Red Bank High School - Log Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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TOP RIGHT: Buffalo Bill, played by Dane Mihlon, comforts Annie, Karen Halloran, and Dolly, Beth Finch, when they confess their love for the same man ABOVE: Frank Butler, portrayed by Augie Ponturiero, and Karen Halloran as Annie Oakley match wits in the competitive song Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better. RIGHT: The stars of the show: Karen Halloran as Annie Oakley, Augie Ponturiero as Frank Butler, Beth Finch as Dolly Tate, and David Rainey as Charlie Davenport. 2 S

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Annie Opens With a Bang Rogers and Hammerstein's Annie Cet Your Gun was presented by the senior class on April 25, 26 and May 2, 3. The play was set in Ohio and cen- tered around Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When Colonel Buffalo Bill, played by Dane Mihlon, discovered sharpshooter Annie Oakley, por- trayed by Karen Halloran, he made her part of his famous Wild West Show. Already the star of the show was tall, handsome Frank Butler, por- trayed by Augie Ponturiero, who was a hero to all the local girls and very unimpressed with Annie, both per- sonally and professionally. Annie, much more adept at hitting the bull- seye than capturing a man's heart, set out to make Frank notice her by per- forming fantastic feats of shooting skill. Charlie Davenport was Frank's manager, played by David Rainey. Annie and Frank's assistant Dolly Tate, portrayed by Beth Finch, became rivals because they were both in love with Frank. Annie won the star role in Buffalo Bill's Show but lost Frank, whose male vanity she had succeeded in wounding, when he left to headline Pawnee Bill's rival show. The Buffalo Bill Show went to Europe, with Annie a star yet a very discontented woman; but, as always happens in happy stories, Frank also missed Annie, and ultimately love was the winner. The finale found the two sharpshooters and the two Wild West shows merging and proving once again that There's No Business Like Show Business. The cast dressed in typical mid western style overalls, cowboy boots and hats. Some costumes were rented from a costume shop; others were provided by the cast members themselves. Students dedicated long hours at night from 7-12 and after school to rehearse. The stage crew worked diligently to construct the mid-western atmosphere of the play. The director, Mrs. Renee Maxwell, musical director, Mrs. Alice Berman, technical director, Mr. Warren Mat- son and members of the stage crew worked with the cast on the senior production of Annie Get Your Gun. cr.niwittj ABOVE Assistant Dolly Tate, portrayed by Beth Finch and manager Charlie Dayenport, played by David Rainey, run through a scene for Mrs. Maxwell at an evening rehearsal ABOVE RIGHT: Annie's little brother and sis ters, Karen Donohue, Christie Hotaling, Deb bie VanVelthovan, and Matthew Izzo with Annie in her rendition of the song, What Comes Nat'rully. 24

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Students Stir Early for Pancake Breakfast At 6:30 a.m. on January 19, before most of Red Bank Regional's student body was stirring, a group of seniors gathered in the school's cafeteria to prepare for the annual Senior Pan- cake Breakfast by stirring pancake batter, slicing coffee cake, heating sausage and brewing coffee. During the weeks preceding the breakfast, senior class officers fre- quented senior homerooms to col- lect cans of orange juice which were requested of class members. These collected cans of O.). reduced the cost of supplies for the class; and after the breakfast, the surplus was sold to the school cafeteria. Community members Mr. and Mrs. John Byrnes, feeling the breakfast was quite a success, commented, The food tasted as though we were dining at Perkin's Pancake House rather than R.B.R.'s cafeteria. Their opinion typified the majority of the compliments given by the 150 per- sons who were served by the seniors on that Saturday morning. OPPOSITE TOP: Senior Andy Aumack begins mixing the batter for the more than one thou- sand pancakes needed lor the Pancake Break- fast OPPOSITE RIGHT: Seniors respond to the call for frozen orange juice by supplying over one hundred cans to feed the hungry custom- ers. TOP Senior Dolores laCosta picks up a breakfast tray laden heavy with four pancakes, two sausages, orange juice, butter and syrup during the senior class Pancake Breakfast while senior Kim Thomas awaits the next com- plete tray. ABOVE LEFT Senior class advisor Miss Barbara Greenwald (right) mixes orange juice with the help of Mrs. Sharon Hacketl on the preceding Friday afternoon before the sen ior class's Pancake Breakfast or January 19 ABOVE RIGHT: Senior Leslie Grant helps Advi sor Miss Barbara Greenwald prepare for the class of 1980's Pancake Breakfast by opening orange juice cans whose contents dressed one hundred and fifty breakfast trays.