North Kansas City High School - Purgold Yearbook (North Kansas City, MO)

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The Senior supports Our Towri On the evening of February 28,1976,th9 North KEHWSHS City Drama Department presented Thornton Wilder! Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town. The play stressed the importance of everyday life-not only the simple tasks that are carried out from day to day, but the value of the smallest events in daily life. Our Town represents an innovation in theater in that no scenery is used. Wilder once said of the play: ln the first two acts there are at least a few chairs and tables, but when Emily revisits the earth and the kitchen to which she descended on her twelfth birthday, the very chairs and tables are gone. Our claim, our hope, our despair are in the mind-not in things, not in scenery! i w Carla Scovill uses the technique of pantomine in her portrayal of Mrs. door Constable Warren and Mr. Webb escort a very drunk Simon Stimson home as Rebecca, George and Emily gaze out into the evening moonlight. While stringing beans, Mrs. Webb and Emily discuss George, the boy next F , pun- l .5 K Qi,...i, V Y - 3, Directing t steady Sirr l in 3 'Q l

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SS H7 insas Zler's fssed tasks f the that 1 the , but 1 she and n the Directing the choir members of the congregational is a rather un- steady Simon Stimson. The Cast Stage Manager . . ......... . . . Dr. Gibbs ..... joe Crowell ..... Howie Newsome . . . Mrs. Gibbs ..... Mrs. Webb .... George Gibbs . . Rebecca Gibbs . . Wally Webb . .. Emily Webb ...... Professor Willard . . . Mr. Webb ........... Woman in the Balcony . . . Man in the Auditorium.. . Lady in the Loge ...... Simon Stimson . . Mrs. Soames ...... Constable Warren . . . Si Crowell ...... Baseball Players . . Sam Craig ....................... l my next out into ini is Miljb: sicn out into the moonlight to smell the The Stage manager, Gerald Trimble, explains: This is the way we were in our growing up and in our marrying and in our li-'ing and our dying. . Gerald Trimble Steve Robertson . . . Mark Patton . . .Mike Sinnett . . Carla Scovill . . .Marji Christy . . . .Mike Evans . Deanna Crabb Derrick Rawdon .Martha Soxman . . . . james Rich . . . .Bill Silvers . . Linda Piersee . .Scott Childers . . Susan Swant . . . David Wood . . . . Beth Black . . Bob Wurdack . . . Pat Hoffman .. . 1. V. Gregg Mike Stock Scott Leighty BobGale