York Township High School - Talisman Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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E l0R PLAY WHAT A FAMILYI Directed by Mr. William Heath Friday May 13, 1955 Bill Evans and Bill Lloyd Stage Managers wa A 1 ,. 'ex Q. 'y 7 if J J i f ' 1 .elif H The Sperrys are probably like the family who -A-if fl . . ' lives next door to you. There is Pa fKenneth Kundertj, 4 I , l ' A- e, forever in a stew about something or other: Ma ' -1 I, xii. fLaDonna Eversolej, trying to remain calm and patient . . , ' A 'INF' despite the many little squabbles that are incident to a ' A ' f' T Q the average household, Granny Cfanell Swygartj, with her understanding ways and quiet humorg Ted Games Dissp, the typical college kid: Shirley Ueannine Vandemarkl, just old enough to be award of her own importance, Mickey Gerry Boltonj, whose efforts to be a detective sometimes have a disastrous effect, and JudyfDoris Daviesj, the young lady of the family, who suddenly discovers that her family is rather commonplace yoke1s. She is ashamed of them before her new boy friend, Eric Van Nuys Uohn C. Morrisj, who has driven her home from the New York home of her friends the Stanleys. Even Steve Bradford fPaul I V Pricey, her small-town sweetheart, who has always , Q G seemed just right, now becomes a country bumpkin. V f . Of course, this doesn't go down well with the ' - family, and Pa forbids Judy to have anything to do with Eric. But Judy goes ahead and makes a date with Eric. Pa discovers her leaving and for- bids her to go. Judy defies her father and goes and gets into Eric's car. Pa has one of his spells which always scares the family and Shirley, having witnessed the quarrel between Judy and her father, thinks he is dying and runs out into the rain after Judy. E Y J She falls and sprains her ankle and is found, taken K to the police station, and then brought home by an officer fLewis Brincefieldj, before the family, who f thought she was in bed asleep, learns she is out of H, the house. No word is heard from Judy until well after ' rnidnite, when she calls and says she is being held as a witness at a nite club where Eric took her. What a mad scramble is made to get the amount Judy needs, without letting Pa or Ma know of her trouble. Granny turns thief and robs everyone in the house of all their savings, and sends Steve on the way to Judy's rescue. In due time he returns home with Judy, a much chastened girl. Her fine boy friend has failed her, and she realizes that she doesn't belong with his or the Stan1ey's crowd. KEN I ,,z,. ' 5 ,N Q., ,Q ,U a L .. 'z I f ' ' W. m

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JU IOR PLAY THE GHOST OF POSSUM HOLLOW! I Lightning flashes, rolls of thunder, weird moans from behind walls, and bodies falling out of closets 4, plague a high school girls' outing club in their efforts to renovate for their own use the house that fi W has just been given -- V- Hollowl rm sc ,, Terrible Terrence Smyth his grades in schoolj and his gang, was not given to them, set out to girls will never want to come back. almost professional and an ela- set. them ill 10l'lC1y P055um because of the house so that the 2 Their job of house haunting is borate set of booby traps are Qso called disappointed haunt the Just as the girls and Miss I mv-0 Priss,their school teacher chaperon,are about to return and walk into a verit- K ' vi able house ofhorrors,two jewel thieves appear, thinking that the place is a deserted hide- ? away. the confusion that follows because of the robbers keeping their identity a secret, Ter- rence inadvertently works out the means of their escape. But before leaving, the thieves truss up Mr. Dingleberry, the O' S school principal, who f was com- ming to the rescue. The ghost Terrible Terrence is blamed the radio as being connected traps start going off and Mr. Dingleberry is discovered in a closet. Of course, for what has happened. Miss with the thieves, so the boys Priss is identified over 1 tie her up. One of Terrence's gang, while treking through the surround- ing woods, finds a stalled State Police car which the robbers had stolen for their getaway and sent out the fake description of Miss Priss over the f short wave broad- caster as a joke. Finally mm the State Troopers arrive-- j led to the scene by the short 'X' wave radio beam. The robbers, in their ' flight step into possum traps r one of the boys set in the woods and are caught, Terrence and his is friends are just M, about to be sentenced by Mr. Dingleberry to far off A- Q Siberia, when the 'fx troopers intervene,saying had it not been for the radio F' call they never I would have come to Possum Hollow. Asa reward for saving the day, the boys are given a cabin of their own--way on the other side of town! l --an-ni The play was under the direction of 1954. The cast of characters are as follows: Stubby . Elza . . ' Miss Priss . Terrence Smythe . . . . . . . I-Ag-L ,,. Bum Uohn ' Hancockj . . F Black Jack . . , , , , Mr. Her- Mrs. Helen Briggs . . ..... . . Mr. Cuthbert Dingleberry . . Mr. George Miles State Troopers . gum' wr ... . . . . bert Briggs . . . . Bill Lloyd Miss Janice Ragan and was presented on May 7. . Jeannine Vandemark ..DorisDavies . . . . LaDonna Eversole . Don Vandemark . John C. Morris Lewis Brincefield f . . Janell Swygart . Bill Evans . . . . Paul Price . . . Kenneth Kundert and James Diss

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