Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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Spring Play CAST Annie Sullivan ................ Amanda Zimmerman Helen Keller ..........................Tina Clough Arthur Keller ........................ Paul Moser Kate Keller ....................... Robin Shepherd Martha .............................. Wendy Snook Missy (Percy) .......................Kristi Holt Aunt Ev .................. . Darcy Doggett James Keller ......................... . Bart Buch Anagnos ................................Joe Ferrell Viney ...............................Stacy Galligaw a doctor .......].................. Steve Kleemeyer blind children JH offstage voices . Juanita Davidson, Kevin Diers, Steve Kleemeyer, Joy Funkhouser, Sarah Hennesy Champ .................................m . . Grover CREWS Todd Fischer Ramona Ballard Tiff Widmer Matt Robinson Mike Phillips Lisa Clnkrich Tracy (Jnkrich Marty Kennedy Tim Beall Alicia Funkhouser Staci Wilson Stacey Woody Shelly Donoho Rachelle Angstead Shelley Althaus Cathy Fritts Leslie Hook Susan Mosinski Annette Kiefer Tammy Brown Valerie Hill Charles Macy Jaymi Meyers Steve Luckman Andrew Fiedler Todd Durst Ellen Brown Diana Fritz Melanie Boswell Anastasia Baker Teresa Meyers Rana Hashmi Ken Rowe

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t 1984 1985 Average Costs Candy bar $.35 Can of pop $.50 Lunch ticket $4 Girl's designer jeans $30 1985 car $6.000up McDonald's hamburger $.59 Gallon of gas $1.19 Pizza Hut pizza $9.99 VCR movie rental $3 Yearbook $20 Record album $7.99 Baskin Robins' ice cream cone $.93

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 There's only one way out for you, and it’s lan- guage. To learn that your fingers can talk. And say anything you can name. The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson, portrays the younger years of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child. Since her disabling illness at nineteen months, Helen has lived her life in darkness and silence and came through it as a raging tyrant. But the arrival of Annie Sullivan brought a fresh Irish temper to match her own. Annie is determined to teach Helen the language that can release her from her life of confusion and solitude. Helen is equally determined not to cooperate. In the final emotional scene, Helen utters her first syllables since she was a babe. With a gutteral wah-wah she breaks her life-long communication barrier. The serious theme of this play demanded that the cast draw from personal experiences to find and feel the emotion needed to portray the wonder of this child's moment of discovery. Similarly, the crews were required to research the late 1800's to provide realistic costumes, props, and settings. The crews contributed such miracles as a multilateral stage and a pump that drew real water. Drama advisor Scott Slechta, with the assistance of student director Don Wittmer, produced this play which was much more demanding than the ama- teur comedies usually performed by high school casts. Says Slechta, It (The Miracle Worker) is something I've always wanted to perform, and here in Fairfield I've finally found the cast capable of it. 1. Anne Sullivan (Amanda Zimmerman) speaks kindly to the blind girls (Juanita Davidson and Sarah Hennesy) of Perkin s Institute. 2. Kate (Robin Shepherd) attempts to retrieve from Helen (Tina Clough) a pair of dangerous scissors. 3. Playing in the garden are Missy (Kristi Holt), Helen (Tina Clough), and Martha (Wendy Snook). 5. The Keller family greets Annie (Amanda Zimmer- man) at the train station. 6. Captain and Kate Keller (Paul Moser and Robin Shepherd) gaze into the unseeing eyes of their in- fant Helen. 19