Centennial High School - Centhiscan Yearbook (Gresham, OR)

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FALL PLAY: Play '5 Massage Ijmfvzmd Seventy flVG students from the muslc and drama departments worked together on the 1974 Fall Play OUR TOWN was wrltten by Thornton Wllder and dlrected by Mrs janet Mouser The audlence greatly enjoyed the strongly drawn character parts of the easy talklng Stage Manager Slmon Stlmson the Oholr Dlrector and Mrs Soams the town gos s1p Cwho always crled at weddlngsj As rehearsals for the play unfolded the actors and crew lnvolved 1n OUR TOWN became more and more aware of the strong message of the play Do people ever understand llfe Whlle they l1ve lt every m1nute'7 B1ll Gee, brother of Max who played Dr GlbbS ln the play was moved to wr1te a speclal song They don t Understand Thls song sung by some of the cast members was presented to the audlence at curta1n call Thls classlc Amerlcan play about the GlbbS and Webb famllles became a strong two hours of sharlng between actors crew and audlence . O Q 9 9 v 0 1 U s . I! . . . ,, . , . . . . ,, 1 I! ' - 9 I . , . . 9 9 - 0 y 23

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Phil Gosvener Lori Walker as hifi v h da G111ette as Mrs. fl Gee as Dr. Gibbs f 2 , 'N 1 w, Mike Mcprris: Stage Manager f, .W 'R 1'f . Y : gordon las xM.rs. Weblg

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3 1 W T'1'i'fEi 1 ' . .1 1 s w w , K i U' P35 mf r 5 A,.A ,sf-1, 5 is ,. K ? L :Q-are-K M 1. Princesses Sherri Moffit, Peggy Field, Betty Christensen and Sue Cook wait for the moment one of them will be Miss Merry Christmas. 2. As Sophomore Princess Peggy Field is Crowned queen, the other princesses squeal in a mixture of surprise and delight. 3. Chairs were often found to be in short supply as evidenced by the seating arrange- ments of Barbara Dial, her date jeff Hadley, Pam Hovel and her date Steve Scheer. 4. junior Princess Betty Christensen and her date joe Thompson move gracefully around the floor to the tune of a lively Christmas carol. 5. Lisa Dorrenbacher and K.C. Butler cap- ture the mood of the Christmas formal theme -- Under the Mistletoe.