Wayland Academy - Pillars Yearbook (Beaver Dam, WI)

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Ice Carnival Queen and Court Sue Dooley, Diane Aird, ,lean Kramer, Bette Green, Margaret Lawrence JCE CHTMIVH Chilly hreczes zip out to remind you of our successful winter show, the Ice Carnival, on January 20. The weatherman favored us with cold, ice and snow-lovely snow that was just right for making snowballs and washing faces. Needless to say, numerous feminine faces got a cold facial, lnterclass tugs of war, sleigh rides, and similar activities filled the afternoon. As the evening's program of fancy skating opened, the climax came with the coronation of Sue Dooley, elected Queen of the Ice Carnival by votes that loyal sophomores won through War Bond and War Stamp purchases. King was Dick Smitz, crowned for winning speed races. Skaters from Milwaukee provided the big show. Bright lights, the snow throne for the Queen and her court, and a big in the center of the rink transformed our rink into a glittering stage, whereon professionals executed Arahesques, leaps, and dances that made us gasp--and wish that we could skate like that. This outstanding success truly was one of the most memorable scenes of Act H. Page 33

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0-lceafafa Page 32 Going through their calisthenics and dance numbers to the strains of Mozart's minuets and Sousa's marches, eleven blue-clad young ladies, pictured on this page, practiced zealously to produce the acrobatic performance for April 7th. By thus carrying on the tradition of their triumph at the All-Star Basketball game, Judy and Julie Pickard, Dorothy Whitfield, Bette Green, Sue Dooley, Audrey Wilk, Dorothy Boothby, Jeanne Modica, Eve Eisert, Mar- garet Lawrence, and Frances Smith, directed by Miss Lewis, were responsible for a successful girls' gym team in the season of 1944-45. Aspiring also to be future big-top thrillers, a group of boys in the late fall banded together under Mr. Pasl-:o's expert coaching to try their hand at the acrobatics. Their big moment came as co- stars in the April 7th show. ' 'sr

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Sally a maid with a ur os' ...,.....4.,.......,.....4. .. , , p L ...,. Norman Porter, a pulilicity agent. Penny, a smooth little gal .,,.... Caleb, her absorbed father.. . . . . . Mark, her farm-minded brother. . . Mavis, her attractive sister ....,.. Lydia, her busy mother ...,.... Joanna, her loyal girl friend ..... Kerry, her resourceful boyfriend. . Greg, his pal with ideas .... .... Gram, just herself ....i......... Monsieur Henri, a French designer ..... ..., Claire l .... Elsie lpretty young models ...,. Lucille l .,.. Red, a delivery boy ......,........., Harrison Day, an eccentric author ..,. . . . .Basil Thompso Q 23611444 ..,.....Suc Dooley . , . .William Weiner .. .Marion Mitchell .. . , . .jack jannasch , . . . .Peter jernberg Dorothy Maelntosh ...,....Diane Aird . . ,Dolores Caparros .,.......Donjones .......,DanGoetz . , .Annette Atkeson . . . . , . .Alan Rogers .Margaret Leipsiger . . . .Earlene Russell ....Billie,Io Fisher ...,..Tom Mealy n Up with the lights! Someone contend with the curtain! Allow us to present the Wayland Players, directed by Mrs. Robert Duckert. On the stage, off stage, backstagewlearning, acting, and working. These are our professionals, the Drama Club members. Off stage we've worked like fiends, and of our own will and accord too. Witness the prop room. As their annual project, the members of the Drama Club donned old clothes and went to work, mov- ing scenery to the attic, straightening up the props, and organizing the costumes. The result of their industrious efforts is a bright, freshly painted room that not only serves as a property and make-up room, but as a pleasant classroom. On stage-that memorable day of February 24, the hard-working group presented a gay comedy, Dan? Take My Penny. Appropriately enough, it was the story of a teen-age girl who wanted to be an to grace the Linfield stage in many a year Much credit for a successful season goes to our new director and speech coach, Mrs Robert Duckert. The suspense, worry and anxiety about unlearned lines, forgotten cues that budding Bernhardts and Barrymores caused her cannot be described but the record of two smash hits will compensate some, we hope Whether acting or crewing, each member learned a great deal about drama, stag- ing and acting by practise Page 34 actress. Combined efforts of on-stage and off-stage Thespians made the play one of the most successful 7 I U I . ' 7 -, i....a,.,