and the mother to Duffy. Delia promptly takes charge ot if This places the family in a pogition so that Denis’ sisters are unable, for lack of money, to do what they were planning—Baby cannot go to Dublin and Jane cannot marry Donough Brosnan. Hazel Miller, in the role of Aunt Ellen, took the part of the ever-scheming aunt with a high degree of perfection. Carl Smith, Twenty-seven