Dover High School - Doverian Yearbook (Dover, DE)

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“This is the most active and efficient Drama Club that | have sponsored at Dover High,” declared Mr. Wilson. The year’s activities began with their fall production of Harvey, November 17 and 18, directed by Terry Dyshere and Liz Feller. At the University of Delaware Dramatics Confer- ence, Harvey was presented as the evening performance. A second production, Roomful of Roses, followed in April, student-directed by Bruce Schmidt and Saundra Holley. The dramatic first scene in the first act in which Mrs. Fallon sees her rebellious daughter for the first time in eight years, was taken to the play festival in Newark. In May twelve drama members were inducted into the National Thespian Society. The club tried to produce plays of good quality | on a high school level and to develop a deeper apprecia- tion of dramatic arts for students. The entire membership ra a of thirty was active in all the productions. The ninth and tenth grade drama club of thirty-eight members, new this year, was sponsored by Mrs. Cubbage. The make-up committee appreciated the convenience of the dressing rooms in the new modern auditorium. Here Liz Feller made up Lois Ward while Ro Caputo and Betty Jane Hurd assisted Nancy Bruce. Officers of the drama club discussed the script of their forthcoming play, Roomful of Roses: Rosemarie Caputo (secretary), John Hill (pres- ident), Bill Mackie (vice-president), Jackie Mynatt (treasurer). “1 don’t want your pity!’’ protested Bridget MacGowen (Judy Osterberg) resentfully as her mother (Liz Feller) tried to pacify her hostillity. The cast practiced daily for the April production of Roomful of Roses.

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ramatics entered Uleerparees Wace Everyone except ‘’Harvey’’ of the Harvey cast took a bow at the final curtain call: Robert Burgland, William Mackie, Lois Ward, John Hill, Bruce Schmidt, Nancy Bruce, Ruth Heite, Thomas Cronin, Clara Frear, Margaret Kennedy. “Note Liz's facial expression,” pointed out Sandra Holley, student director for Roomful of Roses, to cast members, Jerry Burge, Louis Miller, Sally Skinner, Stephen Burge, and Bruce Schmidt. “Aunt Ethel, I’d like you to meet a dear friend of mine... Harvey,” said Elwood P. Dowd (Bruce Schmidt) to the bewildered Mrs. Chau- venet (Margaret Ann Kennedy), as Veta (Nancy Bruce) gasped.

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Band. Front: Carol Konschak, Mary Lou Lobaccaro, Joseph Cassey, Pen- elope Layton. Row 2: Margaret Roper, Arlene Harper, Terry Bryan, William Scotton, Kathy Kent, Patricia Parres. Row 3: Jack Fifer, Fred John Hill, Ruth Heite, Gerry Wall, Dale Slaght, and Sam Kendall got together for a jam session. They were chosen to represent Dover High in the State Band Concert in Atlantic City, March 22. The concert was given at Mt. Pleasant High School, March 17, where they practiced. Tarburton, Harriet McGinnis, Paula Cook, Clifford Wurster, Pat Weaver, Carmine Pisapia, Sharon Gray, Richard Kast, Alan Kessell, Samuel Ken- dall. Row 4: Holly Fulmer, Edith Wilson, Priscilla Kulhanek, Harriet Wharton, David Mackes, Ruth Heite, William Geissel, Robert Berglund. Kootes istonedh fo A ruffle of drums brought the football crowd to attention as the sixty-eight piece Dover High Band stepped smartly down the field. Mr. Haines, band director, led the group through intricate maneuvers with the flags of the color guards flying and the majorettes’ batons twirling. In addition to marching at football games and playing at assemblies, they performed at the Police Graduation, Halloween Parade, State Firemen’s Convention, Loyalty Day Parade in Cambridge, and for a spring concert. On February 18th, this popular group of musicians demonstra- ted in an unique assembly program how drums carried the rhythm, the trumpets the melody, the brass the counter- melody, the woodwinds the frills, and the French horns filled in the cracks like “jello”. The band demonstrated the difference in marches by playing first a standard Sousa march and then a modern march, “Totem Pole”. Maggie Roper, Harry Pisapia, Sam Kendall, Ernie Zimmerman, Jack Tarburton, and Ruth Heite formed a .“sextet’” and played the “Dixieland Concerto”, joined by the band.