Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Redskin Revue Runs Gamut from Nursery Hillbilly intermission act, featuring Sonja Keating, Judy Schoenherr, Linda Loeper, and Sharon Lahrman, cap- tured the trophy for best comedy team. Rollicking with music and mirth, the 1959 Redskin Revue, 30th annual student vaudeville, made its debut, March 1 9th for a two-night stand and played before large, enthusiastic audiences. Some 200 Manualites joined forces to produce four big acts which featured South of the Border by Mary Heichelbech and Charlotte McMurry; Mother Goose of 59 by Donna Monroe and Becky Mitchell; Dogface Soldier by Carney Likens and Steve Matthews; and On Stage by Sharron and Jim Jones. Teeming with talent, participants in the revue danced mamboes and rock n rolls, vocalized in solos and choruses, and played solo and combo numbers. Manual ' s twelve-piece dance band pro- vided the musical background for 37 numbers in the four acts from the orchestra pit. Seniors Den- nis Jackson and Jackie Goad, student chairmen of the Redskin Revue, emceed the production. Win- ning poster design for the Revue belonged to Jackie Buzzaird while the program cover was designed by Marjorie Viehe. Chorus line from On Stage includes Bonnie Spreen, Mary Hawthorne, Barbara Emerich, Carla Biegel, Tommy Sue Janke, Sharon Jones, Carol Hoeping, Georgia Shaner, Sharon Scholl, Judy Crouch. Decked out in bright green costumes with top hats and canes, the girls tapped out a snappy routine.

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Mask, Wig Stages Ever-Popular ' Our Town Mask and Wig, Manual ' s dramatic club, presented Our Town on December 10. The play takes place in a small town in New Hampshire called Grovers Corners. The history of the town and the lives of some of its most prominent citizens carry the theme Life in the play by Thornton Wilder. Tom Fink was the Stage Manager, and Janis Small and Wayne Mullen played Emily Webb and George Gibbs. Other leads were portrayed by Charles Shade, Evelyn Lowe, Norva Lintecum, and James Whitham. Mrs. Mildred Haskens, club sponsor, directed the play. A second major production, I Remember Mama, came on April 10. All ticket holders attended a dance in the Cafeteria after the performance. Cast as Katrina, the girl narrating the play, was Merrilyn Lindley. The other main characters were portrayed by Norva Lintecum, Larry Heacox, Tom Fink, Betty Green, Wayne Mullen, and Paula Williams. Simon Stimso n, portrayed by Jim Jones, as he conducts choir practice, says, Soft! Get it out of your heads that music ' s only good when it ' s loud. Emily, played by Janis Small, makes her way from the group of funeral mourners standing in the rain to her grave beside her mother-in-law (Evelyn Lowe). 19

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Rhymes, TV Show to Army Life, OF Mexico A small, but mighty Sergeant, J Winckelbach, shapes up his mirth- making privates, Ron Susemichel, Bob Walker, Larry Henn, Jon Mor- ris, Ed Gordon, Roger McVay, Den- nis Jackson, Agris Petersons, for inspection in comedy act Dogface Soldier. Individual awards went to Jon Morris, best performer, and Bob Walker, best comedian. Three little kittens, Becky Mitchell, Marilyn Burge, and Mary Lou Agan, swinging their pink-bowed tails, starred in Mother Goose of ' 59. Modernization of the familiar Mother Goose characters, including Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep, and King Cole ' s Combo, into Rock ' n Roll hep- cats brought the best-act trophy to the cast. South of the Border featured a dashing matador, Roscoe Sturgeon, and ferocious bull, Jean Rowan, whose per- formance was greeted with cheers of ole by Mexican senors and senoritas. Also making appearances in the act were Zorro and his followers, Mexican Hat and Mambo dancers, and a Mexican guitarist. 21