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SHORTRIDGE DAILY ECHO VOL. LIII, No. 129 SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951 3 CENTS HOBBS CANCELS Play Presented at MISS LEE GIVES COKE PLAY CAST PRESENTS VACATION TOUR Footlights Meeting PARTY FOR VISITORS TO WASHINGTON At the last meeting of the Foot Miss Josephine Lee gave a Coke CARTOONS, SKITS lights club, held Tuesday In room party Tuesday, March 27, In honor C. C. Hobbs has been forced to 332, Nancy Payne directed a play. of Nancy Dennis and Mark Hoffett. Free Tickets Given to Lucky cancel his spring vacation tour to Those in the cast were Mary Mur All the members of home room 116 Seatholders; Cast Introduced the East because of business. He phy, Lynn Stitle, Margaret Sauer were invited. by Chairman was planning to take a group of telg, and Sondra Crouch. Gail Jaffe Nancy is a former SHS student Shortridge students to historic gave a monologue entitled "The and recently moved to Western In the auditorium presented places In Virginia, the Blue Ridge Trolley Ride." Plans were discussed Springs, Illinois. Nancy was for Wednesday. March 28, in Caleb Mountains, and Washington, D.C. for future meetings. merly in Miss Lee's homeroom and Several of the students who had Mills Hall, two movies were shown. was on spring vacation from her These movies were presented by made reservations with Mr. Hobbs ALL-SCHOOL SKATES own school. Mark is the cousin of are going with Mrs. Mary C. Treich Murray DeArmond and was visiting the courtesy of the senior play cast ler on her vacation to New York. TO BE SPONSORED Shortridge from Orville, Ohio. and the committees for the senior Other students who had been plan BY BLUE BLADES play. Carolyn Myers was chairman ning to go with Mr. Hobbs are go-- Y-Teen Conference for the auditorium and introduced Ing with a group from Broad Ripple The Blue Blades Ice Skating club the movies as two "educational taken by Mrs. Jane Gable, a Broad, j sponsoring an all-school skate s to Be March 31-April 2 films." The films shown were the Ripple faculty member. A group of during their last two sessions Mon March 31 through April 2, the Anderson students are also going day, April 2 and Monday, April 9. "Dippy Diplomat" with Woody Y-Teen club will hold a spring con Woodpecker and "The Painter and on this trip. "Everyone from freshmen to sen ference at the Phyllis Wheatly iors who are not members are in branch of the YWCA. This will be The Pointer" starring Andy Panda. CROQUIS CLUB TO vited to attend," says Lois Simon, a meeting for officers of the group. president. Carolyn announced that the sen VISIT BLOCK'S TODAY Two representatives from Short ior play would be held Friday at Single admission tickets may be ridge will report to SHS members obtained from the bookstore or at 8:00 in Caleb Mills Hall and that Members of the Croquis club will concerning the conference. the price of tickets is 60 cents each take a tour of the William H. Block the door of the Coliseum for 40 Speakers are to discuss career cents. or three for $1.50. Co. display windows department to planning, recreations and other She also stated that this year's day. The Block Co. furnishes the topics of help and interest to teen senior play would have a new set various types of wearing apparel Intramural Tennis age girls. for the first time In 30 years. The which are used in fashion illustra Winners to Play The SHS girls who take part in stage crew and some art classes tion classes. The articles are the Y-Teen club are sponsored by Made the set for the play. chosen by different groups of the Champions at Howe Miss Dorothy Carson of the home Carolyn then introduced the class. The 1951 table tennis champions economics department. memhws of the cast and explained Miss Jane Messlck, sponsor of the rjave been determined. Ronnie the parts they would portray in the Croquis. club, and Loretta Smock, Malsbary was victorious In the boys' Roman Custom Is play. She also Invited everyone to president, announced that the girls •inglea and Barbara Smith In the t%e party being held Friday in the will meet at 2:30 p.m. today at the girls'. The boys' doubles were won Explained l>y Display cafeteria" after the play. The cast Meridian Street entrance. by C. G. Balch and Tom Hollet. The The display in the window out of the play will be present at the girls' doubles were won by Mary side room 109 tells about the tra party and refreshments will be SCIENCE CLUB SEES McLaughlin and Barbara Smith. dition connected with the "Liber - served. Ronnie Roberts and Barbara Smith alia," the day when the boy of early MOVIE ON ALUMINUM won the mixed doubles. Roman times came of age. On his Drawing Held A film entitled "The Curiosity These winners, along with the fourteenth birthday, instead of the She then introduced Don Vaubel, Shop," illustrating the uses of alu championship volley ball team, will twenty-first as he does now, the chairman of the technical staff, minum, was shown to the Science play Howe High School as soon as boy assumed the toga virllis in and spoke of the work the stage club yesterday during the ninth Howe completes their tourneys. stead of the" toga praetexta. This crew has been doing. period. signified that he should be consid The drawing for free tickets was On March 22, Frank Long, a glass MRS. CAVANAGH LISTS ered an adult. held with Bob Stewart, Marilyn blower, gave a demonstration and The three models in the window Lewis, and John Shonle in charge. showed how to make glass for sci NEW LIBRART BOOKS are of a Roman slave, a young man, In the first auditorium Dave Ep entific equipment and domestic use. A list of new books now on the and a father. At the side of the stein, Dave Queisser, and Dorothy He also gave demonstrations for shelves of the Charity Dye library display Is a bulla, or charm which Hougland won the free tickets to some chemistry classes. has been announced by Mrs. Esther was worn around the boy's neck the play. At their next meeting Mrs. K. K. B. Cavanagh, librarian. They are as as a good luck piece. On the Lib In the second auditorium Jack Chen from Ell Lilly and Company follows: eralia this token was dedicated to Scanlon, Joe Houghtalen, and Jackie Mount won the free tickets. will give a talk on "Opportunities Lipplncott—"Wahoo Bobcat" the household gods. Annriette Studor, a student of The cast for the senior play in in Science." Mrs. Henrietta Parker Lowery—"Margaret" is sponsor of the club. Latin II, prepared the display. cludes Rose Ann Wick, Caroline Al Hayerdahl—"Kon-Tiki." drich, Lynne Adams, Doris Lytle, Christensen—"Index to American JERRY WILLIAMSON Nancy Johnson, Sabra Black, San- SHORTRIDGE GRADS Design" ford Schwartz, Alice Jane Smith, ON DEAN'S LIST Felker—"Shop Mathematics" DISCOVERS ERRORS Pete Burkholder, Ronald Kovener, Janie Woods, Whitney Hill, Toby Two former Shortridgers have Burchard, ed. "Mid-Century; the Jerry Williamson, Friday Echo co- Social Implications of Scientific editor, wrote the sports editor of Brocker, Nancy Lynch. Helen Let- been listed on the dean's list at singer and Marguerite Brown. the University of Rochester. They Progress." Senior Scholastic recently con Kaltenborn—"Fifty F ab u 1 o u s cerning some errors in an article Included with Don on the tech were named to this list for main nical staff are Joan Hansen, Nancy taining high scholastic averages. Years" on George Mikan, professional bas Stack and others—"Education for ketball star. Drew, Carol Smith, Carolyn Hood, They were Edgar W. Pattison and Jane Knight, Art Atlas, Carol West, Richard H. Farrar. Safe Living" Some of Jerry's comments were Shoemaker—"The Best in Base listed in the March 21 sports col and Jane Johnson. Carolyn is stu Mr. Pattison was graduated in dent director. (Continued on page two) ball" umn in that magazine. Daly—"The Perfect Hostess" Page Two THE SHORTRIDGE DAILY ECHO THE SHORTRIDGE DAILY ECHO BOOK REVIEW... What Do You Know? 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