Charlestown High School - Pirates Yearbook (Charlestown, IN)

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The class of 75,s production of the Matchmaker took the audience back to New York during the 1890ts where a rich old merchant of Yonkers hired a matchmaker to find him a bride. After many strange incidents and much confusion, the matchmaker did find a woman for the merchant to marryeherself! The Senior play required much work to produce because of the length of the play and the com- plicated stage work involved. The long hours of practice were made shorter by such recreations as jum- ping on the trampoline, smoking cigars, and listening to the singing quartet of Tom Austin, Jerry Cooper, Jerry Cardin, and Steve Mullins. Matchmaker, t. .ACK- -.

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g Recaptured tr. Honking horns, chanting Cheerleaders and a cheering crowd around a bonfire . . . dedicating hours to making kleenex flowers and creatively thinking for posters . . . smothering feet in forty-four pairs of socks . . . scaring the Highlander with curls and hairy legs in pantyhose, while at the same time looking foolish . . . fac- ing the disappointments of no lights, no band and a heart- breaking defeat . . . then resoun- ding with approval at the crow- ning of a queen . . . competing between classes and a joining together with one sense of pride . experiencing a tingling while watching blue and white clad figures run onto the field on that sunny afternoon. That was Homecoming, iiKiCk Off 747 I Scaring the Highlanders are P. Heltsley and C. Henderson. 2 Senior attendant, D. Daugherty, is chauffered in the parade. 3 D. Stamper and B. Zipp lend a helping hand to Queen Anita Darnall. 17

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JAY 1 Three distinguished city folks give their orders to waiter, Steve Mullins. 2 SENIOR PLAY CAST: K. Long, P. Southard, T. Gilliat, S. Mullins, T. Bowling, D. Russell, K. Ferguson, J. Cardin, J. Cooper, R. Hensley, V. Thornhill, R. Ingram, B. Ross. 3 SENIOR PLAY CREW: J. Fifer,-S. Bush, P. Kern, J. Slice, B. Ison. Row 2: M. Sumner, H. Missi, Mrs. Bowen DirectorL M. Love, V. Copple. 4 Two young lovers, Veronica Thornhill and Phil Southard, stand quietly listening to the conversation. 5 During their dinner, Kim Ferguson plots to marry Randy Hensley.