Tionesta High School - Tionette Yearbook (Tionesta, PA)

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JUNIOR CLASS PLAY First Row: Beverly Holden, Pudgeg Nancy Vail, Mitzieg Merle Pears, Slugger: Barbara Kibbe, Rita, Russell McConnell, Jackie: Donna Richar, Hrs. Fish, Charlotte Bingman, Ginnie, Betty Mellon Second Row: Janet Highhouse, harrietg Hr. Koch, Director: Janice Benson, Bonnie, Bella Jane McKee, Lulug Leland Gilbert 4 It takes place in the Aurora Sorority House at Stonehall College for women. The central character is Rita Powers, an orphan who has been kept in school through the generosity of her almost mythical Uncle Henry, and whom she rarely sees. When he passes on, Hita discovers he was far from the millionaire she had supposed him to be, and it looks as though she would have to leave school. But Uncle Henry has left Rita one bequest, and it turns up in the person of Jackie Clark, a young contender for the middle-weight championship, who is accompanied by his trainer, Slugger 0'Day. Uncle Henry has left his fifty-percent interest in Jackie to Rita, but, since both Jackie and Slugger are penniless, the girls have to put them up in the garage while they train for their next fight. To explain their presence to Irs. Fish, the house mother, they are introduced as dancing teachers--with highly amusing consequences. But Warren Sands a young reporter enamored of Rita, learns that the girls are hiding Jackie and Slugger, and threatens to expose them in his paper. To prevent this the girls kidnap Warren and hold him captive in the house. From this point complications pile up with bewildering rap- idity. In the end, however, everything is straightened out, Jackie wins the championship and to top it all off, Rita finds her true love. 4 Doris CBetty7 and Warren KLelandJ not shown.