Great Mills High School - Echo Yearbook (Great Mills, MD)

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The Gaslight Follies With a Gay Nineties setting, in- cluding a noisy peanut gallery, the Class of '71 presented their winter senior play, The Gaslight Follies, on January 15 and 16. The series of three one-act melodramas was high- lighted with special scripting, includ- ing the kidnapping of an entire cast by John Sullivan. Dora the Beautiful Dishwasher, Fireman, Save My Child, and The Great Western Melodrama, were typ- ical old mill plays with typical hero- versus-villain plots. Practices held al- most daily after school and nearly every night until midnight, under the direction of Mr. Richard Thompson, turned the production into a side- tickling, knee-slapping comedy. The behind-the-scenes stage crew, manned by Scott Merchant, Dan Mief sowitz, Tom Leonard, Vickie Hughes, Paul Payne, Gary Potter, and John Sullivan, and the grease paint daub- ers, comprised of Donna Hamann, Ginny Crum, Vickie Hughes, Debbie Ethridge, Patti Cameron, Sherry Al- dridge, and Donna Pall, make-up con- sultant, greatly contributed to the success of the Seniors' theatrical en- terprise. DORA THE BEAUTIFUL DISHWASHER Cast Dora Horne. .... .......... B ertha Vanikiotis Malvina Hyacinth .............. Pam Powell Esther Barlow .................. Micki Ryan Hector Hyacinth ................. Don Smith Lorin Chillingsworth ...... Sherman Fleming Arnold Wise ..............,.. Jim Pembroke Andrea Morgan ..... ..... S andra Mims

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Great Millians After Hours Q11 The St. Mary's County library in Lexington Park provides resource materials for Great Millians such as John Sullivan. Q21 Spirited band members like Rod Brylawski and Becky Maus take advantage of their noise-making ca- pacity at pep rallies. Q37 Henry Rowe enter- tains his audience with some of his own musi- cal compositions during a special concert. C45 Francis Russell and Nancy Ross stop for a breather during a GM dance. C39 in so 71' C25 Outstanding Teen- Agers of America Florence Cline,sPam Smith, Chris Rutland, and Marvin Sewell, below, were nominated by Principal Marvin Joy as Outstanding Teenagers of America in recognition of scholar- ship, leadership, and service to the community. As nominees for the na- tional contest, their pictures and biographies will appear in a bound edition of the OTA yearbook and they are eligible to compete with some 300 Maryland contestants for the state trophy. The state winner competes nationally for a 31000 schol- arship. 1 t't f

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QD Andrea Morgan fSandra Mimsl reminds Hector Hyacinth fDon Smithj that they are to be married in Dora the Beautiful Dishwasher. C21 Esther Barlow QMicki Ryanl refuses to be-' lieve that Hector has proposed to Dora fBertha Vanikiotisj. C31 Sally Crossbury QAnita Wil- helmj tries to escape Archibald Quingle's hype notic stare in Fireman, Save My 'Childl Q41 Mortima McSkew CAnsley Bentleyl consoles her' daughter, Daisy fSharon Ravnl after the second cast has taken over in the Great West- ern Melodrama. CSD A poker player fDon Smithl and a barmaid QPhyllis McKayJ relax at the saloon. C37 1,5- S' if t gg, 3X fs o Ni . 1 s ' I ligf o Y, . ' Qi. . 'lf , . V ,jean 'L,'1x 5 ' gs e '14 X E9 W S x r v w' f ' w Q ik, , - i. 5? wi-Q N' A ,-J. .V ,J ?',4c i FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD! Cast Mrs. Julia Quingle ........... Ruth Shepherd Carol Noell Chester Quingle ...... ....... J eff Beard Archibald Quingle .... .... C hris Rutland Myrtle Jones ........ .... P am Powell Daisy Dorrance ....... ....... C arol Herr Mrs. Sally Crossbury ......... Anita Wilhelm Bing Barnes ............ ..... M ike Hewitt Don Smith Mary Lawson .... .... L ynn Johnson gifs? 659 THE GREAT WESTERN MELODRAMA First Cast ' Sheriff ..... ............. C hris Rutland Villain ....... .... S herman Fleming Card Players .... ...... G ary Potter Mike Hewitt Jim Pembroke John Sullivan ..... .... J ohn Sullivan Barmaid ..................... Phyllis McKay Second Cast Filbert Fearless ................. Carol Noell Daisy McSkew .... ..... S haron Ravn Abigail McSkew .... ...... M icki Ryan Mortima McSkew ..... ..... A nsley Bentley Oswald Slugfest ..... .... B ertha Vanikiotis Two-Gun Percy . . . ..... Rita McDonald I9