Montvale High School - Echo Yearbook (Montvale, VA)

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CAe £ clio Senior Play ‘ Aunt Samanthy Rules the Roost” The Senior Class prsented this play in the Montvale High School auditorium, December 19, 1936. Aunt Samanthy Simp¬ kins, a man-hating, eccentric old maid, who owns a chicken farm, frightens all the suitors away from her nieces, Serena and Sophia who live with her. Serena is becoming just like her aunt, but Sophia rebels and starts something. She writes love messages on some eggs being shipped and signs them “Miss Simpkins.” Mean¬ while, Polly, the maid, buys some love powder from a fortune teller to whom she confided that Buddy Baskins, the grocery boy, does not return her affections. She puts the powder in lemonade which she intends to offer Buddy, But Samanthy and Lucien Littlefield, a widower whom Samanthy has always bitter¬ ly detested, drink the lemonade first. Then the hilarity starts for the powder really works. Samanthy is a changed woman. Serena, too, imbibes and is transformed. Samanthy’s two man- hating friends partake of the lemonade and try to take Lucien away from Samanthy. In the midst of all this, Lawrence Love- well, who has received an egg bearing a love message, arrives to claim Samanthy as his soul mate. In the end Samanthy relents and the curtain falls on a clear horizon. Dramatis Personae Aunt Samanthy Simpkins Serena Simpkins . Sophia Simpkins . Polly Paine . Annie Ambrose . Blanche Bowers . Lucien Littlefield . Blair Boswell . Frank Fairfield . Lawrence Lovewell . Buddy Baskins . .Martha Anne Saunders Mary Virginia Davidson .Lura Giles .Ethel Obenchain .... Mary Clay Gardner .Gladys Hawkins .Eugne Campbell .Doyle Franklin .James Moore .Wayne Secrest .Landon Bowyer

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Aftivities Life, to Peter Pan, was one quick move after another. Never for an instant was he idle. If he wasn’t on the trail of the enemy, or displaying his friendship for the Indians in numerous acts of kind¬ ness, he was scurrying around his home among the tree roots, getting the children ready for bed or helping Wendy. We, too, have not been idle in our high school life. We, too, have spent our energies and time in many different activities.

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Junior League I CTilKjffl Officen President . Ethel Obenchain Vice-President . Hope Wold Secretary . Patsy Redfield Treasurer . Merle Hackworth Chairman of Program Committee . FRANCES Watson Members: Entire High School. President . . . . Vice-President Secretary . . . . Treasurer ... Grade Leagues LOWER GRADES .Frederick Myers .Ruth Grey .Betty St. Clair .Dicky Painter HIGHER GRADES President . Edith Ayers Vice-President ajid Secretary . Jack Loving