East Pike High School - Panther Yearbook (Milton, IL)

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Ted and Tommy are caught with a screen while Aunt Gertrude is reprimanding Mr. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson and Marie are trying to comfort Mary because Chuck isn't going to take her to the dance. “IT’S A GREAT LIFE” COPY WRITE-UP FOR THE JUNIOR PLAY Pretty Mary Wilson, at home after her first year in college, is all agog over the prospects of a date with Chuck, her boy friend. As in all the Wilson's affairs, the puritanican and shrewish Aunt Ger- trude takes a joy-killing hand. She thinks the ideal beau for Mary is shy Wilbert Wiggins, a horn-rimmed bespec- tacled bookworm. Incidentally, Mary's scholarly friend, Marie, secretly thinks Wilbert is wonderful. Without warning, Aunt Gertrude breaks Mary's date with Chuck and arranges for Wilbert to take her to the dance. Tommy Wilson and Ted, his pal, decide Wiggins isn't Mary's type. They bribe Muscles O'Rourke to take Mary to the dance. Later Mr. Wilson settles Chuck and Mary's muddle. With Chuck back in the picture, Tommy and Ted fear for their lives when Muscles finds himself with no girl for the dance. They figure the only way out is for Tommy, dressed as a girl, to date Muscles. Meanwhile, Mary is trying to get a job with the Dumb Animals Bene- fit Society and must convince Miss Billings , the interviewer, she and her family are poverty stricken. Miss Billings arrives and finds Mary and Tommy wearing nice evening dresses. With Ted's help, they fabricate the tallest tales imaginable to decieve the baffled Miss Billings. Amidst all the confusion, Mr. Wilson is having his own troubles. His great interest ls dramatics. He's desperately trying to learn the lines for his villainous role in a community play and, in his efforts, strikes most melodramatic poses. Exciting complications continue piling up plus countless surprises before the pleasing ending. Tommy Wilson: You know I wish you were taking me to the dance instead of Mary. Muscles O'Rourke: Well, you're kind of purty. I wish I was myself!

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CAST Tommy Wilson..........Terry Holloway Ted Stokes.......................Reg Campbell Mr. Charles Wilson .... Butch Rhodes Mrs. Elouise Wilson . . . Betty Deemer Miss Gertrude Harris . . . Judy Kingery Mary Wilson..............Judy Hack Marie George.............Linda Wake Wilbert Wiggins..........Bob Hayden Miss Alstead Billings . . . Linda Harmon Theresa Gant...................Carla Johnston Muscles O'Rourke .... Jim Graham Mr. Wilson: Then, Little Nell, I will ask you Once more; but only once more!11 Junior Dramatists Present . . . STANDING, Left to Right: Betty Deemer, Butch Rhodes, Judy Kingery, Judy Hack, Reg Campbell, Carla Johnston, Linda Harmon, Mrs. Meisenbach. SITTING: Terry Holloway, Jim Graham, Linda Wade, Bob Hayden

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HOMECOMING Sue Grubbs crowned Queen of the 1958-59 Homecoming on December 23 after the East Pike Panthers defeated Brussels 77 to 46. Here Sue Grubbs is crowned queen by Ronnie Hayden, Co-Captain of the basket- ball team. 32 The dance for the Queen and her court.