Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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SHELLING BEANS, Mother Gibbs (Karen Hoover) and Mrs. Webb (Marilyn Gehman) indulge in Grover's Corners gossip. Our Town DEMONSTRATING HIS INTERPRETATION, Director Bob Hostetter reads, Live people don't understand, do they? Thornton Wilder's three-act play. Our Town, marked Drama Guild's major production of the year on February 24 and 25. Focusing on two families in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, the play is a commentary on man's tragic una- wareness of life's moments. Director Bob Hostet- ter moved the play from a non-perceptive life panorama in Act I to the deep wonder of minute actions in Act III. Rehearsal hours elicited Bob's bellow, si- lence in the wings, when John Fairfield's guitar or off-stage glee over a new hair style dis- tracted. Costume hodgepodge grew from swap shop rummages, snips, and stitches. As Emily Webb, Sue Swartz played her bridal role in a gown and train of her own design. Subterranean activity the climax nights—cast members sucking lemons for 'fraid voices' and boosting spirit with the play's Blest Be the Tie. Retreating to adviser Catherine Mumaw's after the final production, the cast filled her guest book with their lines and autographed programs .. . and for days afterwards called each other Our Town names on campus walkways. 29

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EVENING AT GROVER'S CORNERS staggers uneventfully beyond family chatting. COMMENTATOR OF TOWN LIFE, Stage Manager Ralph King ex- pands Our Town. GULPING MORNING COFFEE, Dr. Gibbs (John Miller) reminisces his own wedding day. 28

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THE BARD Stephen Shriner, Director of Twilight Auction4 weighs the impact of the auction upon his projected audience. Twilight Auction 30 AT AN EARLY REHEARSAL, Lynn Hostetler, Ben Wenger and Ray Cope rely on the written word.