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

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Row Row Row Row 2, l4Frances Snyder, Doyle' Smith TROUBADOURIAN PLAY D oth Miller, Jack Davisson, Abby Gene Marcine Percy, Marilyn Knipp, Dick Zimmerman, 01' y Thomas MASQUERADERS PLAY Dick Sisler, Jeanette Elliott, Dick Foulkes, Joyce Cotncr, Judy Bice Eb b h Mar Lou Sandifer, Jack Myers, Betty Elizabeth Else, Charles Townsend, Mary Lou ers ac , y Lindsay ...75.....

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Jambr and Sen br flu s Play fuer Sfhce ive A Voice ln Ure Dark JUNIOR CLASS PLAY SENIOR CLASS PLAY Mrs. Clover - - - Nancy Leach Theouelus Davy - - Doyle Smith Johnny Clo-ver - Gordon Misch Livy Davy - Laura Mae Gnagi Mr' Clove? ' ' Jack Davissoh Martha Davy - Joanne, Hinkle Spud Erwin - - Dick Zimmerman J J Susan Blake - Ann Alexander LUCY ' ' Gimme ones Betsy Erwin - - Betty Keimph P0111 Revere ' ' Gerald Coon Martha Willard - Marilyn Newcomb Richard Shirley - - - Bob Ashba Officer Simmons - - Carl Schmidt Dame Astra - Frances Omsley Henry Quinn - - Glenn Webb Lucybell Lee - Natalie Gregg Constance Astra ' Jewel Stalter Preston Hughes - - Harry Wright Captain KIWX ' ' ' Bill Reid Football PIHYUS ' ' Dick BiSl10Pf Samuel Adams - - John Timmeirman John Pletcher, Norman Brentlingery El- bert Kirkpatrick Property Managers - Madeline Richards, Joan Lutes Business Manager - Dorothy Miller Director - - Mrs. Jessie Rhonemus DiFeCf0l' ' ' MTS- Jessie Rhonemus Business Manager - - - Nadine Speer Property Managers - - Marcine Percy, Mary Davis Wardrobe Mistress - - Mary Moore There are really two ways of serving meat loaf. One way is to place it very inartistically on a platter and set it on the table. But the way of the artist is far more complicated. He will take a huge platter, place the tempting brown loaf in the middle, surround it with golden carrot sticks covered with melted butter. and garnish the Whole with parsley sprigs. Well, it seems that the seniors had some history to dish out to the students: and, being artists, they served it in a very striking manner, for they chose as their class play A Voice in the Dark , a play which concerns itself with Samuel Adams. Like most of the plays dealing with those times, the scene is laid in an old tavern, the Pine Tree Tavern in Boston. The period is 1773 to 1775, those years leading to Paul Revere's startling ride, the Boston Tea Party, and eventually the Revolu- tionary War. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and other patriots had chosen the Pine Tree Tavern as a meeting place for discussing the Committees of Correspondence. The innkeeper's daughter, Martha Davy, who is a strong patriot, was serving as their secretary: Complications arise when two British spies choose the same tavern for their headquarters. Other characters are drawn in, and the plot moves swiftly along until the culmination when one of the spies, out of his love for Martha, turns patriot and uses his information to further the American cause. As the cur- tain falls, Paul Revere is leaving for his ride, Adams is fleeing from Boston for protection against the British, and Martha and the converted spy are in close harmony. The seniors may have brought us life from the past, but the juniors concerned themselves with the present, viewing it from an adolescent vantage point in Ever Since Eve . Their recipe contained a southern belle, two journalistic-minded young men, vaischool newspaper, and ia' career-minded young high school girl. Seasoned with complications in the form of measles. their offering was cordially received by the audience. It took a lot last-minute action and quick thinking to pull this ply out of the Ere and restore Susan Blake to 'her rightful position as heroine, but Johnny Clover and Spud Erwin managed to do it. - All ended well with Johnny really seeing Susan's worthiness for the iirsttime in his life. ' ' , ' L e it c 'EllEANOR'WILDERMUT1-I . M1757--..,

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7' oabadoarfhn and Ma que aders' Play TROUBADOURS MASQUERADERS President - - - Marcene Percy President - - - Helen Weaver Vice President - - - Joan Lutes Vice President - - Richard Foulkes Secretary - - Laura Mae Gnagi Secretary - - Barbara Breckenridge Treasurer ---- Glen Webb Treasurer ---- Nancy Heil Advisor - Mrs. Jessie E. Rhonemus Advisor - - MiSS A- Ruth M001'0 TROUBADOURIAN PLAY CAST MASQUERADERS PLAY CAST Miss Groze - - - Abby Gene Thomas Aunt Susie ---- Joyce C0U'l9l' Miss Cavendish Mrs. Wragg - Jimmy North Beatrice - - Mrs. Arthur - Sir Charles Jasper Maurice Mullins A Woman - Dierctor - - Business Manager Property Managers Wardrobe Mistress Stage - - Orchestra - - - - - Jean Everett - Dorothy Miller Dick Zimmerman - Francis Snyder - Marcine Percy - Doyle Smith - - Jack Davisson - - Marilyn Knipp Mrs. Jessie W, Rhonemus - Pat Rhinebarger Joan Hinkle, Jean Heinze - - Dena Fillips - - Don Slaybaught - Don Snow, his Trumpet and his Band Jay He,-bert . - - - Elizabeth Else Scarlet Deane - Jeanette Elliott Laura Dawson - - Mary Lou Ebersbach I Madame Zola - - - - BHUSY Lindsey Mrs. Edward Dunning CCynthiaJ - - Portia Lark - Omar Graves - LaSalle Johnson Johnny Rogers Slick Conway - Director - - Business Manager Property Managers - Mary Lou Sandifer - - Judy Bice - Richard Foulkes - - Dick Sisler - Charles Townsend - Jack Myers Miss Ruth Moore Bill Keeling Mary Helen Altstetter and Lou Anna Hennon Stage Managers - - Art Neth and Don Staup An unlighted stage, a curtained alcove, a fortune, a dumb woman, a bottle of poison, and A Murder Has Been Arranged by the Troubadourian Club. As is customary with the club the Troubadourians again presented a mystery play. Sir Charles Jasper was to give a dinner on the stage of the Saint James Theatre, London. This dinner was for the members of his family, in observance of a Weird anniversary. Then, after the clock had struck eleven, Sir Charles was to inherit the tidy iigure of two million pounds. It seems that many years before a man had been slain in the theatre: a dumb girl had appeared and the ghost of the murdered man flirted on to the stage after the dumb girl's death, so that the murderer was revealed. This, according to the prophecy, was to be repeated in fifty-live years, The zero hour, at which the prophecy was to be fulfilled, was on the night when Sir Charles had everything set for his party. A most important part in the scheme of things was that Maurice Mullins, only near rela- tive of Sir Charles, was to inherit the fortune in case of Sir Charles' death prior to eleven o'clock. Miss Groze, Sir Charles' secretary, was Mullins' first wife and wanted a share in the fortune. Mrs. Wragg, a superstitious cook who is very devoted to Beatrice, Sir Charles' young wife, supplied the humor of the play. In love with Lady Jasper is Jimmy North, a sentimental young fellow who comes to the theatre disguised as a reporter. At the point when Maurice Mullins enters things start to be arranged and the play slides on to an unexpected end. A mystery farce, Aunt Susie Shoots the Works , was presented by the Masqueraders Club. Aunt Susie Stowe, an eccentric and man-hating spinster who lives alone, learns that her late lamented schoolmate, Cora King, has willed her her property. She Wires her favorite niece, Joy Herbert, telling her to meet her on the following afternoon at the King residence. Joy arrives. accompanied by her colored maid Scarlet. While they are waiting in the supposedly deserted house for Aunt Susie, a series of mysterious and hair-raising events occur. Just as they are about to make a terrified departure Aunt Susie arrives, calms their fears, and informs them that she has inherited not only the house but a sausage works next door as well, DOROTHY MILLER -7 7-.