Jackson Township School - Saxmuri Yearbook (Roanoke, IN)

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' ' Our Qolden Hours ' ' Thrills Audience Tup, This is the scene of ;iii olJ-fashioned spelling; bee. Center, Fifth graders presented a medley of foil; songs, this one, Sleep Kentucky Babe. Bottom, Old King Cole was a merry old soul, ' and a young one, too, in this act pre- senting nursery rhymes. The fifth Spring Revue was proclaimed a success 1) - hundreds who saw the school production, Our (iolden Hours. The cast, made up of both grade and high school students, spent long hours re- liearsing actions, dance routines, and speeches. The setting of the revue was a sunny garden, guarded bv a high brick wall, with a life-size sun dial as the center of interest. The art and music departments contributed greatly to present this unusual and spectacular program. Dances were popular in the revue, with an old- fashioned square dance, the breathtaking butter- fly dance, and the bunny hop, complete to furry tails, put on by first graders. Nursery rhymes .and fables emphasized the fantasy in history, while ■John Brown ' s Body dramatized a famous era in American history. Clima.xing the two-night event was the crown- ing of the queen, Linda Runyon, escorted by Rex Paul, both seniors. Her attendants and their es- corts were Anita Moore and Roger Gordon, fresh- men; Gaylan May and Kent Klepser, sophomores; Carol Lynch and Jerry Simmons, juniors. Cap- turing the heart of the crowd were the ring-bearers, Linda Crow and John Johnson. 24 4 4

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Juniors Have Hillbilly Hit In ' ' Mountain QaV CAST Maria (Ma) Lindsay Pamela Elvin Patokah (Pa) Lindsay Arthur Chcnowcth Catalpa Lindsay Barbara Williams Deedee Sandy Raines Oby Lynn Crabbs Sophronia, die hired girl .I ' y Sehenkel Henry McKay, a young lawyer Douglas Thomas Arthur Perrin, another young lawyer Terry Smith John Gordon Alan Cumbey Mrs. Gordon J ly Dager The story of Mountain Gal takes place in the hwne of the Lindsays, a family living in the Ozarks. Bccaiiw; Ma Lindsay was to receive an inheritance of a whop- ping $147.00, and had a very thorough education amounting to two years of formal schooling, she felt sh ' j was much better than anyone else around. When Deedee, the orphan girl who works on their farm, makes friends with .Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, tourists from the North, .she is invited to return with tliern to New York and receive an education. After the Gordons tell a young lawyer about their daughter who had been lost several years before in the Ozarks, an investigation is made and Deedee is proved to be their daughter. Humor is provided in the play by Oby, the hired hand, who is having a miserable time in his attempts to propose to Sophie, the hired girl working on the ne.xt farm. Seems that whenever he gets her alone, some- one interrupts them and he is left with his proposal hanging in mid-air. Offstage, the jimiors found humor in rehearsals, too. Difficulties arose when Yankee clipped speech was converted to slow Southern drawls with hillbilly ac- cents. Lynn Crabbs occasionally spiced the play with .1 few lines of his own added to the script. To top it all off, some of the junior boys were certain that the sky was falling in, when the girls dropped paper wads from the dressintr rooms abo e the stage. Lc ' ff— Members of the cast were; Fir.s-f roic, Susan ' ebert, prompter, Sandv Raines, judv Dager, Judy Sehenkel. Second row. Gavlan May, prompter, Pamela EKin, Barbara Williams, Allan Cumbe -. Doug Thomas. Lvnn Crabbs. Third row. Mrs. Merckx, director, and .Ar- thur Chenoweth. Be oiL ' — Susan ' ebert and Gavlan Mav memorize lines at play practice. Bottom rig if— Sandv Raines and Doug Thomas rehearse their parts on stage.

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A joue— First graders exhibit tlieir dancing ahilitii Peter Rabbit. flig if-]im Thorne, Gary Deardiiff, and Diek Bvall dram- atize the famous lianging of Jolm Brown ' s Body. Be ou;— Participating in the crowning of the queen were Jerry Simmons, Roger Gordon, Anita Moore, Gaylan May, Jolin Johnson, Linda Crow, Carol Lynch, .Kent Klepser, Re. Paul, Linda Runyan, the queen, and Nor- man Balliet, the master of ceremonies.