Lake Central High School - Quiver Yearbook (St. John, IN)

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A lucky man is the target of a saloon girl who tries to pick him up. The scene is set in front of the Red Dog Saloon. L. Mandich Sneaky Fitch surprises many nusual play captures audience The Lake Central Theater Guild (LCTG) presented ' The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch”, a western, a musical and a comedy all in one. The show was chosen by the LCTG to run as their fall performance. Mrs. Lowe, director, stated that she liked the play and used it because it was un¬ usual and nobody around here had done it before. The set of The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch resembled an old western town with a bank, a jail and a town saloon. Within the town lived Sneaky Fitch (Ron Buche), a good for nothing town bum. The people want¬ ed him dead. They got their wish when Doc Burch (John Powers), the town doctor, gave Sneaky some medicine which made Sneaky fall asleep and appear to die. At his fu¬ neral, Sneaky shocked everyone and rose up from the coffin. People thought he was evil for coming back to life. They hired Rackham (Greg Grafton), the mean town villian to kill Sneaky. Rackham challenged Sneaky to a shootout. But before the shootout Rackham loses his courage and begs Sneaky not to kill him. Meanwhile, Miss Maroon (Valerie Wilson), the saloon owner was watching, she pulled out a gun and shot Sneaky. He didn’t even know who shot him. Then Doc Burch re¬ turned and explained to everyone that Sneaky had never died. The medicine he took made him seem to die. Miss Maroon then began to re¬ gret what she had done. She went down, next to Sneaky and told him that she loved him. Then Sneaky died. Other members of the cast were: The Singer (Pete Balciunas), Sheriff Jack (Mike Wittl), Mr. Vale (Tom Ex¬ tin), Deputy Chester (Brian Smosna), Reverand Blackwood (Chris Casebolt) and Mrs. Black¬ wood (Kelsie Stooksbury). Mrs. Lowe felt the play was a real success and described it as being wonderful and a lot of fun! By Pamela Dan ’ Sneaky Fitch 29

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Sneaky receives an examination by Doc Burch. Soon after the exam. Sneaky suddenly dies. Miss Maroon first appears on stage. She shows her characters personality by her facial expres¬ sion. Sneaky drank up a storm at the town saloon. He gets kicked out and Doc Burch yells at him for drinking too much. During the funeral for Sneaky, the towns peo¬ ple are shocked to see Sneaky come back to life and jump from the coffin. 28 ’ Sneaky Fitch”

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J Monday night football uniors defeat seniors 6-0 After weeks of hard practices, both the juniors and the seniors were confident they were going to win. As the game grew nearer, ener¬ gy grew and so did the tension be¬ tween the two teams. The juniors wanted to prove to the seniors that traditions were made to be broken and the seniors wanted junior blood. ’’The juniors have everything to¬ gether, but I don’t think they’re good enough to stop our offense ’ ’’Practicing more than the sen¬ iors really paid off,” comment¬ ed Pam Dan, junior defense. said Evelyn Nikolopoulos, senior of¬ fensive tackle. But the juniors girls felt different, ”1 feel the junior girls can win if they just play up to their potential, be¬ cause they are already mentally pre¬ pared,” said Tom Smith, junior de¬ fensive coach. As the game began both teams showed they had potential, but nei¬ ther team could seem to score. It seemed as if both defensive teams were doing their job, because by half-time the score was still 0-0; but both teams were confident they would score in the second half. But the juniors were well practiced and proved so. Junior Rachel Gerlach scored a touch down with only 22 seconds remaining in the game. The seniors took the ball, but the junior defense held them back and they failed to score. At the end of the game the score was 6-0 in favor of the juniors. This marked the third time in the history of powder puff that the juniors won. Throughout the game the guy cheerleaders added humor and ex¬ citement as they cheered their team on. The junior cheerleaders were Paul Metlov and Scott Noojin. The senior cheerleaders were Jim Cain, Phil Mitchell, Andy Saddler and Ken Smith. Jim Cain won the honor of Mr. Puff. All the proceeds from the game went toward sending journal¬ ism students to a summerworkshop at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. by Chris Sovich Senior powder puff team members and coaches spent hours psyching up only to learn their strategy wouldn’t work. Kelly Benefiel Guy cheerleaders add humor as well as excite¬ ment to the game. Senior cheerleaders perform a cheer during half-time. 30 Powder Puff