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

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And we worked many hours backstage to Carol Ncwlon, Connie Route, and Mary Louise Ucbcle practice applying make-up on Nancy Lewis, Mary Linda Shchorn, and Ruth Har- grave. It takes the hard work of many people behind the scenes to put on a successful play. This work is done by several committees made up of interested students. These students may be seen after school, on weekdays, and on Satur- days painting scenery and gathering properties and costumes. On play nights the make-up committee transforms the cast members into the characters which they are playing. Member» of the property committee, Jim Ro»c. Susan Hargrave. Carol Ncwlon. Danny Travis, and Esther Moseley work on the wall for the set of Belles On Their Toes.

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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

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present these successful plays Pay? tier ut u-five Ruth Hacker and Jane von Asch, student director», and Kay Pierce, a member of the property committor, check to »or what i» available in the «tore room for the vet of You Can’t Take It With You . Since the two plays are all-school plays, any student in L.P.H.S. may serve on a committee or tryout for a part in the play. The student directors play an important part in all these activities. Besides helping the faculty director, they see that all of the committees arc functioning. At the January P.T.A. meeting. Either Moteley, Sharlcnc Kendall, Barbara Kaminski. Mr. Hargrave, Bill Shick. Marlene McFceley, and Stanley Hannah discussed “The Value of High School Activities to the High School Student.”