Wilson High School - Nova Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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l Senior Class Remlitiun of Brnadwalj Pla ,HIS year's Senior Class play, The Night of January the Sixteenth, once again scored a first in Tacoma high school drama. Two years ago Wilson was the first to use theater- in-the-round in a high school production, in this year's courtroom drama the Class of '61 selected members of the audience to serve as the jury. The final decision was left to the jury, and consequently the cast was required to learn two different endings to the play. Taking place entirely within the courtroom, this three-act presentation was under the direction of Mr. Morris Summers. Cast as the two counselors in the murder trial of Karen Andre were Lyle Phelps as District Attorney and Larry johnson as Attorney for the Defense. Penny Cameron play- ed the defendant, and a cast of 21 other seniors supported the three major roles. During the first act the District At- torney presented his case against Miss Andre, on trial for the murder of Bjorn Falkner, her employer for many years. The defendant appeared guilty until the second act, when the Defense Attorney presented his case and evidence was raised in Miss Andre's favor. In the third act a climax of conflicting evidence was reached and the jury was con- fronted with a difficult decision. When the jury finally pre- sented its decision of 'inot guilty, mingled feelings of satisfaction and disappointment of the ending of the trial were in evidence both on the stage and in the audience. A capable group of behind-the-scenes dramatists sup- ported the large cast of actors. The stage crew, headed by Roger Nace, constructed the courtroom set design, and, considering Wilson's lack of a proper stage, the crew did a superior job using the available facilities LARRY IOHNSON LYLE PHELPS Mr. Stevens Mr. Flint Ninety-Eight PENNY CAMERON DAYTON FINNIGAN Karen Andre Larry Regan ll

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, . UUE.. Q TIME for Friends . . . a time invaluable and immeasurable, even as is friendship itself. Pictures of Wilson drawn in the mind's eye . . . crowded halls, the teachers, the subjects we studied, the games and proms . . . these color our memories of high school now, as they will in the time yet to come. But more than any of these we will remember, with perhaps a wispy shadow of nostalgia, the people who formed so large a part of our three years of high school . . . the persons and personalities who, though blurred inexorably by hours, years, and events, can never be erased com- pletely from our minds or our lives: for people and life are, in the human mind, an identity, too cosely related to be separated. The closest friend and confidant . . . the quiet scholar . . . the class cut-up, brimming with humor and self-confidence . . . the one or two workers who always ended up after school, preparing and then cleaning up . . . all the individuals who colored, vividly and indelibly, our years at high school. These friends we have acquired at Wilson are price- less . . . small gems which will gleam brightly throughout the universe of our lives . . . a timeless memory, and a timeless joy. 0