Bentley High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Livonia, MI)

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Mother, sisier and their boyfriends dis- cover Lancelol Briggs hiding underlhe seflee in The Trysling Place. Class of '59 thespians presented one act plays as Juniorsp Agnes tells her bass how wonderful he is while his wife con- lempluously dis- agrees. This scene was from Apollo af Bellac.

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Pause that retleshes -bath for the purchaser and the Senior treasury, that is . These shirts are almost as nice as the ones I knit, and they're much less expensive. 5. 'i .13- ,-. 'I-J. .?7?f?+ f. -f . . .-:P-I1 112135: l . 5 Q . N' Points, dollars pile up via sales of cokes, cards, candy, etc Money, money, money-that's what the Senior Class of i959 sought and got for their Senior trip and gift to Bentley. Concession stands during the football and basketball seasons were run feverently by Seniors busily selling cokes, potato chips, and candy to hun- gry spectators. Early winter saw citizens of Livonia and surrounding communities greeting the Seniors who were then selling boxes upon boxes of candy and Christmas cards. Further to prevent bankruptcy in the treasury, funds were derived from booster buttons, sweat shirts, auto stickers, and book covers. What an exciting day it was when the pic- is tures arrived, iust in time tor Christmas. We hadn't realized how utterly glamorous we really were . :SCH-. ..-Offs . g .,.A,, , .. ...,, - 4 s. 5 J 9 - s L

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Make-up is part ot the fun of giving plays. Jim Paul labovel was gleefully smeared with cold cream by Sandy Gaston, as Phyllis Gray, Nancy Trapp and Gail Lindsay looked on before the Junior play. Meredith Keras lrightl prepared actress Karen Smith for her role in Carson Corners. Dramatic experiences of the class of '59 ranged from a series of one-act plays presented as Juniors to the full-fledged three-act play of this year. Included in the trilogy were Apollo of Bellac lthe title referring to a sculptured bust of Apollol, in which a young girl held spellbound the male employees of an office and nearly broke up the marriage of the Boss, Booth Tarkington's famous farce, The Trysting Place, which embroiled an entire family in ROMANCE and Xingu, in which members of a women's club tried to impress a famous author but discovered they didn't CQ, hh 0 I U fin af? 'v' ' 2 kyglll ff' ll 411.3 know what they were talking about. Mrs. Pamela Wisniewski directed this theatrical trio. One year more mature, the Seniors tackled the full- length presentation of The Remarkable Incident of Carson Corners, under the direction of Mr. John Erickson. In this play, Carson Corners high school stu- dents, angered by the accidental death of one of their classmates, impressed their parents with the need for each member of the community to accept either responsibility or the blame for accidents which resulted from his own negligence. staged the three-act drama of Carson Corners this year Carson Corners par- entstlnally realizethat they have only them- selves to blame tor the death of one ofthe town's teenagers.