Belle Plaine High School - Tigerian Yearbook (Belle Plaine, MN)

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Senior Play FRONT ROW. Loft to Right: Lindo Zollmer (Kitty Verdun). Mary Lynch (Amy Spettigue), Kathy Brown (Ela Delahay). BACK ROW: Denny Fogarty (Jack Chesney). Craig Tordsen (Charley Wykeharm). Roger Efferti (Stephen Spettigue), Oh. no! It is! It is! exclaimed Ela when she discovered Babs impersonating Charley's Aunt. Bonnie Denier (Donna Lucia D'Alvadorei). Jerry Geisler (Sir Francis Chesney). Joe Stradcutter (Lord Babberly). Ross Wagoner (Brasset). “Charley’s Aunt,” Spoof, Presented by Seniors November 8 and 9, 1968, the senior class pre- sented Charley's Aunt to a thoroughly delighted audience. The play took place in Oxford, England, in the year 1892. Jack Chesney and Charley Wykeham, are chums at college. They are in desperate need of a chaperon as they want their sweethearts, Kitty Verdun and Amy Spettigue, to pay them a visit. Charley s Aunt, Donna Lucia D Alvadorez, from Brazil, seems to be the answer to their problems until she later informs them that she can't make it. A friend, Lord Fancourt Babberly, is persuaded to play the part of Charley's Aunt. The boys invited the girls to come and meet Aunt Lucia but Mr. Stephen Spettigue, Amy' father and Kitty' s guar- dian came to take them home. Mr. Spettigue fell in love with Charley's Aunt. The real Aunt arrived with Ela Delahay, Fancourt's sweetheart. Adding to the mayhem v as Jack’s father, Sir Francis Ches- ney, who fell in love with the real Aunt. In the end all was revealed, and everyone found out that Charley's Aunt wasn't really Charley's Aunt. 29

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Spring Play Spring Play. Left to Riqht: P. Melchior (Juror No. Two). D. Fogarty (Juror No. Three). R. Bromaghim (Juror No. Twelve), M. O'Connor (Juror No. Ten). D. Gerdes (Juror No. Six). M. Lynch (Juror No. One), D. Ahrens (Guard). J. Stradcutter (Juror No. Eight). N. Trailer (Juror No. Nine). J. Huber (Juror No. Four). J. Plonske (Juror No. Five). K. Brown (Juror No. Seven). B. Hahn (Juror No. Eleven). “Twelve Angry Jurors” First All-School Play On April 11 and 12, Belle Plaine High School presented its first all-school play, Twelve Angry Jurors , by Sherman L. Sergei. Arena staging was also used—another first for BPHS. The entire play took place in midsummer, in a jury room following the trial of a boy charged with the fatal stabbing of his father. At first, the jurors thought it would be a unanimous decision of guilty—all but juror number eight. He wasn't sure beyond a reasonable doubt. He set out to make the other jurors see that there was a question as to the boy's being guilty. He did this by re-enacting the crime and taking a thorough investigation of the witnesses' testimonies. Gradu- ally, he did convince the other jurors—all but one, number three. When it was time for the final tally of votes number three also gave in, proving that it does pay to take a good look at what's going on. Overly emotional juror no. three threatens no. eight with shouts of •Til kill you! when the evidence becomes too convincing. 28

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Debate Debaters Travelled to St. Cloud Invitational Resolved: That the United States should establish a system of compulsory service for all its citizens. This statement, chosen by the Minnesota High School League, sent our debaters to various invita- tional tournaments throughout the state. They at- tended an overnight for the annually held event at St. Cloud State College. They also travelled to other tournaments at Waconia, Hopkins, Lakeville, and Norwood. At the end of the season, they rep- resented BPHS at the district elimination finals held in South St. Paul. The varsity A squad was composed of Craig Tordsen and Roger Bromaghim, negative, and Deb Savage and Judy Scully, affirm- ative. Many long hours were spent listening to tapes, reading, cutting evidence, rehearsing and preparing a plan to use. Many trips were taken to the Min- neapolis Public Library to research. Deb Savage and Craig Tordsen search for evidence for their files in the high school library. Debate team, FRONT ROW, Left to Right: K. Hayes. D. Savage. B. Novalc. BACK ROW: J. Scully. R. Bromaghim, C. Tordsen. 30