Kirkwood High School - K Log Yearbook (Kirkwood, IL)

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KLOG -'...:...-......---'TZ GRAND OLD SWITZERLAND ' The music classes of the Kirkwood Township High School, under the direction of Mrs. Ruth Rawson, presented the oper- etta HGrand Old Switzerland,H on the evenings of March 14 and 2S.The students gave much time and effort to the presentation of this production and their efforts were rewarded in full. The operetta had its setting in Switzerland. Two old Swiss gentlemen, Herr Bollinger, a Swiss Cuckoo clock maker, and Herr Nops, a mountain climber and guide, had been enemies for some years. Matters were complicated by the fact that Trudi, Bollinger's daughter, and Juli, Nops's son, were in love with each other. Things grew worse and worse until Hrs. Miller, an American tourist, and her two children,Donna and John, visited Switzerland. Trudi and Juli quarreled over the American boy and gir1,and after they made up,Mrs.'Hiller prom ised to take them back to America with her, When Herr Nops and Herr Bollinger find this out,they decide to make up and everything ends happily with the Americans deciding to stay on a while in Switzerland. The main characters were as follows: Herr Bollinger, a famous clock maker Trudi, his daughter Herr Nops, a famous mountain guide Juli, his son Mrs. Miller, an American tourist Donna, her daughter John, her son Hedwig A Fritz, friends of Trudi and Juli THE SWISS CHORUS Earl Hancock Juanita Worden Reco Higbee William Gunter Doris Wise Betty Zea Paul Mink Henrietta Bryant Raymond Guilinger Martha Abbey Mary Casteel Mary Coffman Adah Conard Maxine Dye Charlene Ellsworth Juanita Evans Mary Galbreath Jean Liby Bette Mink Kathlyn Montieue Opal Munson Lillian Newman Patricia Oaks Billy Pape Edith Parke Dorothy Parke Ruth Park Francis Peterson Juanita Porter Marie Rothzen Margaret Ross Rose Anne St. Ledger Marian Speer Erma Speck Jane Vaughn Vivian Wctander Donna Jean Weaver Loretta Sward Robert Ryner , Mac Shauman Bill Cochran Kenneth Holeman David Hickok Kenneth Johnson Vincent Johnson Robert Parke Dale Van Riper Eugene Gunter Lewis George will Gibb Lawrence Larson Lyle Nelson Dick Pape Wendell Pape Eugene Smith