Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel - Aloysian Yearbook (Aloysian, NY)

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HISTORY OF THE PEG-O DRAMATIC CLUB On a bright June evening in 1930 the Peg-O Dramatic Club, boasting nine members, presented its first play Peg O' My Heart. This year, 1950, the twentieth anniver- sary ot' Peg-O, it presented the title play at Good Counsel for the third time. The club was originally formed as an activity for the day students and as cn means of fostering dramatic ability in the Academy. Sister Mary Clement has been its moderator these twenty years and Peg-O attributes its success to herexper t direction. When in October of the following year, 1931, the first officers were elected, the dramatic club's unusual pin was designed by one of the charter members, and the twenty-eight Peg-O's chose as their colors crimson and silver. No year was ever complete without the Peg-O annual outing. ln the spring of 1931, one of the Peg-O's, Miriam Hall, invited the girls to spend the day at her cottage at Fairfield Beach. This outing was repeated for several years, then the members decided to have their annual outing ai' Playlclnd in Rye, New York. As Sister Mary Clement looks back through the years, she says that many names and many plays stand out in her memory. Among the favcrfte presentations have been: Smilin' Through, Daddy Long Legs, After Wimpole Street, Anne of Green Gables, Annie Laurie, Spring Green, Enter Angela, and the unfor- gettable Peg O' My Heart. The celebrated members whom all Peg-O's could take for their examples are: Amalia Sestero, who played Robert Browning in After Wimpole Street , Marie McCarthy, who was Daddy Long Legs , Mary Keefer, who played Judy in Daddy Long Legs , and Patricia Gallagher, the star of Enter Angela. AFTER WlMPOLE STREET 1936 ENTER ANGELA 1946 SPRING GREEN 1947 EIGHTEEN IN JUNE 1949+ 4'UNDER TWENTY 1948

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