Wauneta High School - Broncho Yearbook (Wauneta, NE)

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Is my make-up on straight? We'd better hurry! the curtain goes up in ten minutes. We've got a full house tonight. Are you nervous? If you happened to go back stage before the curtain opened on the Senior play this year, you might have heard the above statements made by either the play cast or their director, Miss Ihrig. The play this year was called June Dawn , a three act comedy. It was given on February thirteenth and fourteenth, starting at eight o'clock in the evening. The cast of characters was as follows: Ann Nelson........................................Patsy Hopkins Mrs. Grace Nelson...................Glenda Zimmerman Taffy Brown.............................Darlene Dunbar Betsy Craig.............................Jeralyn Novacek Andrew Craig..............................Marvin Large Hank Burroughs...................................Robert Kitt John Nelson......................................Dennis Terry Mr. Albert Nelson.....................Richard Fanning Melissa Clark.........................Wanda Walbridge L. M. Stoddard...............................Tommy Hill Sparky Reagan.............................Ronnie Moody Gloria Vance...............................Jo Anne West Prompters...........................Elvira Nordhausen Arlene Kennedy Extras: Carol Schreiber, Marita Walker, Marjy Blobaum, Clara Maddux, Barbara Fekkers, Ila Miller, Bob Bartels, Dick Bartels, Delbert Haar-berg, Robert Hohl, Floyd Fortkamp, Bob Colson, Herschel Zarecor, Elaine Maris, Jim Graves, Theda Bell Harvey, Bonnie Berry, and Gaylin Hartzer. 25

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY JUNE DAWN” The play is the story of a movie struck girl, Ann Nelson, who invites a motion picture company to film some of its sequences at the high school where her father is principal. A temperamental director and two young actors, Melissa Clark and Sparky Reagan, arrive at the Nelson home. Although Ann's father promises the head of the Board of Education, Andrew Craig, that there will be no disruptions, disruptions hardly describes the events that quickly follow. Because of her ambitions, Ann breaks with the high school track star. Her cousin John decides to give up his teaching career to Marry Melissa Clark. Andrew Craig's daughter is arrested for speeding with Sparky Reagan. The climax of this hectic week comes when Ann rings the fire bell right in the middle of Mr. Craig's speech at assembly, and the student body comes pouring out for a scene in the picture. Ann finally sacrifices her ambitions and makes everything come out happily for everyone in the end. She also learns that Life really dawns for a girl when she learns to be unselfish, as Mrs. Nelson says. 24

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JUNIOR PLAY On November 13 and 14 the Junior Class presented, Quiet Everybody, a 3-act comedy. The scene for the play was the front porch of the Edward Homey residence in a small city. Edward Homey (Gene Haarberg), returning from a hard day's work at the store demanded peace and quiet , because Jonathan Sedgewick, (Tommy Crapson) big-shot of the Grocer's Association, was coming to see his plans for a new plastic method of canning, and if Sedgwick likes them, we'll be sitting pretty. Sedgwick was eccentric and had a phobia against bugs, insects, and animals of all sorts. Carol Homey's (Ethel Daniel) girl friend, Juanita Murray, (Marlene Lamb) arrived for a week's visit. She upset all the male hearts of the family, -- all except revengeful Dan Homey (Keith Gage). When the three Homey off-springs, their pals, an accentric bug-collecting uncle, (Ralph Donze) a pie making Alvetta (Madolyn McBride), next door who adores the professor, Gussippe (Russel Meyer) a distracted Italian zookeeper, an escaped lion, a party, and a dozen and one other things got under way. Mrs. Homey, (Wanda Stinnette) tried to get the peace and quiet her husband demanded, but it is a big order. Dan had a change of heart and came to Jaunita but she turned him down. Ned, (Loren Tatum) Joe, (Larry Tatum) and Dan catch the lion and became hero's. Then puzzle addict Sedgwick and Dan get together and save the day for Mr. Homey's plastic canning project. Dan decide'd he was too young for Juanita, and Alvetta finally waggled Professor Partridge into a proposal. Alvetta threw her arms around the trapped professor unmindful of the pie balanced in her hand, and for the second time during the evening Mr. Sedgewick received a banana cream pie in the face. 26