Hildreth Public School - Greyhound Yearbook (Hildreth, NE)

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 ONE-ACT PLAY CAST Janelle Harms. Duane Day. Brent Hlnrlchs. Linda Bunger. Shelly Swarthoul. Brenda Swarthout. Becky Schwartz 1 Brenda enjoys giving her speech, which won her a trip to the State Contest in the category of Humorous Prose 2 Shelly Swarthout's “Persuasive'' speech was good enough for her to place 7th In the state. 3. Janelle asks herself. Why am I doing this speech’ 4. Brenda Casper practices her speech for the kindergarten class 5 Nancy Peters, the artist-in-resldence who spent a week working with students on poetry and creative writing, teaches poetry to one of Mrs Duncan's classes 6. Classmates Bobby Joe and Pauline Morris Anderson Struble Cane, hug one another when reunited In the one-act play. SPFFCH - ONE ACT 17

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I Speech • • • Sends Five To stale DISTRICT WINNERS Sitting: Janelle Harms. Jill Hlnrlctis. Becky Schwartz. Shelly Swarthout. Standing: Adrienne Benz. Brenda Casper. Amy Jo DeJonge. This year’s Speech Team, again under the direction of Mrs. Duncan, had another outstanding year, as they finished high in the district and sent five members to the State Speech Contest in Lincoln. Team members worked hard all year preparing their speeches, and their hard work paid off as seven members of the team received superiors in the district contest. Shelly Swarthout (Per- suasive), Brenda Casper (Humorous Prose), Adrienne Benz (Informative), Janelle Harms (Poetry), and Becky Schwartz (Poetry), all finished either first or second in the district, qualifying them for the State Contest. Jill Hinrichs (Informative), and Amy Jo DeJonge (Entertainment) also received Superior ratings at District, but did not qualify for State. Artist-in-Resident Nancy Peters also spent time helping speech students learn the finer points of Poetry and Creative Writing.

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ONE ACT PLAY 1. Margie tries to ignore Bobby Joe as he brags about his life in Show Biz . 2. As Mollie Pickett looks on. her sister Millie exclaims that she hasn't seen Bobby Joe in years. 3. Bobby Joe seems quite relaxed as he stands trial for murdering the town of Aaron. 4 Andy (Brent Hlnrichs) is questioned by the Prosecuting Attorney. Naomi, while Bobby Joe looks on. 5. Margie and Bobby Joe reminisce about their younger days 6. Margie tells Bobby Joe how the town would be better off if he would leave and never come back. “Requiem For A Town was the title of the one-act play which was per- formed by Mrs. Duncan’s 6th period speech class. Bobby Joe Davis, which was portrayed by Duane Day, came back to his hometown. He had left years earlier to do a TV talk show and the town had diminished since. He came back to visit his old girlfriend Margie (Brenda Swar- thout), and was met by a jury who placed him on “trial’’ for murdering their town. The jury included Millie and Mollie Pickett (Janelle Harms and Linda Bunger), Andy Fifer (Brent Hinrichs), Pauline Morris (Shelly Swarthout), and Naomi Morton (Becky Schwartz). Margie cast the deciding vote and allowed Bobby Joe to leave Aaron. The one-act team competed in both Conference and District Compe- titions but came up just short of returning to the State Competi- tion. 8 ONE ACT PLAY Bobby Joe Returns To a “Requiem for a Small Town”