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

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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

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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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Discovering the beauty of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in the ses are Christopher Kelley, Maura Toole, Cristen McCormick, Maureen Harrigan, and Christina Sibilia. “I'd love to see the flowchart for this place” thinks Sister Patricia Rahaim while touring the Tower of London. , 4: ‘ s 7 : goer } e c . “We love England this much” proclaim Felice Indinoli, Amy Cronin, Laurie Simoneau, Kristen Felici, Tina Perry at the Barbizon Plaza, London. 18 Spring Fling