From the St. Roch’s student journalism page in The Paper, December 1977. Original student wording and bylines are preserved; Marj Weir’s accompanying introduction explains the classroom project.
The 6th grade plans to put on a play. The name of the play is Tom Sawyer, Pirate. They plan to put it on sometime in November. Mrs. Mahon is the teacher that is in charge of it all. She spent hours putting the play together. The 6th grade is doing this for English. They will put it on in front of the whole school. Tom Sawyer is Matt Storey, Becky Thatcher is Chrissy Phaby. Huck Finn will be Karl Hoefel. The 6th grade works on the play every Friday in English class. We have two people doing the lights to show when it’s night and day. The costumes are done by Beth Lake and Paul Starita. Steve Bowe and Willie Winter do the lights. Paula Pini does the prompting. Here are the rest of the people in the play.
Widow Douglas — Laura Green
Sam Morgan — John Walker
Bill Morgan — Sean Thomas
Mrs. Harper – Liz Wright
Mrs. Morgan — Carolyn McGinnis
Ben Rodgers — Derek Lewis
Alfred Temple — Jeff Peters
Amy Lawrence — Ann Hinkebein
Jane Sawyer — Robin Thomas
Aunt Polly — Andrea Topps
Sid Sawyer — John Hickey
Joe Harper — Danny Shea
Gracie Miller — Kathy Fitzmorris
Originally published in The Paper, December 1977.
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Original source: SD_Times1977_12.pdf, printed page(s) 5; PDF page(s) 5.
