The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-04-26
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
BY Betty Epping

BY Betty Epping
The Junior fair was d grand success,
$l8.23 being taken in. About Sl3 of
this will be clear for the junior prom.
The juniors are planning to have their
prom. about the middle of May
At the Hood River Teachers Associ-
alton which met Monday at 8. 30 in the
auditorium, Mr.. Pitman, of the State
Normal School, spoke.
The new curtains have arrived. Mr..
Cohoon and his boys spent Monday and
Tuesday in putting them up.
Monday morning the whole student
body was down at the station to give
Lee Spaulding, '18 Clifford Mcdonald,
II, Howard Widen, '18, and Will Toll
man, ex-'19, grand send-off. The
four boys are taking the exams to en-
ter the naval training school on Goat
Island in San Francisco bay. We were
all sorry to see the boys go and they
will be missed very much by everyone.
Four more of the high school boys are
planning to follow in their footsteps
sometime in the near future.
Tuesday morning Betty Slade came
to school looking as though she had
had her share in fighting "Old Bill, "
her head bandaged, very decided
limp and bump on her head as big as
an egg. After demonstrating first aid
Saturday Betty took tumble off BIZ
cycle and had a fine time doing real
first aid to herself.
The Hood River high school student
body extends its sympathy to our fel.
low student, Lillian Brock, and her
family, on the death of Mrs. Eva
Brock Cowden. of the class of 10.
Last Wednesday the student body
and faculty had the pleasure of hear
ing Mrs. Banks tell some of her adven-
lures during her l5 years of mission
ary work in Africa and along the
Amazon.
Shakespeare program:
Piano solo, Newton Clark.
Recitation, Arthur Lofts.
Life of Shakespeare, Grace Winchell.
Sketch of Macbeth, Pearl Florer.
Witch scene-Macbeth, Nixon Bat
tey; First Witch, Beulah Grafton Sec
Ond Witch, Iva Leach; Third Witch,
Florence Eddy; Hecote, Jessie Eddy !;
First Apparition, Roy Miller; Second
Apparition, Roy Holman; Third APP
partition. Frances Miller; Music, Fran
ces Littlefield.
Solo, Olive Widen.
Sketch, "Pyramus and Thisbe, from
Midsummer Nights Dream" Jessie
Eddy; prologue. John Annala; Pyra-
mus, CHATTER Newton; Thisbe, Velna
Vogel; Moon, Virgil Cameron; Lion,
Yale McCarty; Wall, Jessie Eddy.
"The Lost Necklace" given by the
H. S. Glee Club under the direction of
Mrs. Henney, will be presented in the
auditorium Thursday, May 8. The
scene is LAID in Spain during the grape
harvest. A band of maidens are at
work amid the vines and true to their
national characteristics are full of life
and merriment. Margaret, a young
American, lady. wandering among the
vines, is invited by the grape gatherers
to join in their amusements. The
midday rest is enlivened by the arriv-
al of troupe of gypsies who sing and
dance. One of the gypsies tells the
fortunes of several Of the grape gath
erers. Margaret suddenly discovers
that her necklace is missing and accus-
es the gypsies of having stolen it.
The gypsies are greatly angered and a
dramatic situation is created. Lolo,
however takes Margaret's part and the
gypsies are somewhat pacified.
The necklace is afterwards found
suspended on one of the vines, where
it had become caught while Margaret
was gathering grapes. After it's re-
covery, singing and dancing are re-
sumed ending in a chorus of farewell
to the scenes of the days occupations
and events.
The cast is:
Margaret, young American lady,
Gladys Reavis.
Lolo, Inez and Dolores, of the band
of grape gatherers, Olive Widen, AL
ice Taylor and Nella Hart.
Zulena and Esmeralda, gypsies, Ruth
Berry and Elda Jackson.
Chorus of grape gatherers, Glee
Club.
Chorus of gypsies, Ia girls.
Solo dances will be given by Mrs.
Wilma Franz, Miss Elda Jackson and
Miss Kay Baker.
A patriotic dance by four small chill
dren, Messrs. Cram and Thomson and
Misses Agnes Chipping and Willis.
A solo tableaux by Sid Carnine and
another solo by Magdalene Mitchell,
"Song Girls of Seville"
Mrs. L. A. Henderson is the accom-
panist. Mrs. Wilma Franz has charge
of the dancing. 0. T. Wedemeyer is
assisting with the dramatic part. A
four-piece orchestra will play during
the performance. Admission will be,
school students, 35c, general public