Passaic High School - Echo Yearbook (Passaic, NJ)

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Nw JJCHIMES UF Ghosts, counts, a lost marchioness, and a miser comprised the starring roles of the operetta, Chimes of Normandy, which was presented in the audi- torium Friday evening, May 18, 1945, under the direction of Mr. Clayton P. Stevens. The operetta, composed by Robert Planquette, starred Eileen Lan- dow as Serpolette, a good-for-nothing, Ethel just ' ' th lost marchionessg Homer Caruso as Germaine, e as Grenicheux, a tishermang and Theodore Adam- cik as Henri, the lost count. Also taking part were Vilma Payno, Gertrude , Toby Harris, Jeanne g Phyllis Mroz, f'Manette g Maria Macsarka, Suz- anne -all village maidens, Thomas Gamble as Gaspard, a miser, and Edward Taras as l'Le NORMANDYl' Bailli, the village governor. The setting included an annual county fair celebrated in Corneville, an old-fashioned Norman village of the seventeenth cen- tury, and an ancient castle whose supernatural visitors for a long time had made it an object of dread. The strange plot was woven and brought to a surpris- ing end with much humor and intrigue on the part of the cast. Mrs. Louise Humphreys, supervisor of the music, was the accompanist and Miss Ruth t cl the stage action Miss Flora Clark Thomas direc e . was in charge of the ticket sale, Miss Hazel Jensen, ' h and Mr. Nich- costumesg and Miss Lenore Step ens olas Piccoli, stage. Page 13

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BOND and STAMP Shortly after December 7, 1941, the schools of our country were invited to enroll in the gigantic war program known as The Schools At War. Our part was to sell bonds and stamps inside and outside the school. Our schools have done exactly this with amazing results. ln our high school the first sale, of stamps only, took place on February S, 1942, with a total sale of 317090. These weekly figures increased to the staggering hgure of 334,233.20 on December 6, 1944. Parvis e glandibus quercusu or Great oaks from little acorns grow. In order to provide definite goals for the schools, drives for specific articles were put into effect. Our first formal drive was for the purchase of jeeps for the Army. The high school set a quota of five jeeps Page 9-i AMES at 55900, each. At the end of the drive we had raised funds to pay for eighteen jeeps. We were off to a good start, and after that we continued to set our goals higher and higher. In September, 1943, the high school entered a drive, during the third War Loan, to purchase a fly- ing ambulance at a cost of S1lO,'0OO. Although only the sale of bonds could be counted in this drive, the high school raised a total of 323,193.75 Our next drive was a part of the Fourth War Loan which ran from january 18 through February 15, 1944. During this drive the schools worked in co-operation with the Theater Committee and free passes to the various moving picture theaters were given to the pupils making the largest sales. Our