Findlay High School - Trojan Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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With casts chosen by a committee of Thespian members, the Thespian Troop 451 presented three one-act plays 'February 21 in the auditorium. The plays were directed by the students under the gen- eral supervision of W. E. Hall, club sponsor. The first play, Let's Make Up, was a story of two teen-age boys who, angered at their girl friends for putting on make-up in public, shave in a hotel lobby to ridicule the antics of the girls. The story of a bachelor who gives lectures on why he maintains his status of celi- bacy was the theme of Why I Am a Bachelor. Winter Sunset, a more serious play, portrayed the sorrow that a young doctor and his wife caused his mother who was living with them. Between plays two l95O graduates gave humorous readings. Ronnie Yox- simer presented The Cremation of Sam McGee ' and Charles Dowdell gave a cutting from the play Green Pastures. Myrl Gephart offered his Prince of Peace oration, Have We Forgotten? for the approval of the audience. Why I Am A Bachelor Bill Tell, Jane Porter, Barbara Hum- phrey, Cherie Rahal, Doris Lindner, Rosanna Laws, Cal Johns. Winter Sunset Ivan Thomas, Suzanne Moyer, Bob Smith, Mariorie Hutchinson, Frances Watkins. Let's Make Up Norman Smith, Gloria Lupton, Rachel Bright, Bill Hess, Robert Welton, Pat O' Dell, David Robinson, Kay Krueger.

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Doris Lindner: l Said My Pajamas. Carl Johnson sings Chattanooga Shoeshine Tom Roth does an ocrobatic routine. Bay. Under the sponsorship of the Student Council, Talent Day was held March 9 with a program ranging from ocrobatics to popular music, Auditions were held during the week preceding Talent Day. A committee from the Student Council selected the acts which it believed would best please the student body. lim Larkins served as chairman of the ar- rangements committee. Bill Tell acted as Master of Ceremonies for the program. The student numbers included Roger Sprague, guitar solo, lim Covert, Willis Powell, Ned Roberts and David Cryer, trom- bone quartet, Bob Pauline, Keith Miller and Gene Gray, piano solos, Clarence Peterson, Doris Lindner, Rosalind Lieb and Carl john- ston, vocal solos, Shirley McRill, .accordion solo, Rebecca Lear and Tom Roth, acrobatic acts. The high school dance band presented selections at intervals during the program.

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SEATED: Nancy Van Stronder, lvan Bowman, Elizabeth Clay- pool. STANDING: Rosanna Laws. 28 Mother ls a Freshman, a play from the pen of Richard David, Blau, was presented by the Junior Class December l. The story centers around Mrs. Abigail For- titude Abbott, played by lane Porter, and her daughter Susan lCarolyn lngleduel. Mrs. Abbott is a lovely person who does not look her age. Because she is lacking in funds she decides to accept a scholarship at the same college her daughter is attending as a sopho- more. The play unfolds the consequences when Mrs. Abbott and the zoology professor lTim Farleyl, with whom Susan is wildly in- fatuated, fall in love. The comedy portrays the hilarious complications which arise be- tween the housemother lRosanna Lawsl , the president of the college lCal lohnsl and Mrs. Abbott. Completing the cast were Sylvia, a studious girl, Nancy Van Stroncler, Bunny, a cute, naive girl, Barbara Miller, l-lelen, a sophisticated type with her mind on men I I m MOTHER IS A FRESHMAN SEATED: Elizabeth Claypool, Shirley Windcrs, Barbara Miller, Judy Krueger, Orma Highsmith, Nancy Van Stronder. STANDING: Rosanna Laws, Cal Johns, Jane Porter, Bill Malloy, Bill Tell, R. E. Gronau, Tim Farley, lvan Bowman, Carolyn lngledue, Bruce McGarvey, Pat lnsley. Q rather than studies, Shirley Windersg Carrie, a happy-go-lucky girl, Iudy Krueger, and Clara, a scatter-brain, Elizabeth Claypool. The men in the girls' lives were Bobo, lack, Howie and Bill, played by Bill Tell, Bill Mal- loy, lvan Bowman and Bruce McGarvey. Robert E. Gronau was the faculty director and Pat lnsley the student director. The orchestra, under the direction of Oliver Schumacher, played before the opening cur- tain and between acts. Carol Burkhart and Christina lanes were in charge of the properties. Miss Lora Wiest, Don Beltz, Kay l-lerge, Bob Clinger and Bill Tell comprised the advertising committee.