Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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ANNUAL INTERCLASS PLAY CONTEST The Leominster High School Dramatic Club presented the Annual Interclass Play Contest on November 19, 1948, under the direction of Miss Lillian Ricker. The Class of 1951 presented the winning play, The Laundry Mark, by Beatrice McNeil. The cast of the play was as follows: Mrs. Donavan, an American housewife, Carol Murphy; her husband, John Derby; Rhoda, her daughter, Janet Wedge; Winifred, her son, Edward Davis; Muzie, a next-door neighbor, Diane Allard; Uncle Harvey, Dana Baggett; Madeline, Betsy Vinal; Roundy, George Ulrich; Stephen Richter, Edward Ward; Virgie, John Hager; Mimi, Joan Gates; Margie, Jacquelyn Gould; a lady saxaphone player, Ruth Haenisch; Miss Atchinson, a wealthy woman, Marilyn McElligott; Mr. Bixley, Ernest Caponi; Mr. Harker, Gilbert Tremblay; and Jasper, a dog, played by Cinder, a dog. The student coach was Patricia Donnelly. The Class of 1950 presented The Best There Is, by Marion Wefer. The cast of characters was as follows: Miss Evans, a nurse, Phyllis Hertel; Miss Hyslop, a nurse, Jean Gasbarri; Tessie, Mary O'Keefe, who was awarded the best actress award; student nurses: Marjorie White and Rachel Walton; an attendant, John Johansson; an interne, Ladner Carleton; Mr. Petersham, Lawrence Fish, who was awarded the best actor award. The student coaches were Patricia Goguen and Norma Tisdale. The class of 1949 presented the play Senor Freedom by Joan Lee Latham. The cast included Dolores Sarveda, a wealthy girl, Marilyn Spiller; Juan, a wounded soldier, Barry Regan; Gina, a servant, Rose Camaradella; Luis, a stranger, Russell Lynch; Bruna, an old woman, Dorothy Waino. The student coaches were Claire Whitney and Anna Carluccio. Between plays, selections were played by the high school orchestra. The faculty members who assisted with the play contest were Miss Blanche Jobes, John F. Joyce, and Elmer J. Bucknell. 29

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CHORAL CLUB During the past year our musically inclined students have given some wonderful works ol music. At the annual Parents’ Night, the Choral Club entertained with many selections. Every- one present remarked favorably on the performance. When the Yuletide season came around, the group brightened the students’ spirits with ie potuers Assembly. The hymns and carols sounded magnificent as they echoed through the halls. The Choral Club presented a concertized version of ‘‘Carmen.’’ Solo voices were il- lustrated with the chorus behind them. ‘The original opera stars could not have done better,” students commented after the performance. Under the supervision of Miss Lucile Brown, the Choral Club has given us a year of music that the class of '49 will always remember. First Row: Left to Right—Betty Ann Gilboy, Carolyn Divoll. Second Row: Left to Right—Martha Manning, Patricia Dorin, Barbara Hurley, Marcia Lowe, Nancy McCreery, Rose Della Chaie, Carolyn Gaetz, Renda Baron, David Dennis, David Murphy, Theresa Burns, Evelyn Tocci, Elaine Mainville, Joan Pierce, Lesley Johnson, Marjorie Liehr, Peggy Beaudet. Third Row: Left to Right—Miss Lucille Brown, Dorothy Anderson, Barbara Caisse, Barbara Pinda, Grace Miner, Robert Anderson, Richard Roberge, Norman Gubber, Lawrence Fish, Ladner Carlton, Thomas Condon, Daniel Beaudet, Lucille Guertin, Phyllis Pulsifer, Phyllis Romano, Elizabeth Tyler, Dorothy Chester, Lorraine Olson, Jacqueline Jacobs, Joan Ulitt, Sheila Cormier, Nancy Ray, Herbert Fini, Raymond Landry, Norman Gallant, Helen Mason, Ann Robichaud, June Provost, Dolores Billotta, Joan Buckley. ORCHESTRA ‘Toot-toot, sqgueak-squeak, burr.’’ Praise the Lord, what could this be? Why, sophomore, you must know that today is either Tuesday or Thursday. The orchestra is ‘‘warming-up” for another one of its ‘jam’’ sessions. Finally, J. Richard Sutcliffe, leader of the band, gives a tap with his baton, and the strains of some beautiful classic issue forth into the corridors. Whether playing for the Better Speech Contest, Interclass Plays, or an assembly sponsored by the Public Speaking Class, the orchestra has been constantly rehearsing. In the spring, the orchestra participated in a Joint Concert between Leominster and Fitchburg High Schools. As the combined orchestras began to play, everyone from Leominster ; was assured that the early morning ‘‘jam’’ sessions had not been in vain. As school drew to a close, the orch estra assisted the seniors with their play, and, finally, with the one thing they had been striving for... graduation. When the last notes of the gradua- tion march had died away, everyone was assured that the orchestra had moved ‘Onward and Upward” since that first rehearsal. Piano—Betty Ann Gilboy, Marilyn Bacon, Catherine Macfarlane, Carolyn Divol. Violins—Betty Clark, Lorraine Gelinas, Norman McGrath. Horns—Pauline Porter, Shirley Schofield. Clarinets—Pauline Porter, Thurston Mansur. Saxophones— William Taylor, Dana Baggett, Roger Sawyer. Cello—John Derby. Trombones—Elliot Wheeler, Arthur McEvoy. Trumpets—Elmer Fitzgerald, Edward Davis, Elwin Buzzell, Frederick Chesborough. Drums—Dorothy Burgess, Ethel Grenfell, Richard Corliss, Marcia Morcall. Electric Guitar—Joan Irvine. Absent: Everett Osborn—Trombone. aL