Morris Catholic High School - Shield Yearbook (Denville, NJ)

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Dramatics Move Cultural Interest PREPARING for the Advent Program, Miss Nancy McPeek and the Thespian Society rehearse. Plato called the theater a form of rec- ollectionf' This is exactly what the Na- tional Theater Company of New York did for Morris Catholic last December. It recalled for the students the growth of man through excerpts from six plays ranging from Aeschylus' g'Eumenides to Chekhov's The Bear . This is not the final range of theater in the school. Its students perform in the arts through the Thespian Society moderated by Miss Nancy McPeek and the fresh- man Dramatic Club moderated by Miss Jean Stamato. Each class also enters a play in annual intramural competition. The Average Woman and Three on a Bench captured awards last year. JEALOUSY breaks lovers Jeannette DeFazio and Rich Morris apart as third party, Kathy Shayka, essays to console them. i -, ,- .

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DRAMATIZING Chekov's The Bear, the National Theater Company presents Smirnov instructing Papova. i TRYING to Calm the wrath gf David Palmer is Paul Fredericks. PLEADING gestures ofApollo are directed to Athena for Orestes 89