Loretto Academy - Laurel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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DRAMA CLUB Diana (Carol Nolte) makes a play for Wintergreen (Mike Pace) in the musical Of Thee I Sing. Practice makes perfect. With this in mind, the dancers spent hours rehearsing to gain grace and rhythm. Wintergreen decides that Mary (Gail Schroeger) is the one for him and the beautiful Diana is jilted. The Drama Club this year was moderated by John Sullivan, a professional actor and teacher at Loretto. At the beginning of the year, three Loretto girls participated in a play at Rockhurst My Three Angels. Immediately after, plans were launched for a musical to be held in the Spring. Of Thee I Sing was presented after months of tiring effort on the part of over one-hundred Loretto and Rockhurst students. Due to its success, more productions are planned for the future in- volving the two schools.

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ATHLETICS CLUB Athletics Club this year sponsored various weekend activities, such as, roller skating, horseback riding and even a mixer. The club also sponsored the class competition in sports. The main activity was volleyball which lasted all year; due to the fact that there were no basketball goals in the gym. At the end of the year was Field Day. All the preparations were made by the Athletics Club - they even cooked the hot dogs. Not knowing an alert cameraman was around, an LA Sen- ior sneaked a second hot dog on Field Day. Athletics Club sponsored a banquet at the Golden Ox The Miss Athletics award and other letters and bars with Johnny Robinson of the Chiefs as guest speaker. were given out by the club officers. 2

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Working behind the scenes was Claudia Cameron, Getting the appropriate costume for each cast member who helped make one hundred decorative posters was ° ' een Sullivan, about the musical. Being jilted by Wintergreen proved to be almost too much sympathizers; but to no avail-- Wintergreen had al- for Diana. Her laments were voiced and she found many ready made his choice. 23