Meredith Willson’'s _- Man” Matinee Today Scribe “Casts About” for New Slant On “Music Man” List of Characters Ben Lomond High VOLUME 17 WEDNESDAY, By KARIN School FEBRUARY 18, 1970 NUMBER 11 JOHNSON This being the third article written on “Music Man” to appear in our paper, I think I'll try and vary the style somewhat. First off, let’s give you a brief rundown on the cast (as if you’ve never had one before) and where they fit in. Bruce Teeples is the red- B. L. Debaters headed salesman named Ha- rold Hill and if he can just get his lines out he really ought to be good. De Ann Peterson is Mar- ian, librarian, Paroo, a girl who shoots goose bumps down your spine every time she opens her mouth to sing. Nancy Jones is her mother, Irish accent and all, and Wesley McNeil is ‘her “thweet” son. The little girl who has a crush on Wesley is Nancy Nye. Now, Mayor of this small Ohio town is Shinn, or as __|we of the student body know a Big Al Toone. His wife is played by Renae Muir, and their daughter is Margo Miller. Town's p gople. are Dex Cory Mjaatvedt and Fawn Dawson are BL’s sje "STUDENTS OF THE MONTH" FAWN DAWSON Fawn was chosen “Student of the Month” for uary by the Student Council. She is a graduate of Highland Junior High, and graduate from Ben Lomond this year. Fawn is secretary of Ben Lomond’s Seminary is a National Merit Commended Scholar. had a 30 composite on the A.C.T. Test, which was “Students of the Month.” Journalism Stomp Jan- A Journalism Stomp has been planned for tonight, will Wednesday, Feb. 18, from 7 till 9 p Cost is 50 cents, plus stuand She dent body card and the the dress is school, although girls may wear dress pants. highest in the senior class at Ben Lomond. Fawn would like to attend B.Y.U. next year and No jeans or grubbies. Weber High students have major in Computer Science. When asked what she does with her spare time, she been invited to attend. replied, “What spare time? Nobody with debate has spare time!” CORY MJAATVEDT Cory was chosen cember by the Student “MUSIC MAN" FEB. 19 - 21 “Student of the Month” for De- Council. He attended Bonneville Elementary, Highland Jun- ior High, and will graduate from Ben Lomond this year. Cory would like to go into the field of medical technology and possibly be an ice skating professional. Cory skates in his free time and has quite a record. His skating competition record is as follows: 1964, place, 1965, 1969 1967, Single Men’s State Champion; Regional Silver Dance; ninth place, third 1969 Pacific Coast Silver Dance. He is on the fifth test (Compulsory Figures), PreGodl Dances and Silver Pair. He took first place in Sun Valley’s Open Silver Dance. Both Scots have come a long way to better our school. We need a few more like them. Thistle Staff Invites Contributions The Thistle staff would like to invite BL students to submit articles of fiction, non-fiction, poetry or book reviews for publication. These may be submitted to Mr. Gillans in Room 25. This year’s musical “The Music Man.” ruary 19, and 20 is Feb- 21 are the big nights, 8-10. Tickets go on sale, by the cast and senior class officers, Monday. We expect a full house every night, get your tickets now. so Highlander Motto No nation, no station Win Majority of Rounds at Alpine On February 7 the Alpine Debate meet took place. Ben. Lomond was represented by four debate teams; eight participants in legislative forum, five in extemporaneous speaking and five in oratory. The debaters won the majority of their rounds. Weaknesses were noted mostly on the negatitve side. But there was still one week left to improve that before the Weber State Meet was held on February 13-14. i ary rating a Dicken school board to a cloddy pianolla girl. The quartet, or school board, are (an the order of sideburn growth) Rick Windley, Dennis Steffen, Mike Williams, and Dave Lucas. Their wives (in order of sideburn growth) Mari McAllister... Dennis is a bachelor . . . Carole Thorsted, and Susan Wall. | Brough took a superior forum and orners “did an excellent job, too. At the time this article was written the outlook for the Weber State College Meet was hopeful. High expectations were especially placed in John Pyner and Lynn Dyment as orators. John was the most successful representative of Ben Lomond at Alpine. With his oration on Communist danger in the United States he got into the final rounds where he made Dwight Brough is the lov- the sixth place. Considering the able character of Marcellus fact that the plus-208 best orafrom schools all over Utah and Margaret Shafer is his tors participated, this is outstanding wife and the pianolla girl. success. Larry Vail portrays a boy Lynn missed the semi-finals from the wrong side of town, good casting, eh? And by one point. Her speech details the cruel treatment American last, but not least, the ones prisoners-of-war have to expewho appear first, the trav- rience in North Vietnam. Lynn eling salesmen: Kris Nyland- is avery expressive speaker. er, Grant Harkness, Mark Peterson, Tom Williams, and George Zinn. Charlie Cowell is Gary Brough and the Conductor is Steve Pemberton. Besides the cast, there will be a chorus, coached by Mr. Freestone and dancers coached by Miss Mower. The orchestra will play and the sixth grade kids band from Horace Mann will present a selected musical treat. The director of the whole shebang is N. Dee Bullock and the student directors are Bridgett Karin Johnson. Gaither and Ben Lomond might have a championship orator and debater with her in the coming years. Mr. Monson, the debate coach, was very successful in interesting many sophomores and juniors in debate. The team was joined by many students at the beginning of the new semester. Mr. Monson expressed his wish that more sophomores and juniors would register for that subject in the next school year. Ben Lomond would then have an experienced and successful group for the next year. So far Ben Lomond has not lost one practice debate meet with other schools Even Ogden High was beaten by ?? points. My envy e’er could raise; A Scot still, A Scot still; I knew nae higher praise —Robert Burns Bulletin Ben Lomond was rated one of the top five schools in the Weber State College debate meet. Rita Stanford and Becky Carruth took second place in the womens debate. Ben Lomond congratulates these students.