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Show 'The Search For Beauty' Theme of Hurricane Hi Graduation Exercises "The Search for Beauty", theme of the 1940 graduation exercises of the Hurricane high was carried out by nine girls as Greek Muses representing the various fields of art. This program was held last Friday in the high school auditorium audi-torium beginning at 7:45 p.m. Students giving short discourses as the nine Muses were Alda Hinton, history; LaWren Wright, religious poetry; Donna Hirschi, comedy; Dorothy Wood, tragedy; Thera Lee, instrumental music; Pansy Shaeffer, love poetry; Clara Brinkerhoff, Lyric poetry; Glenna Webb, astromony; Lois Olds, dance. Invocation was by Robert Reeve and Grant Cornelius, senior class president, gave the welcoming welcom-ing address. An address defining "Culture" was presented by Merlin Mer-lin Stevens. Ralph Henderson read Lincoln's Gettysburg address as representing history. Religious poetry was presented in a ladies' chorus, "The Lord's Prayer", sung by Opal Isom, Verlin Wood, Lenna Cox, Beulah Crawford, Ilean Woodbury and LaVerd Wright. Dorothy Hirschi read, as comedy Dorothy Parker's selection selec-tion "The Waltz". Thirty-four of the graduates took part in the choral reading "The Thirteen Sisters" depicting tragedy. Pansy Shaeffer, portraying love poetry, gave a brief history of the love affair of Elizabeth and Robert Browning and read "How Do I Love Thee". A male trio comprised com-prised of Don Stout, Glendin Hinton Hin-ton and Clinton Isom, sang "Serenade" as lyric poetry. The concluding number of the group was a waltz in A major, dancers were LaVerd Wright, Lenna Cox, Margaret Englestead, Ilean Wood-Woodbury, Wood-Woodbury, Afton Wilson and Edith Johnson. Miss Eleanor Nichols and A. K. Larsen, class advisers, were in charge of the direction. Other faculty members assisting were Miss Ruth Wall and O. F. Burge-ner. |