Oakton High School - Paragon Yearbook (Vienna, VA)

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The Skin of Our Teeth The cast members include Laura Franseen, Mike Azzara, Alan Schleeper, Jeff Wolfe, Tom Walter, Anya Spielberg, Lynne Kassa- bian, Renee Picard, Lori Roddy, Mike Fitzpa¬ trick, Jeff Clark, Dan Purcell, Carol Lay, Gary Logan, Paul French, Mark Read, Steve Howell, Dale Hockman, Molly Grimes, Jocie Hindes, Angie Wurman, Steph Shroyer, Freya Spielberg, Judy Tomlinson, Kathy Grenfell, Doug Morton, Harry Street, Jeff Hahn, Rick Murphy, Tim Wright, Chris Flores, Bill McDonald, John Kivlen, Pete Gregory, Karen Kittilstad, Gloria Simpson, Keith Dowell, Ruth DeArmitt, Scott Dozier, Josette Sancho- Bonet, Greg Harris, Nora Tuggle, Karen Tomlinson, and Roseann Sheridan. 30

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Oakton Attends Pinkham Seminar 1 w ] m 7 i m - fj 9 fd February 14-15, the Oakton Chorale and the Advanced Girl’s Chorus attended a seminar at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Winchester, Va. Dr. Daniel Pinkham, a master composer of contemporary music, was invited to the seminar to critique compositions performed by the guest choruses. Friday evening the Conservatory orchestra and choir performed varied selections of Pinkham’s works. The following morning each choir was scheduled a 45-minute session in which to work with Dr. Pinkham. The Oakton group performed two compositions: the Christmas Cantata from the Winter Concert, and The Lamb,” a composition for female voices. The choirs returned impressed with the experience and awed by Dr. Pinkham’s many talents and his innovative musical compositions. The following week, Oakton hosted the All-Virginia Chorus audi¬ tions where All-Regional members could audition for the State Chorus, to be held at Fairfax. Of the twenty places available to this region, Oakton students took seven, the most from any high school in this area. Pam Bes- sler, Laura Franseen, Herb Hall, Mike Moyer, Rod Searcy, Rob Sommers, and Patty Stephenson made the cho¬ rus, with Pam Austin, Bene Blake, Keith Dowell, Penny Gates, Greg Harris, and Ramon Revilla being placed as alternates. 29

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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is a comedy about George Antrobus, his wife Maggie, his two children, and general utility maid, Lily Sabina, all of Vienna, Vir¬ ginia. George Antrobus is John Doe or George Spelvin or you — the Average American at grips with a destiny, sometimes sour, sometimes sweet. The Antrobuses have survived fire, flood, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the black pox, the double feature, a dozen wars, and as many depressions. They run many a gamut, are as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with a disarming optimism. Alternately be¬ witched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes are made — heroes and buffoons. They are true offspring of Adam and Eve, victims of all the ills that flesh is heir to. They have survived a thousand calamities by the skin of their teeth. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is a product of the problems evolved through the depression and the beginning of the second world war. Thornton Wilder conceived this absurd show, filled with anachronisms and impossible incidents, to create a total escape for the 1942 audience. Act one takes place in the ice age. The Antrobuses have a dinosaur and a mammoth for house pets. Act two ends in a flood, similar to the flood of Noah. Act three follows a seven-year war. Tying all of these incidents together is Lily Sabina, the Antrobus’ pert, flirtatious, sassy maid. The audience was recom¬ mended to merely sit back and experience the show, and not worry about discovering a meaning. — Taken from THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH pro¬ gram