The Bush School - Tykoe Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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D x 'v Drama Under the direction of Mrs. Margretta Ramsey, the Drama classes began the year with the mechanics necessary to good acting. They learned how to walk, sit down, and otherwise manipulate themselves on the stage gracefully. These exercises were followed by improvisations in which several students carried on an extemporaneous conversation on stage, and justified every action they made by their conversation. Two girls would begin a conversation on the stage. Neither ever knew what she was going to say next, but they carried on, each thinking up spur of the moment responses to her partner's last state- ment. All the while, however, they had a certain pattern of actions that they had to go through, such as walking across the stage and around a table, or sitting down in a chair. Each action had to be justified in the conversation, so thisi combination of many exercises became very valuable training for the drama stu ent. After Mrs. Ramsey felt that the students were sufficiently prepared, they teamed up in twos or threes and each group began working on a scene. In this way, each girl could have a leading part and would thus benefit by her work on it. Mrs. Ramsey left before Christmas vacation, and Mrs. Dickie took,over the classes for the rest of the year. Several of the scenes started under Mrs. Ramsey were completed under Mrs. Dickie and given in assembly. On March 15 Barbara Ludberg and Barbara Barrett gave a scene from Hedda Gabbler for the student body. Then Beany Black and Sally Ayres presented a scene from Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland, on April 3 for Dad's Night, in which Beany was Queen Elizabeth and Sally was Mary. The Juniors' dramatic achievement of the year was their Christmas pageant depicting the coming of the Christ Child. The cast was as follows: Herald ........................................................................................ Elizabeth Haynes Heber ........ Asher ............ Malchiel ....... Rueben ..... Gabriel ...... Kish ........ Mary ...... Asa ......... Abram .......... joseph ....................................................................... The Virgin .................................................................... In March, work began on the senior play, was given an opportunity to try out, and the cast ........Patricia Bowen .........Barbara Royce ..........Kathryn Black ........Kathleen Billings ........Martha Broughton ................Bett.s Hansen ................. Josie Kubley ..................Beverlv Connelly .. ........ Mary Ellen Valaer ...................Betty Bushnell Boswell Sinister House. Each senior was chosen as follows: Hepzibah Lacey ........................................................................ Barbara Ludberg ,lennie Lacey ............. . . ................................................... Sally Ayres Mrs, Dirks ............. .......... B arbara Barrett Miss Huey .......... ............... P hyllis Rattray Mrs. Simmons ....... Pease Blossom ......... ........Jackie Wanamaker ...........Joan .Southwick Edith Burke .............. ................,.,. lv lidi Sawyer Midge Towers .......... ........ G wen Cunningham Tony Trent .................. ......... D orothy Barrett Dr. Maude Garrett ........... .......... N ancv Hanson Ruth Lacey ..................,,....,.... ....... K atie Clare Roys Madame Celeste Maure ................................................................ Idalice Squire Van Hining ............................................................................................ Joan Frayn The cast worked on the play three periods of two or three hours each week, and from the weird sounds emitting from the senior room and gym, the rest of the school guessed that it was a mystery play. The climax of two months' toil came when the production was presented at the Women's Century Club Theater on May 25. -78...

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their studies in college, include learning the many techniques in the structure and science on which music is based and formed. The girls in Harmony II have reached a point where they are now composing such complicated pieces as sonatas, arias, and preludes for violin, voice, and piano. What's more, they could execute their own masterpieces! A class which is open to juniors and seniors only is Music and Art Appre- ciation. Each Monday students troop over to the livingroom and learn the finer points of musicology. Besides hearing the music of the great composers, they also learn about the great artists by seeing copies of pictures drawn by them and by listening to interesting talks. Keeping track of the future Paderewskies and helping them overcome the difficulties of a pianist, were Mrs. Turner and Mrs. jackson. Bush can claim many fine pianists from the seventh grade through the senior class. As was said before, Mrs. Livengood is chief mentor of the speech classes. No one escaped her wary eye and before the year was out everyone had performed in assembly in one way or another. Although appearing in public was quite a terrifying experience for some, it was generally agreed that the course was very helpful. These speech programs were, for the most part, exceedingly interesting. Reports were given on everything from the Negro situation to the effects of College Boards on unsuspecting victims and how to avoid the former. Mrs. Livengood also tossed into these classes a good sprinkling of spelling and diacritics. Everyone can now spell sacri1egious or elucidate on the difference between an ua with one dot over it and an a with two dots! 0 O stef

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V TOP: Nancy Lee Hanson, Barbara BarreH', Joan Souihwiclc, and Phyllis Raifray viewing +l'1e Frayn body. CENTER: Gwen Cunningham admiring Idalice Squire's numerous bracele+sg Midi Sawyer, Jackie Wanamalcer, and Doro+l'1y Barre'H conferring over a plafe of cake. BOTTOM: Sally Ayres foiled by Kafie Clare Roys in a++emp'r on Barbara Ludberg.