Mumford High School - Capri Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Oscars Anyone . . . ? Drama Club members played at being five-year- olds to test their dramatic ability under the critical eye of Sponsor Mr. Earl Matthews, English instructor. Sewed costumes . . . applied make-up . . . sold tickets for the school play l Remember Mama . . . Won second prize in the M Week float contest with l Remember Mustang . Members also worked behind Mumford scenes . . . ushered at Wayne State University plays. Take Two . Characterization and interpretation in dramatic readings . . . scenes from Diary of Anne Frank , E 2 5 2 T The King and I , and Our Town . . . ushering at school plays . . . participating in assemblies . . . performing as a choral group . . . getting criticisms from the Senior Drama Club were some of their activities. Sponsored by Mrs. Beatrice Koenigsburg, English l x x instructor, Junior Drama Club was one of the few groups organized to fit the late schedules of the underclassmen . . . They met Monday mornings. E 3 s 3 Q i Jr. Drama Club members practice basic acting techniques in hopes of winning a role in future school productions. P. Gordon, D. Sack- son, S. Stegman, M. Hollinstat, S. Elais, S. Lober, M. Katz fDrama Club asst.l, D. Hollaway, E. Desow, M. Rochmiel, L. Soss. Dagmar, played by Linda Cole, prefers the family cat to her visiting aunts in a scene from l Remember Mama. DRAMA CLUB, Row 'I: E. Matthews fsponsorj, P. Lui Csecretaryl, Row 3: D. Stern, J. Brown, H. Sobol, S. Decker, N. Adelson, M. P Brose fpresidentl, B. Rubin fvice presidentj, G. Pearl Ccor- Katz, B. Linden, L. LaBan, S. Oshensky. responding secretaryj, H. Carnick ftreasurerj. Row 4: H. Brode, J. Grossman, R. Eisen, M. Golden, H. Friedman, Row 2: L. Cole, R. Williams, A. Mellen, J. Abramson, J. Taub, L. L. White, A. Frenkel, S. Freedman, J. Berlin. Zitomer, L. Shaye, S. Kovan, B. Barr, S. Salicoff.

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World Literature students discuss the merits of Italian poets with their teacher, Miss Olmsted. READING, 'RITING, RHYTHM Joel Brown, Douglas Ross, and Jan Winkleman do an original modern iazz interpretation of Chaucer's Canter- bury Tafes. .giuclenfd lgerkcf Communicafion Singing Bonny Barbara Allan, Mr. Swift entertains an English , Literature class. Group discussion was used often in American Literature as demonstrated by Rickey Saks, Carol Ross, Alice Freier, Ronald Cohen, and standing, Linda Spoon, Mrs. Flanders, Leon Hochman, and Sanford Decker.

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A New Look at Literature . . . The Literary Guild analyzed the style and content ot outstanding writers . . . Mr. Earl Matthews, director of the school plays, assisted the club in its comparison of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner's My Fair Lady . Shaw's Man and Superman was studied in detail . . . The latter part of the year was spent in study of T. S. Eliot. Sponsors, Miss Joan Balson and Miss Janis Chap- low, broadened members' literary backgrounds. 1-5.8, 1' p .1 - 1- 0 4: Q , is Casual discussions and an exchange of ideas are usual at Literary Guild meetings. Kneeling: G. Furth, J. Okrent. Seated: J. Balson fsponsorl, T. Faxstein fpresidentj, J. Cohen. ll