Madison East High School - Tower Tales Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Spring Play Merits High Praise J Getting acquainted. Front Row: Carol Olsen, Karen Kehl Back Row: Jean Mickelson-i, Gail Sholtz, and Delores Kluberbanz Rivals for Terry's affections. Keith Sperling, Jean, Mickelson, Jerry and Joe Nemetz. Everyone ready for curtain call? Front Row: Jean Kleven, Jackie Looze, Sue Larson., Dick Grundgeiger, Meredith Meiller, Gail Shrolts, Karen Kehl, Carol Olsen, Joe Nemetz. Jean Mickelson, Keith Sperling, Delores Klubertanz, Lois Tyler, Mike Howard, Kathy Seifert, Ruth Stolper, Terry Stolen, Virginia Holmes, and Linda Williams. Back Row: Janice Crapip. Lee Oswald, Kathy Johnson, Steve Saunders, Carla Helmus, Dan Milsted, Phil Graham, JoAnna Cox, Andy McFarlane, Maria Litecky, Anita Swinglie, and Chuck Bilke.

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Scholarship Upper Right: Here we find Allen Siebel and Gerald Fabian in the library, deeply em- grosed in their studies. Upper Left: Seniors of Homeroiom 111 get that first shocking for pleasing! glance at their report cards. Lower Left: John Hermanson and. Dick Johrtston check references in the card catalog case. Scholastic achievement rates high on the list of musts for many East students. Competition is great and the going is often pretty rough but where thereys a will there's a way and that will is a keen part for many of us. This year the honor flags have traveled quite a hit. with the exception of the one in homeroom 121 ! - East High students put in lots of time and energy on their assignments and rewards for their efforts show up on report cards and on the Honor Roll for all to SCC. Honor Flag Homeruom of 121 and the members who merited it: Bottom Row: Dona Clements, Barbara Fell, Linda- Williams. Second Row: Gladys Decker, Pat Esch, Nancy Fralling, Doufma Baker. Third Row: Jacqueline Femrite, Lynell Freng, Sue Fryden- lund, Beth Hailey, Helen Backus, and Janice Crapp. -13-

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Front Row: Janice Crapp, Ruth Stolper, Linda. Williams, Sue Larson, Gail Sholts, and Jo Front Row: Janice Crapp, Ruth Stolper, Linda Williams, Sue Larson, Gail Sholta, and Jo Anna Cox. Back Row: Anita Swingle, Maria Litecky, and Kath Seifert. 'Stage Door Stage Door, a three act comedy written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, was the Spring Play for 1958. Since this was a non- operetta year, Miss Williaiiis chose the play partly because its unusually large cast would give many people an opportunity to apear in an East High dramatic production. All during try outs Suspense was high, and competition tough. XVhen the last of ineteen girls and eleven boys was tin- ally announced, everyone who received a part was elated. The play concerned a group of young girls who went to New York to study acting and find jobs in the theatre. The scene was Mrs. Orcutt's boarding house, the Footlights Club, where the hopes, ambitions, and pranks of the girls resulted in scenes of entertaining comedy. The central plot had to do' with courageous Terry Randall, who fought against great discouragement, but Finally won a star roll on the New York Stage. The cast found that memorizing lines and learn- ing timing, stage positions, and interpretation re- quired long hours of work. The final successful prod-uiction made everyone agree that the work had been fun and was good experience for very- one. A very important part of any production are the unseen people who work back stage: such people as, the stage crew, make up club, and various committees, These groups, work- ing together, helped make Stage Door a success and a play that will always be remembered. Father meets Terry's beau. I Jean Mickelson, Mike Howard, and Keith Sperling. ed