San Dimas High School - El Santo Yearbook (San Dimas, CA)

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Playing For Time The first play of the year was the comedy hit, Heaven Can Wait. In our version, Sam Robinson and Stewart Snelson took over the lead roles of Joe Pendleton and Mr. Jor- dan, played in the movie by War- ren Beatty and James Mason. Despite the fact that the play in- cluded a lot of new people which might have made it difficult to pull the play together, the cast did a good job performing before the audiences — but accidents do happen. In one of the performances Sam (Joe Pendleton) forgot his sax- aphone, which was an important prop in the play. Sam also acciden- tally dropped and bent the sax. Some of the performers were praised for their particularly good performances: Jon Goldstein as Max Levine, Joe Pendleton ' s man- ager and Stewart Snelson as Mr. Jordan — but Darlene Wiegmann summed it up the best, We really couldn ' t have done it without each other. Generally, the performers felt that students on campus didn ' t support the drama club enough. As Tracie Kistler said, A vast major- ity don ' t even know about the plays. The people who did come to see the plays enjoyed them and that ' s what made the performers happy. The plays were selected by Mr. King who selects according to the knowledge he had of the abilities of the students he knew would try out for the plays. He knew what they can do, what they can learn to do, and what the people on campus would like to see. Many skills could be learned by being in one of the plays. Mica Coach, Tracie Kistler, Darlene Wiegmann, and Sam Robinson has learned stage directions, to control their emotions, to communicate with people, and to feel more free about performing in front of an au- dience. 18 Drama

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1 John Cash puts the finishing touches on the freshman orientation. A fast yet creative n akeup job is done by Liz Swyter and Mike Suchanek on Mary Van Tatenhove and Kevin Kel- ley. During the Sadie Hawkins Rally, couples from the court compete with licorice, but this rally was remembered as the last because of firecrackers that went off in the stands. Chris Keil offers a helping hand to Ron Lenhart, senior class president who resigns himself to his fate. Rally members look on as Mike Suchanek and Robert Gonzalez try to enjoy a sundae blindfolded. Kevin Hood, mummified in toilet paper shows his school spirit as Mike Suchanek carries him across a quad rally. That ' s Disgusting 17

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Wanting to talk to Mr. Farnsworth about her father, Betty Logan, played by Kathy Nunes, has words with Mrs. Farnsworth. In heaven, Joe Pendelton, played by Sam Robinson, tries to convince Mr. Jordan (Stewart Snelson) that he has made a mistake. Knowing that their plan of killing Mr. Farnsworth backfired, Tony Abbott (Kurt Edwards) and Julia Farnsworth (Darlene E. Wiegmann) try to think of another way to get rid of him. Before the show cast members help make each other up. As Joe talks to the invisible Mr. Jordan, Max Levine Oon Goldstein) gives Joe Pendleton a strange look. . Mr. Jordan and an escort (Mica Coach) check off people as they enter heaven. Drama 19