George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Proves Theatrical and Financial Success At fingernail inspection the children get a welcome surprise as Dad gives in. Each child receives a gift, manicure sets for the girls and jackknives for the boys. Anne (Janet Macocha) hesitantly displays the pettis and silk stockings she bought, and argues about changing from old childish black stockings to the latest fashion, silk hose. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth check a new chart devised by Mr. Gilbreth for the elimination of wasted time. Mr. Gilbreth, an expert timesaver, manages everything with proficiency.

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Inotlxer role - for a time Junior Class Play “Motion study is fine as long as it’s somebody elses motions you’re studying,” complains the Gilbreth’s housekeeper. Fun and frolic invaded the GRC stage when the Junior Class presented “Cheaper By the Dozen.” Six¬ teen players and a patient Miss Jeani Knapp, faculty director, can truly boast a successful two-nighter. Sixteen long days in preparation was enough to make this warm story live again. Our junior thes- pians proved to be just the rascals to fill the bill. Efficiency was Dad Gilbreth’s creed— so efficient that our own Lee Marcisz, portraying Dad, was the first on stage for those nightly rehearsals. The six sons and six daughters of the Gilbreths’, were guinea pigs for the motion study experiments. If occasionally the “dozen” proved unwilling, only an experiment in laughter would result. One such instance was the matter of the family pet. From the moment the frisky collie set foot in the house, you could hear Dad protesting, “Any pet that doesn’t lay eggs is an extravagance that a man with twelve children can ill afford.” The task of leashing the lively collie inclined Virginia Sroka and Karen Vasilko to agree with Dad. Successfully surmounting all tasks, the final cur¬ tain fell and the last of the butterflies flew. It’s a rug for a tub in this bathing demonstration. 16

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Auditorium Sparkles with First Musical Merits “It’s never too late!” contends Lord Brockhurst (Ken Miller). May, 1962 marked the most resounding dramatic success in the school’s history. The Boy Friend was the first full-scale musical comedy to be pro¬ duced on the Clark stage. The directors, Miss Jeani Knapp and Miss Thelma Wilcox, overcame seemingly unsurmountable problems—teaching 6’ 7” Jerry Bercik to tap dance, training altos to sing soprano solos, getting A. J. Saliga to do the Charles¬ ton, and talking Ken Miller into wearing a striped, 1920’s bathing suit. But in two months, the cast was dancing and singing through three acts with fourteen musical numbers—and loving every minute of the experience. The Friday night performance received the first standing ovation in Clark’s history. The Boy Friend is a spoof of the 1920’s. It por¬ trays the razzle-dazzle of the era down to the last “vo-de-o-do.” The stereotyped plot concerns the girls at a finishing school at the French Riviera who are tracking down boy friends. A hackneyed ending resolves everyon e’s love affairs to the tune of “I Could Be Happy With You.” Just as a boy friend was “sine qua non” to the flappers so was the pit orchestra to the total effect of the show. Under the supervision of Mr. Snider, this group reproduced the two-beat, saxophone- heavy, cymbal-crashing music of the 1920’s. Polly (Barbara Hered) sings to Tony (Jerry Bercik) “I Could Be Happy With You”, as they dance on the beach. 18