Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-29
ACTIVITIES AT CENTRAL UNION

successful season and Mr.. Finn
is arranging a playing schedule to
include a number Of schools. Five
teams will be chosen from the. stu
dents who try out next week There
will be a girls singles boys singles.
mixed doubles, girls doubles, and
boys doubles.
Several changes have been made
In the operetta cast. Lee Zinn has
been given the part Of Constable
Ezra McSpavin, formerly taken by
Forrest Ferris; Delno Hockett has
taken Lees place as Hiram Mead
ows; and Ruth Grafton has relin-
quished her role of Mrs. Coleman
to Barbara Tondro
Since the Los Angeles Examiner
has offered S100 prize for the best
essay on the theme of Washing
tons farewell address, that topic
has been added to the list of sub
jects in the Campus" Washington
contest, so that students may COM
pete at the same time in both con-
tests.
Centrals constitutional oratorical
contest will be held on Friday,
April l. Here is a chance for the
students to glorify themselves and
the school, for if 20 students from
Central will write orations, the
school will be awarded a bust of
George Washington. Many valuable
prizes including trip to Europe.
are offered to the winner of the
contest.
Girl Reserve committees met on
Wednesday afternoon to make plans
for the annual mother and daugh-
ter tea, which is to be given on
March IL.
A very capable production staff
has been selected to see that the
operetta goes over big Mrs. Thel-
ma Upton Ray will have charge of
the scenery painting and the
makeup at the performance. Mr..
S. E. Allen will supervise the stage
crews work mad electrical effects.
Roy Maupin is business manager;
Delno Hockett, advertising manager.
Mrs. Evalena Moore is directing
the dancing. The art department
is making flowers for the sets now.
Miss Lucille Krause, the director
said that everyone did unusually
well at the first practice of all the
performers last night.
A debate has been chosen to rep
resent the j. c. in contest with a
number of schools in the valley
Debating on the question of unem-
ployment insurance will be Frank
Wilby and Morgan Rice on the af-
firmative team and Fred Heald and
Jim Case on the negative. Next
Friday they will be- pitted against
each other in a debate before the
junior college assembly, in prac-
tice contest On March IL, their
first big debate will come when
they meet the teams of the Brawley
j. C. The affirmative team will
stay here and debate with the op-
posing team in the high school as
sembly. The neagtive team will go
to Brawley the same day
Practice on Square Crooks is
scheduled to go off with big start
by the talented cast which has
been selected to work under the di-
rection of Miss Annette Damron,
the class adviser. The cast includes
Ebert Berry as Eddie; Bobby
Mack, understudy; Dietrich Perci-
val, Larry! Ralph Conner, under
ttudy; Jim Couch, Tim; Richard
Maddux, understudy; Meredith
Nice, WEIGH; Walter Templeton, un-
derstudy; Jerry Starr, Mike; Walter
Tempeton, understudy; Velda Perci-
val, Kay; Margaret Page, under
study; Opal Townsend, Jane, Flor
ence Hess. understudy; Florence
Hess, Carston; Leona Coulter, Sor-
row; Iris Mae Toney, understudy
Adaline Shirer, O'Rourke; Dorothy
Dundas, understudy The date has
been set for April and 9.