Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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The guys behind the lights: Mark Stadler, John Jones, and Marvin Cole. You're at the scene of a terrible murder. A man with a bloody knife in his back has fallen out of a closet. The scene — a creepy-looking house on an island called Vulture's Vault. The victim — Jason Summers (Kevin Saldeen). The suspects — Gregory (John Chellberg), the butler; Jane (Teri Ronna), the maid; and any one of the five mystery writers who try to solve the case; Jess and Whit Olive (Dawn Coplea and Stan Gibson), Mildred Z. Maxwell (Lisa Gritton), Left: Mary Eggleston (Stephanie Mildaur) makes a grand entrance. Right: Martha (Debbie Reckowsky) looks forward to her near divorce. Rodney Ducton (Mark Reckowsky), and Brad Benedict (Jonathan Kaye). Is it for real? No, this was the setting of the Thespian's fall play. Done to Death, by Fred Carmichael. The play, a mystery comedy, was great entertainment for the whole family. Jim Reppert should do something about his complexion. Left: A real murder! Center: Rhonda Jones. Left to right: John Chellberg, Mark Reckowsky. Kevin Saldeen. Stan Gibson, Dawn Coplea, Jonathan Kaye, Lisa Grit-ton. 19

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 Imagine this scene, says Charlie Davenport (Dave Bittinger) to Mac (Gary Coleman). Plays Last year's plays, Annie, Get Your Gun , a western-comedy of the love between a poor country girl and a famous sharpshooter, and Done To Death , the mystery-comedy that changed from real scenes to imaginery ones, were extremely successful. Annie Get Your Gun was the last play directed by Mrs. Stinnett, who then turned those responsibilities over to a new English teacher. It centered around Annie Oakley, the uneducated country girl who was good with a gun, her little brother and sisters, and Frank Butler, the most famous man in the West. Annie and Frank were torn between their love for each other and their pride in being the best gun shot of all time. In spite of small problems with Charlie Davenport, Frank's manager, love finally won out, and Butler and Oakley became a team. Frank Butler (Frank Alfano) meets country girl Annie Oakley (Linda Massey). Indians, yeck, complains Linda Partidge, make-up. to Tammy Ford. 18

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Madrigals ktilMflf Above: An ensemble entertaining the guests during dinner. Below: Nine maids a waiting. Mark Reckowsky bringing in the Boars head, as the Queen (Cindy Thompson), Sir Francis Drake (Ted Beer) and Jester (Terri Ronna) watch. Below, left: Debbie Reckowsky and Mary Eggleston dance the Pavan during the banquet. Below, right: Charles Burnett and Kathy Cole lead the candlelight procession. Wassail! was the familiar cry at the 2nd annual Madrigal banquet, sponsored by the English Lit. Club. Wassail brought on two more successful evenings of dancing, singing, and dining in Queen Elizabeth's palace dining room. The room was bright with extravagant, gaily colored costumes, decorations, the Queen and her court, and even a court jester. (Who would ever think that, on any other day, this room looked like a schoolroom cafeteria? And the court, like plain ordinary high school English Lit. Club members?). Delicious food, fit for a queen, was served as noble ladies and gentlemen sang and danced to beautiful Christmas music. The audience thoroughly enjoyed themselves. So did the cast — the girls straining to put on the big-belled dresses, and the guys, (and some girls) dressing up in knickers and beards with mustaches to match. And the English Lit. Club, with sponsor, Mrs. Beer, enjoyed it, too, because of its great success. 20