Shreve Drama Club to Present 'Bad Seed' a Tale of True Dedication

r1se• Volume XIII Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, La ., February 11, 1983 Number4 Shreve Drama Club to preSent 'Bad Seed' strong woman cast . She select by Margaret Lindanger ed the small twelve member cast Journalism Student by interpretive readings, audi tions, and physical appearance. Captain Shreve players will In the lead role will be freshman present Maxwell Anderson's Missy Harris, who will portray wThe Bad Seedw at 7:30 p.m. on the 8-year-old girl, Rhonda; March 1, 2, 3, in the Shreve senior Nancy Horton as Chris auditorium. tine; senior Beth Schimschock Maleda McKellar, play direCt as Monica; junior Caron Reddy or and drama teacher, decided to as Miss Fern; junior Elizabeth update the 1950's setting of the Harrison as Miss Daigle; senior play to set a more contemporary Mark Young as Leroy; senior mood. This mystery is centered Micky Mooney as Kenneth; around an 8-year-old girl and junior Blake Kaplan as Emery; whether or not she 1s responsi junior David Reeb as Tasker; ble for a series of murders that junior Mark S. Dyba as Mr. have occured . Daigle; junior Don Middleton as McKellar chose this play Bravo; and junior Roger Wil Wonder dog because of the predominately liams as the messenger. AI Brice, teacher and trainer of $6,000 dog, Snoopy, speaks to students at a recent assembly. During the program, Brice demonstrated Snoopy's ability to locate hidden drugs. Last Poor Man's Supper set (Photo by Andy Causey.) by Edle Hagen Journalism Student No heat , a hole in your roof, and you don't know where your $6,000 dog, Snoopy, sniffs out school drugs next meal is coming from. This may not sound familiar to you, but for 25% of the Shreveport population this is an everyday scene. by Macle Mcinnis The dog was introduced to up to four hundred times greater . Because of the increasing amount of poverty in the ::shreveport Journalism Student Shreve students in a special than human beings and can area, Sister assembly recently. She demon Margaret McCaffrey, coordinator of Christian Services, Snoopy, a full-blooded female detect scents of marijuana, announced that this strated how sensitive her sense cocaine year's Po(l{ Man's Supper, to be held Feb. 17 German Shepherd trained to , heroin ,and other drugs at the Convention of smell is when she found drugs and Center, will be the last. The 14th annual Poor wsniff out" all sorts of drugs, is pills. Three year old Snoopy Man's Supper, which in three different locations in the was will be tit!ed, "The Human Race - A Race presently being used by the taken as a puppy to begin Worth Winning" gymnasium. , will be a springboard for the new Souo Kitchen Shreveport Police Department training , and is now living with Program located at 1200 Brice. Sprague St . wto eliminate drugs at our high According to AI Brice, another McCaffrey explained the new plans to Shreve journalism school campuses and middle officer of the Narcotics Division, students recently . The Soup K itchen will orovide one free meal a school campuses," according to and official trainer and master The first visit to Shreve day tor anyone who wants it. She said the Christian Service Program was Richard Thompson , a coordi of Snoopy, the dog has under not only to explain to the stu felt that they could do more good for the poverty-stricken people nator for the Substance and Drug gone two years of drug detec dents about Snoopy, but to tell in this area if they concentrated on providing one meal a day instead Abuse Prevention Division of tion training in Los Angeles, them that Snoopy of one meal a year. would be the police department. CA. She has a sense of smell making another visit soon. Maleda and Hobb, to greet her at the door. She has prepared dinner and McKellar- settles down to watch TV. She looks over her glass elephant col lection. McKellar goes to bed early. At 3 a .m. , the brown haired beauty risP.s to cast the play. Afterwards, she returns to sleep. Atale of true dedication Casting day is not one of McKellar's favorites. "You see smiles and you see tears ," said McKellar, "Those are the worst days of by Blake Kaplan the year." · Journalism Student But, she carries on through the day. McKellar teaches Speech I, Speech II and a tournament class at Shreve. Tournament class Dedication? is one hour each day where McKellar prepares her kids for forensic What other woman would attempt to put on the play Fiddler tournaments, which she takes them on . So far, Mac has had three on the Roof in three weeks? kids go to nationals. Dedication? . Students like McKellar's classes. " I try and create a casual What other woman would , more often than not , put in a 16 atmosphere so they will not be afraid of speech, " said McKellar. hour work day? She pulls a desk behind her podium to use as a chair and starts Dedication? her lessons. They are not formal, but informative. She talks with What other woman would willingly go on overnight trips with her students in a casual way . They talk back, which is sometimes McKellar works to get her her students, six to eight times a school year? not an easy feat for a teacher to do. She reaches her students. They grades out of the way so she can What other woman? There is no other woman. There is only like her. They respect her. " That 's what special about the lady," concentrate on the upcoming one . One Maleda McKellar. said one student while smiling, "you don 't think of her as a teacher, play, The Bad Seed. Mac, as some of her students call her, is now in her seventh you think of her as a friend." year as Shreve drama coach. In this short time, shows such as Guys Later in the day, McKellar goes to play practice. She comes and Dolls, How To Succeed In Business, and Johnny Belinda have in her green army fatigues and brown shoes that have been with appeared on the Shreve stage. These plays are not typical of high her through too many shows to count. school drama. But then again, McKellar is not typical. , She directs one scene and acts out another. " I like directing McKellar recently held auditions for her current play, Bad better than acting, " said McKellar. She shows the lighting director. Seed. Participants are asked to read a part from the play wh ile exactly what she wants and stops to help build the set. She 's all McKellar listens to them. She sits in the back of the auditorium around. scanning the actors. McKellar sits in the audience to watch a scene . She 's unhappy The students sit in the fi rst couple of rows surveying their with what she sees . They try again . She gets upset when her lead competition. The older kids sit together and talk. The younger accidently laughs on stage. "That is my upmost rule - never break ones sit and shake. character, " said McKellar. Her eyes miss nothing . She puts her elbow on her knee and her At one point, McKellar rushes to the stage and says , "I'm chin in her palm as she records her thoughts on paper. The process getting this," as she starts to clap her hands once. As she starts to continues. clap her hands wildly, McKellar says , " I want this." The 1974 LA Tech graduate is frustrated when she leaves How does she do it? How does she go through such a schedule? auditions. She hurries to her apartment to find her two cats , Marley She even wonders. Maleda McKellar- a story of dedication. ___2 _______ T_H_E-EN_T_E_R-PR-I-SE _____ ....., ..... __________ ....._ __________ 0 pin i 0 n February 11, 1983 Students are suffering from research 'paperitis' Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the library - the calendar turns and it's once again that frightening time of the year when our -otherwise quiet, respected library turns into a war zone and the humble librarians transform into massive creatures that lurch around every book shelf. Paranoid students sit clinging to stacks of books as if protecting them from some unknown danger. The cause of these disturbing transformations is none other than the dreaded - research paper, which attacks and corrupts students of all ages like a disease. Symptoms of the so called, "Research paperitus" include loss of sleep, crippling pain in the hands, and a constant shivering of the body from an overdoes of No-Doz and aspirin. However, all of the symptoms are not physical. Juniors and seniors develop a leary, schizophrenic attitude towards anyone who comes near them for fear that they might have the same topic and attempt to take away a needed book or magazine. Freshmen and sophomores suffer from secondary affects of the disease. They are constantly seen staring through the windows of the library or hanging around the doors trying to get in, as they are usually barred from entering when masses of upperclassmen converge on every table and chair available. Not only does this widespread disease affect students at Shreve, but it occurs in every high school in Caddo Parish. Because of a decree by the Caddo Parish School Board, all seniors in Caddo Parish must complete research papers in the third nine weeks of school. During this period of time, books are virtually impossible to find even at public and area college libraries.

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