Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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gxecu tive Giza irm an Alvan S. Berner Frederick J. MacDonald associate Chairman Richard C. Kobrin Myron K. Simes Stanley J. Hatoff William R. Von Bergen ommittee james J. Foley Robert F. X. Casey Bernard I. Levenson Robert A. Kagan Page Tu'enty-:even

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eT yearbook Gommlttee The Yearbook Committee herewith offers to the school and its friends The Yearbook of the Class of Nineteen Hundred Forty-two. Awkward and sensational designs have been abandoned, and the entire volumehas been planned with the principle of quietly pleasing arrangement always in mind. No small measure of credit for the planning of this Liber Actorum belongs to Frederick J. MacDonald, in charge of photography and layout, and to Mr. Adler, of the Vantine Studios. '35 To MR. PHILIP MARSON MR. LEE J. DUNN and MR. WILLIAM L. BOURGEOIS for their indispensable, never dictatorial guidance we ofter our sincere thanks. To Mr. Dunn, who as this Yearbook goes to press is still convalescing from the effects of an operation, we extend our wishes for a speedy recovery. Much honor is due also to the Regirter Staff, whose untiring performance of their onerous tasks has made it possible to publish LIBER ACTORUM. weniy-IIX

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ramcztic Lights! At the beginning of the year, Messrs. Russo, Marnell, and Callanan began their arduous task of reading scripts in order to find a play suit- able to be produced as the twentieth annual pro- duction of the Boston Latin School Dramatics Club. Finally they chose john Fuller's humor- ous adaptation of Mark Twain's famous story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Mr. Russo was about to cast the play when it was announced that the school schedules would be changed in order to eliminate part of the rush on the Casting was post- poned because of the impossibility of rehearsing if school closed at 3.30. However, the seventh period system was adopted at B.L.S., and it was announced that clubs would meet during the seventh period. Mr. Russo immediately Page Tuwniy-eight cast the play with Alex Courtney, last year's Bishop , playing the leading role. The cast rehearsed as much as possible and had learned the first act and part of the second when the April vacation arrived. The vacation was im- mediately followed by draft, sugar, and gaso- line registration. So much time was lost that the date of the play was postponed. Later the play was cancelled because the faculty advisers didn't think it possible to produce the play be- fore the senior graduation. If the curtain had risen on The Connecticut Yankee , the cast would have included the following: Alexander Courtney, '42, Pedro Urbina, '42, Milton Stamatos, '42, Mendel Levinson, '43, Leonard Corman, '42, and S. Raymond Suchecki, '42. However, the Production Staff, under the direction of Production Manager, Frederick MacDonald, has been kept busy all year, for it is the duty of this staff to prepare the stage for assemblies, assist in the presentation of movies, and to work with outside groups who Rehearsal Scene