Queensbury High School - Orbit Yearbook (Queensbury, NY)

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“ Deadly rnes STUDENT DIRECTORS Gloria Smith... Dale Roider CAST HENRY AUNT ETHEL • MARGIE----- PUMPKIN - - • JILL........ GLADYS - - - AUNT STELLA CLARISSA - - ERNESTINE - - ERNIE------- MR. BUMPUS - SLEEPY C. E. GRIMM DR. ERNEST - -----Stephen Skellie ----------Gail Larson -----Victoria Jacobs - - - - - Daryl Da us Theresa Farr -----Sharon O’Neil - Geraldine Eckhart - - Judith Funicelle Carolyn VanDenburg - - - Richard Threw - - - Joseph Zamore -Leon Sawn - - Samuel Patterson - - - - Rodney Hill

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selling of magazines was another of our money-making projects for our junior year. Prizes, which were given to those who sold the greatest number of magazine subscriptions, were won by five members of our class Sharon O'Neil. Gerry Eckhart, Linda Burnett, Eddie Winchip, and Bob Jones. We also sold Christmas and all-occasion cards in our junior year. A big event of our junior year was one we had been waiting for the longest - our class rings. To our great pleasure, they arrived just before Christmas vacation. In previous years we had so admired the class rings of others that we were quite excited when we could proudly display our own. The next project in our junior year was our play, DEADLY ERNEST, which was presented on the evening of March 29, 1957. The members of our class worked hard and earnestly on this project and all gave a sigh of relief when the big night arrived and the play proved to be a success. The success of the play was due to the devoted work of the class, the fine performances of the participants, and to the directors. Mrs. Rooke and Mrs. Fuller, whose painstaking work truly con- tributed to the fine performance

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 DEADLY ERNEST by Donald Payton DEADLY ERNEST is a merry mixup of manhunt and murder. The play had for its setting the living room of Terwilliger’s boarding house. The plot revolved around the person of Henry Gilchrist who in a moment of dark despair pays a stranger $17. 83 to have himself disposed of. It all started when Herny’s boss fired him and his girl friend threw him overboard and Aunt Ethel ordered him from her boarding house because of no rent money. Henry, spending the night in a park, meets one Mr. Bumpus. Henry pours out his troubles to Mr. Bumpus. who tells Henry he has a friend named Ernest who gets poor, downtrodden people like Henry out of their misery. The next day Henry has a change of luck and afraid of being murdered stays in the boarding house for safety. From then on virtually everyone who appears is named Ernest and after Henry. This made for a hilarious situation.