La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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Ten of the “dozen'’ hear last minute instructions before Mrs. Gilbreth, Ruth Har- grave, leaves for her lecture tour. Tom, the handyman, Monte Rchlandcr, alio listens. We were entertained by the comical While Mrs. Gilbreth, portrayed by Ruth Hargrave is on a lecture tour, the ten children are resolved to run the house successfully to prove how reliable they arc. In order to save money the children decided to make their own root beer, and do a lot of swimming which is the cheapest form of entertainment. Anne and Ernestine, played by Ruth Hacker and Judy Valentine, respectively, have bathing suits, but Martha, Nancy Lewis, doesn’t. Martha then de- cides to wear her mother’s Gay Nineties model. Anything to save money! They also rent the Brothers Bill and Frank eavesdrop as Martha chats with a friend. They want to make sure that she doesn't break the no-date promise. Anne and Ernestine welcome Mr. Hathaway, the new roomer.

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watched the play, Uncle Harry'' Doruk. She sees through Harry’s plan and re- fuses to accept his confession, for she, too, sees no purpose in living. She also feels that she is ready to die. Burton, Jim Rose, is witness to these events in the governor’s office. As the play ends, Harry is alone and tor- mented by his thoughts. He has only the mem- ories of the happier days when he could visit with his friends, Mr. Jenkins, Albert, D’Arcy, Blake, and Ben, at the tavern while Miss Phipps, Judy Valentine, served them drinks. These men were played by Chuck Rambo, Paul Stoflfer, Dan Blackburn, Jerry Mayes, and Bill Kelly, respectively. His home is also completely broken up as even the housekeeper Nona, Ruth Har- grave, quits because of the conditions. I.ettie tries to convince Uncle Harry that the is guilty of the crime he committed at Burton, Jim Rote; the prison matron, Rose Doruk; and the governor, the late Tom Curtis, listen.

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spare r x m to a Mr. Hathaway, played by Todd Fay. To the horror of all concerned, snoopy Cous- in Leora, Mary Jo Prcdd, drops in to check up on the family. She quickly decides the children should be sent out to be cared for by relatives. However, Bob, Walter Orr, comes down with the chicken pox. In his visit, Dr. Bob, Jay Gicr- key, quarantines the whole household. All the children contract the disease including Bill, Frank, Lillian, Fred, Dan, and Jack. These char- acters arc portrayed by Joe Ford, Jim Rahfeldt, Kay Bryant, Tom Malone, Jim Wallace, and Richard Yoder, respectively. The girls have agreed to give up dates; and when a young man. Chuck Rambo, appears, the kids, thinking he is Martha’s date, scare him off. However, he is the one more student needed to make Mrs. Gilbreath’s school a fi- nancial success. The roomer leaves and at the same time the $190 they had saved disappears. Tom, the han- scenes from Belles Ernestine's steady, Al I.ynch, the Nantucket Hot Dog. played by Jerry Mayes, sneaked in to serenade her, but left in a huff. On Their Toes dvman, played by Monte Rchlander, hits Cousin Leora with a tennis racquet, and she calls in Mr. Crawford, a policeman played by Bob Klas- sen. This three-act comedy presented on Novem- ber 21 and 22, 1957, was directed by Miss Vera Kellogg with the aid of her student directors, Sherry Veller and Jim Rose. Martha discusses business with the young man who was needed to make Mrs. Gilbreth'i school a financial success. Mrs. Gilbreth arrives home just at Tom tries to explain to the policeman why he had hit Cousin Leora. Page twenty-three