Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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.rx . . , Page 24 Mortonites See Concerts, Follies ' HERE ARE two photos of the twirling show. Above, four young drum majorettes demonstrate their twirling techniques, and at right Janet Slivka plays with fire” in a solo. THIS PHOTO shows the MHS band performing under the baton of John Melton in one of its concert appearances. There’s always something to which to look forward at Morton. This statement is especially true when something refers to an eve- ning program. For besides the Home- coming program, the plays, the banquets, the after-prom party, the Music Festival, and Commencement, there were many other enjoyable evening affairs. On Dec. 12 there was Candy Cane Lane,” the Junior Red Cross- sponsored fashion show, with models representing various organizations. There were four Music Depart- ment concerts, at which vocal and instrumental groups performed; the drive-in band concert in June, and the twirling show, at which Morton drum majorettes strutted their stuff,” April 9. And then there were the Friars’ Follies,” presented the evening of May 24, a week after high school students had gotten a preview of them in an auditorium session. THE ORCHESTRA, directed by Mr. Melton, gives its rendition of the Blue Danube Waltz” at one of the four Music Department concerts.

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Page 23 MORTIMER BREWSTER (Dick Updegraff) prevents his two sweet aunts (Ramona Adams and Betty Feldt), who turn out not to be his aunts at all, from giving a prospective boarder (Dan George) some of their elderberry wine spiked with arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine. XT T DON VOROS, as the mad Jonathan Brewster, and August Schischka, as Dr. Einstein, his accomplice, bring one of their victims through a window in the senior class’ production of Arsenic and Old Lace.” a Serious Play at Morton High LT. ROONEY (Don Stryzinski) and Officers Klein and Brophy (Jerome Babitz and Wayne Lazar) come to the aid of theater- critic Mortimer, who has been forced to remain bound while Officer O’Hara (George Conger) read him the play he had written. DAVE VAHORVICH, as Teddy Brewster, who believes himself to be Theodore Roosevelt, yells Charge!” as he dashes up the Brewster staircase, supposedly San Juan Hill.

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Page 25 Fashion and Twirling Shows PERFORMERS IN the Morton High School production of the Friars’ Follies’’ gather on the stage of the Palace Theater, really the Morton auditorium. The Morton presenta- tion, based on the Friars’ Follies” given annually by the New York Friars’ Theatrical Club, was directed by junior Mike Miller and Miss Barbara Miller. JIM BRADLEY does an imitation of A1 Jolson for the Follies” audience. THE COMBINED Morton High School choir and music class sing, under the direction of Miss Barbara Miller, at one of the Morton Music Department ' s four concerts. The music class serves as a training course for the choir, both of which are full-credit courses. GRETA SIMPSON models some clothes from Carri-Ann ' s at the JRC fashion show, proceeds from which went to Beatty Memorial Hospital.