The Bush School - Tykoe Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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DRAMATICS LADIES IN WAITING Left to right: Leslie Denman, jean Stirrat, Patti Plank, Jean Osborne, Bonnie jean Berg, Jeanne Goss, Marylu Parker, Virginia Poole, Virginia Price. DRAMATIICCS HE first dramatic production of the year was Pink and Patches put on hy the seventh grade. The two alternate casts included Texie , Janet Lister, and Susan Curtis, Rexie , Marilyn Ridgeway and Georgia Callison, Maw , Betty jean Tongue, Mrs. Allen, Lois Byrholdt. The line which brought tears to our eyes was, I'll keep on afgoing' after the cows just as l'll keep on wearin' old brown calico dresses, but I'll keep on afhatin' brown and afhating' calico and afhatin' patches! Miss Kells' next production was The Romance of the Willow Pattern Plate. KoongfSee was played by Virginia Poole, Chang by Jean Os' borne, the Mandarin by Jackie Binns, the Prop' erty Man was Adoria Schultz, the Incense Bearer, Bonnie jean Berg. Perhaps the loveliest line was given hy Jean Osborne when she said, Like the waterfowl in the cleft, so shall you dwell forever within my heart. The dramatic schedule reached its height with the production of Ladies in Waiting by the seniors. The cast was as follows: the hrideftofbe, Marylu Parker, her aunt, Lady Spate, Virginia Poole, Miss Dark, the lady detective, Leslie Denman, the psychic, jean Osborne, a com' panion, Patti Plank, bridesmaids, Jean Stirrat and Virginia Price, Irish cook, Jeanne Goss, Maid, Bonnie Jean Berg. The play proved ex' cellent entertainment as well as a financial suc- cess. Lines which swept the school included, Be provocative and You'll go up the pole one of these days. During the last semester Miss Kells conducted a class in Shakespeare appreciation, in which they considered the life and times of Shakespeare, and acquainted themselves with plots of about a dozen of his plays. Besides paying special attcn' tion to famous scenes and speeches they pre- sented at the Fine Arts Tea a scene from Page Thirty-one

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GLEE CLUB Back row: Pat Bowen, Virginia King, Ola Bell, Idalice Squire, Katie Clare Roys, Kay Parker, Phyl- lis Rattray, Betty Osborne, Pat Hinman, Jane Nordgren, Sana Harrah, Debby Allen, Jacqueline Binns. Front row: Dorothy Wall, Jean Stirrat, Jeanne Goss, Virginia Price, Shirley Dishman, Mrs. Liven- good, Jean Osborne, Bonnie Jean Berg, Mary Rolfe, Nina Wiiislow. 'THE GILJEHE CLUB HE Glee Club this year is one of the largest we have ever had at Bush. Yes, twentyffive girls from Freshman to Seniors, all try to outsing each other every Monday, Wediiesdziy, and Friday! After Christmas Vacation, the Glee Club chose two officers to help Mrs. Livengood out. A student director, Ola Bell, was chosen to direct the group Whenever Mrs. Livengood was absent, and a president, Mary Rolfe, was elected Page Thirty to help plan the various occasions at which the Glee Club would sing. From Night and Day to Brahms Liebes Lieder , the music this year has been varied and to the liking of all who heard it. At assemblies throughout the year, the Christmas Dinner, the Style Show, the Fine Arts Tea and at Frederick and Nelson's for the Red Cross, the Glee Club has been ready and willing to give its best.

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DRAMATICS Twelfth Night with Nlarilyn Smith as Olivia: Barhara Ludherg as Violag jackie Vkfanamaker, Feste: Virginia Poole, Malvoliog Pat Pope, Marial: and Beverly Connelly as Sir Tohy Belch, This year's Christmas play which was pref sented hy the junior class at the annual Christ' mas dinner, was an adaptation of a story from The Long Christmas hy Ruth Sawyer. The main purpose of the play was to show how the life and memory of a simple Spanish peasant, one Bernadino, inspired the first nativity to he plaeed in a Spanish church. Berf nadino throughout his quiet hut holy life in the Spanish hills, had always possessed one great wish. He wished ahove all things to worship Christ, not as represented on the cross, hut as the Child, newhorn, in the Holy City of Bethle' hem, itself. Bernardino never realized his great wish, hut on his death some grateful monks rememhered it and a nativity scene was placed for the first time in a Spanish Church. The script, which took ahout ten minutes to perform, included a east of nine parts and a narrator. The parts were as follows: Marilyn Goetz .i.i...,,... .,,,,. .,,,t,,,,.r,..i.. B e rnardino Nancy Calvert .,,,... ...,,,,,,,,,,..,..,,.,,, T he slave boy jeremy Anderson ,,r,,,,, The slave boy when young foan Broughton ..,.,,e,,,,i,,,,e,,,,,,,.... The slave trader M. E. Donworth .... The friar and Father Superior Alanna Pratt ,,., ttt,,,,i.,..... lst monk and the angel Nancy Gallagher ...... ,.,.....,..,,,,,,,,,,ir.. 2 nd monk Petie Smith ,,ei,i.., ,....,. T he Virgin Mary Patsy Donald ,,,,.. ,,.,,,,,.,,.i..,...... I oseph Pat Pope ..,.,. ,,,,,.. N arrator THE LONG CHRISTMAS Left to right: 'loan Broughton, Mary Evelyn Donworth, Nlarilyn Goetz, Nancy Gallagher, Nancy V Calvert. Page Thirty-two