Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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All In A Play’s Work HOWTIME It was P.T. Barnum who first said, There’s a sucker born every min- ute,” but Professor Harold Hill would undoubtably agree with him. While Barnum proceeded to make his fortune in the circus business. Hill was in the band business and probably would have ended up as rich as Barnum if he hadn’t brought his ideas for a boy’s band to River City, Iowa (As the song goes, We got trouble, right here in River City”) where he met his nemesis, the snooty town librarian, Marion Paroo ( He left River City the li- brary building, but he left all the books to her”). For anyone not fam iliar with that scenerio, that set the stage for the 1985 fall musical, Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man,” which tells the story of Professor Hill’s ill-fated vis- it to River City and his blossoming courtship of Marion. It seems that while Hill claims to be a graduate of the Gary Conservatory (Class of ’05), he cannot read a single note of music and instead relies on his re- voluntionary think system” to con- vince River City’s ' citizens of his le- gitimacy. Presented November 15, 16, 17 to an approximate total of 1800 people, the play involved 18 major charac- ters and 38 voices for the musical numbers. Auditions were held in mid-September for elementary, ju- nior high and high school students. Two months of after-school re- hearsals followed for the ones who were chosen. According to cast member Pete Yelkovac, Having the younger cast members added a whole new di- mension to the play. They were en- thusiastic and willing to bend.” Professor Hill, however, refused to give up his scam even when his friend Marcellus warned him of the odds. It took the love of a librarian to convince him to stay put in River City. — Gina Fattore CHARLIE COWELL. Pete Yelkovac, anvil salesman, warns Riv- er City ' s citizens about the scoundrel Harold Hill. AT THE MADISON Library. Professor Hill and four River City kids. Joe Martz, Eric Evans Mindy Heinhold and Amy Tanner, follow the ad- vice of Marion, the librarian, and catch up on their reading. PROFESSOR HILL, Jim Dalfonso, manages to lure Marion. Lisa Bucher, to the footbridge where they sing Till There Was You.” SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER Jacey Squires, Jon Young, leads River City townspeople in Iowa Stubborn . JIM DALFONSO and MICHELLE Crownover read lines in rehearsal while Karl Berner enjoys an interesting vantage point. 17 Fall Musical

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THE ENTIRE CAST turns out to welcome their new band instruments while the orchestra plays Wells Fargo Wagon.” EULALIE MACECKNIE SHINN. Amy McCasland. the mayor ' s wife, leads the Fourth of July festivities. Olin Britt joins in the singing. THREE MEMBERS OF the school board barbershop quartet, Oliver Hix. Olin Britt and Ewart Dunlop, (Tim Wright. Brian Gill, Andrew Rob- erts.) start one of their numbers. WINTHROP PAROO, KARL BERNER, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School fo urth grader, thrills his mother. Mrs. Paroo, Michelle Crown- over, and Marcellus Washburn. Jeff Carmichael, by overcoming his lisp to sing Wells Fargo Wagon.” 16 Fall Musical

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SENIOR RENE FUR LIN jokes with junior Justin Gericke as he decides what he wants to order. Fur- lin worked at Wendy ' s 12-15 hours a week. After school George Douglas works a cash register at Sievers. Douglas usually worked four-hour shifts three or four days a week. VISIONS — ' 85 VHS grad Mike Moore and juniors Paul Gold and Mike Hartig (senior Rick Allen not pictured) — perform their re- make of Sam the Sham and the Pharoah ' s song Wooly Bully. The band played at an after-school sock hop at the American Le- gion. 18 After 2:30