Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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David Schwartz and Stefan Husse-noederperform in Who's on First. Michele Reeder watches Brenda Lampe do some Happy Haunting. Students act in an afternoon performance of Scrooge. Mary Kunce plays the defense attorney in Night of January 16th. Plays 15

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Drama Department Plays, One Acts cast for presentation A variety of plays were presented last year. Students worked for weeks on the productions they would be performing. The casts performed Scrooge and Night of January 16th . Also, the casts put on a series of one act plays to entertain the audience they attracted. —I i The students presented a musical version of Scrooge . Old Ebenezer Scrooge was portrayed by Jeff Beckner. The ghosts, who literally returned to haunt him, were played by Mitzi Deckinger, Steve Walker, and Scott McGinnis. They had a difficult time, though, changing Ebenezer. He was reformed, of course, by Tiny Tim, whose father Bob Cratchit (Stefan Hussenoeder), was Scrooge's clerk. Mrs. Cratchit was played by Michelle Gilliland. A comedy-drama, Night of January 16th , dealt with a famous murder trial. The play followed the American court system accurately. The cast was led by Stefan Hussenoeder and Mary Kunce. They were both attorneys. A variety of witnesses presented their own case to the jury for deliberation. To add an unbiased judgement, a jury of 12 people were selected from the audience to try the case and give an honest, unplanned verdict. During the night of one acts, students casted seven different comedies. The one-acts were presented as a dessert theatre with dessert served during the intermission. Kelly Palmer plays a lady of the mop during the night of one acts. Stefan Hussenoeder submits some evidence to Loyal Parsons while Jeff Merz observes. A crowd gathers to listen tojamme Loss speak during the presentation of Scrooge. 14 Plays

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Close-up students fly to Washington We left for Omaha on Sunday, April 20, at 2:45 in the morning. We got there about 5:00 a.m. and got on the plane to fly to Chicago and then on to Washington. When we arrived, we unpacked and had the whole day to get familiar with the surroundings. On Monday we attended a few good seminars and saw some sights, such as the Washington Monument. We rode around on a bus and toured Washington. On Tuesday we attended a seminar at Capitol Hill. We walked all over and saw the House and the Senate. We attended a meeting there. On Thursday we attended more seminars. They were pretty good. We learned a lot. Friday was our last day there. We got to go wherever we wanted in Washington. I went to Georgetown and spent a lot of money. It was the time of our life. Saturday was the most depressing day there. We met many people while we were there, but then we had to leave them all because it was time to come home. By Shawn Miller Bobby Eis, Stephanie Ramsey, Laurie Groothuis, and Shawn Miller pose with Senator Exon. Bobby Eis gives a speech at a dinner during the Washington trip. The Capitol building was one of the toured sights in Washington. A group of Close-up participants gather at the airport for a picture. 16 Close-up