Drummer Township High School - Drummer Yearbook (Gibson City, IL)

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too fleeting appearances of the maid, Mattie. In the end Neil s well-chosen deviations from the truth add merrime some time iron out the family's difficulties. Grandma McNeil .........................................,..........,. Sandra Loeb Ethel Matthews Jim Matthews jim Summers Mattie ..................... Kay Matthews ....... . Tom Matthews .......... Mrs. Forsythe ......... Jerry Bradford Peggy Miller ....., i I Q ft tilt Q .- I 1 4? If I ig '? ,Grandma Mc- X s 4 -Y.-'L nt and at the A 1 ,,, r,:s: X ,TM . --X 'y ll t x VI- A A Virginia Cqrter A ' 1 ' Elinor Goodrich , :1 .3 ':- Patty Potts ,, I ' -' V . ' ', ' . Gilbert Sauer Norma Lowery Bob Nelson Sue Lambert ............ Speed Acton ......-... ..............-.-.-..N-...-.. Mary Virginia Potts Margaret Storm Harry Harm Carlton Craig .......,.,........................................................ john Scott Managers ................. . Programs ....... Make-up ....... Director .......... Harold A. Johnson, Emery Torrehce Miss Spry, Betty Kay jordan Miss Dueringer, Miss Fischer Miss Barton I I THE EARLY WORM l On Patrons' Night, April 2, l943, the following members of the Drama Club presented The Early Worm, a one-act comedy: ' Hector A. Brown .......................................... Garnet Thompsbn ' rs 346 is Mayme Brown ........., .................,... H elen johnsbn Penelope Beals ......... ........ P auline Zimmermbn Dopey Fisher ........ .............. B ob Rutledge Jack Reed ........... .......... D ick McMahon Della .....,......................,.. ......... V irginia Summelrs Student Director ......... ............... S andra Loeb I Left to Right: Garnet Thompson, Helen johnson, Bob Rutledge, Sandra Loeb, Virginia Summers, Dick McMahon, Pauline Zimmerman. D A ,iii-

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-L -- ,A x, - Q - . . 5 L r E.ss5 ?' sei- - tiff W' cf , e N D X .Jaw Drummer Drama Club . l 4 T. 5 I All 'A In October Miss Mary K. Barton, adviser and director of the Drama ,, Club, announced that the American Theater Wing had been extended to include amateur theatrical clubs. The American Theater Wing is a branch of the Stage Door Canteen which is made up of professional stage and radio groups who donate part of their time to performing for soldiers in camps all over the country. They also give benefits for the United Service Organ- ization. The Wing suggested that amateur clubs, from high schoolers to community players, ,send in port of the box office receipts of one of their productions to the Stage Door Canteen for use in providing recreation and entertainment for soldiers. The Drama Club members unanimously voted , i - . .17 .r Qty, C N +,+ . s'?-- C. - - .. x emi J 6th 5th 4th 3rd i e f, Q, J Q f to contribute he returns from the club's annual fall play. The play committee consisted of the following: Dorothy Lappin, john Scott, Dorothy Firmes, Gilbert Sauer, Mary Lou Mattinson. On November l3, l942, the Drummer Drama Club presented Where's the Fire, by Cornelia Gillam. The scene is laid in the living room of the Matthews family's sum- mer home in the mountains. Ethel, the mother of the family, is quite con- cerned over the irresponsibility of the children, Kay and Tom. She puts them entirely in charge of their own affairs and forces herself to remain smiling detached from their troubles. The troubles and misunderstand- ings of the family and their guests are lightened for the audience by the all l Barrow, Donna Dibble, Virginia Summers, Gil- bert Sauer. 2nd Row-Darlene Hutchcraft, Dora Brownlee, Doro- thy Curtis, Leona Zimmerman, Margaret Thompson, Cheri Swanstrom, Margaret Storm, Margaret Cary, Patty Potts, Evelyn Wagon- seller. lst Row--Lorene Logan, LaVonne Swarm, Mary Swallow, Valeria Wright, Kay Salyards, Dorene Basil, Leona Fultz, Robert Love, Richard Kem- ple. ,W arton, Juanita Donner, Elinor T om ck Lamb, John Carson, Robert . - , x.. . Summers, john Scott, Garnet Nelson. Row-lean O'Hare, Lorene Thorsen, Pauline Lange, Norma Borchers, Donna Thedens, llla Friese, Robert Bonnen. Row--Pauline Zimmerman, Ruth Kerchenfaut, Virginia Carter, Sandra Loeb, Mary Mattinson, Mary Diehl, Dorothy Firmes, Harry Harm. Row--Lucille Carpenter, Dorothy Lappin, Dar- lene Love, Jane McClure, Norma Lowry, Lois

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'ff fs Q i x i' lx TNG WHERE'S THE FIRE? zu' ' l On Friday, ,November l2, l942, the Drummer Drama Club presented I I ,, J Where's the Fire? --the first play of the season. This comedy was so ex- il citing that the audience never knew a dull moment during the entire even- . x X N i l If ing. lt was the story of the Matthews family who were spending the sum- mer in the mountains. Kay and Jerry, the young people, were in an QUTO- mobile accident, and they also. took out a marriage license. Ethel, Kay's mother, tried to explain to her that the situation would cause unpleasant gossip, but Kay insisted upon joking about the entire affair. The mother proved to them what can happen in a situation such as this by illuustrat- ing from a barely escaped elopement in her own youth thc fact that Where there's smoke there's fire. Kay, believing that Carlton Craig, an artist who was vacationing at the hotel, was the man with whom her mother almost eloped, wired her father to come home at once. When jim arrived, his faith in his wife shaken, things almost reached the point of tragedy. The children's friends were present, and Ethel's repu- tation hung in the balance until Grndma saved the situation by some clever lying. When Ethel revealed the fact that she was teaching Kay a lesson, Jim was convinced that it was typical summer resort gossip-all smoke and no fire. Added interest was attached to the production of this play because twenty-five dollars of the money taken in from the sale of tickets was given to the American Theater Wing for the use of entertainment for the boys in the service. Back Row Front Row . Virginia Carter, Mary Virginia Potts, Sandra Miss Mary K. Barton, Gilbert Sauer, Elinor Goodrich John Scott, Jim Summers, Norma Loeb, Patty Potts. , Lowry, Bob Nelson, Margaret Storm and Harry Harm. ,ll-1 1-.i-T,