Athens High School - Arena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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LEFT PAGE Top Right: ’Til deal. We’ll use my deck.” Sneaky (Bill Miller) reincarnated demands the cards from Sheriff Jack Oglesby. Saloon girl Maroon (Julie Brophy) and Bill Jackson (Brett Rympa) stand behind him. Left: Alone Sneaky counts his money, before hiding it in his pot-bellied stove. Middle: Sneaky, on his ’’death bed,” calls for Doc Burch (John Raper). who schemes and plots to steal Sneaky’s savings and his blue ’’buryin’ suit. ” RIGHT PAGE: Top Left: Not knowing just what to do. Undertaker Mervyn Vale (Jim Davis). Reverend Blackwood (Roger Crawley), and Doc Burch debate about the differ- ent solutions to the problem of Sneaky Fitch. Above: ’’Drunk again. Brother Fitch?” ’’Hell no. Reverend. The word is STILL!” replies Sneaky, as Rackham (Brian Walker) and Mervyn Vale watch him with disgust. Left: The Golpher Gulch Gang at the funeral of Sneaky, prepare him for his journey ’’six feet under.” Pictured are: Terri Schwindler, Tracy Stout, Erica Marks, Martha Wilhelm, Van Huff. Mary Sue Foster, Julie Stout, Eric Evans, Brian Walker, Roger Crawley. Jim Davis. Not Pictured: Ross Hall. Jon Loomis. Cindy Jones. Diane Farley, Theresa Klimko. Randy Leonard. Brett Rympa, Tony Turnbull. Cindy Grafton, Student Director Susan Harlan. 21

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch • • • The saga of the Old West . . . almost. The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch.” a western comedy by James L. Rosen- berg was performed March 7,8, and 9. . . Sneaky's the most lily-livered, yellow-bellied, good-for-nothing, low- down, rotten-clean-through miserable polecat that ever walked the face of the West - and that ain’t the half of it,” exclaims Jon Loomis as the Singer, the narrator of the play. Sneaky, as played by Bill Miller, is a coward, who comes back to life to terrorize a typical western town.” All the typical characters” are there . . . from the Sheriff to the dance hall girls, from the Mortician to the Reverend, from the Black-hat Outlaw to the town Doc. Sneaky’s drugged body is taken for dead, to the town’s delight. At his funeral, he wakes up, to the town’s dismay, as the new town terror.

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 SOLD . . . To the Highest Bidder!” A public auction brought many spec- tators to the gym lobby when Key Club sponsored AHS’ first slave sale in five years. Students and faculty members were sold to the highest bidders for a work span of three mods. Since Key Club is affiliated with Kiwanians, Steve Eddy lent a helping and acted as auctioneer. Auctioneer. Steve Eddy of Kiwanis raises the bids. Digging deep. Steve Gier trying to scrape enough money together to pay for Kathy Falkcnstien. Diane Marsh bought and paid for by rich guy Eddie Davis. 22