Willoughby High School - Lens Yearbook (Willoughby, OH)

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ommeftcial Not actually directors but more exactly business managers are Miss Margaret Gibbs, Miss lvey Patterson, Miss Freda Untch and Mr. James Smith. Those under their direction play a very important part in any successful production. These are the people who handle the details of typing the script, bal- ancing the budget, and maintaining a good advertising campaign. Miss Untch deals with the lowly extras just learning the intricacies of typing and shorthand, but in Miss Patterson's advanced classes one may see the dress rehearsal for their life roles. fourteen lg - ,,A ...........,.-...4.... 4....4..pA,-f,' . , ',-.....i- '..,' .L .1 TJ, ' 'M

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mathematics At the beginning of the year the technical problems of our production were viewed with great alarm by the students of our drama. These difficult details might have disrupted the whole play had it not been for the directors of mathematics: Miss Margaret Gibbs, Mr. Donald Bowland and Miss Alice- Barkow. Those of us who were involved in the keeping oflbooks and business organization received expert tuition from Miss Gibbs. Financial problems which at one time loomed as insurmountable barriers to progress now prove surprisingly simple. ln a great deal of stage work the unknown is encountered. Be it x or be it y, Mr. Bowland is always on hand with the correct answer. ln the more complicate-d problems of direction Miss Barkow is the taskmaster, the perfectionist. Many are the young thespians who have wakene-d in the middle of the night haunted by ghastly apparitions of all sorts of odd figures and equations. Under the-ir guidance our business department became a proficient unit, ready and able to cope successfully with the many irksome details which might otherwise have hindered the development of our play. thirteen W ,154 . - , ,. -1 .

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plnlsical gducafion fast Actors must be in good condition to meet the rigorous demands of a long engagement. This is the belief of the Physical Education Department. The training of our actors in this ideal is under the capable leadership of Mr. H. Winters, Mr. Stanley Foster and Mr. Bert Davidian, Directors of Physical Education. They also double as football, baseball and track coaches, re- spectively, along with Mr. Gerald Babson, basketball coach. Under the direction of Mrs. Jeanne Mann, the actresses of our company have a physical education program no less strenuous than that of the actors. Field hockey lthe rough kindl is substituted by the fair sex for football, that tame male sport of blocking and tackling. We can be sure that our thespians will benefit greatly from the training received from the physical education department. They will have learned co-ordination and stage deportment. They will be more poised, more grace- ful, but above all, they will have more courage and endurance to continue in the role assigned to them. fifteen