Blue Hill High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Blue Hill, NE)

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Qfwwle Sedan! Opezezfm A story, Around the Seasons, was told in song and dialogue by all the grade children of the Blue Hill public school on November 21. The scene of the annual operetta was in Farmer johns haymow. The night before the schoolhouse had burned. The children, with their teacher, Becky Lou McSpadden, were holding a meeting to discuss their school problem. John Falgione, as Farmer John, gave his consent to the renovation of the hay- mow into an attractive school room. The children study hard. They have a funny vis- itor, Cleopatra, the talking cow, portrayed by Bar- bara and Richard Bentz. The students celebrate each season with song. October days were celebrated by the Kindergarten children, dressed as jack-o'-lanterns, and a choral reading by girls in the upper grades. Eighteen third and fourth grade children, as turkeys perched upon a picket fence, sang of Thanksgiving time. Suzy Snowflake, dramatized by the first and sec- ond graders, and skaters from the fifth and sixth grades, introduced the winter season. During the Christmas party, Farmer john, as Santa Claus, presented the school with a better heater. This added to the Christmas spirit. The old year departed with Father Time and the New Year was ushered in by Alvin Boettcher in the likeness of Baby New Year. Square dancing delighted both old and young at the party. The month of February was observed with a Val- entine action song by the primary grades and a Hag drill by the boys of the upper grades. Dame Nature and the spring sprites reminded all that spring had arrived. The sprites enticed the children away from school, but they returned when a thunderstorm came. The Maypole dance depicted closing days of school and May Day. Since Farmer john's barn was repaired, he was able to rent it to an artist. The grand finale, June Time, was sung by the entire cast. 1

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Mr. LaVoie directs the cast in one scene in the high school operetta 71594 Seam! CAST OF CHARACTERS Fernando Fussbutton ........ff77.....ff-.4,.----ff4- DHD Baird Samanthia Highnote .,,A.A. ,,....f...-. M ildfffd Lukas Mary Allen ,,v,ssoo,,,,,,,,--, .,,-,,.. B arbara Bachman Anastasius Longword ..ff......... Neil Rose John Warren ,,......... ...V-fv----- T Om Korr Wuhingron ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ..,... D uane BuSChOW Girls' Quartet Jean ,.,,.,,,..,........,.,,,.- ..... M ary Courtright Jane ....... June ............. Joyce .................. Boys' Trio Jerry ............,...... Jack ....... Betty Karr Ruth Baird Pat Roberts Roger Hesman Dale Gartner Jim ........ ..,.,. D ean Wormuth WORDS AND MUSIC Mixed Chorus members of the Blue Hill High Schools music dapartment presented the operetta, Words and Music, on May 14, 1959, in the high school gymnasium under the direction of Mr. Gary LaVoie. The story is concerned with Barton College and its annual custom of presenting an operetta. Be- cause the head of the dramatic art department Cwho usually writes the operettaj is afflicted with a severe case of measles, trouble arises. A typical operetta scene with its interested onlookers Barbara and Tom rehearse one of their duets in the operetta 0,eefaeZZ'a In order that the Barton tradition might be con- tinued, President Fussbutton imposes upon Dean Highnote, dean of music, to write the musical score, and upon Dean Longword, dean of English, to write the speaking parts. All seems to be in good order when it is found that the two deans are as old-fashioned as the horse and buggy. In desperation john, secretary to Dean Longword, and Mary, secretary to Dean Highnote, convince their bosses that they are too old-fashioned to write a modern operetta, and they should let friends in New York of john and Mary do it for them. Neither dean knows of the other's plans. In reality john and Mary write the entire operetta. Without giving either dean a chance to see the completed work, john and Mary give it to President Fussbutton and the faculty. After hearing a bit of the operetta, the faculty gasps in astonishment, as the operetta is a wee bit hotsy-totsy, and john and Mary confess that they wrote the operetta, not the deans. Following this revelation, Fussbutton decides to use the operetta, being sure to state that it is a student-written operetta. Highnote and Longword are greatly relieved, and Longword invites Highnote to attend the operetta on opening night with him. This situation, combined with the amusing antics of Washington, the colored handyman, and the songs of the Boys' Trio, the Girls' Quartet, and the Mixed Chorus made for a delightful high school operetta. Entire cast and stage chorus assembled on stage for one of the songs in the operetta

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