Johnson St Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Saint Paris, OH)

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Fourth. Fifth. And Sixth Grade Operetta December 22, 1954 Hansel and Gretel Cast: Hansel...................Kathy Gravitt Gretel.................Zoan Paananen The Old Witch.....................Ruth Scott Peter, the father.................Pete Louden Gertrude, the mother . . . Karen Mahan The Fairy........................Janet Zook The Sandman...........Johnny Amerman The rest of the cast was composed of fourteen angels who kept watch over Hansel and Gretel; also included were fourteen gingerbread children who were underthe terrible spell of the bad witch. Once upon a time, a poor broom - maker and his wife lived in a little cottage in the Harz Mountains with their children. Hansel and Gretel. One day they were home working while their parents were out selling brooms. Work being tiresome, the children start to romp about the room. At the height of their frolic, their mother enters weary and unhappy. She scolds them and sends them into the forest to gather strawberries. Afterwards the father re- turns and missing the children asks about them and is horror-stricken about their being alone in the woods after nightfall. Both mother and father go looking for them. Meanwhile the children are roaming the woods filling their baskets with strawberries. Heedless of direction and time, eventide finds them in the dar- kening forest, haunted, as they believe by fairies and witches. The frightened children cower beneath a tree and fall asleep with a vision of the fourteen guardian angels around them. When the children awake, they notice for the first time, a beautiful little house made of dainties. This is the home of a wicked witch, who en- traps boys and girls and bakes them in- to gingerbread. They break off tasty morsels from the walls. The witch ap- pears and casts a spell over the children. She shuts Hansel up in a cage and tries to entice Gretel to bend down in front of the oven, so that she may push her in and bake her, but meanwhile Hansel manages to get free and pushes the witch in instead. All the gingerbread children are set free. After several hours of searching, the mother and father find their children and everyone gives a chorus of thanks. Fourteen angels watch do keep Angels Both! You've come to visit me, that is sweet! You charming children, so nice to eat! The spell is broken. We're saved, we're freed forevermore. 26

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First Grade FIRST ROW: Mrs. Jean Miller, Daniel Yoder, Dale Perkins, Joe Ridder, Patricia Purk, Hugh Thompson, Carol Rue, Robert Maddy, Steven Mitchell. SECOND ROW: Delores Travis, Joe Tommy Shank, Michael Strong, Sharon Pence, Brian Wilmoth, Marilyn Lutz, Weston Wright, Forest Sells, Tommy Williamson. THIRD ROW: ’Yuvona Robinson, Debra Reed, Sharon Winters, Stephen Runkle, Homer Perkins, David Mahan, Sheila Mattox, Candice Ross, Sherman Runkle. Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Grade Chorus FIRST ROW: Judy Lewis, Janet Pond, Dianna Stradling, John Gilarski, Hal Leasure, Brian Van Culin, Thomas Hill, Beverly Thornton, Portia Hunt, Director, Mrs. Ruth Peirson. SECOND ROW: Patricia Willis, Barbara Kloecker, Janet Schwarm, Billy Brown, Joan Koons, Sharon Fortney, Jane Vorpe, Harold Leasure, Jay Thornton Jimmy Smith. THIRD ROW: David Kuhns, Alvin Bodey, Karen Randall, Nyoka Purk, Marilyn Kunkle, Judy Black, Janet Zook, Diana Loudenback, Zoan Paananen, Carolyn Solt, Sharon Randall. FOURTH ROW: Danny Koons, Jimmy Richeson, Donald Scott, Ruth Scott, Phyllis Jones, Vicki Irvin, Marilyn Heaton, Mildred Basey, Karen Mahan, Dona Cram, Kathleen Gravitt, Viola Nill. 25

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Beginning Instrumentalists FIRST ROW: Henry Riley, III, Clarinet; Viola Nill, Clarinet; Vicki Irvin, Clarinet; Judy Black, Clarinet; Janet Schwarm, Clarinet; Julie Lee, Clarinet. SECOND ROW: Wilma Sloan, Trumpet; Ned Rhodes, Saxophone; Les- ter Hoes, Baritone; Julianna Paananen, Baritone; Richard Lemons, Trombone; Jimmy Richeson, Snare Drums; Roger Pond, Trumpet. Seventh-Eighth Grade Girls’ Chorus FIRST ROW: Peggy Taylor, Sharon Andress, Nancy Metcalfe, Sally Garver, Patrica Gilarski, Neva Finlay, Patty Hunt, Martha Current, Judy Conrad. SECOND ROW: Karen Knick, Brenda Van Culin, Judy Smith, Judy Hender- son, Fraya Basye, Wilma Sloan, Marilyn Myers. THIRD ROW: Judy Pence, Beverly Bull, Toni Koons, Judy Hoff- man, CindyAgenbroad, Dorothy Paananen, Julianna Paananen, Maria Beaty. 27