Berlin Central School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Berlin, NY)

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On the nights of February 6th and 7th the Senior Thespians presented the play, Everything Happens To Us , by Robert St. Clair. June Vreeland and Bill Moses were convincing in their parts as Mr. and Mrs. Ross. Their sons were portrayed by Walt Zwinge, Fred Humphrey and Barry McCumber. The love interest of the play was provided by Gayle Croxson, Rosemarie Griswold and Luella Yerden. Barbara Merrills, Steve Wilcox, Robert Kroboth and Almira Maynard were excellent in character parts. Scenery was constructed and painted by Victor Lecce and Tommy MaeVei i. Lights were expertly handled by Robert Soles. Patty Lewis and Irene LeBarron were in charge of costumes and properties. Elsie lives handled publicity and tickets. Steve Wilcox, Bill Moses and Victor Lecce did a fine job of handling the sound effects. With the able direction of Mr. Harold Hotaling, assisted by Mrs. Jeanette Miller, the play was very successful

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found herself starred in the lead of Ronald Channings', September Evening which had a long run at the Barry Theatre in New York. Tommy has been a man of all trades» He joined the navy for four yo®rs and then decided to return to civilian life» Next Tommy tried eing a draftsman for the G. E. at Schenectady. He left his position to become the manager of a boot company and really gets quite a kick out of it. After much searching the trunk has been found. Before it can be opened Luella Yerden, Betty Sherica”, and Almira aynard arrive. Luella got a job with an insurance company as secretary. Feeling that she wanted a great deal of insurance she married the boss and got a life policy. Luella has one additional policy, a bouncing boy with big bream eyes. Betty also became a secretary for the manager of an atomic fisson plant which is now developing an atomic space rocket. Betty is married to one of the experimental pilots and they rlrn to settle on Lars in the near future. Almira is now a confidential secretary for the Presided of the United States. There is a rumor going around that the President was impeached after reading his Statu of the Onion Speech. It was breathless I Guess who typed it for him? Almira is engaged to a Senator from the deep south and plans to raise peanuts with a southern drawl. Barry McCumber, arrives unoticed by anyone because of ;he hammering on the trunk. Barry joined the navy after high school and was shipped to Ice- land. After careful consideration he married a cute little Iceland girl and returned to the states. Today he is the idol of the American screen He appears to be the lionty Clift of the 1960's. Late as usual are Patty Lewis and Barbara Merrills. Patty of course finally made up her mind and took a lifetime lease on a land Grant. Grant is a well-known politician. Patty helps him write his speeches and also travels with him on hes campaigns. In her spare time at home Patty keeps busy -with her twin daughters. Barbara is a member of the Woman's Air Force and is married to a jet pilot. She and Betty are sisters-in lav , being married to brothers. She has two small buck privates v hich really keep her flying. Finally the trunk is opened. Just as everyone is about to rummage in the trunk there is a violent tremor throughout the house and then a s .dden thud is heard. Steve Wilcox has just landed outside in his spaceship. Steve comes in off the roof accompanied by prof. Moses, eminent chemist. Steve is a construction engineer having hot his start in the Senior play. Bill is recovering from an explosion in an atonic piant where he has been working. Bill hasn't ohanged much since the old days in chemistry class. Last to arrive at our reunion is Mr. Hotaling with Irene, who he picked up hitch-hiking. Irene is a little bewildered but we guess she'll be O.K. Mr. Hotalir.g's lateness is credited to his old 1951 Chevy v hich is just abc-t on its last lege. He says the last installment will be paid come June. He plans next to buy a small bus to accomodate the ever increasing family. Our reunion is now complete.. The entire class gathers around the trurk and reminisoes about the good old days.

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As 11s30 approached Friday morning, April 11, the Seniors hurriedly climbed aboard Bus Fe. 11. In a few minutes we would be on our way to Albany and then the big city. As we looked to the windows we were pleasantly surprised to see the members of B.C.S. bidding us farewell. We arrived in Albany about 12:45 giving us 45 minutes until our bus left for Few York. • At approximately Is 30 in the afternoon fifteen Seniors and their two Chaperones, Miss Emily Wager and Mr. Harold Hotaling, left Albany for New York City. About half way there our bus broke down but we still managed to reach our destination, the Hotel Belvedere, at 6:40--------five minutes early. After getting settled in our rooms, we went to the Automat for dinner and from there started our orientation of Broadway. It is not yet determined how Bill, Steve, and Walt became separated from our group, but nevertheless they did. After a short visit to Rockerfeller Plaza where we sufficiently froze while watching the skaters, we spent the rest of the evening at the Roxy Theatre where we saw the Easter Shew and the movie With a Song in My Heart. We arrived baok at the Hotel to find that our three missing olass- mates had returned a couple hours before. Saturday was mostly occupied with our all-day tour, which included the Empire State Observatory, the Cathedral of St. John the Devine, a tour of Fifth Avenue up to Riverside Church followed by lunoh at Radio City's Down Under Restaurant. After lunch was our boat ride and visit to the Statue of Liberty—how many hundreds of steps did we count??? Next we rode through Harlem and the Bowery and stopped at Chinatown, where we visited the Chinese Temple and the gift shop where we purchased souvenirs. Our tour ended with a visit to NBC Radio and Television Studios, where we were greatly impressed by seeing Fred, Steve, Bill, and Walt on Television. At this time Walt favored us with his rendition of Without a Song. Saturday night a group of five went to the Word of Life Radio Show at Carnegie Hall While all of the others ate dinner. Later the entire group met to attent the Lyrio Theatre where we saw Quo Vadis. When Sunday morning rolled around the Seniors, with the exception of five sleepy mles, attended Church; some going to St. Patricks and the rest to Calvary Baptist. After Church, we somehow managed to make our way up dnd down Fifth Avenue in the Easter Parade. Then came the big occasion, of hav- ing dinner at the famous Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, where we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. While we were here several groups had their pictures taken at their tables. We concluded the day with a visit to the circus at Madison Square Garden which was just across the street from our hotel. Thi6 was a lucky break for us because it was pouring rain when we got out of the show. After waiting in line about two hours on Monday w finally acquired Beats to the Easter Pagent at Radio City, which was really a beautiful sight. We also saw the movie, Singing in the Rain. From there, the girls had lunch and went to the Hayden Planitarium where we just missed the 4 O'clock show.