Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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“I didn’t have a nickel! Imagine me, a bank executive, arrested for not paying bus fare. What will people say when they find out?” 1 ■ ’ i aw % flw X Ip: • BWI . Act Up Beginning a successful year of dramatic produc- tions was the Junior class play, “Dear Ruth.” The play, a comedy in two acts, was written by Norman Kras and directed by Mrs. Agnes Lynch. “Dear Ruth” revolved around a patriotic teen- ager who wrote letters to soldiers overseas and signed her sister’s name. The fun began when, after sixty letters, a certain soldier unexpectedly came home on furlough. For Ruth it was quite a surprise to meet the boy whom she was practically engaged to while making plans to be married to another. Miriam had not expected this situation to arise since she wrote in one of her many letters that he would crash on his one-hundredth mission on take-off and be killed. This she thought would solve the problem, but to her surprise it only caused more confusion. The play was presented in the Merrillville Audi- torium on November 12, 13, and 14. Faculty director for the Junior production, “Dear Ruth,” was Mrs. Agnes Lynch. “Come here young lady! I told you that there would be no more Bundles for Britain.” “Buuuuuuuuuuuut, Dad?”

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Pros at work. Dora Mrs. Edith Wilkins . . Miriam Wilkins .... Judge Harry Wilkins Ruth Wilkins Lt. Bill Seawright . . . Albert Kummer .... Martha Seawright . . Sgt. Chuck Vincent . Harold Klobbermeyer Student Director Stage Manager Business Manager . . . Members of the cast were as follows : ROW 1 : Nancy Tolpa, Elaine Gust, Lee Guse, Arlene Lawson, and Norman Luttinen. ROW 2: Cal Shearer, Charles Perry, Doug Price, Donna Becker, and Marilyn Morrow. Juniors CAST Marilyn Morrow Elaine Gust . . . Nancy Tolpa Lee Guse . Arlene Lawson Norman Luttinen . . Calvin Shearer . . Donna Becker . . Douglas Price . . . Charles Perry . . Karen Kimble . Wolfgang Bley Judy Hein The people who work be- hind the scenes also play a very important part in the production of the play. Be- hind the stage workers for the play were Judy Hein, Karen Kimble, and Wolf- gang Bley.

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Alright, don t throw the lamp. I’m leaving, but she shouldn’t have put the dummy on the tracks.” Frosh-Soph Classes Present Class of ’62 and ’63 presented its play, February 11 and 13. The play, “Meet Me In St. Louis,” is a three act comedy by Christopher Sergei. The play was directed by Mrs. Agnes Lynch. The plot of the play revolves around Mr. Smith, who was to have been transferred from St. Louis to New York. His family, unwilling to leave St. Louis, tries to stop him from accepting the transfer. His daughters devised many schemes to prevent him from leaving. Set against the background of the 1904 St. Louis World Fair, the three act comedy is replete with high button shoes, high starched collars, and all the charm of the days of gas lights and low taxes. “Maybe you think your children are well behaved, but I — Ouch!”