Peabody High School - Peabody Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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enior Prom 1954 .Q XM Y J ON Friday night, January 29, the February graduating class held their Senior Prom at the Edgewood Country Club, with the music being furnished by Brad Hunt and his Orchestra. The success of the dance can be attri- buted to the good planning of the Senior Class Officers and the Prom Committee, all under the direction of Mr. J. P. Kennedy. Although the weather conditionswere bad, everyone had a lot of fun and the evening proved to be well worth remembering. 19

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0 NE of the memolrable events for the January class of 1954 was the presentation of I Remember Mama by John Van Druten.,Directed by Miss Helen S. DeFrance, the cast put on an outstanding performance On D.6C6mbeI' 4, l953, before a large, appreciative audience. Much crecjlit :must also go to Mr. Wesley Mills and to his fine stage crew who t . . ma e e rea :strc scenery and without whom the play could never have been presented . 642, v-' I Remember Mama ORTRAYING the simple every day life of a Norwegian mother and her family in San Francisco, the play held much human interest. The actors handled the dialect very naturally for amateurs and gave a most sympathetic interpretation of the characters. The cast will always hold in their memories the close friendships they made while the play was in rehearsal. Throughout the many long hours of hard work, no one lost his good humor, and there was always a ioke whenever the tension became too great. Certainly everyone will remember the time when it took the whole cast, the stage crew, and a football player twenty minutes to locate Dag- mar's Gwendolyn. But, perhaps, the most valuable experience they had was their working together as a team to accomplish a common goal. I8

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JUNE CLASS 1954