Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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► Patti O ' Laughlin answers a call from Earth in Keep the Home Fires Burning. 4 Cornelia (Lori Dehnke), an aspiring actress, TLiz Plimpton, Lisa Tensm eyer and Jennie over dramatizes the Joss of a fictional lover in Matthews perform in a Ripples intermission the 1974 Thespian play. act. 2 Student Life

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Student Life 1

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282 teachers and students work on 1974 Ripples acts A little time for laughter came in the form of the annual Ripples acts. For six weeks 200 Ripplites and 20 teachers worked to perfect the three acts for the March 20 and 21 shows. An additional 62 students worked behind the scenes on props, make-up, lighting, sound and scenery crews. Diabolic devils and angry angels clashed in the winning act, Keep the Home Fires Burning, a satirical view of the energy crisis, written and di- rected by Seniors Phil Arcuri and Mark Reeder. Denise Maulsby and Pam Ritchey wrote and directed From Bach to Rock, an act featuring the adventures of the Peanuts gang with a musical-his- tory time machine. In Dianne Vargo and Sarah Ryder ' s Kitchen Kapers, the employees of the financially-doomed Triviera Towers Restaurant proved the establishment worth saving. A With a flounce of their skirts, Triviera Tower waitresses end their can-can chorus ine. M Cornelia, Leo and Dick (Lori Dehnke, Mark Robinson and PauJ Smethers) of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay help Emily (Anne ShuJ- Jenberger) recover from a swoon. Student Life 3