Bishop Feehan High School - Flashback Yearbook (Attleboro, MA)

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BEST SHOW in TOWN What does one do when her head is too big? Most people would suggest adjusting it, but with Lisa Veilleux’s burro costume in Man of La Mancha, this was a problem. Since neither costume or set could be adjusted, she managed to crawl on and squeeze off stage, covering up her predicament. When one forgets his lines, what happens to the scene? Creative Ken Butler, as Don Quixote, found no problem. When Ray Cord, as Sancho, forgot part of his song, Don Quixote, pretending to be senile, fell asleep, woke up and repeated his lines. Crumpled cardboard, painted under colored lights, and bricks formed a dungeon, the largest, most extensive set in Feehan’s twenty year history. It filled the entire height and width of the stage and thrust itself out to the first row of seats. To make this impossible dream possible, students devoted three months of free periods, after school and evenings. Miss Elaine Saulnier, encased thirty feet upstage behind the back wall of the set, directed, as well as played with the orchestra of both Feehan students, faculty and professional musicians! Miss Saulnier also served as vocal director for the production. The weekly, steady banging of hammers, the snapping of staple guns, the spreading of paint yielded a dress rehearsel performed for Elementary School students and adults from nearby homes for the elderly. Finally, the successful three nights of performance for the public were a product which Mr. Ksen, director, co-set designer, along with Amie Hodgkins and lighting designer for this production, and all others who worked on and supported, can be proud of! Half a crown down the tubes. The barber Chris Smith, watches hel- plessly as his cherished shaving basin becomes the invaluable golden helmet to the eyes of Don Quixote, Kenneth Butler, and San- cho, Raymond Chord. Doom approaches as the ominous. presence of the Captain of the In- quisition (John Sheehy) and his angels of death (Tina Perry and 4

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| Date: May 7th Year: 2081 Slowly the lid slides off the top of the capsule. A sweet aroma gently perfumes the air. Inside, preserved by time and modern technology lay memories familiar to high school juniors and seniors of one hundred years ago. On top of the pile lay a small invitation declaring a prom. “Bishop Feehan High School Classes, 1981-1982, Welcome You to the Junior-Senior Prom, Chateau DeVille, Warwick, Rhode Island. May 7, 1981. Music by Mike Thompson Sound.” Beneath this are pictures of John McCabe, Kenneth Have Danced All Night St. Hilaire and Mark Whitefield sporting an interesting type of “top hat’’. Pictures of pre-prom parties show the spirit Feehan students experienced in and out of school. A small, carefully preserved corsage with lace and ribbons still retains its once fragrant beauty. A neatly folded gown is carefully draped over a black top hat, a black bow-tie, a shawl, an evening bag, a cumberbund, and even a pair of badly worn sneakers lay inside the capsule. Pictures of the queen and her court seemed to express the high point of the Savoring a morsel of succulent chicken, Frank Mitchell expresses love at first bite! Patricia Martins and Veronica Reynolds await his culinary critique. evening when Kerri McNally proudly reigned. Finally, pictures of couples looked much older than Juniors and Seniors; such a change from the typical clothes of 1981: jeans, chinos, levis and, of course, the Feehan uniform. Pictures, the captured expressions of elegant times and happy occasions to fill memory books, showed how much fun the Feehan prom of one hundred years ago really was. Part one of a perfect evening fades into a memory as Norman Riley and Lisa Woodbury exit. Prom 11

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Don Quixote’s housekeeper, Robin Castagnola, and niece Antonia (Lori Boucher) visit the Padre (James Wynne) to pray for Alonsa’s well being in ‘I’m Only Thinking of Him.” ¥ ? i mY o — oe ae lke Kon Fea S o e; ss OPE Go Christine Paradis) overshadow Cer- vantes (Kenneth Butler) as he is sum- moned before the Inquisition. Seeking consolation from the burro, (Lisa Veilleux), and the horse (Danielle Newton), Aldonza (De- borah O’Donnell) asks the musical question, ‘’What does he want of me?” Court in a dungeon occurs when Miguel de Cervantes (Kenneth But- ler) presents his case before the gov- ernor (David Santoro) and the Duke (Darren Henault) as Famina (Gail Morton) looks on. Transformed into a Spanish dungeon, Feehan’s stage is crowded with the cast of Man of La Mancha which includes, first row: Denise Murray, Felicia Kiernan, Christopher Smith, Kenneth Butler, Deborah O’Donnell, Raymond Cord, James Wynne, Shawn Sullivan, Patrick Campbell, Stephen Healy, Lisa Valade; second row: Lisa Veilleux, Danielle Newton, Paula Sullivan, Robin Castagnola, Darren Henault, Robert Morrill, Lori Boucher, Timothy Hall; third row: Tina Perry, Bar- bara Swarr, Michelle LaPlante, John Sheehy, Christine Paradis, Colleen Sheehy, David Poirier, David Santoro, Jennifer Wims, Gail Morton, Frederick Butler, and Benjamin Hodgkins.