Aunt Samanthy Rules the Roost!

Last week I published this picture that I found in the Simmons Studio collection of old negatives.  I asked if anyone had any idea who these people were.

I got help from Rosalee Welling, Robbie Dyer, and Deleta Williams in indentifying these members of the 1952 Junior Class.  Deleta's hint that they were the cast and crew of the Junior Class play, led Lisa Irle to the Warrensburg High School year book where we found more information about the play.

So here they are from Aunt Samanthy Rules the Roost:

Back row left to right: 

Carolyn Ekerm, (PE teacher and director) 

Phyllis Boland (Props) 

Lester Volentine (Lucien Littlefield, a farmer)

Wallace Sheridan (Lights)

Charles Senior (Lights)

Deleta Terry (props) 

Donna Brant (Annie Ambrose, the village dressmaker)

Front row left to right: 

Elnora Bryson (Blanche Bowers, a woman of few words)

Audrey Leigh (Frank Fairfield, who likes Sophie)

LaRena Hunt (Sophie Simpkins, Samanthy's younger niece)

Patsy Price (Aunt Samanthy, an old maid)

Bill Ridge (Blair Boswell, who likes Serena)

Sue Bancroft (Serena Simpkins, her older niece)

Richard Mason (Lawrence Lovewell, a stranger) 

Joann Swope (Polly Paine, maid at the Simpkins’)

This picture was taken on the stage of the Warrensburg High School - the building that is now Martin Warren Elementary.