Rogers High School - RYB Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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Lisa Merriweather. freshman, and Byron Hurt, senior, gave the audience an opportunity to share their world by singing Share My World.” At the grand finale of Bits-N-Pieces all the performers congregated on the stage to the beat of Flay and Bay. Magic between the different acts was provided by the talented freshman Mike Bootcheck. For the third year in a row. Ron Riley delighted the audience with his saxophone playing. 28 Student Life

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“Harvey,” this year’s spring play, “hopped” right along and ran very smooth- ly. “Harvey” is a comedy about a man, El- wood P. Dowd, who sees a 6’1 W' imaginary rabbit, Harvey. Elwood’s sister, Veta, wants Elwood committed, but instead, she ends up being institutionalized. After a while, the sanitarium realizes that they have made a mistake and Veta is released. However, a strange turn of events saves Elwood from being committed. The cast worked as a team and after sev- en weeks, of practice, they pulled it all to- gether and gave a very enjoyable perfor- mance. It was the last show at Rogers for the cast’s seniors: Andy Conru, Dave Dabagia, Leanne Mark, Bob Nauyokas, and Manette Wienhoft. It was sad to see such talent leave, however, the show must go on and there were a few underclassmen in the show. On opening night, the audience’s response was one of the best Rogers has seen for the spring play in a long time. Not only did the cast put on a good show, but there were also the people backstage who contributed a great deal to “Harvey’s” success. The stage crew and tech crew, did excellent jobs for the scenery, lighting, and sound. Ms. Heeg found all of the costumes and did makeup. Mr. Peters supervised the stagecrew and put in many extra hours working on the set. The student directors were Tara O’Brien, Chris Moss and Kathy Richter, who worked the lightboard and spent time after school helping the actors with lines. Mr. Troyer directed the show, did the advertising and put up with the cast. Everyone who saw “Harvey” knew the hard work that the cast and crew did. -Amy Russell Elwood (Dave Dabagia) waits for Harvey's advice before ordering magazine subscriptions. The cast of “Harvey'' listens to the helpful comments of Mr Troyer Harvey” 27

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Mrs. Slater playing “the Queen” in The Breakfast Club? Miss Benz singing as Madonna? Mr. McMillan as Rambo? Where did these wild ideas come from? They were part of Mr. Looten’s repertoire as emcee for Bits-nPieces, the annual student talent show. The actual performances weren’t quite as wild as Mr. Lootens’s pictured, but they were, nonetheless, entertaining. There was piano, electric guitar, and saxophone playing, a band, a skit, magic tricks, rapping, but most of all, there was singing. The many excellent performances by seniors showed that Rogers will be losing a lot of talent to graduation. Shea Roper and Brian Nietzel, who have both participated in Bits-n-Pieces each of their years at Rogers, did their rendition of “Separate Lives”. Also, Nietzel and Byron Hurt, another active participant in Bits-n- Pieces for four years, sang Ebony and Ivory”. Another talented senior, Ron Riley, teamed up with junior, Steve Vinson to play a saxophone duet. The talent wasn’t all from seniors, though. Kim Withrow and Jenny Zummak, both sophomores, did an original skit, The Prom Date”, Kevin Beckner, freshman, sang “God Bless the U.S.A.” in celebration of the Statue of Liberty’s 100th birthday, and Mike Bootcheck, freshman, showed the audience his magical qualities by performing a few “slight of hand” tricks. So, although many talented seniors are leaving, there are many talented underclassmen to take their place and the tradition of quality of Bits-n-Pieces will go on. -Lori Scott Mr. Lootens carries on his 14 year tradition of emceeing for Bits-NPieces with his entertaining jokes and comments. During the origional skit. The Prom Date. Jenny Zummak and Kimberly Withrow dance to Mr. Sandman. Bits-N-Pieces 29