Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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Presents Curious Salvage lust me eussrs Florence-Virginia Langner l-lannibal--Carl Willey Eairy May-Jean Jolwnson Jeffrey-Ralplx Mawclsley Mrs. Paddy-Carol Church Tl-lE EAMlLY Mrs. Savage--Vernanne Roberts Titus-Jett Lamson Samuele-Pxslwer Mullenix Lily Belle-LaVonne Beckman Tl-lE OEElCE EMPLOYEES Miss Willmelmina -Connie Aloboll Dr. Emmerl-Alan Jolmnson UEIII Stage Manager-Raymond Meth Stage Set Designer-Marion Niclwols Lighting Crew--Loren l-lolrn, Judy Mitchell, Jeanette Mann, Lelilia l-lay Stage Crew-Larry Milqscla, Pal Mullenix, Linda Castell, Letitia Hay Properly Crew-Jean Russell, Patti Winfrey, Carol Clwurclw, Marilee Eerquson Sound Ellecls-Jone Manley TOP LEFT: Guests portray their dreams TOP RIGHT: Mrs. Savage meets the staff MIDDLE: The Curious Mrs. Savage with her teddy hear BOTTOM: A family feud 25

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T Ai TOP: Painting scenery MIDDLE: Setting the stage BOTTOM: Make-up for cast 24 ull!! llf '59 WhaT would you do iT you inheriTed Ten million dollars To spend as you wished? This was The problem ThaT Taced Mrs. Savage aTTer The deaTh oT her husband. She wanTed To give her inher- iTance To people so ThaT They could spend iT Tor someThing They had always wanTed. l-Ter greedy sTep-children, however, wanTed The money Tor Their own use. l-Toping To seize The inheriTance, The Tamily had Mrs. Savage commiTTed To a pri- vaTe menTal saniTarium. While aT The CloisTers , she meT people, who like herselT, were considered curious . Mrs. Savage grew To love all The guesTs and They in Turn were drawn ouT oT Their egg-shell worlds because They TelT she needed Their assisTance. Mrs. Savage knew The Tamily was Trying To Take The money and ThereTore, wiTh The help oT her new Tound Triends, she seT abouT To ouTwiT Them. To aggravaTe The Tamily even more, Mrs. Sav- age decided To be exTremely eccenTric. For ex- ample, she cuddled a large Teddy bear consTanT- ly. However, The Teddy bear did conTain The bonds, which her sTepchildren wanTed To gain possession oT so badly. Finally, when The Tamily demanded ThaT she Turn over The bonds, Mrs. Savage was Torced To reveal The TacT ThaT The Teddy bear was her personal bank. As she gave The bonds To Them, one oT her Triends Turned ouT The lighTs and snaTched The papers. The oTher guesTs immediaTely Tell in wiTh The plans and convinced The sTepchildren ThaT The pre- cious bonds had been desTroyed. Believing all The money gone, The greedy Tamily no longer wanTed To boTher wiTh Mrs. Savage. ATTer They leTT, The bonds were broughT ouT oT hiding and saTely reTurned To Their owner. Free To leave whenever she wanTed and having her inheriTance, Mrs. Savage was now able To carry on her plans Tor a happiness Tund . She realized she owed her good TorTune To The innocenT acTions and quick wiT oT her Triends aT The CloisTers . AlThough Mrs. Savage realized she musT leave The CloisTers To go on wiTh her work, she did so relucTanTly because she had become a parT oT This small world where she had been needed To help The guesTs Tind Themselves. They, in Turn, convinced her ThaT They liked her Tor her- selT and noT Tor her wealTh. The audience aTTending The Curious Savage will long remember The hearT warming comedy presenTed so ably by The iunior class oT l958.

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Il Sunnv morning IT happened one sunny morning in a parlc in Madrid, Spain. An elderly man and woman meT, and discovered ThaT They were old Triends oT long ago . This seemingly simple incidenT is The basis oT The one acT conTesT play Tor I958, A Sunny Morning . The auThors builT around This singular ploT, a Touch- ing and realisTic sTory abouT Two people who were Too proud To admiT ThaT They were aT lasT reaching old age. Dona Laura was siTTing on a parl4 bench Teeding The birds, when an irraTe old genTleman, Don Gonzalo, enTered and an argumenT developed. The quarrel, however, ceased wiThin a shorT Time, and The elderly couple became Triends and began chaTTing happily. During The course oT The conversaTion, each Tallced oT The sarne incidenT aT a villa named Maricela, where Dona Laura, Then lcnown as The Silver Maiden , had lived. IT was here ThaT Don Gonzalo had courTed her and suddenly deparTed because OT a duel ToughT Tor Laura's hand. As a re- sulT oT The conversaTion, They realized ThaT They had been The youThTul lovers. l-lowever, each was Too proud To admiT old age To The oTher. The Tormer sweeThearTs deparTed, noT know- ing The ThoughTs in each oTher's hearT. The capable casT oT The play received superior raTings aT The preliminary and disTricT conTesTs. AT The sTaTe conTesT held aT Grinnell, A Sunny Morning was unanimously raTed I by The judges. JeTT Lamson, who porTrayecl Don Gonzalo, re- ceived recogniTion by being chosen one oT The ouTsTanding acTors oT The enTire conTesT. tllit Dona Laura -Mary Sue T-lorTon PeTra, her maid-Marjorie STewarT Don Gonzalo-JeTT Lamson JuaniTo, servanT-Terry CurTis TOP: Dona Laura feeds the birds SECOND: Don Gonzalo arrives THIRD: Reliving the past BOTTOM: Farewell forever