Esperanza High School - Quetzal Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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Drama members can do more than act There is much more to membership in the Drama Club than acting. A relatively small amount of time is spent treading the boards. Most of the time is spent learning and developing all of the skills necessary to make a dramatic presentation work. Many of those important skills are performed before the curtain rises, behind the curtain and after the curtain falls. Many of these skills necessary for a successful production are never even known to an audience. The club, cast and the crews of the two productions presented this season were taught to consider these two plays not as . . . mere high school productions, but as professional work. The end results showed that if professional work is demanded by Director and Drama Club Adviser Susan Payer-Stauter, than professional level work is achieved. Not only were the casts of the two productions schooled in the art of elocution, stage presence, diction and characterization, but they were taught the finer points of make-up, projection and use of props. They were also taught to use mime effectively by graduate Fred Davis. Davis, a student at Cal State Fullerton returned to teach the cast of Our Town how to mime for that production. Graduate Rhonda Gilbert, also a student at Cal State Fullerton, returned to give a seminar presentation on the effective use of make- up. Gilbert has worked with Cal State Fullerton's drama department and the Brea Cabaret Repertory Theater. Also returning to help with the very technical lighting for the production was graduate Mark Stephenson. Stephenson designed the lighting for Our Town and trained drama club members to handle the equipment. Stephenson again returned to design the lighting for the spring production of Such Stuff that Dreams are Made Of, excerpts from Shakespearean plays. After designing the lighting and teaching the technical staffs the cues Stephenson steps out of the scene and the drama club tekkies take over. 1. Sophomore Steve Croxton explains to a freshman the assembly of stage lights. Croxton has worked with graduate Mark Stephenson for two years and is quickly becoming the whiz-kid of the theater lighting staff, 2. Seniors Carl Simon and Cyndi Wright warm up prior to a rehearsal. These exercises are essential to performers. S 2 E Q Y drama - 99

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3' if M 1. Seniors Brian Gilbert and Jodi Spilcer, rehearse the window scene from Our Town. Gilbert played George Gibbs and Spilrer played his sister Rebecca. z. Drama Club row 1 - A. Mathias, K. Harris, S. Bell, P. Lambert. Row z - R. Singley, Vouga, L. Flemming, D. Greene, E. Prescott. Row 3 - S. Kamara, D. Schechtel, M. Ellsworth,-I. Schmidt, R. Zimmerman, R. Norris. Row 4 - L. Morgan, T. Johnson, K. Murphy, M. Manville, Wallace, L. Andrews, K. Putnam. Row 5 - L. Post, K. Matych, H. Caldwell, B. Hohnstein, A. Davis, S. Payer-Stauter, Spilcer, C. Spence. 3. Freshman Kim Silva leads a blindfolded Karen Beverly through the junior quad. The blindfolded exercise is the first lesson of trust encountered by all beginning drama members. 98 - drama P' , - -X 'yi

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Scholarship established in Levyls name After the death of California Scholarship Federation QCSFJ Adviser Louise Levy in March that club established a scholarship in her name to be given to the outstanding CSF senior. It will be an annual award, the funds being replenished by a fund raiser each year. The clay after Levy's death, at an emergency CSF meeting, Levy's daughter, Ruth Felsenfeld, addressed the club and said, She fLevyQ believed very much in scholastics, she wants so badly for you all to keep working and striving, it's all worth it. She loved you all very muchf, It was at that meeting that plans for the Louise Levy Memorial CSF Scholarship were formed. Interim Adviser Karen Wilkins supervised a candy sale held late in the year to establish the seed money for the scholarship. I've enjoyed being in CSF. It has given me the opportunity to become more involved in school, said Vice-President Karen Schmidt. Christi Genung, also an NHS member served as the CSF president. CSF looks good on transcripts for going to collegef' said sophomore Kathy Reilly. The requirements for membership in CSF include good scholastic and deportment marks. It is the only scholarship society that admits underclassmen, the NHS only inclucts juniors and seniors. Tp 1 1 1 1 1 r . ,f S l f if F Q 1 if 5 E ...ga r CSF - front, S. Cullen, A. DeNunzio, M. Bullard, P. Keifer, C. Langford, S. Bell, Kovak, Calkin, lVl. Lubanko, T. Chalman, P. Leavell, Reinsvold Row 2, M. Danko, L. Kulka, C. Vengrow, K Kleinschmit, M. Hunt, Spiker, L. Aphessetche E. Kim, D. Garfinkle, D. Payne, S. Grudem. Row 3 J. Lewis, I. Sarvey, C. Obremski, T. Aubuchon, L. Duncan, T. Schreitmuller, R. Barrarh, B. Stolten- berg, R. Bell, L. Brushwyler, C. Cisneros. Row 4, A. l Smith, C. Yang, K. Kennedy, K. Reilly, Kennedy. K. Schmidt, D. Cruz, C. Genung, M. Garfinkle, D Lukasiak, K. Slater. Row 5, P. Dunn, D. Hicks too - california scholarship federation