Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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“M,other 3 a 3re kman Abigail Abbott Susan Abbott Dean Gillingham Professor Michaels Beaumont Jackson Mrs. Miller Clara ... Sylvia Bunny Helen - - - Carrie Marge Howie Jack ... Bill - - - Cast .......................Jackie Lyndrup ...................Thelma Grosvenor .......................Ken Nichols ........................Roger Conrad ............................Bob Hansen ........................Elin Thorlund .......................Deloris Button .......................Joanne Benedict ........................Jane Lockwood ........................Betty Reynolds ....................Betty Nickerson ...........................Carol King .........................Bob Simpson .......................Charles Houle ........................Roger Howes It is only natural for one to expect the Senior Class to more or less steal the show in any school, because of the experience they have gained through the previous three years. This was generally true around G. H. S., this year as all the others. But the Seniors really went overboard in stealing the show with the production of their Senior Play, Mother is a Freshman. This event was one which the majority of the cast and committees had had little or no previous experience, but that didn't stop the class of '51! Mother is a Freshman was written by Raphael David Blau and dramatized by Perry Clark. Miss Eileen Probst, American literature teacher, directed the class in the production. Carol King was the general chairman of the play. As the curtain slowly opened the audience viewed the living room of the home of Mrs. Abigail Abbott and her daughter, Susan. Mrs. Abbott, played by Jackie Lyndrup, was a widow of around 35, who had run out of finances. When trying to figure out a way to keep her daughter, Susan, played by Thelma Grosvenor, in college she discovered a scholarship offered by the college to anyone named Abigail Fortitude. This looked like a good way to keep Susan in college and to provide a roof over her head. Dean Gillingham (Kenneth Nichols) was very suspicious of Abigail's motives for wanting to attend college. He was sure she was going to bring some trouble to Pointer College and was determined to find a way to expell her. Elin Thorlund played Mrs. Miller, the house mother of the girls' dorm. The college girls whom Susan and Abby came into contact with were the studious Sylvia (Joanne Benedict); cute, naive Bunny (Jane Lockwood); sophisticated Helen (Betty Reynolds), who was much more interested in men than in srudies; happy-go-lucky Carrie (Betty Nickerson); scatterbrained Clara (Deloris Button), who was Susan’s best friend; and the pleasing Marge (Carol King), with a fondness for sweets. Bob Hansen played Bobo, the pleasant-looking, but somewhat conceited chap who did have his troubles with Susan. Bill (Roger Howes), Howie (Bob Simpson), and Jack (Charles Houle) were the likeable good-natured college boys, who were in and out of the scenes. Roger Conrad played the handsome zoology professor, Dan Michaels, who made all the girls' hearts pound fast! Compliments of Kennedy Sales and Service twenty-nine

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Top row — E. Thorlund, R. Howes, B. Simpson, R. Conrad, B. Hansen, C. Houle, Ken Nichols, Miss Probst. Seated—B. Reynolds, J. Lockwood, J. Lyndrup, T. Grosvenor, J. Benedict, C. King. Left to right — T. Grosvenor, B. Hansen, C. King. J. Lockwood, B. Simpson. twenty-eight Compliments of J. C. Penney Company

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