Southwestern High School - Triad Yearbook (Piasa, IL)

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19 33 ......... . .33 33' .... .,.,., . . .33 Senior Class Play SUSAN STEPS OUT November 20 Have you ever wanted to step back fifty years - back to the Gay Nineties? Being a modern young Miss, Susan Albright doesn't exactly want to return to the good old days , but there doesn't seem to be much she can do about it It all starts when the Albright family moves to another town The only house avaliable IS old run down and in need of constant attentlon from the local carpenter Susan had been popular at home but now she flnds hersedf Just a stranger ln town There s no fun 1n being a wallflower She s got to do something drastic' Her new high school 1S badly 1n need of money for repalrs for the gymnaslum Susan decldes to ralse the five thousand dollars needed Surely that will attract attention and put her in solld ' She wrltes to one Stephen Dunberry an eccentric old man who once llved ln town but who went out 1nto the world to make hls fortune Mr Dunberry sends Susan a check to present to the school The young people flock around Susan There s an artlcle about her on the front page of the newspaper The publicity helps Mr Albright s new business so a mald is h1red The Enghsh teacher at school plans a blg party at whlch Susan is to present the check to the school Then Bang' The bottom drops from under them Mr Dun berry cancels the check He s decided to v1s1t them 1n person lnstead They re living ln hls boyhood home He lS going to come and see for h1m self lf a nlce old fashioned family IS keeping hls former home Just as he remembers it If they are a nice old fashioned famlly he ll be glad to be generous to the school Mr Albright storms Mrs Albright wishes they d never moved to town as Susan turns herself her family her frlends and the house upside down Everythlng modern must go' A horse IS installed ln the garage The electrlc lamps are removed Does Mr Dunberry like lt? Yes indeed' Susan s carefully laid plans are blown sky hlgh however Her Enghsh teacher a newspaper reporter and her school chums come blunderlng IH upsetting the Gay N1net1es act and nearly drlvlng Mr Dunberry out of his mind How Susan comes out on top and gets a brand new gymnasium for the school is not just amazing lt s amazlngly funny' Susan Albright Janet Belt David Albright Roy Strohbeck Nancy Albrlght Sandra Price Madge Weaver Marilyn Landon Larry Jones Miss Hardy Georgetta Patterson Jerry Conrad Jim McGuire Helen Tremont Dottye Taylor Agnes Maple Carole Bruns Orlando Payne Lester Large Stephen Dunberry Bobby Jacobs Katherine Stoddard Jamce Matlack . . . . , - ' s Q - 1 , . . , . . . 1 lin n 7, 1 l l 1. u 0 , . . , - 1 , 1 1 0 1 . o 0 o , 0 Q . D '- u , . ' . ' 1 .1 - , - . . . . . . . 1 1 . , I ' 1 . I . . , . . , . . . I , Q , , 1 1, 0 , . Q - ' , 0 1 D . . . ,, . . ,, . . , u 1 . 1 . o n 1 1 , I Bruce Parker ......... ,s,, .. il.. .,

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19 33 .......... . .33 Zriad 33' ..... ........ g .gg 5 7 Junior Class Play GRANDMA'S BEST YEARS April 12, 1957 When Grandma Simms comes from the farm to visit her daughter, she finds a situation which is not to her liking. It seems that her daugh- ter, Mrs. Abbott, has become a social climber since the death of her hus- band, and the three Abbott children and Sadie, the maid, are having a miserable time. 'lhe very day Gram arrives Mrs Abbott is bringing three upper crust guests home for the week end One of them is rich and snobblsh Edwin Carlson who Mrs Abbott insists her daughter Joyce must marry although she loves Jim Meyerson a local telegraph operator Another of her guests is Miss Quelch an unllkeable spinster who runs an exclusive girls school to which Mrs Abbott intends to send Marion her fifteen year old daughter Willie the thirteen year old son IS also suffering because his mother won t allow him to do anything he wants and insists that he practice on his violin so that she can impress people with her cu ture Well Gram IS determined to put a stop to all this and she comes up with the brilliant scheme of inviting the family blacksheep to Mrs Abbott s week end party She thinks this ought to sufficiently disgrace her social climbing daughter and set things straight This scheme doesn t come off quite as planned because since she has never seen cousin Oscar the family blacksheep Gram mistakes a criminal for her long lost relative and he needing a hideout accepts her invitation and even brings his wife and daughter Naturally the week end party IS hardly what Mrs Abbott had hoped for but neither is it exactly what Gram wanted for the criminal relatives find lt necessary to get rough causing plenty of exciting complications But when Gram gets ahold of her trusty shotgun she emerges the heroine of the situation the police nab the long sought gang sters Mrs Abbott begins to see the light allowing her children to follow their true inclinations Jim and Gram get handsome rewards and so does the audience in the form of laughs and excitement Mrs Abbott Sadie Joyce Abbott Marion Abbott Dottie Morgan Willie Abbott Shorty Jim Meyerson Patch Mable Bubbles Mrs Carlson Miss Quelch Edwin Carlson Cousin Oscar Thelma Warner Connie Grisham Wilma Kahl Melva Ford Carolyn Watson Claude Roemer Sherrill Spurgeon Garry Acunclus Bill Mills Carol Rutherford Alberta Michael Loretta Krause Rosemary Austin David Dunnagan Lyndel Hart I Q - ' 7 7 ' 7 7 . a u ,1 1 l 1 7 7 . , . J . . , o 1 . . 1 , 1 - ' ' 9 ' ' 9 1 . , . . . . 1 a o 1 n , a L n , 1 1 1 1 1 u , L . , . . . . . , . . 1 n , a 1 ,1 ' A I 9 1 . , . 7 7 ,, . ,, . . J . . I . . ' 7 . . J . J - 7 , .1 1 1 1 , 7 7 ' . .....,. ..,,i,.... J J ..,., JJ ..i,..... t...... J J J .,i... ,,.... ....,,. J J JJ JJ JJ JJ ..,.... .,i, J J .,.. . . JJ JJ JJJJ JJJJJJ J JJJJJJ JJ JJ l I JJ ,JJJJJJJJ JJJJJJ JJJJJ ,JJJ J J J J . JJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ,JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJ JJJJ . Gram JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJ JJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJ, JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ R u t h P ope . . . . JJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJ J J . . JJ.JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ I . J JJJJJJJJJJJ J JJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJ J J JJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJ J