Bishop McGuinness High School - Chi Rho Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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.4' can With this ring I thee wed, says Geofge WU' Barkerl to Emily lJoan Sliefl while the minister lFrank Manningl ofticiates at their wedding in the production Our Town. Page 22 Very much amused about the next play script are Ann Cameron and Sister lmmaculata. Sister lmmaculata, O. S. B.,is Eng- lish and Speech instructor, and attain poise in stage-acting. Catholic High's Dramatics Club, the Queens Players, started their year's activities with election of officers on November 25. Frank Manning was chosen president, Joan Slief, vice-president, and Evelyn Geng- ler, secretary. Sister lmmaculata, O.S.B. was director and sponsor of the club. The first proiect of the year for the Players was the production of the play Our Town, which was worked on with much enthusiasm and presented in an air of excitement. ' Then, on December 5 and 6, Frank Manning and Joan Slief were sent as delegates from the Queen's Players to the Speech conference at Norman. The Catholic Theatre Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, February 13-14, also found the Queen's Players represented, there, they presented a one-act play, The Romancers, with .lo Anne Jensen and Frank Manning in the leads. The activities of the year were climaxed with three plays The Enchanted Rose, Mrs. Harper's Bazarr, and Spreading the News. A novel touch was added by seating the audience in a circle around the stage. Doing this required little scenery and contained enough movement so that someone faced the audience at all times. This unusual arrangement was a carry over from Shakespeare's time and is now being revived. film

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1 Copyreading the reporters' stories are Nancy Price, Ann Bott, Frank Manning, Marga- ret Walt and Charles Kelsey. c Editorials are the voice of a paper and the Chi Rhoan always had a good strong voice. Pat Barker's on the materialism in Christmas was one of the top. Several other writers hit their peak in editorials. Bob Cody at- tacked the evils of teen-age vices, while Vince Rieger and Tim Sprehe aired views on social questions. All the work was not confined to the class room, however. Trips to the Oklahoman and Times and the Oklahoma lnterscholastic Press Association conferences, held in the fall and spring, enlivened the year. The Okla- homan and Times trip was to instruct the students in the mechanical operation of the paper while the O.I.P.A. meets concerned the writing side of the paper. ln addition to publishing the Chi Rhoan, during De- cember the stat? also put out the Christmas issue of the O. K. Student the official Y.C.S. paper in the state. The pride and joy of the stat? was what is known in newspaper parlance as a scoop, This comes when the paper is the first to release a piece of news. The Chi Rhoan got three of these during the course of the year. After the mock election, it was the first to announce that Eisenhower had landslided to victory. ln April it scooped Pat Keough's election as May Queen and in May it released the secret of new editor appointments. The fact that the Chi Rhoan was the only highschool in Oklahoma City to win the With Highest Honors award in the state contest is some indication ofthe qual- ity of work that went into each issue of the paper. Rhoan T Criticizing editorial material with Sister Jane Maries help are Tim Sprehe, Robert Cody, PatBarker, and Vincent Rieger. Sister Jane Marie, O.S.B., is journalism and English instructor and yearbook advisor. Page 21 it

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lounging back stage before their pev- formance in Our Town are Frank Mann- ing lsrage managerl, Bill Moss lDr, Gibbsl, and Bob Cody lMr, Webbl. The dead listen as Emily lBeHy Amend! pleads wilh slage manager lFrank Manning! to let her live again. f L 'ii Page 23