Maumee Valley Country Day High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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er f r ,,,'- -.. ,X ',,,..--Qc, K r 17V xr all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players . . This very familiar line from the pen of William Shakespeare is applicable not only to lite in general but also to the lite of a school. On the stage which is Maumee Valley Country Day School is daily enacted a drama which is part comedy and part tragedy and all of us-students, teach- ers, and parents-participate in the production. The 1957 Weather Vane is the record of the drama and of the directors and casts of the past year.

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the directors A stage is constructed of lumber and nailsp sets are made of canvas, lath, and bright paint, actors are vocal instruments spouting lines on cue: the script consists of words, of themselves empty, flat, dimension- less: the whole exists in potential, awaiting life and reality at the hands of the director. From the raw material of which a drama is created comes the an- nual production of Maumee Valley Country Day School. First the script is written, revised, and rewritten. Simultaneously the stage is redesigned, expanded, and refurbished. Then the actors are selected: the parts are assigned: and finally the play goes into production. The actors must learn their parts: painlessly if possible, painfully if necessary. Over-eager spirits must be disciplined-incorrigible actors dismissed. The speeches must be invested with feeling - stuffiness and mere proficiency eliminated. The actors must be taught to walk with dignity, to speak with authority, to listen with humility, and to act with sincerity. Throughout this process, the warm, strong, tender, firm, forgiving but severe hand of the director is felt and from him emanates, as a mist arises from the earth, the spirit which at once motivates and dominates the play. Maumee Valley is fortunate in having superlative direction and it is to the two men who provide this guidance and leadership - to Mr. Henderson and to Mr. Richardson - that the 1957 Weather Vane is re- spectfully dedicated.