Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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HACKETT ' S GREAT BIG DOOR QTEP •Jr q JSr ilf fllA ■ A, aw ). VXmQHR ,, , 1 m Evvie Crochet (DeEtte Westland), has no fear of be¬ coming a n old maid. She thinks her devout mother intends to make her a Little Sister to the Poor. How¬ ever, Evvie, who has eyes for one Mr. Tobin (Dave Rodebaugh), has different plans for her future. Arthur Crochet (John Morningstar) is an enterprising young man who wants to quit school and drive a truck. The Commodore ' s dislike of Arthur ' s dogs causes the young man to leave home and to bring the family ' s breakup even nearer. Then the Crochets hear of a place to be sold for $60 back taxes. To the family of a Drainage expert, $60 is no mere pittance, but the Commodore ' s brother Dewey, (Roger Diehm), himself a river pilot, comes up with a check . . . which bounces. The day is saved when Mrs. Beaumont Crochet (Judy Goodwin), a New Orleans florist who is not related to the Grass Margin Crochets, buys our Mrs. Cro¬ chet ' s lily blossoms for a whopping sum and arranges to buy more later. All is now right with the Crochets as Arthur returns and as they get a stupendable house to go with our doorstep. Student Director John Wilson (far left) worked tirelessly for the play ' s success. Here John is shown at dress rehearsal with cast members Larry Lochner, DeEtte Westland, and Jill Sunday. tee j ill

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SPEECH CLUB PRESENTS GOODRICH ■ The Great Big Doorstep, a gay comedy by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett, was this year ' s Speech Club Spring Play. Commodore Crochet (Larry Lochner) is an ex-river- boat pilot who is now a drainage expert (i.e. ditch digger) in the hamlet of Grass Margin, Louisiana. Mrs. Crochet (Jan Bruce), whom the Commodore af¬ fectionately calls Duck, is a devout Catholic and a good mother who frets over the possible breakup of her family. Living in their rented tumble-down shack is hard for the family. When Ol ' Miss floats an aris¬ tocratic big doorstep to the Crochets, Mrs. Crochet feels that her dream of a new home may soon come true. She also raises lily bulbs and has the twins, Elna (Debbie Summers) and Fleece (Jill Sunday), des¬ troy the blossoms so that Mrs. Dupre (Sherri Davis), the landlady, won ' t learn of her little enterprise. 17-yard-old Topal (Becky Tucker) has moved from the decaying shack into a nearby shed. Topal has fears of becoming an old maid now that the Commodore has broken her engagement with Tayo Delacroix (Tim Grogg), a local barber who doesn ' t like Texas Protestants. Speech Club Adviser Frank Shepard demonstrates make-up techniques on Beecher Hines, a member of the stage crew. Bee¬ cher, an eighth grade student, assisted in the play ' s lighting. AWS

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PROGRESS IS OUR MOST The freshmen on the Follies Hon¬ or Roll for 1965 were Patty Os- bun, Bobbie Kruse, Janis Shutt, Jack Sheets, Vickie Lockwood, Meg Sockrider, Cathy Cole, Bet¬ sy Brown, Pat Opper, and Marna Jones. Absent was Robert Voltz. Four members of each class with the highest cumula¬ tive grade averages were selected for the Follies Honor Roll. The Follies chose to acknowledge these academically outstanding students, for their achieve¬ ment in education merited special recognition. The background for the individual pictures pointed out the environment in which the respective classes found their courses of study. All freshmen were required to take biology. Many hours were spent in review of lab experiments. Sophomores were better acquainted with A.H.S. and found that study in the library was more relaxing. With a year ' s experience, subjects became easier, but juniors realized that among all their other worries, they had to make the grades. Writing accurate chemistry lab reports was just one of their problems. Speaking a foreign language was not al¬ ways a breeze , as seniors discovered in academic study. The Follies Honor Roll for sophomores, juniors, and seniors were: sophomores—Ken Scott, Malinda Henning, Kathy Gerig, and Sylvia Hood; juniors—Johanna Storey, Diann Kruse, Cindy 28 Jackman, and Mona Hess; seniors—Nancy Cooper, Terry Habig ( Carol Long, and Linda Nugen. The Follies of 1965 congratu¬ lates each for his hard work.