Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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EXCERPTS FROM LYDIA LANGUISH’S LIBRARY Nor are your females trained to any more useful purpose: they are taught, by the very rewards which their nurses propose for good behavior... that a young woman is a creature to be married; and when they are grown somewhat older, are instructed, that it is the purpose of marriage to have the enjoyment of pin-money and the expectation of a jointure. Henry Mackenzie The Man of Feeling But young women know so little of the world, especially of the other sex, and such pains are usually taken to deceive them that they are every way unqualified to choose for themselves. Mrs. Chapone ‘On the Regulation of the Affections’’ ... the children are to obey, as far as possibly they can, and give up the little objections of fancy to the more mature deliberations of their parents— The Whole Duty of Man Ah, Seymour! Itis impossible to regulate the notions of the human heart, by the cold rules of reason! Elizabeth Griffith The Delicate Distress Letter VIII Parents must be respected by their children, who must pay them external honor and civility; for as love comprises all kinds of honour, so it is an offense against natural decency, to see children bear themselves upon the square with their parents, to answer them rudely, or to be wanting in respect, in looks or gesture, in words or in deeds. The Whole Duty of Man

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PRODUCTION STAFF OF THE SENIOR PRODUCTION STAGE AND SCENERY: Stephen Bishop, Bruce Smith, Steve McHugh, Eric Cowen, Susan Philips, Marina Fini, Jeanette Nae Patricia Picucci, Patricia Gray, Patricia Fortin, David ole. PUBLICITY: Bruna Arquilla, Kathie Peloquin, Linda Daigle, Elvira Celli, Lucinda Cleaves, Glenn Nathan, Marc Tonkin, Te Walker, Kathy Mullahy, Maureen Rivers, Alanda awkins. MAKE-UP: Susan Stragliotto, Jane Rooney, Linda Day, Kathy Mullaney, Patricia O’Mealy, Karen Comiskey, Margaret Flana- cay Patricia Pierce, Valerie Amico, Patricia Healy, Linda aigle, Elvira Celli, Jane Piper. USHERETTES: Susan Cote, Lucinda Cleaves, Linda Held, Carolyn MacPhee, Linda Proietti, Andrea Rubio, Paula Allen, Maria Billio, Gail Crochetiere, Andrea Poulson, Sandra Sharos, Kathy Tibert, Debbie Acerbi. PATRONS: Carla DiRusso, James Despo, Lynn McEvoy, Karen Grasso, Kathy Rougeau. TICKETS: Kathy Mullahey, Bonnie Powers, Paula Lanagen, Chris- tine Somma, Diane Latini, Donna Dandini, Valerie Amico, Mary Going, Kathy Peloquin, Donna Guadagnoli, Lori Gallant, Diane Scorzelli, Jane Greeno, Kim Lauer, Jim Hinds, Andrew Cousins, Patrice Caponi, Patricia Pierce, Anne Preville, David DiGeronimo, Richard Cote, Anne Boudreau, Maureen Rivers, Dale Stobele, Susan Stragliotto, Sarah Saunders, Carla Di- Russo, Patricia Thomas, Anne Latini, Alanda Hawkins, Susan Kielty, David Lolli, James Muse, Linda Proietti, Susan Cerier, Marina Fini, Rosalie Bourgeois PROPERTIES: Kathy Mullahy, Maureen Rivers, Beth Cannon, Susan Stragliotto, Bettyanne Proctor, Andrea Lagoy, Pat Gormley, Karen Piermarini, Holly Haase, Donna Duval, Jane Greeno, Kathy Mullaney, Vicki Oliver, Kathy Rougeau. COSTUMES: Beth McDonald, Mary Going, Joyce Bisson, Beth Libhart, Martha Lagoy, Marilyn Bergeron, Kathy Mullaney, Pat Gormley, Margaret Flanagan, Patty O’Mealy, Jane Piper, Kathy Peloquin, Pat Fortin, Andrea Poulson, Sandra Sharos, Donna Guadagnoli, Marianne Beike, Lee Smith, Bruna Arquilla.

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Abeut the Author In 1775, when Richard Brinsley Sheridan was twenty-three, he wrote his first play The Rivals. It quickly won him fame that has accounted ever since for half of his celebrity. Sheridan’s purpose was to make fun of the sentimental comedy so popular in England at that time. His heroine, Lydia Languish, would rather elope with a poor ensign than be married in church to a wealthy captain. ‘‘Such erratic behavior was the result of her avid book reading, no doubt!’’ Sheridan created stock theatrical characters such as Sir Anthony, the blustery, bumbling father; Bob Acres, the cowardly fighter; and Sir Lucius, the hearty man-about-town and Irish rogue. All cavort in delightful eighteenth century intrigue. And of course, the parody could not be complete without Mrs. Malaprop and her loquacious attempts at elegance.