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

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Knockin’ ’em dead, the orphans, Pepper (Maria Castro), July (Tina Perry), Kate (Cheryl Riley), Duffy (Laurie Simoneau), and Tessie (Michelle Fisk), dance their way into fame. Reluctant runaway, Annie (Amy Cronin) is re- strained by the cold-hearted Miss Hannigan (Brenda Cullen). Miracles! Freshman Brian DeCubellis is trans- formed into Oliver ‘Daddy’ Warbucks at the hands of artistic Director Mr. Alan Ksen and assis- tant Tina Perry. Huddling against the cold, Hoovervillites, Peg- y (Sara Lensch), Sophie (Christine LaSala), Eddie [Ro ert Cord), and Irma (Christine McCarthy), and Annie share a scant meal. 16 Annie

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One April Evening in Attleboro ... Fabulous Fundraising Fashions Yves St. Laurent and Christian Dior would have been jealous. The ninth an- nual Spring Fashion Show seemed like a glamorous April evening in Paris, and was equally comparable to any show New York has ever seen. “The Wishing Well” provided the cavalcade of style as Feehan’s simple cafeteria was trars- formed into a walkway of fashion. Who needs Christie Brinkley or Chery! Tiegs? Feehan had its own stars. “Celeb- rities,”” such as Jayne Falugo, Ellen Dion, Nancy Bray, Donna Livingston, Debra Cavalieri and Shaaron Wishnevsky, added a special sparkle and an extra touch of class as models for the “fashionable” event. Sister Ricarda Wobby co-ordinated the evening beautifully, providing her guests with fabulous fashions, delicious refreshments of pastry, Dunch, wine and cheese, and a raffle of ten luncheons that added to the fund-raising. It is rumored that this glamorous even- ing was thoroughly enjoyed by all who came to see our models, those who nibbled on the refreshments as they watched the show, and even those who arrived “fashionably late!” With dramatic style and poise, Ellen Dion ten that ruffles and springtime go hand-in- and. Fashion Show 15

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; FULL HOUSE AT LAST We stood in a circle, hands linked, crying through the prayer. Mr. Ksen walked slowly around, embracing in tum each performer in “Annie,” his last Feehan show. We were his final edition, the last rendition of his five years here, and we wanted only to do him justice we certainly could do no more. What such an anist can build in five years! Anyone who had watched him design a prop or direct a scene knew what he was leaving in Feehan and in us. We showed him we were listening the day he taught us to “let the heart out’ — | remember his shoulders were soaked with tears. We milled about awhile, “psyching up” to the last scene of an act in all our lives, for we ached fo play it well. We were waiting apprehensively for the last “You Won't Be an Orphan For Long.” Daddy Warbucks shows his soft side in a song for Annie. dream to come true before the curtain went up. Since his arrival, Mr. Ksen had held up many goals for us fo strive for: professionalism, acclaim, the satisfac- tion of doing our best, all had been reached along the way. The only stan- dard left was the hardest. When we per- formed to miserable audiences sprin- kled over a few rows he had said “play it Bene balcony is full — someday it will e. Annie, perhaps more than any of us, felt the fension of being inexorably drawn faster and faster to curtain time. As she sat like a patient beneath the operating makeup artists, | remember seeing the concentration on her face as she mentally checked every prop, every detail, every responsibility she had to the production which she had spent so much of the last few months working on. Suddenly Mr. Ksen burst into the room, knelt next to Annie and said somethin to her. “Hey you guys,” she explained, “he’s opening the balcony!” Through the open door | saw our distinguished director doing a jig on one of the onohan’s bunk beds, his face flushed and exhilarated with exultation. Then, almost as if time were being sucked away between the hurried glances of the clock, it was time for the prayer, time for places, time for curtain, time for entrance. As | came out | couldn’‘t help but look — | had to see, with my own eyes, an audience in the balcony. | thanked God for his justice and played my heart out. Not just for high standards or acclaim, not just for ourselves, but for Him, and Al Ksen. Finale! Annie (Amy Cronin), “Daddy” Warbucks Brian DeCubellis), Sandy (Kristen Felici), Onphans Tina Perry, Stacey Wall, Cheryl Riley, Maria Cas- tro, Lori Simoneau and Michelle Fisk), Grace Far- rell (Lynne St GUL and Lieutenant Ward (David Reynolds) share a warm Christmas celebration. eh consoles the hungry, tired fellow orphan olly. Annie 17