East Noble High School - Legend Yearbook (Kendallville, IN)

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Top, left: James (Barker) tries to experience the world of the deaf with a pair of ear- phones. Above. James (Barker) and Edna (Rigsby) look away awkwardly as a private conversation goes on between Orin (Hanes) and Sarah (Pattee). Top, right. Sarah (Pattee) and James (Barker) argue quietly in sign language. Above, right: The cast of Children of a Lesser God (clockwise from bottom). Jill Pattee (Sarah), Cheryl Barth (Lydia), Marita Dwight (Ms. Franklin), Thorn Bar- ker (James), Sandra Rigsby (Edna), Laura Kelty (Mrs. Norman), and Jim Hanes (Orin). .1

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@ArfcOte«t 76eatnc Children ' s Theatre was a collection of six Grimm Brothers ' fairy tales called Story Theatre. These comic stories, enjoyed by young and old alike, were: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Golden Goose, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Brementown Musicians, The Little Peasant, and The Old Goose Woman. The show was perfor- med October 18-20. Also, selections were presented to a Thespian Festival in India- napolis on October 27. Children of a Lesser God was presented for Evening of Theatre, the annual non- musical production under the direction of Bob Avery. The play is set in a home for the deaf, at which the lead female resides and the lead male teaches. These roles were portrayed by seniors Jill Pattee and Thorn Barker, veterans of Evening of Theatre. Pattee and Barker spent the fall semester months learning sign language proficiently. Their teacher was a deaf East Noble alum- nus, Sherlee Williams. Avery and the cast agreed that the show wouldn ' t have been possible without her assistance. Williams also served as on-stage interpreter of the spoken lines for the deaf members of the audience. The production was a great success. By popular demand, two extra showings were added to the orignal three production dates. Above. Three maidens find themselves stuck fast to the boy with The Golden Goose. Right: Sophomore Jimmy McCue and junior Wendy Diehl play king and queen in The Old Goose Woman. Text by Amy Roche Photos by David Yuska

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S%fc 4$ ty S tentaamtmt The fifteenth annual Extravaganza was orginally scheduled to open November 16, 1984, but was postponed due to sickness until Wednesday, November 28, 1984. As it turned out, it was more of a blessing then a bother. The show needed much more work! The two weeks helped a lot. Kirk Gay felt, I really did not think it would work out but at the last minute it just came togeather. Nan Barker, a freshman, said it was a good idea to delay the show. She even said that they Should have had a longer delay to learn the dance routines better. The theme this year was Breakthrough. The theater class at East Noble invented this theme to express the desire to breakthrough all barriers and inhabitations to reach for your dreams and the top. To express this theme, the show opened with a cast of approxiamately one hundred people, singing the theme song I ' m Free (Heaven Helps the Man). The show continued with a Visit with Edith Ann and Nerd Busters. Nerd Busters was a skit that combined the movies Ghost Busters, The Karate Kid, and Revenge of the Nerds. The nerds were invading, and it was up to the nerd busters to defend the school. The idea of nerds was further carried out later when they had the Nerd Fashion Show in the second act. There were nerdy combin- ations of fashions displayed, with Laurie Emerson playing the master of ceremonies. The Cabbage Patch Kids sang, Side by Side and East Noble teachers, from the audience participated in Teacher Tales, an invented game show. Invented just for the occasion. Another big hit was a dance routine that die Breakers and the Knightettes did to Wake Me Up. The Breakers also did their own routine and the audience was astounded by their talent. The student enjoyed working on Extrva- ganza for different reasons. Nan Barker, stated, 1 got to meet a lot of new people that I didn ' t know before. I liked working in Extravaganza because it gave me the excuse to wear bandanas around my ankles every night without my dad saying anything about it, Sophmorc Todd Reeves said. There were two acts loaded with fun for the audience as well as the cast and Extra- vaganza ' 84: Breakthrough ended with the entire cast singing Fame. This was to show that the actors had broken through the barriers and achieved what they wanted to achieve. Right: Sean Smith, a member of the East Noble Breakers and a Sophmore at East Noble, demon- strates the newest form of break- ing. Popping. Sean and the other Breakdancers (Jeff and Scott Mosqueda, Ted O ' Malley, Evan Williams, Chris Gustafson and Todd Reeves) were the biggest hit at Extravaganza 84. Text by Dianna Cullen Photos by David Yuska