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

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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-

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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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Sevenfb and EMM wade Tfzespkm SEVENTH GRADE TI-IESPIANS EIGHTH GRADE THESPIANS President - - - Jean Alspaugh President ---- Judy Creps Vive President - - Craig Wright Vice President - - Mary Apostolides Secretary ---- Peggy Lee Secretary - - Katie Inoway Treasurer - - - Jo Ann Brunn Treasurer - - - Jane Miller Advisor - Miss Mary Jane Whitling Advisor - Miss Idetta Lutz Time: Present. Place: A Broadway theater after a successful performance of a well-known stage play in which a new star makes her debut. Miss Drittell, Miss Drittell, you are marvelous, stupendous, colossal! These were the shouts which could be heard as the triumphant new stage actress was entering her dressing room after a marvelous performance before greeting the over-joyed public. Hurry, miss, hurry, explained her maid in a tone of eagerness, There are newspaper reporters and hundreds of people waiting to see and congratulate you. if In haste the new actress ,left her dressing room to meet her excited public, After patiently signing a number of autographs, she was suddenly whisked away into an unoccupied room by several anxious reporters. Immediately the shouting and questions commenced. How long have you been acting? Where did you receive your nrst training? Do you like the stage? While these questions were being shouted at her, she was being blinded by the Hash bulbs of the cameras. Overcome by the sudden outburst of noise and with blinking eyes she exclaimed in a tone of exhaustion, One moment, boys, please. I shall tell you all about my acting career if you will only stop shouting. A At once: all noises ceased. In a very gracious manner the actress began, When I was a very small child, I was very interested in acting. I always Wanted to live the lives of other people. As time passed on, I was able to fulfill my desire. My first real experience in acting began when I was in the seventh and eighth grades of Central High School. I was an active member of the Thespian dramatic club in which I learned many fundamentals about acting, In later years I belonged to larger and more famous organizations, and after many years of hard work I have at last reached my goal. Moral: Young actors and actresses, do not despair for you may be the very example of the girl described above. At each meeting the younger group, the seventh grade, presents a play. The directors are chosen by the advisor, and the directors choose the cast. A few plays which the students proudly presented were: They Clean the Attic , The Christmas Gift , How Bobby Put It Over , and That Awful Letter . The advisor of the eighth grade students chooses a play committee from which the direc- tors are appointed. In turn the directors choose their casts, The students proudly boast the following performances: Judy's Jake , Among Us Girls , and Everybody Happy , To vary the programs the eighth grade Thespians present a miscellaneous program every other meeting in which the members display their various talents, HELEN R. MILLER -107-Q