Owen J Roberts High School - Torch Yearbook (Pottstown, PA)

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k unlor Class tcplay Head in the Clouds , a delightful two-act comedy written by Mar1'ijane and Joseph Hayes, was presented by the Class of '58 on May 7, 1957, under the direction of Miss Jacqueline M. Desmond and Mr. Robert Heimbach. The entire play takes place in the Matthews' home. Amy Matthews is a typical and attractive teen-age girl. Like so many other teen-agers, she is given to daydreaming. Her fertile imagination creates a wonderful, fantastic, idealistic world in which, both in the present and future, she enjoys wild triumph over her present problems and snobbish rival, Gretchen Elliott. At different times the audience is the witness of Amy's dreamsg she becomes a famous actress and a celebrated healer. All these brief and hilarious daydream scenes are integrated into a strong story of the present. For a while everything' looks pretty hopeless for everyone concerned, including: two bewildered boy friends, Blair and Lukeg a comically scoffing brother, Hugo: Amy's friend, Loisg her beau, Julian, a wise-craekingr, door-slamming girl friend, Crissieg Amy's English teacher, Miss Willis, who secretly wants to see Amy become valedictorian of her class, and two of the most confused parents ever on record, Edison and Karen Matthews. Amy finally comes to her senses and proves to be a heart- warming: heroine, ready to face life in a realistic manner. HEAD IN THE CLOUDS Cast AMY MATTHEWS , , , . , Betty Sypherd MRS. KAREN MATTHEWS Charlotte Davis CHRISSIE MOTT . . , . . Johanna Loehr MISS EDITH WILLIS Sandy Leimbaeh GRETCHEN ELLIOTT . . Betty Teas LOIS STUART . . Judy Boyer BLAIR HENDRICKS Bob Hindle HUGO MATTHEWS . Neal Layman MR. EDISON MATTHEWS John Tressler LUKE JACKSON , ,. Gene Yellc JULIAN REED . . ,,.,.. , . ,, ,. . Robert Fisher PROMPTERS Carol Hranningr Barbara Garvine Judy Rhoads Joan Stott

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D011 l'O I' GAISS wld!! This three-act, romantic comedy, presented by the Senior Class on November 126, 1957, was written by Cecil tl. Stephens, Classroom seeds blossom in the home when Dale Murlock decides to use her laniily as guinea pigs lor a psychological study in the writing of her thesis. She is encouraged by a young college pro- IU!-1Slll', lir, Ronner or Bert, in whom she is romantically interested. Father, a frustrated business nian, resents the dau5:hter's plang but mother, a peace at any price personality, backs up her daughter. The study turns into an application ot home psychotherapy designed to give mother and lather sub- limated outlets tor their supressed and repressed hostility. Aunt Emily and her nephew Rudolph add to the L1'L'lll'l'2ll state of contusion which follows. The situation backfires when it is learned that the professor is using: everyone as a study for some articles which he is writing' ior a psychological magazine. Dale is crushed, for she has not only been betrayed, but has lost her boy friend to her sister Kitty. The entire family turns against the underbanded professor until it is learned that the home therapy has worked. Father is less tense and even starts to take dancing lessons, and mother is happier and less susceptible to accident proneness. The professor finally discovers he is in love with Daleg the parents find a way to reunite the young: loversg and when the hostility is out of the way, there is More Room for Love . The cast will never forget the kind help and assistance given by Mr. Robert R. Heimbach and Mrs. Esther C. Clark, the directors ot the play. MORE ROOM FOR LOVE Cast KITTY MURLOCK Judy Frye .IOSEVHINE MURLOCK Nancy Rerkey IJALE MURLOCK Betty Sypherd RUIJOLPH Robert Hindle IVREIJ MURLOCK , William Rittasc COUSIN EMILY Johanna Loeln' IJR. RONNER John Shiban NILES KENNEDY .. . John Tressler PROMPTERS Jeanette Kully Barbara Wambacli