Thornwood High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (South Holland, IL)

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Theatre crew takes a chance For the first time in Thornwood's theatre history three plays were produced in the same evening. The spring production was entitled The- atre By Chance: An Evening of One Act Plays. The interesting feature was that the plays were directed by three senior students. The evening opened with Alicia Herman's production of The Boo- geyman, a bizarre story of a man hunted by a spectral killer. The sec- ond play, Vanities, directed by Shole Milos, dealt with three high school Above: The narrator CJudy Sasutal explains the many facets of Lester Billings' emotions in The Boogeyman. Top Right: General Grant tJeff Asmusb and General Lee tBill Crowleyh settle the Civil War in a scene from A Thurber Carnival. Above Right: Discussing plans for a football game and pep rally Kathy tCathy Skizasj, Joanne tJulie Ritchiej, and Mary CDebbie Ra- quetj relax in their high school gymnasium. Right: Portraying a trio of plageristic sisters Patti Cook, Cindy Ahrenhold and Mary Jane Dwyer debate meanings of old poems in A Thurber Carnival. 32 SPRING PLAY cheerleaders growing up in the ear- ly sixties. The final production, A Thurber Carnival, consisted of short skits by James Thurber and was di- rected by Ruben Rucoba. The technical aspects of the shows were run by speech students. Keith Uldriks, Patti Cook, and Mary Jane Dwyer designed and built the sets for their respective shows under the supervision of Mr. Robert Nerius. The triplet program was staged on May 8 and 9 with the traditional sen- ior citizens performance on May 7.

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The Boogeyman Director .,..,.... Technical director Narrator .........., Lester Billings . . Dr. Harper ,,,.. Boogeyman . . Chorus ..... Vanities Director ,..,.., . . Technical director Mary ,...,,......... . . Kathy .... Joanne . . . Bubba ..... Sarah .....4, Sue Lively . . . . . Alicia Herman Kevin Uldriks . . . . . Judy Sasuta . ....,.. Frank Paul . . . . . Theresa Peters Lonnea Herman . , . . Paula Albrecht Dave Hillstrom Diane Ritchie Terry Peterson Melanie Turner Darlene Zorich . . . . Shole Milos ...... Patti Cook . . .Debbie Raquet . . . . Cathy Skizas . . . . Julie Ritchie . . John DeYoung . ..., Chere Koch . . . . . Maureen Helmick Michelle .,.. ...... K ris Houts Melanie . . ........ Wendy Todd Angie . . . Charnett Walker John ..., T ......,... ,... M ichael Gillispie AI Thurber Carnival Director ......,......... . . . . Ruben Rucoba Technical director ,,..,. Mary Jane Dwyer Cast .,..,.,..,,..,.. . . . Cindy Ahernhold Sue Allen Patti Cook Mary Jane Dwyer Shari Lynn Kavis Stephanie Taylor Jeff Asmus Steve Castner Bill Crowley Ken Hacek Don Lorenzen Al Minne Above: Joanne CJulie Ritchieh and Mary CDeb- bie Raquetj discuss their boyfriends. Top Left: Making fun of Sue Lively CMaureen Helmickb Kathy CCathy Skizasl and Joanne fJulie Ritchiej debate who will win football queen. Left: Members of the chorus from The Boo- geyman tell the chilling tale of Lester Billings tFrank Pauly while Dr. Harper tTheresa Pe- tersj takes notes. SPRING PLAY 33