Lima Central Catholic High School - Flame Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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Troabadoars and Masqaeraders TROUBADOURIAN OFFICERS MASQUERADERS OFFICERS President - - - Marcine Percy President - - - Helen Weaver Vice President , , , Joan Lutes Vice President - - Richard Foulkes Secretary - - Laura Mae Gnagi Secretary - - Barbara Breckenridge Treasurer ---- Nancy Heil Treasurer - - Glen Webb Program Chairman - Shirley Shrider Adlvisor Mrs. Jessie Rhonemus Advisor - - Miss A- Ruth M0012 With trembling, clammy fingers she grasped the pencil. Write her name? Oh. yes. No! No! That scrawl wasn't her signature, but, alas, the paper was grabbed from beneath her hand. Well, you can't blame her for trying. Suddenly, another crowd engulfed her and she was rudely cast aside. Carefully she repaired herself and then blunderingly made her way to a corner in the room. Nervously she clung to her seat until her number was called. lf this is what they go through in Alcatraz, it's a cinch she will stay on the straight and narrow path. Suddenly a harsh voice broke through her nervous reverie and yelled into the room, 'lNum- ber eleven! You're next, kid. C'mon, get a move on. We haven't got time to burn! Blindly she stumbled to the door and went through its stately portals. Across the corridor she went and stopped before the stairs. With halting steps and fast failing courage she mounted them and opened the door. One, two, three, her steps echoed and re-echoed from the platform of study hall 307. As she faltered' across the platform she gazed at the sea of faces. No! No! lt couldn't be a sea of faces. What would a sea be doing in study hall? Again she looked. It must be a sea of faces in a blinding storm, for they were whirling and dashing against each other unceasingly. , From afar a voice called to her softly and then rudely, Psst! You dodo! Recite! Was that from the wings of the stage! Impossible! There is no stage in a storm. Again the voice hissed in her ear, Hurry up! You aren't the only Helen Hayes in the world, so start reciting. Then, she began to drift back from her coma. Realization stood stark before her. She had stage fright! She! The future Helen Hayes No. 2. The misery of it all flooded her mind. Yes, yes, my poem, she thought with panic. l Bravely, she drew herself together and began. Awwk! No response from her vocal organs! Again she attempted to recite. Finally. a weak gasp passed her lips, and then it became louder as it increased in volume. Eloquently and with no thought of those present she repeated her poem. After the last line had been spoken, she triumphantly promenaded across the platform, out the door, and down the steps. Proudly Cand with a sight of reliefj she gaily gathered her books and forgot her previous misery. -- But alas, her misery was not yet complete. Had she made the club? Anguished days of waiting, a rush to the bulletin board every noon hour, the gnawing of nails, and nervous excitement followed. She joined other groups of students and voiced her fear. Waiting!! Ultimately, the long awaited day came. Names of the selected members were posted. As she pushed her way through the crowd in front of the bulletin board, all her cherished dreams began to flick across her mind: memorization, make-up, costumes, congratulations, orchids. This was a step toward her flaming future. With fear she raised her eyes to the type-written sheet of paper. Her anxious eyes read down the column quickly and then stopped. There! The last name was hers.. She had made Troubadours. All those days of preparation and waiting were worth that moment of ecstacy. With a whoop she ran down the hall and into her home room. Ah! This was the life! This is but a brief portrait of the excitement experienced by Masqueraders and Trouba- dours. Many will tell you it is nothing, it is just a bluff. Pulses beat, eyes flash, and there is a fervor of excitement at the mere mentioning of a play. Every Wednesday, alternately, the members of their respective clubs troop down to the auditorium during club period, take their seats, and await the play that is to be presented during the meeting. Will it be it melodrama or a comedy? The Troubadourian Club is the organization for dignified seniors and busy juniors. Small- fry sophomores and green freshmen make up the Masqueraders Club. Another ordeal for these would-be actors is their annual play. DEANA FILLIPS W-105-H

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Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row 4.. 1 L. 27. TROUBADOURS CLUB Frances Snyder, Deana Fillips, Natalie Gregg, Pat Pnaum, Ann Alexander, Madeline Richards, Jean Heinze +Abby Gene Thomas, Marcene Blodgett, Nelda Mills, Nancy Leech, Joan Lutes, Joan Burke, Joan Blum, Joan Jones, Marcine Percy -Laura Jane Ash, Phyllis Tuttle, Jewel Stalter June Webb Anita Greenberg Marilyn Knipp, Mary Frances Molden, Claudine Renz, Betty Lori Callahan, Jdanne Hinkle l I Nadine Speer, Michael Davidian, Laura Mae Gnagfi, Harriett: Sandifer, Barbara Bowman, Paullne Kruse, Pat'Rinebarger. Je-an Everett, Dorothy Miller, Frances Ousley --Trevor Craig, Walter Bowman, Jimmy Thomas Glen Webb Cordon Misch Bill Fisher Tom Leech Dean Wiseley, Doyle Smith, Harry Wright l l y l , Gi-Rudy Rakowsky, Dick Zimmerman MASQUERADERS CLUB Jeanette' Elliott, Carol Creps, Dick Sisler, Wanda Leatherman, Cathleen McPheron Pat Cr ' M F aig, ary rances Morris, Dorothy May Wood, Shirley Jeanne Pugh, Betty Lou Lindsay, Judy Bice 3-Lou Anna Hennon, Shirley Shrider, Jo Campbell, Beverly Asire, Jack Myers, Gwen Love' 4-Lisa Else, Margaret Cowden, Patricia Clayton, Helen Miller, Barb Breckenridge, Mary Long, Helen Weaver, 4'Wi1liam Keeling 5-Betty Bennett, Richard Foulkes, Mary Lou Ebersbach, Va Laire Rilee, Nancy Heil, Jean Schott, Mary Miller, Herman Bronfen 6-Faye Mervis, Mary Helen Altstetter, Joyce Cotner Mary Lou Sandifer, Marian Morgan, C2l'0l Bennett, Ginger McDonald, Dorothy Yoakam, Charles Townsend --104---

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Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row Row 4, SEVENTH GRADE THESPIAN CLUB Palsy Bankson, Peggy Lee, Kathryn Smith, Marilyn Bogan, Jean Osman ' 1, 2-Joyce Reynolds, Warren Stoddard, Craig Wright, Joan Brunn, Jean Alspaugh, June Hookway, Dolores Bogardus, Betty Busch 3-Gertrude Emerson, Myron Teitelbaum, Jim Short, Jeannine Burden, Patricia Bowers, Betty Camp- bell, Marilyn Thorburn, Jeannine Smith . - Dick Feigh, Don Slaybaugh, Marilyn Bryan, Janet Bessire, Marilyn Mertz, Mary Ellen Hoyt, Heidi Ann Bakker, Hope Snow, Ramona Dodge 5-Mary Breda. Ellen Everett, Marceil Nesbitt, Bill First, Margaret Robnolte, Frances Allen, Jerry Han es, Barbara Pierson 6-Miss Mary Jane Whitling EIGHTH GRADE THESPIAN CLUB 1fAnn Geiser, Joanne McCluer, Bill Deubler, Bob Kamin 2--Katie Inoway, Barbara Kepfer, Molly Kamin, Ethel Johnson, Sherwin Lindenbaum 3-Judy Cr-eps, Hannah Sondheimer, Mary Apostolides, Marcia Clevenger, Dorothy Stimmel, Patty Aller 4-Virginia Savage, Jean Rentz, Fleming Bower, Marilyn Wren, 'Patty Mowery, Jane Miller -Beatrice Barbour, Barbara Wheeler, Katharine Folsom, Susan Solomon, Janice Cox, Jean Ann Mannon, Shirley Costin, Patricia Gaberdiel fMiss Idetta Lutz, Richard Reynolds -6106-