To Caroline with love from each of us
The Peninsula Players
1935 _. 1984
, Caroline FROM BRASS TO GOLD M..
What brass those Fishers had - starting a theatre in an unknown area of Wisconsin in the middle of a depression! By 1938. when I first joined them, they had become like pewter - a soft, mellow. dynamic family doing classics. originals. and good standard fare. Mama Fisher. the mad Prussian. we secretly called her. ruled with a gloved mailed fist. She was cook and you ate her sturdy food not only because it was good but because it was good for you! He r garden of vegetables was in the lower parking lot east of the boat house. her storage cellar was next to the well by the main lodge. She played German Lieder records as she cooked and designed/ cut/sewed costumes. You stayed away from h e r then, but when her high giggle of a laugh was heard, she was delightful. Papa. the lanky. mad genius. we secretly called him, fixed things, 2 drank coffee from a saucer, smoked cigars incessantly and when cajoled into service as an actor. did so as C. Raebum Fyfe, a fine pseudo for C.R Fisher. He was around but never took this whole theatre venture toe seriously. The kids: just one sentenc< on each from someone who coulc write a short book on them. Caroline. a beauty in any condition, dynamic. volatile. heart full of compassion. couldn't ae:t and knew it. Brother Richard didn't agree. He adapted plays to star his sister. He directed, worked in his flower garden. wrote reviews, had a crew cut. and was adored by the family. Richie was the geniu s they all agreed. Margie was a voluptuous beauty to whom the family never paid much attention. She acted on occasion but being the youngest didn't stand much of a chance with the competition. The big names in the company were Leo Lucker and Helen (Casey) Bragdon - how fantastic they both were - 3 Gertrude Needham (not quite of this planet). Marden McBroom, 4 Stacey Keach Sr. and several others. Mama Richie Fisher Caroline was to marry Rodion Rath bone and the world was to change 2 5 Caroline Fi sher Leo Lucker and Margot Fisher in as we sat around a radio on Sep Amphitryon 1938 tember 1. 1939 and heard Hitler 3 had invaded Poland. The end of the Caroline Fisher 6 C.R. Fisher. Maggy Maggerstadt Margot Fisher, Leo Lucker and Players' beginning was at hand. and Friends Gertrude Needham in Al Mrs. Beam's 1938 Skip to the 1950s: Nearly 25 years old. the Players are in their silver years. I'm back as co-director with Leo a nd we're doing some of the best. biggest. most exciting plays written - Inherit the Wind. Tea house of the August Moon. On Borrowed Time, Mr. Roberts. Ten plays a summer. one a week. A back breaker for actors. crew and direc tors. One begged for a walk-on after the fourth week. .. Bv now new names appear: Bill j Munchow, Maggie Magerstadt. Jeanne Bolan. Maurice Ottinger. Jean Leslie and others including Harvey Korman (we trained him for 4 the Carol Burnett show!) and Simon (Dan) Scott, the handsome. grey hai r ed hospital supervisor on Trapper John. All of us look back on those years as an important foundation stone of our acting craft. We were not playing under the stars as before the war. but now there was a huge canvas tarp over the audience. When it rained the show stopped. The actors flipped the water out of huge pockets and a camaraderie was felt all a round. My next impression of the Players and the final one - is of the golden period nearing our 50th anniversary - 1984. The Fishers folded away in the Fifties and a brassy young man named Jim McKenzie came in 1946 as an apprentice. married Jeanne Bolan. developed a genius for theatre management and is now our pro 5 ducer/ owner (with the Bank of Sturgeon Bay). By now and since the 60s. names of Dennis Kennedy. Jan Leahy.Jean Sincere. Amy McKenzie, the Walkers - J.W. and Pam, etc. By now we're under a wooden pavilion. By now we have a rehearsal hall. By now- it's too much to comprehend! I've left out strike nights and Eva Klingbile, the parties at the Boyn tons. the Friedmans. the Buchbinders. the fall season. DA. On Golden Pond. the beer garden, Tom Birmingham. our audiences- too much. For me? I'm glad I'm alive to celebrate the growth of the Players from brass - pewter-s ilver - gold - all essential to where we are now in 1984. Happy anniversary. Bob Thompson, Artistic Director
6 1935 Plays Hay Fever Hedda Gabler Criminal at Large The Second Man The Mad Hopes
I was a cub reporter for the Green It also enhanced my standing with Bay Press-Gazette and a frequent the young bucks in Door County Door County vis itor when I heard when a group of us would adjourn about a group of young people who to some local watering hole after the were planning to stage several plays The s how and the beautiful young in an informal outdoor theatre in aclresses were smart enough to Fish Creek during the summer of PENINSULA PLAYERS natter a young reporter who was 1935. AT reviewing their performances. This was something new and a THE THEATRE IN THE GARDEN When the s ite of the theater was welcomeaddition toasummerresort moved from behind the Bonnie colony then in its infancy and worthy Th~ir FIRST Play Brook motel in Fish Creek to its of some press coverage. The news Thursday, July 25 to Saiunlay. July 27 present s ite on the Green Bay shore paper was an early promoter of the Noel Coward's we all thought we had it made. But tourist trade in the area. I wrote a ttHAY FEVER" the s ubsequent expense of building story about their plans and then \\Ith il into a weatherproofamphitheater attended theopeningnightproduc Gertrude Needham kept the Fis her family in constant tion of Hay Fever on Thursday hot water. It was always a good evening. July 25. I 935. CAST OF CHARACTERS question whether they would be As a res ult of that firs t effort and (In ord~r of their ap1....-ar:rn"c:) able lo open for another season. Sorel Bl1
0 to come in with an ant colony) that was supposed to last about a minute. So he came in with the ants. and this one Ii ttle scene lasted about fifteen minutes. They couldn't get him off the stage! He went on and on ... I thought he was talking in Sanskrit! That one-minute cameo!" Bill Munchow
"Richard was who the theatre was kind of built for. He was their genius. He could write these plays that. at the time. took off Hitler and Cham berlain. I would play Chamberlain. and Stacey Keach would play Hi tier. But he would write these things in a satirical vein. These were the revues that Richard put out every year. The general audience didn't appreciate the whole thing. just certain parts. They didn't know what he was talking about. because he was so far above in his intellectual approach.'' "Casey Bragdon was also a genius. She could create as much as he did but in a different way." Bob Thompson
C.R. Fisher in Wuthering Heights 1945
"He was always just playing "Caroline's father was C.R. Fisher. around. having fun. He pretended to He was a mechanical/electrical milk bats: Tm going to get that bat genius who lived in Rogers City. and I'm going to milk it. and I'm which is the home of the big quarry. going to make something out of There is an enormous quarry that that milk.' The milking of the bats U.S. Steel owns. and Fisher helped was Papa's big thing. He was going create the endless belt for the lake to get something and create some boats. He was a genius. And com thing out of that. He was always pletely eccentric." thinking of something. but it was Bob Thompson off in left field.'' Bob Thompson 1937 Plays The Importance of Being Earnest Goodbye Again Post Road The Way of the World When in Rome Seven Sea Birds
1938 Plays At Mrs. Beam·s Lysistrata. Impromptu Night Must Fall This Mercy We Have Shown Lady Windermere's Fan Perish The Thought The Dark Tower
1939 Plays The Circle Dracula Rain Dr. Knock Ways and Means/ Salome Hotel Universe Violence Isn't Nice
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"One of the reasons for its success a nd survival is that from the begin 1 ning there was excellent quality. It Margot Fisher and Jean Leslie in set a pattern for the future. Amphitryon 1938 "Everyone was dedicated." 2 Jane Wolf Leo Lucker, Casey Bragdon in Night Must Fall 1938 3 Lillian Schoen in Night Must Fall 1938 4 Dan Scott, Caroline Fisher, John Behney, Romayne Mostrom. Rudy Bond and Helen Bragdon in Rain 5 Caroline Fisher in Camille
"What romantic memories! What joy! What 'tragedies'! My first car wreck, my first passionate love affair (Caroline) unconsummated alas! And I was an a ctor/ The first star filled sky whose stars could almost be touched - the first Northern Ligh ts - the first Beethoven and Tchaikovsky- so many firsts, how could I possibly forget? "It was a beautiful time which I s hall always cherish." Sam Wanamaker 5 REMEMBERING THE THEATRE IN-A-GAROEN AFTER 50 YEARS ...
It was my good fortune to meet her into stellar roles like Salome. all this was Nirvana to a budding the Fisher family at the outset of my Undine and Alcmene (in Amphitryon actress. Fish Creek generated an acting career. In fact. they gave me 38). atmosphere in which the ideals of my professional start: as a character To me it was. from the start. a love young-people-in-love-with-theatre woman in the Peninsula Players affair with the Fisher family, the could thrive. Anything was possible. company at $5.00 a week plus room. Theatre-in-a-Garden. and the whole Rich Fisher not only directed plays. board and transportation - and a beautiful setting in the pine woods he wrote them. and they were good bonus ifthe theatre made any profit along Wisconsin's shoreline. To be ones. Three (Seven Sea Birds, This that summer of 1937. Richard Fisher. cast in Oedipus Rex. The Importance Mercy We Have Shown, and Undine) at 20 years of age. was our director: of Being Earnest, Lady Winder received world premieres at the his s ister Caroline. at 22. was the mere 's Fan, The Glass Menagerie, Theatre-in-a-Garden. Our produc company business manager and Inherit the Wind. The Lale Chris tions of Oedipus Rex and Lysistrata would (reluctantly) appear on stage topher B ean - comedies and were Fisher adaptations. We wrote as Cathie in Wuthe'ring Heights or dramas of such calibre that they our own musical revues. four or five Millimant in The Way of the World. called forth one's best efforts; to be of them. always to full houses: Mama Fisher where one could eat. sleep and The Theatre-in-a-Garden was a fed us royally. coddled us. and clothed breathe theatre 24 hours a day: to Utopia for all us pre-war Peninsula us in some of the handsomest go down to the s hore after supper Players, and the vision carried over costumes I have seen in all my 50 and watch the s unset across Green into the pos t-war years in spite of years in the theatre: Papa Fisher Bay as one went over one's lines for changes and disappointments. We was our ma intenance man and t h e evening per formance and lost all the Fishers to Hollywood electrical wizard, wiring every build thought about the character one eventually. even Caroline, but she ing on the property from the theatre, was preparing to assume: and then, came back. Finally we even lost the box office and lodge to the dormitory. after the show. to relax in the lodge theatre. though. happily. that simply cabin and boathouse; and Margie on rainy evenings. or sit in the meant a new chapter for the Players. Fisher. then nearing her mid-teens. theatre, out under the stars. listen May there be many more! did 'props', walk-ons and bit parts. ing to Beethoven or Sibelius. Holst's Helen Bragdon but a natural talent soon catapulted PlanetSuite or Madame Butterfly- 2 "They used everyone's furniture. 1 In fact, when we first built our Paul Ballantyne and Casey Bragdon on State of the Union house they were very upset because 1948 so much of it was "built-in". What 2 good was it with us?!? Our whole Stacy Keach. Sr .. Evahne Wright. dining room was on stage once. Margot Fosher. apprentice Caroline knew everybody's closet." (standing) on Salome 1939 Jane Wolf 3 Jean Sincere. J ames Luneberg. Walter Appler. Judith Sansberry, Dan Scott. Margot Fisher in A Comedy of Rogues 1940
"Everybody had a party line up until the late Forties. Once Caroline went to Green Bay to buy props. One of the things they needed was blank cartridges and she couldn't find any. So she called Ritchie and said. 'What do I do?' And of course. whenever the Peninsula Players phone rang. everybody picked it up because they were a lways these 'mad'. crazy actors. And she said, 'I can't find blank cartridges, what'll I do?' And he said. 'Buy real bullets. art before life!' And they had the biggest audience to date!" Jane Wolf
3 1940 Plays Hay Fever The Play's the Thing La Mandragola Undine The Italian Straw Hat A Comedy of Rogues Oedipus. The King Wuthering Heights We Shudder to Think Personal Appearance
1941 Plays Tonight at 8:30 Mystery on the Moors Camille Skylark Rebecca The Little Foxes Ladies in Retirement The Man Who Came to Dinner
1945 Plays Wuthering Heights
1946 Plays The Man Who Came to Dinner Criminal at Large Personal Appearance Kiss and Tell The Happy Journey Salome Angel Street Private Lives The Philadelphia Story Night Must Fall
1947 Plays Brief Moment Rain Salome 2 The Little Foxes The Importance of Being Earnest Oedipus. The King Portrait in Black Goodbye Again Parlor Story Laura
1948 Plays Idiot's Delight The Milky Way The Two Mrs. Carrolls Biography State of the Union Camille Made in Heaven John Loves Mary Years Ago The Facts of Life
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"There was one funny nigh t. in 1941. It rained and rained. Finally. in the second act.about thirty people 1 were huddled up under umbrellas, Jean Sincere and Leo Lucker in and somebody came out on the Idiot's Delight 1948 stage and said for everyone to come 2 back to the lodge and we'd finish the Cast of Wuthering Heights front: show there. And everybody went Margot Fisher. C.R. Fisher, Maggy Maggerstadt. Mama Fisher, dripping wet into the lodge, and Bradford Macy, Caroline Fisher Mama made coffee and sandwiches. and Richard Angarola. standing: ?. and they did the third act in the Sue Smith, John M acy, ?. Fances lodge.·· McVey, ?, Charles Chandesh Jane Wolf 3 Dan Scott. Jean Sincere and Nancy Hadden in The Importance of Being Earnest 1947 "The canvas would rumble in the wind. When there was a tender scene, 4 J ean Sincere. Irving Toppel in they would have to shout at one Biography 1948 another. The wind would die down and they'd still be shouting." 5 Caroline Fisher. Richard Angarola Chan Harris in Wuther1ng Heights 1945 6 "'When we d id Rain, it rained so Margot Fisher, Caroline Fisher in hard the a udience had to come up Wuthering Heights and stand on s tage until it stopped. Then they went back to their seats. When it rained on the canvas it sounded li ke machine-gun fire. Eddie Colli ns would get up on the step and lead everybody in song until the rain s topped." Roxy Tachovsky 6 The Milky Way 1948
"The play was Camille. Caroline Gas ton: She's asleep! Rathbone a nd Dan Scott starred as "Tha t started it. A s mall giggle Marguerite Gautier and her lover. developed backstage. Several lines Armand Duval. later: "Jl was s upposed to be Paris in Marguerite: Open the window and 1875. let in some sunshine. (On cue the "Actually. it was Fish Creek in s un winked through the trees of the 1948. parking Jot.) I want to get up. "Costume piece with lots of scenery "And then the ad libs s tarted. a nd ma ny scene cha nges. Much Birds sung. T here was the smell of scenery that had been painted freshly brewing coffee from the wasn't yet d ry. a nd some remained lodge. Even Marguerite's cons ump to be buill. Certainly the lights had tive coughs became g uffaws heard yet to be focused. There were even all the way to Route 42. Thirty more imperfect(!) lines. m inutes later we had not yet pro "Starting at 10:30 p.m. we began gressed through three minutes of rehearsal with Ac t I, Marguerite's script. So we did the only sensible boudoir in Paris. Scenes 1 and2. By thing there was to do: We all went midni g ht we were ready for swimming in glacial Green Bay. Marguerite's living room in Auteuil "And by eig ht-thirty that same (Act II). Act III, a salon in Paris, took evening, when Camille opened on a n eternity to set up. That act com time. scenery dry. costumes finished, menced about 3:00 a.m. By fi ve in lights fo cused. few people would the morning we were ready for the have realized that no one had been final act. Marguerite's bedroom. a nd asleep for 36 hours. the great death scene. And we were "None of us would have missed it very tired. for the world.'' Marguerite: But w here is Nanine? Ted Bird
1949 Plays Light Up the Sky Arsenic and Old Lace The Barker Ah! Wilderness! For Love or Money Petticoat Fever You Can't Take It With You Made in Heaven The Second Man Amphitryon 38
2 1950 Plays Present Laughter Harvey The Man Who Came to Dinner Born Yesterday Burlesque The Male Animal Torchbearers Charly's Aunt Rat Race Three Men on a Horse
1951 Plays A Streetcar Named Desire Dream Girl Goodbye. My Fancy 3 Clutlerbuck The Glass Menagerie Kind Lady Yes. My Darling Daughter "I remember how hard we worked Once in a Lifetime up there. Boy. did we work ha rd. The Off The Record actors had lo do the s trikes too. On Strike Night we'd be up all night. helping them strike. We did it right 1952 Plays alongwith thecrew. Wehelped paint. The Happy Time and when you weren't in a scene. or 4 Over 1\venty-One an act. you'd go over a nd wash flats. Come Back Li ltle Sheba 'Tve gone ou l with ha nd bills. See How They Run h elped park cars. clean out the Glad Tidings auditorium of the theatre and pick Remains lo be Seen up cigarette butts. We didn't just Voice of the Turtle act. we did a ll tha t stuff. And we The Silver Whis tle partied all the lime. too. We'd go Peg o· My Heart t hroug h beer. a nd slay up all nig ht. and still put the s how on. This is youth! 1953 Plays "We went throug h a period where The Late Christopher Bean we did two shows a week. Can you John Loves Mary imagine that? We were striking Ilarvey twice a week. too. Striking and Boy Meets Girl setting up. It separated the men Present Laughter from the boys: some quit after the 5 Affairs of Stale fourth week." Dear Ruth Bill Munchow The Dover Road Midsummer Madness "Harvey Korman breaks very easily. And so does Bob Thompson. You just look at him cross-eyed and he'll break up. but Harvey was worse. Once we were doing a scene from See How They Run, and I was playing a very goofy Englishman. and Harvey kept breaking up. Finally we got off stage. and I said, "Harvey. what's the matter with you? What are you breaking up for?", and he said. ''You're looking at me!" And I wasn't doing anything. I couldn't even make eye contact with him!" Bill Munchow
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"At the end of the season in 1953. J ean Leslie and I drove over to a bar on t he other s ide of the peninsula to coll ect some money for the program. We didn"t feel that it was proper to just walk in cold and ask for it, so we decided we"d better have a couple martinis.just to make it look respec table. you understand. Well they turned out to be quite large martinis and after we had finished our first a nd collected the money the owner insisted t hat we have another, and seeing that he had just paid his bill so graciously how could we refuse?
··well in no time. we were both blotto and having to drive back to The Players for supper. I decided we should take my s hortcut across Kangaroo Lake. less traffic. you know, but instead of driving over the lake we somehow wound up in it. car and all. Well it was just an impossible s ituation. I had to call Caroline and she came and bailed us out. Fortunately. the season was 1 5 over and we d idn't have to perform Dan Scott and Jeanne Bolan in Eric Beckstrom. Caroline that evening." The Second Man 1949 Rathbone and Radian Rathbone Dan Scott. 2 1954 Jean Leslie and Leo Lucker in 6 a long-time Player now Present Laughter 1950 Marc Connelly and Jeanne Bolan appearing in Trapper John, M.D. 3 on CBS Television. Leo Lucker and Bob Thompson in 7 Caine Mutiny 1955 Jean Leslie and Dan Scott in 4 Burlesque 1950 Bob Thompson and June Stewart in The Lady's Not For Burning 1954 1954 Plays Lo and Behold "J was too young to know any Claudia better. I thought this was what Here We Come Gathering theatre was. A show a week. or two a On Borrowed Time week. in some cases. Nothing ever Late Love scares you again! What days! And Mister Roberts what nights! I don't know how I did The Lady's Not For Burning it. How did I learn the words. or have Room Service the energy? You learn how to do it My Three Angels quick and dirty and how to do it fast. There's no time to fool around. And most of the actors tum out to 1955 Plays be darn good... Laura The Moon Is Blue "I was forced into parts that I was Time Out Fo r Ginger totally wrong for. and I'd find some Mr. Pim Passes By way of doing it. some way of making Dail M For Murder it work. And that is great training." Wedding Breakfast Bill Munchow The Fourposter The Caine Mutiny Courtmartial Sabrina Fair The Rainmaker "The revues were great fun. People looked forward to them. There were a lot of inside jokes. They did them 1956 Plays once a season, the last show of the "The Mona Lisa review I did more season. It was a regular show. done Picnic than once. It was by public demand. The Seven Year Itch on the stage. Then. it was "Strike It kills me that rm remembered by Night in Juddville." and Eva's Our Town many of the old-timers for that. after South Pacific dandelion wine." all the good stuff I've done that rm Tom Conners Recl ining Figure proud of. Munchow in drag. they Light Up The Sky love that. It did work. I put on a wig The Tender Trap and dress. and put on the inscrutable Anastasia smile. It was a big hit. I thought. The Solid Gold Cadillac 'What's so funny?'" Champagne Complex Bill Munchow Dear Charles
"The revues were fun. Topical. 1957 Plays That Bill Munchow Mona Lisa was Bus Stop from a revue. At the dress rehearsal Janus for that. apparently not everyone in Inherit the Wi nd the company knew it. and they got it The Loud Red Patrick set up and somebody pulled the Bell . Book and Candle curtain a Ii ttle too soon and there he Wi tness fo r the Prosecu tion was. Everybody fell apart. It was so The Matchmaker funny. This is the kind of imag A Roomful of Roses ination Richie had." Oh Men! Oh Women! Chan Harris Tea House of the August Moon No Time Fo r Sergeants
"Some actors work on Broadway 1958 Plays all their life and they've done See How They Run 28 shows. or a famous actor dies Visit to a Small Planet and he's done 30 or40 shows total ... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof I did that in four years! One hundred Separate Tables seven shows. Total. Dennis wants to No Time for Sergean ts beat it. but he can't now. because Tea House of the August Moon I've done too many." The Great Sabastians Bill Munchow 2 The Matchmaker 3
"J played Cra mps. Eric Beckstrom was Pud in On Borrowed Time. In the write-up. Richard Davis said Eric had never been on the stage before but he was jus t exactly like the old man. We got along as though we were real grandson and grand father." Bob Thompson
"We were in Room Service and Casey was given the part of a man. So s he came in in the fi rst act. talking to me. bringing me a message. While we're talking o ne of the cats came walking up the stairs. onto the stage. I looked at the cat. bent down a nd got it. and carried on the conversation. I told her to give the cat to the manager. that we didn't want it. Fine. ok. we handled that. The next act comes. Casey comes on again. She has the cat in her arms. We carry on . .. she says the manager didn't want the cat. and handed il back to me! At the curta in call. she ------comes on with that cat. So after the big applause. people said 'How did 4 you get that cat to come in on cue?' 1 3 They thought it was really a part of Bill Munchow 1n Harvey 1953 Maurie Oltinger and Madeline Tourtelot 1n Tobacco Road it. So every time from then on. s he 2 came on with the cal." Bill Munchow in Midsummer 4 Bob Thompson Madness 1953 Eric Beckstrom. Bob Thompson and John Beckstrom in On Borrowed Time 1954 "As children Dounia a nd Rodion and I did a lot of work in the theatre. When I was about eight years old the work t h at everyon e else was so inten sely involved in seemed so much more interesting. I helped in the kitchen . put ha ndbills in stores and on cars all over the county and sold candy and soda in the canteen . When I was nine I spen t much of my time in the scene s hop. I was very proud when I learned how to paint bricks that were convincing from 20 feet away. My father ta ug ht me how to read the clouds coming across the lake. Since we painted scenery outdoors with water-based paint. rain on t he Oats would have been a disaster. I got so that I could tell within about 10 minutes when a storm would a rrive so that we could paint outdoors until the last possible moment." Heloise Rathbone
''The McKenzie kids really grew up in the summers here. Little squirts parking cars. working in the canteen. or wherever they were needed. When Amy came along, she did the same thing." Tom Conners
"The company seemed like one big family. Everyone in the company called my gra ndpa rents 'Mama· and 'Papa'. I felt that many of the actors were like a unts and uncles. The McKenzie children and J ean Leslie's children were like cousins. I was about 30 years old when it occurred to me that Maggy Magerstadt a nd J ean Leslie had their own parents 2 somewhere." Heloise Rathbone
"When t h ey did Mr. Robe rts. Caroline had the whole crew of a "No one else would do the kinds of Coast Guard cutter ushering, park things Caroline did to get a prop. ing cars, all the guys in uniform. When a jeep was needed for Tea She had all the unifo rms on the house of the A ugust Moon she went stage." to a big armory in Chicago and got "The uniforms came from Stur the a rmy to let her have one. There geon Bay. The boat was in for repairs. aren't ma ny people who would even and they held it over for a week ask the Army for a jeep much less be because it was such a hit. She talked able to convince them to lend one to to somebody over at the shipyard so the cause." they s lowed up a little bit and kept Heloise Rathbone the ship in." Jane Wolf "One very special memory is Eva Klingbile. Eva ran the general store and gas pump in Juddville where many members of the company stopped to buy cigarettes. The last night of the season we not only struck the set but also put all the chairs away for the winter. It was always a long night and a sad one. The company had lived and worked together so intensely that it was hard to fold up the theatre and disband. On strike night Eva came down with sandwiches for everyone. By that ti me s he knew what brand of cigarettes each s moker liked and brought a pack for each. Best of all. she brought her own dandelion wine."
"In the summer of 1959 I ran the theatre. Caroline had been in a serious car accident on Memorial Day. Being afraid she wouldn"t be able to open. she let the company she'd hired find other jobs. 1\vo weeks later she was somewhat better and couldn't bear to see the theatre 3 closed so she and I a nd my brother Radian headed for Fish Creek. We enough to get back to Chicago. I got as far as Chicago where she got didn't dwell on it. Going back didn't very ill. From her hospital bed she seem like an option. 1959 Plays asked me to hire a company a nd "We got to the theatre and broke Gigi open the theatre. I believed then into the main house. There was no A Nest for the Phoenix that she would lose her will to live if electricity. I called a high school The Time of the Cuckoo the theatre didn't open. (She has classma te working in Ephraim who Bli the Spirit li ved another 25 years!) She gave me drove down with some food. We Bus Stop her clipboard and told me a few cooked on a campfire on the beach. A Streetcar Named Desire people to call and then I was on my The weather was warm and we sank The Litlle Hu t own. I had no way to handle the task the milk in a pail in the lake to keep The Love of Four Colonies but to imagine that I was s he and it from spoiling. We were proud of Bo rn Yesterday try to do what she would do. our ingenuity. Cha mpagne Complex "It was mid-June and we wanted "Three days later. while young to open for July 4th weekend. I Rodion and I were sitting on the arranged with several actors and a beach. the family dog, Armand. came 1960 Plays director and a scene designer to bounding towards us. I was greatly Make a Million arrive at the Players in about a week. relieved. I knew my father. sister Tunnel of Love We decided tha t the only way we and Roger Hamilton had arrived. I Third Best Sport could open in so short a time was to knew I had help now and the family Gi rls in 509 use a play with a s mall cast. We car to get around in. In opening up Nalure·s Way decided to open with Champagne the buildings we found a coffee can The Gazebo Complex because it had a cast of fu ll of change worth 872.16. I have The Man in the Dog S uit only three. I had no idea how this never forgotten that number. That was all the money we had to open 1\vo fo r the See-Saw would all work 01=1t. I was taking one Spider's Web step at a time and didn"t let the the season with ... size of the undertaking enter my Heloise Rathbone 1 consciousness. Caroline and Heloise Rathbone "After a couple of days I took my 2 nine-year-old brother Radian up to Rodion Rathbone Jr. and Oavid Fish Creek. I remember being aware McKenzie that we had enough money for the 3 train and bus up there but not Bill Munchow. Leo Lucker. Jane Buchbinder. Caroline Fisher Rathbone. Rodion Rathbone. Jeanne Bolan and Armand
1961 Plays The Pleasure of His Company Not in the Book The Marriage Go-Round Ten Nights in a Bar Room Period of Adjustment Invitation to a March A Majority of One Under the Yum-Yum Tree Once Upon a Mattress
1962 Plays Critic's Choice Write Me a Murder Miracle Worker Hotel Paradiso Romanoff and Juliet The Armored Dove A Garden in the Sea The Three Penny Opera Lullaby "Anything Goes was the worst production ever done here. but it was one of the biggest hits. It was 1963 Plays embarrassing. You know the word Take Her She's Mine 'camp'. that thing was camp back Time Remembered then - we were way ahead of our A Shot in the Dark time. The Zoo Story "No one could do anything. It was The American Dream s ingers who couldn't s ing, and The Madwoman of Chaillot musicians who couldn't hear. It was Once More With Feeling just horrible. Night of the Iguana "I kept saying. 'We can'topen this Sunday in New York thing, Jim. it's just a disaster.' Come Blow Your Horn "Opening night I hid behind a tree and afterwards a local woman corralled me and said it was fan 1964 Plays tastic. She brought houseguests by Oh Dad. Poor Dad. Mama's Hung the tons the whole week. We sold You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' out! We had s tanding room only. It So Sad was the talk of the county. Some Hay Fever people said it was the best thing A Thousand Clowns 2 they had seen in years. It was unreal." Rallle of a S imple Man Tom Conners But for Whom Charlie 'The magic was everybody tha t The Irregular Verb lo Love was here. It was the spirit. Everybody A Man For All Seasons was just terribly driven to make this Watch the Birdie theatre go. It was Jove, too. Love, and My Fair Lady they way they cared about each other:·
1965 Plays "Continuity is very important. Absence of a Cello Somehow it has always survived. Mousetrap There is something magical here; Beekman Place it's t h e theatre. the stage, the Nobody Loves an Albatross gardens. It's all the ele ments ... and Enter Laughing the ghosts that walk around here.'' Becket Tom Conners South Pacific Mary. Mary "That (in 1960) was all the bank ruptcy thing. They wanted to make a million. Everybody laughed in the company. to start out the season and "make a million". but that was the year the bank came down a nd bought everything. They bought all the personal property a nd kept the place going. But it was strictly on a week-to-week basis. The whole season was planned. but nobody knew from day to day if we would ever make it. .. "'At the back was Cliff Herlache (Bank of Sturgeon Bay). He took no credit. but he was very involved in 4 trying to make this thing go." Tom Conners
"Sumner Harris did all the pro grams and all the printing. and was a 'RockofGibraltar·. He produced all the programs. t he printing. the handbills. the one-sheets. He was simply marvelous." Jane Wolf
"There were a great nucleus of people. even back then. who appre ciated theatre. It obviously was a very rustic. crazy experience to come u p to a play. You either had to stand on stage d u ring a rainstorm. or hold up the tent flaps. It really was an audience participation thing." Tom Conners
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1 Maggy Maggerstadt, Jeannette Leahy and Jeanne Bolan in 4 Madwoman of Chai/lot Audience Bar Room 1961 2 5 Rene Auberjonois and Johanna Marjii Grignon. Richard Heck in Three Penny Opera 1962 Stadelmann, Jeannette Leahy and Elinor Hendee in My Fair Lady 3 Maurie Ottinger and Lynn 6 Carlysle in A Garden In The Sea Tom Conners and J im McKenzie 1962
6 1966 Plays The Impossible Years The Subject Was Roses Dirty Work at the Crossroads You Can't Take It With You The Lion in Winter The Warm Peninsula A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Any Wednesday
1967 Plays The Odd Couple Wait Until Dark Luv The Girl in the Freudian Slip Generation A Delicate Balance Stop the World. I Want to Get Off Barefoot in the Park
l 1968 Plays The Star Spangled Gi rl "Once we d id Luu on eight hours' Private Lives notice. The fellow that was doing Don't Drink the Water the lead in the play t hat was sup A Case of Libel posed to open had his cartilage tom Cactus Flower in his knee. They tried everything. Everybody Loves Opel The directorwas going to go on with Luv a n earphone so tha t he could hear the lines from the stage manager. We d idn't know what to do so at ten 1969 Plays o'clock in the morning. the stage What Did We Do Wrong? manager came into my room and Sound of Murder said we're doing Luu tonight. I looked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at him a nd said. 'You've gotta be The Chic Life kidding. Give me a br.eak.' But. by Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are God. we opened that night. T he Dead Penins ula Players always open on The Price T u esday nig ht no ma tter what You Know I Can't Hear You When happens." The Water's Running Dennis Kennedy The Fantasticks 2
1970 Plays "When I s tarted. they needed a Play It Again Sam villa in for a play called Dirty Work at Joe Egg ''I've had s uch opportunities to do th e Crossroads. I had two days· Adaptation/ Next wonderful roles here. Rosen crantz rehearsal. I never had to learn a part A Flea In Her Ear and Gildenstern Are Dead I had to that fast in my life. I never d id learn Little Murders learn the part in fi ve and a half days. it, as a matter of fact. But they were Hadrian V1 I and believe me. that's a mouthful. In very nice. and kept me on a nyway." Forty Carats Hadrian the 7th I got to be a pope. Dennis Kennedy I Do. I Do In fact. I was going to advertise myself. If they needed a pope. an Iris h American pope. I was their man 'cause I had experience." Dennis Kennedy ''I've never had a family of my own, not really. So I've always been looking for a family, and I found one here. Sometimes it's a hassle. but they are part of my family. They are very important to me. Jim is very import ant to me." Dennis Kennedy
"My three kids were here in the 50s when I was here. and they were about two, five. and six. My daughter came back for the first time just a couple ofyea rs ago. By then s he had a baby of her own. She wandered around the whole place and came back and said, 'Oh, itsmells justlike it used to and everything is just the same,' and I think that's what makes the charm of this place. Because it's not improved in the sense of making it a plastic, cardboard kind of theatre. It's a real place, a beautiful nature sanctuary almost." Bob Thompson
"Carle Bensen is another very importan t figure at the Peninsula Players. He started the Peninsula Players on the road up from being just another summer stock company to being an important theatre in America. He understood commer ciality in theatre. Theatre is. number one, entertainment. The.worst thing that can happen in a company is 3 that that number one function is forgotten." Dennis Kennedy
''The theatre and baseball are a lot alike. If you have a team that's not team-oriented. or not company 1 oriented. you're not going to have a Carle Benson. Dennis Kennedy. "You have a wonderful sense of Jeannette Leahy and John Dutra company. You're going to have a in The Price 1969 freedom working here. Freedom to bunch of individuals here doing try. and to fail before opening night. 2 their own thing. When I meet old Neil Patrick. Jean Sincere and We don't fail on opening night. actors who've been here. I'm in awe Dennis Kennedy That's another thing. The freedom of them. They provided this place for to express and experiment without 3 me to work." Dennis Kennedy. Jessica Epstein. being prejudged can't be done under Jeannette Leahy and Jean Sincere certain kinds of direction. You have "I sometimes wish that we had in Table Manners 1977 to be too careful, and for a n actor. numbers. so that I could retire my that's bad. You don'tget the best ou t number someday. Bill Munchow's of yourself." number would be retired. I'll never J ean S incere beat 107 plays." Dennis Kennedy 1971 Plays Plaza Suite The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man- in-The-Moon Marigolds The Secretary Bird The Miser The Last of the Red Hot Lovers And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Lord Arthur Saville's Crime Butterflies Are Free
1972 Plays The Gingerbread Lady Promenade All The House of Blue Leaves The Tavern The Skin of Our Teeth Charley's Aunt Whal the BuUer Saw
1973 Plays Norman. Is That You The Price 6 Rms Riv Vu The Prisoner of Second Avenue Anything Goes The Secret Affairs of Mi ldred Wild Sleuth
1974 Plays Finishing Touches The Good Doctor Thal Championship Season The New Mt. Olive Hotel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nesl Shay The Sunshine Boys
2 1975 Plays My Daughter. Your Son My Fat Friend Absurd Person Singular Scapino Something·s Afool
1976 Plays Twigs God's Favorite Under Papa's Picture How the Other Half Loves Solitaire. Double Solitaire
1977 Plays California Suite The Runner Stumbles Table Manners Equus Same Time. Ncxl Year 3 "We have a nice choice of the best a nd they start here in mid-June. "When the chips were down. plays. usually, because I keep telling leave about Labor Day. and during J eanne Bolan was always in your the New York producers that. you that time they've missed a lot of corner. No matter what it was know. Fish Creek isn'tgoing to hurt opportunities to go for stardom. so Jeanne Bolan would say two words your national company or your it's a different breed of actor. to me. and I'd shut up. Her energy Broadway run. and they say. Fish was unbelievable. She could go days "I guess my fantasy for the future Creek. what do you mean. where is without sleeping. I think she prob is to be at the Peninsula Players. be that. where's Fish Head. Jim? I say. ably was a genius. She was the Well. it's west of the Hudson. don't here all winter. a nd chop wood. and read scripts. and think. and walk on Players' spirit. she was the Peninsula worry about it. That's how we get Players." the rights. because we are far away. the ice. and do theater in the "If the Peninsula Players are any a nd then. of course. now a nd then summer. I probably will never be we like to stretch a little a nd try a able to do that. because of other thing today. Jeanne made it. There new play. or a mus ical. We're not a responsibilities. so my plans are to were some tough ti mes. but she was one of the most understanding company that's s uited for mus icals just keep doing theater. and keep persons I've known. She had a great or new plays. but we do it for the fun this place. and keep it working. of it. and the adventure." "I see these actors being able to intuition into comedy and into spend their lives here. a nd perhaps people. She could say two words to being buried here.jus t as my wife is me. when she was directing, and I'd "It's not a star making theater but buried here. and many other people know exactly what she meant. I did a some of the people gel lo be stars. who we loved over the years. and it play once for her. called My Fal This is a theater for working actors beingjust a home for the artist. It's Friend, and it was terrible. I was so who are willing to give every summer never going to be the biggest thing miscast. During the show she would of their lives to working together as in the country. or the greatest thing. s it at the back of the theatre on the a group in this litUe theater. And just maybe the friendliest and the bench with a cigarette. I could see that takes a n actor that's not so star nicest place:· that cigarette and I knew she was struck that he'll rush off. in July. to there and that it was O.K. .. go to an audition in Hollywood. Jim McKenzie Dennis Kennedy They don't. they prefer to be here.
Carle Benson and Jeannette Leahy in And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little 1971 2 Thomas Callaway. Doug Alleman. Norman Rice, Dennis Kennedy and Joe Bell in That Championship Season 1974 3 Tom Callaway 1n One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nesr 1974 4 Jeanne Bolan
"What can one say about "home"? "A typical day as an apprentice? was too young. I was indignant! I My parents first met while working Roll out of bed for breakfast at 6:00 had a righ t to be seen! I'd put in my at The Penins ula Players. a.m.. clean the theatre, sweep. time. I'd worked hard. How could "I literally grew up at this theatre straighten the chairs. Roll up the they stand in the way ofmy career? I doingjustabou teveryjob there was. canvas sides, clean the grounds, was four years old, and ready for the check the garden for litter. clean big time. They said that I had to wait Years of maintenance. parking. con and stock the canteen. police the until I was six. I clearly remember cessions. ushering, apprenticing, parking lot, work in the shop, paint standing in the theatre feeling my pos tering. handbilling, acting. props. Oa ts. build s teps. make a window, life was over because I'd be an old technical. management, etc. In short, break for lunch. install the flat. lady by then. So that night I took I was raised here. complete the window, clean the stage, matters into my own hands. At 8:25 "But what about all those creative go to rehearsal. recite my three lines. when my mother was ready to call people that weren •t? Those extremely paint the steps built in the morning. places. she discovered an empty hard working, dedicated artists and break for supper, take a shower, house. So she went in search of the artisans who keep coming back year park cars. u sher. help with props. a udience. As she approached the a fter year and giving their all? What open curtain. wait till the second terrace by the box office, she saw a motivates them? It's not money; act. then say three lines. close the throng of people nine and ten deep. there·s very little available. Not curtain, clean the theatre. go back Pushing through the crowd she and work in the sh op. strike the set. caught a glimpse of what the excite secu rity; the theatre is only oper break for lunch at 2:00 a.m., go to ment was all about. There I was. hat ational for part of the year. Not bed at 6:00 a.m.. . . then get up a nd and cane in hand, doing a song and convenience. the workload is all but do it again. dance number. having the time of impossible. "The work was hard, the schedule my life. She pushed a little harder "Then what is that special magic was grueling. the place was crazy, and someone said, 'Hey, lady, I was that attracts cast. crew and faithful and the fun was endless. Those here first!' When she finally got theatregoers alike? summers were two of the best of my through, she whisked me up In her "Emerson once said, 'Nothing life." arms a nd said. 'Ladies a nd gentle great is ever accomplished without Digger men, right this way, the REAL show enthusiasm.' That's certainly appli is about to begin!' I waved gallantly "As Peninsula Players celebrate to the audience as I was exiled away cable. Energy and enthusiasm have its 50th anniversary, I celebrate my to my room. '.Ah, what prtcefame!' always abounded at The Players. 25th. So many memories. flashing "Well, Mom and Dad kept their "But there's more. by in a collage of people, plays and word, and at six years old I hit the "What is it? perfect sunsets. Incredible! boards, and have stayed there ever "I think it's a very special kind of "My earliest memory is when I since. I've worked in several theatres love that's shared by all involved. decided that I wanted to be an over the years, but you know. there's "If 'home is where the heart is,' actress. I had thought about it NO PLACE LIKE HOME!" seriously, and n ow my time had then we certainly have a very large come. When I presented my decis ion Happy 50th Players! family here at 'home.' " to Mom a nd Dad. and said I would With Love, David McKenzie like to be auditioned, they told me I Amy McKenzie
FEEC Apprentices 1973: Digger, Kevin McKenzie, Mike Birmingham, David Classon, Claire Ellard, Stewart Dawson 1978 Plays Relatively Speaking The Shadow Box Dracula Sly Fox An Almost Per fect Person
1979 Plays Deathtrap Chapter 1\vo Frankens tein Da Man of LaMa ncha
1980 Plays Angel Street Romantic Comedy On Golden Pond The Elephant Man Tribute
1981 Plays Lunch Hour The Boys in Autumn Children of a Lesser God Morning's a t Seven I Ought To Be In Pictures
1982 Plays Mass Appeal The Supporting Cast Patrick Walker in Elephant Man What I Did Last Summer 1980 A Li fe Crimes of the Heart The Di ning Room "It was more tha n 30 years ago "Beginningwith the gallant efforts that I firs t began attending per of Richard Fisher and his sister. formances of the Peninsula Players Caroline Rathbone, a nd continuing 1983 Plays in Fish Creek - both as a drama through the diligent s tewardship of The Middle Ages critic for a Chicago news paper. a nd James McKenzie, the theater has A LitUe Family Business as a s ummer resident in Door grown s tronger and more vital year Fresh Fields County. by year. in every aspect - dramat Foxfire "Jn all that time. I have cons istently ically. technically. and in popular They're Playing Our Song admired the sustained s pirit of the appeal. It attracts a broad spectrum Sea Marks enterprise. through good years and of repeat vis itors and regular sub bad. through varied casts and diverse scribers. who customarily are far prod uctions. through seasons of more often g ratified than disap triumph and threats of extinction. pointed. Broadway itself cannot say "The Players have madean inesti as much. mable contribution to Door County's "Congratulations to the Players and Wiscons in's social a nd cultural on t heir 50th anniversary, and life. and have won a deservedly la rge hea rtiest wishes for at least another a nd loyal audience. as well as a half century of both serving a nd devoted ba nd of patrons. in the 50 stimulating theatergoers through years of existence. as the nation's out the region." oldest professional s ummer theater. Sydney J. Harris
SUN-TIMES
The Fall Season
"I remember it was 45 degrees when the curtain went up. and it just kept getting colder. There were about 75 people in the audience, all of them wrapped in blankets that they had brought or gotten from us at the door. Gregg and Sandy just kept making coffee and stoking the wood stoves. Pam and I were on stage sitting on our hands to keep them warm enough to do the sign language that Children of a Lesser God requires. I had just asked her to marry me a few weeks before. and I imagined that about now she was wondering what in the world s he was getting herself into. I mean. here we were in the middle of the north woods sitting on our hands in an icebox. I couldn't believe that she stayed - I couldn't believe that the audience stayed- I couldn't believe that I stayed."
"I remember another night in the fall season - 65 degrees. a beautiful night, 302 people in the audience, the first night we had broken 300 in our three years at it - Pam and I onstage again. this time our hands free to gesture without periodic warming. She was about three months pregnant t hen. and h er costumes were being let out daily. We were doing a wonderful play. Sea Marks. and the world seemed right. The season was going well. Pam was plump and happy, and I was glad that we'd stayed through the cold nights because there had turned out to be so many more warm ones. Our lives and The Players are all wrapped up together. Important things happen to us all here. Happy 50th.
Patrick Walker
1 Pam Walker, Jeannette Leahy, Pat rick Walker in Children Of A Lesser God 2 2 Pat rick Walker in Sea Marks 1983 ''My mother took me to meet three wonderful kids who call this "It is said that theatre in its Caroline Rathbone in 1946 - can home ... all of my best friends in the simplest terms is two planks and a you imagine! - I was a battle-scarred wo rid ... the pa th to the other end .. . passion. The two planks are easy to veteran, but too stage-struck to apply absorbing theatrical ambiance .. . come by. The passion is rare. for an apprenticeship myself. Now. the very nature of Door County .. . "Fifty years ago this season 39 years later. rm still in awe of secret jokes and dreams come true. Caroline and Richard Fisher staged great talents, and still know that "It's fun to treasure the past. Does The Peninsula Players· first produc they are found right here in Fish anyone remember Rose Clarise. tion in a Fish Creek motel's backyard Creek. As Dennis Kennedy says. the C.R. 's Ford. the telephone to the with little more than a few boards only difference between Fish Creek other end. Marion Foreman Rath and some benches. But the desire and Broadway is the money. bone and her Southern mansion. on that first makeshift stage has "One season at The Players is Schmidt's Gazebos. dancing on RR E. lead to one of the greatest success exciting, but two seasons in suc martinis at Casey's. lost on Hat stories in America's summer stock cession leave an indelible mark on Island. the icehouse in Egg Harbor, history. the soul. a lifelong yearning to try concerts at the Collins home. the raft "To ch ronicle those events leading just one more season. rm hooked. under a full moon. Ray Taylor's to the modern day Players is a with a million memories. a thousand piano. Eagle Tower at midnight - treatise in itself. The story is one of dreams. and an eternal love for the a nd that's not even mentioning330 people - their fortunes and mis Peninsula Players. Fish Creek. and plays! fortunes. their falling in love and Door County. Memories? We worked. "What about the future? I feel that out of love with their craft and with ate. walked. breathed. laughed. slept there will always be stars too bright each other. Each person is a scene and dreamt theatre-in-a-garden to look at over the far garden. there in its unfolding. The photos and until it became a part of each of us. will always be dress rehearsals in words chronicled elsewhere in this "We learned to live life to its the cold rain of Monday evenings. book can at best give only a absolute saturation point. to the salivatory dinner bells. a bench at momentary glimpse of the entire peaks of emotion. love. adventure. the back of a full house. and there script- speak only a bit of dialogue accomplishment. abili ty and endur will always be pride and love to in its telling. The heart can feel. but ance. We expected to be hospitalized s ha re with other Peninsula Players with difficulty relate. with exhaustion towards the end of in our own theatre-in-a-garden. "Today the planks are more every summer. We still do. "The end is now. the beginning is numerous and sophisticated. In the "My own happy career in the now. perfection is now." next fifty years and when the next theatre has always had to make Jim McKenzie a nnive rsary book is written. the some room for the Players because ... Executive Producer characters in that era will have so many reasons ... a promise to changed. Their passions and loves Caroline ... a great love begun and rooted in today cannot diminish." ended here with Jeanne Bolan ... Tom Birmingham
The Companies
1935 Company 1941 Company David Bruce. Bernard Ch r is tia nsen. Adela ide Cylma n. Dale Allen, J a ne Buchbinder. Robert Buchbinder. Eddie Madeline Fales. Hea th Finch. Lydia Fis her. C.R. Fisher. Collins.Ann Coyle. Richard Coyle. Ruth Deputy. Genevieve Margot Fis her. Caroline Fisher. Richard Fis her. Earl Farrell. Caroline Fisher. C.R. Fis her. Lydia Fis her. Margot George. Joseph Hawes. Leo Lucker. Marden McBroom. Fisher. Richard Fis her. Jules Getlin, Wilms Herbert. Gertrude Needham. Kevin O'Shea. Freel Randolph. Mina Gloria Lenari, Ralph Loar. Leo Lucker. Bradford Macy. Williams. Edith Magerstadt. Maggie Magerstadt. C ha rles Miles. Dann Morley. Kae Nordine. Joan Ra ndolph.
1937 Company Ale thea Anderson . Jean Bartlem e. Helen Bragdon. 1945 Company Kenneth Boyle. Lenore Brown. Ha rry Du ncan. Caroline Richard Angarola. C ha rles Chandesh . Marianne Collins. Fisher. Richard Fisher. Lydia Fisher. C.R. Fisher. Margot Roscoe Courbis ier. Caroline Fis her. C.R. Fis her. Lydia Fis her. Clay Frankl-in. Margo Fulton. Paul Kozelka. Henry Fisher. Margot Fisher. Ri chard Fisher. C. Raeburn Fyfe, Kurth. Nana Lessar. Leo Lucker. James Luneburg. Wi lms Herbert. Bradford Macy. Maggie Magers ta dt. Ger trude Needham. Billy Pelkc. Freel Randolph. Berthold Elizabeth Stahr. Reisapfel. Barba ra Rothschild. Margar et Stanley. Marguerite S tokes. Corte S treib. Samuel Wanamaker. 1946 Company Robert Berger, Harold Bernstein. Julie Bishop. Helen Bragdon. Cynthia Brown. Nancy Brown. David Bruce. 1938 Company Eddie Collins. Louise Colli ns. Donn Driver. Caroline Helen Bragdon. Lenore Brown, Richa rd Fisher. Caroline Fisher. C.R. Fis her. Lydia Fis her. Ma rgot Fis her. Richard Fisher. Ma rgot Fisher. Lyd ia Fis her. C. R. Fisher. Hope Fisher. Gen Gibbons. Bro Harrod. Judit h Havila nd. Goodman.Keith Hallenbeck. Edwin Johnson. Mary Keach. Daniel Honold. Guy Ho nold. Norbert Ho nold. Sally J orda n. Stacy Keach. Richard Lederer. Leo Lucker. Janet Matter. Lee Lansing. Leo Lucker. William Macleod. Francis Macy. Edward McGrain. Polly Morss.John McMahon. Gertrude J . William s Macy. Maggie Magerstadt. Ernst Mayr. Alan Needham. Kae Nordine. Fred Randolph. Corte Streib. Nelson. Phillip Swander. Robert Tilden. Dounia Rathbone. Judith Sansberry. Lillia n Shoen. George Stengel. Heloise Rathbone. Josephine Thomas. Robert Thompson. Charles Vance. Mary Wagner. Earl Wynn. Carol Yo rk. 1947 Company John Behney. Rudy Bond. Helen Bragdon. Louise Collins. 1939 Company Ma rianna Collins. Caroline Fisher. C.R. Fis her. Lydia Juli e Bishop. Caroline F'is her. C.R. Fisher. Lydia Fisher. Fisher. Margot Fis her. Nancy Hadden. Judith Havlland. Richard Fisher. Margot Fisher. Thomas Glazer. Mary Robert Held. Robert Herold. Donald Hoff. Ronald Hoff. Keach. Stacy Keach. Richard Lederer. Leo Lucker. Tony Larry Jolin, Jean Leslie. Leo Lucker. J a mes McKenzie. Lusty. Marden McBroom. J anet Matter. Frances McVey. Frances McVey. Phyll is Montgomery. Ray Montgomery. Richard McVey. Gertrude Needham. Kae Nordin. Huntley Romay ne Mostrom. George Prescott. Marion Forman Robertson. Len Rummel.Judith Sansberry.Jean Sincere. Rathbone. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rathbone. J ean Ma rguer ite Stokes.Josephine Thomas. Robert Thompson. S incere. Dan Scott. Roxie Tachovsky. El s ie Werthman. Cha rline Wilson. Evaline Wright.
1948 Company 1940 Company Paul Ballantyne. Teel Bird. Hele n Bragdon. Eddie Colli ns. Ri cha rd Angarola. Walter Appler. Hele n Bragdon. Jane Ma ria nna Collins. Robert Elinor. Caroline Fisher. C.R. Buchbinder. Robert Buchbinder. Rosemary Ellis. Caroline Fis her. Lydia Fis her. Richard Fis her. Aldo Fortuna to. Fis her. Margot Fis her. Lydia Fisher. C.R. Fisher. Richa rd Walter Giewalcl. Nancy Hadden.Judith Havila nd. Michael Fisher. Alice Graass. Leo Lucker. James Luneburg. I-Iii!. William Keith. J ean Lesli e. J ohn Levee. Leo Lucker. Bradford Macy. Maggie Magerstadt.Janet Matter. Frances J . Willia ms Macy.James McKenzie, Don McMillan. Frances McVcy. Richard McVey. Charles Miles. Gertrude Needham. McVey. Romayne Mostrom. Od ette. Mary Alice Pleck. George Neise. Judith Sansber ry. Da n Scott. Nan Shaw. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rath bone. Dan Scott. J ean Daniel S imon. Jean Sincere. Marguerite Stokes. S incere. Suzanne Soukup. Raymond Taylor. Irving Toppel.
foundc."d 1935 1949 Company 1955 Company Paul Ballantyne. Anne Barlow. Ted Bird, Jeanne Bolan. Roger Allen. J ohn Beck. Mary Jane Bernardy. Jeanne Helen Bragdon. Sandra Dorn. Edith Dunn. C.R. Fisher. Bolan. Edith Dunn. C.R. Fisher. Lydia Fisher. Margot Lydia Fisher. Margot Fisher. Richard Fisher. C. Raeburn Fisher. Richa rd Fisher. C. Raeburn fyfe. Dr. Maurice Fyfe. Jon Griffon. Nancy Hadden. Judith Havil and. Gnesin. Stephan Haeckel. Roy Hanson. Chan Harris. Eli zabeth Holt. Ed Kelly. Jr.. Marge Lang. Jean Leslie. Leo M. Janeway. Emanuel Linton. Leo Lucker. Maggie Lucker. James McKenzie. Don McMillan. Romayne Magerstadt. James B. McKenzie. David Morrison. Will Mostrom. William Munchow. Gertrude Needham. Alan Moyer. William Munchow. Patricia Neway. John Niblock. Paske. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rathbone. Dick Ryan. Maurice Ottinger. Caroline Rathbone. Dounia Rathbone. Philli p Swander. Y. Thorkelson. Heloise Rathbone. Rodion Rathbone. R. Schreiber. Mildred Shelton. Robert Thompson. L. Wamser. Terry Wells. Michael Westfield. H.P. Williams. 1950 Company Ted Bird. Jack Brooking. Helen Bragdon. James Burns. Edith Dunn. Laurette Engel. Barbara Felton. Caroline 1956 Company Fisher. C.R. Fisher. Lydia Fis her. Richard Fisher. C. Sally Baum. Viola Berwick. David Bloomquist. Jeanne Raeburn Fyfe. Nancy 1-Iauden. Judith Haviland. Belly Bolan, William Boughton. Helen Bragdon. Mary Jane Jensen. Jim Kaye. Harvey Korman. Jean Les li e. Leo Carroll. P. Cochra n. Larry Coffel. Milton Collion. Edith Lucker. Evelyn Mando. Phelps Manning. Jim Maronek. Dunn. C.R. Fisher. Lydia Fisher. C. Raeburn Fyfe. Lora Don McMillan. William Munchow. Dounia Rathbone. Graham.Julie Hutson. Michael Janeway. Tom Koutsoukos. Heloise Rathbone. Dan Scott. Sidney Shertzer. Raymond Gail Kulie. Rick Lavin. Leo Lucker. Maggie Magers tadt. Taylor. Tom Mall. Ken McEwen. Frances McVey. Wil Moyer. J ohn Niblock. Eileen Osborne. Alice Pfister. William Poore. 1951 Company Caroline Rathbone. Dounia Rathbone, Heloise Rathbone. Ted Bird. Helen Bragdon. Don Brehm. Jack Brooking. Rodion Rathbone. Richard Rogers. Valerie Skylar. J ohn Edith Dunn. Caroline Fis her. C.R. Fis her. Lydia Fis her. Stolar. David Thompson. Robert Thompson. Bill Whittle. Richard Fisher, Robert Friedlander. John Greenbank. Howard Witt. Nancy Hadden. Judith Haviland. Patty Hoffman, Richard Houston. Betty Jensen. Ken Kilner. Maggie Magerstadt. 1957 Company Carolyn Maier.Jim Maronek. Don McMillan. Ralph Nilson. Jeanne Bolan. Milton Collion. Chan Harris. Judith Nick Phillips. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rathbone. Betty Haviland. Harvey Korman.Jean Leslie. Leo Lucker. William Jean Robinson. Hilda S imms. Dan Scott. Gene Tolfee. Munchow. Maurice Ottinger. Caroline Rathbone. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rathbone. Rodion Rathbone. Robert Thompson. 1952 Company 1958 Company Paul Ballantyne. Ted Bird. Phyllis Block. J eanne Bolan. Toni Atwood. Jeanne Bolan. Helen Bragdon. Susie Rudy Bond. Helen Bragdon. Vito Carbonara. Milton Campbell. Milton Collion. Dan Copitsky. Dixie Davis. Colli on. Phillip Decker. Edith Dunn. Caroline Fisher. C. R. Richard Davis. Buddy Gard. Paul Gloss. Reid Hamilton. Fis her. Lydia Fisher. Margot Fisher, Ken Kilner. S herry Rodger Hamilton. James Harrington. Chan Harris. Nancy LaFollette. J ean Leslie. Leo Lucker. Caroline Maier. Ken Klosterman. Harvey Korman. Tom Koutsoukos. Kathy McEwe n. James McKenzie. Mike McKenzie. William Krause. Gail Kulie. James Larson. Bill Leist. J ean Leslie. Munchow. Lois Oneson. S helly Post. Dounia Rathbone. Kurt Lundell. Burns Oliver. Maurice Ottinger. Maggie Heloise Rathbone. Dan Scott. E. Ray Scott. Mildred Magerstadt. Walter Martini. James McKenzie. Robert S helton. Sid Shertzer. Jean Sincere. Wi lliam Stigall. Ray Morland. William Munchow.John Niblock. Eileen Osborn. Taylor. Tom Zemek. Kenny Patza. Caroline Rathbone. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rathbone. George Resch. Gerald Schmidt. Laura Schmidt. Bob Schreiber. Clare Scott. Cherie Shaver. 1953 Company Madeline Tourtelot. Robert Ward. Lawrence Zerkel. Lee Blattner. Helen Bragdon. Milton Colli on. Ray Di sher. Edith Dunn. Dexter DuPont. C.R. Fisher. Lydia Fisher. 1959 Company Margot Fis her. Richard Fisher. C. Raeburn fyfe. Maurice J . Alexeichick. R. Bergman. G. Bihlmayer. Jeanne Bolan. Gres In. Nancy Hadden.Judith Haviland. Ken Kilner. Jean Milton Collio n. J. Delon,g, P. Dickey. Eldon Robertoy. Leslie.J. Williams Macy. Maggie Magerstadt,Jim Maronek. Paul Gloss. Reid Hamilton. Jimmy Kenyon. Tom Donald McGrew. William Munchow. Caroline Rathbone. Koutsoukos. Gail Kulie. Jean Leslie. Leo Lucker. Kurt Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Rathbone. Rodion Rathbone. Lunde!. Maggie Magerstadt. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Patsy Requa. William Russel.Jr .. Dan Scott. Mildred Scott. Rathbone. P. Seato n. Lynda Segal. Mildred Shelton. Hilda Sidney S her tzer. Joan Showalter. Fredric Stein. Robert Simms. Michael Westfield. Howard Witt. Thompson. Robert Vainowski. 1960 Company Rilla Bergman. Mary Best. James Boerlin. Elaine Boies. 1954 Company Jeanne Bola n. Sidney Breese.Justin Carver. S. Chitwood. Lee Blattner. Helen Bragdon. Susan Cady. Edith Dunn. Tom Conners. Vivian DeFere. Patrick Gallagher. Harry Eldon Robertoy. C.R. Fisher. Lydia Fisher. Margot Fisher. Ganness. Paul Gloss. Na ncy Hadden. Scott Hale. J oe Lannie Friedman. C. Raeburn fyfe. James Kaye. Gail Kenyon. Skip Killora n. Jeannette Leahy. Jean Leslie. Leo Kolste. Leo Lucker. Maggie Magers tadt. Caroline Mars hall. Lucker. Ken McEwe n. J a mes McKenz ie, Maggie Robert McCleod. Frances McVey. David Morrison. William Magers tadt. David Mo rris. David Morrison. Charles Munchow. Caroline Rathbone. Dounia Rathbone. Heloise Moryan. William Munchow. Ralph Nilson. Robert Priko. Rathbone. Rodion Rathbone. V. Rossman. Fredric Stein. James Regan. Mildred Shelton. Harvey Stuart. Madeline June Stewart. Robert Thompson. Michael Westfield. Eric Tourtelot. Wi ll iam Weaver. Michael Westfield. Dan Beckstrom Zulawski. 1961 Company 1965 Company Doug Alleman. Rod Armstrong. Nancy Auld.Albert Beard. Epy Baca. Carle Bensen. Val Bettin. Lynn Bilek. J eanne Robert Beard. William Beckstrom. Alice Boeck. J eanne Bolan. Bill Breitenbach. Mrs. Coles. Tom Conners. David Bolan. Roy Brennan. Geneva Bugbee. Gertrude Burmar:. Crane. Peter Donaldson. Judith Haviland. Edward Fay. Lynn Carlysle. Charles Cinnamon. Bob Cocherelle. Kip Bradford Fisher. Suzanne Foote. Belly Janssen. Betty Cohen. Tom Conners. David Crane. Barbara Dale. Vivian Kaelin. Richard Kelton. Bill Koza.Jeannette Leahy. Susan DeFere.John Domini. TerryDonlavy. Ralph Foody. Monte Lorie. James McKenzie. Douglas Mellor. Gordon Oas Frierson. Mary Gage. Stuart Hagmann. Wiliiam Harrold. Hei m. Christine O'Brien. Her b O'Brien. Oliver Porter. Bruce Hyde. Steve Jacobson. Joe Kenyon. Linda King. Nicholas Prince. Faith Quabius. James Regan. Dounia Jaeee Klein. Tom Koester. Stanley Larvie. Jeannette Rathbone. William Rushby. Barbara Schwei. Linda Shaw. Leahy. Denyse Leahy. Colette Lessuise. Mary Long. James Mary Stabile. Richard Stadelmann. E. Sparka. Lorinne Mcinerney. James McKenzie. Maggie Magerstadt. Charles Vozoff. Arnold Warda. Jeanne Weiler. Maryan. Debbie Moe. William Munchow. David Paul. Lloyd Pause. Lawrence Pressman. Nancy Priddy. D. Rand. Bonnie Randall. Lou Richards. Margaret Ritchie. Alva 1966 Company Rodriquez.James Rusk.Joanne Salkowski. William Shaw. Kevin Andrews. Douglas Alleman. Rande Alleman. Epy Sheri Sinclair. Charles Smith. Jackie Stern. Patti Baca. Ray Belanger. Lynn Bilek. Tom Birmingham. Stoneman. George Talbot. Bruce Thorp. Rodger Vertz. Barbara Bischof. Jeanne Bolan. Lynn Carlyle. Kip Cohen. Gloria Victor. Douglas Wage. Fred Waldman. Steve Walker. Tom Conners. Bradford Fisher. Curtiss Fisher. Anthony Stephen Ware. William Weaver. Valerie Wheeler. Patricia Grafton. Ma1y Gage. Douglas Greene. Linda Haughee. Witalison. Todd Wright. Stuart Zak. Jean J ames. Richard Kelton. Dennis Kennedy. Bill Koza. Mary Langdon. Jeannette Leahy. Windsor Lewis. Charles Likar. Hui Mei Lin. William Lindstrom. Robert Loxley. 1962 Company Amy McKenzie. David McKenzie. James McKenzie. Maggie Rene Auberjonois. Albert Beard. Robert Beard. Donald Magerstadt. Fred Mann. Sarah Mann. Beth Mark. Marian Beckstrom. Mary Best. Dudley Birder. Tom B irmingh am. March. William Munchow. David Necvel. M ichael Pederson. Alice Boeck. Jeanne Bolan. Bev Bowers. Alan Boyles. V. Randel. Richard Sasso. James Shannon. Lorinne Richard Bradley.John Brandon. Sidney Breese. Gertrude Vozoff. Karen Wisniewski. Chester Wuycik. Burman. Lynn Carlysle. Jay Carson. Charles Cilona. Charles Cinnamon. Kip Cohen. Tom Conners. Ruffin Cooper. John Doepp. Robert Donley. Joy Etienne. Curtis 1967 Company Fisher. Margaret Fitzgerald. Ralph Foody. Mary Gage. Bob Douglas Alleman. J oe Bell. Carle Ben sen. Peter Gibson. B ill Goettelman. Marina Graupman. Jamie Birmingham. Tom Birmingham. Jr.. Tom Birmingham. Gruber . Johanna Heck. Diane Holden. Bruce Hyde. John Sr .. Jeanne Bolan. Tamar Cohn. Tom Conners. Alice Killa. Jacee Klein. Tom Koester. Jeannette Leahy. Gene Dodd.John Economos. Bradford Fisher. Frederick Fisher. Lee. Amy Levitt. Mary Long. David McKenzie. J ames Ralph Foody. Else Gilliam. Anthony Grafton. Douglas McKenzie. Maggie Magerstadt. Robert Moore. Karen Greene. Robert Hartmann. David Hawkanson. William Muessner, William Munch ow. Judy O'Dea. Maurice Hocss. Hope Hommersand. Rober t Huetter. David Hull. Ottinger. Lawrence Pressman. Nan cy Priddy. Ric Purvis. Dan Jacobs. Charles Jansen. Robert Joyner. Dennis Margaret Ritchie. Howard Schudson. Charles Smith. Kennedy. Mary Lynn Kolas. Janet Kramlich. Dina Leib. Chuck Tachovsky. Clyde Thomas. Madeline Tourtelot. Jean Leslie. Vivien Lewis. Charles Likar.James McKenzie. Ruth Young. Maggie Magerstadt. Carrol Mallory.John Moore. Terriska Morrell. Susan Peterson. Dounia Rathbone. Rodion Rathbone. Jr. . Carol Savides. Otto Schlesinger. Mark 1963 Company Sehumerth. Michael Toburen. Lorinne Vozoff. Arnold Tom Birmingham. Alice Boeck. Jeanne Bolan. Donald Warda. Claire Zettel. Brynmauer. Byron Cleeland. T om Conners. Ann Fay. Edward Fay. Peter Jan. Judi Jiede. John Killa. Clint Kimbrough. J acee Klein. John Klinkert. Naomi Levine. 1968 Company Karen Long. Jeannette Leahy. Richard Lederer. Leo Wendell Arensdorff. Carle Bensen. Lynn Bilek. Tom Lucker. David McKenzi e. James McKenzie. Kevin Birmingham. Jeanne Bolan. Fred Brandt. Russ Bruzek. McKenzie. Maggie Magerstadt. Ralph Martin. Bernice Tom Conners. Louis Danton. Jack Diamond. Roslyn Matthews. Paul Mel ton. Aina Niemela. Dal Norris. Robert Dickens. John Eames. Thomas Eastman. Frederick Rappaport. Pat Randall. Lamonte Richards. Ken Richards. Fisher. Beatrice Fredman. Mary Gage. Douglas Greene. Estelle Ritchie. Barbara Schwei. Dan Scott. James David Hawkanson. Scott Heatwole. Steve Hunziker. David Shearwood. Clyde Thomas. Robert Thompson. Myles Hull. Charles Jansen. Robert Joy ner. Dennis Kennedy. Vrooman. Ralph Waite. Charles Likar. Charles Lowry. Amy McKenzie. James McKenzie. Maggie Magerstadt. Larry Maraviglia. Bernice Matthews. Paul Melton. John Moore. Joe Pushkin. Linda 1964 Company Pollack. Dounia Rathbone. George Resch. Jeff Spooner. Val Bettin. Lynn Bilek. Alice Boeck. J eanne Bolan. Tom Robert Thompson. Michael Toburen. William Tyn an. Conners. David Cran e. Edward Fay. Curtiss Fisher. Bolan Lorinne Vozoff. Gretchen Wienke. Nancy Winbigler. Joch High.Judith Haviland. Betty J anssen. Michael Kalinowski. Woodr uff. John Killa. Charles Likar. Louise Lind. James Long. James McKenzie. Bernice Matthews. Lisa Potts. Nicholas Prince. Dounia Rathbone.John Richards. Rober t Rush by. John Saunders. John Shane. Jeanne Weiler. 1969 Company 1973 Company Douglas Alleman. Lisa Allen. Margaret Ambrose. Clara V icki Adamaitis. Mike Bauer. Joe Bell. Carle Bensen. Appel. J oe Bell. Barbara Bielow. Elizabelh Birmingham. Peter Birmingham. Tom Birmingham.JeffBoeck.Jeanne Jeanne Bolan. Tom Conners. Alyn Darnay. P. Diers. Bolan. Carl Brown. Vicki C hilder s. Cathy Colbeck. Tom Thomas Eastman. George Ede. Mary Ewig. Bradford Conners. Kelly Danford. Stewart Dawson. J am es DeGrool. Fisher. Frederick Fisher. Beatrice Fred man. Mary Garri ly. Donald Dexter.John Dulra. Claire Ellman. Walter Ellman. Douglas Greene. Harriet Hall. Kazuko Harada. Barbara J essica Epstein. Frederick Fisher. Pat Fisher. Kevin Harris. David Hawkanson. Steve Hunziker. Christi Flanagan. A n t h ony H oward. Sar a H ow ard. Murray Hildreth. Dan Isaac. Dennis Kennedy. J ohn Killa. John Hurlbut. Dennis Kennedy. E. Kessberger. Fred Kopp. Klies. Katherine Koria. J eannette Leahy. Iris Lieberman. Denise LaTeller. Sandy Liplon. Jeannette Leahy. Blan ch Charles Likar. Maggie Magerstadt. Barbara Mark. Susan Lewis. James M cKenzi e. Kevi n McKenzi e. Bernice Mark. Thomas M cCarty. George Mcinty re. Amy M cKenzie. Matthews. Ruth Overby. Cathy Pfeiler. Barbara Schreiber. James M cKenzie. Frank Rohrbach. Otto Schlesinger. Laurie Taft. Barbara Underwood. William Wedepoh l. Steve Skiles. J eff Spooner. Robert Thompson. Eleanor Robert Wilson. Vaill. William Wedepohl. Gretchen Wienke. William Wi sc. Terry Wolff. Lorry Young. 1974 Company 1970 Company Douglas Alleman. Joe Bell. Car l e Bensen. G r eg Joseph Bell. Carle Bensen. Pat Bensen. Mary Besl. Tom Birmingham. Tom Birmingham. Jeanne Bolan . Joseph Birmingh am. Jeanne Bolan. Fred Brandl. M arc Capel Broida. Thomas Callaway. Vicki Ch ilders. Tom Conners. J on es. Kelly Collum. Tom Conners. Ter ry Converse. James DeGrool. Jessica Epstein. Frederick Fisher. Pat C. Croyle. Jeremy Croyle. Steve Davis. Stewart Dawson. Fisher. Hope Hommersand. David Hull. Jessica J ones. Patricia Dellmann. Harmon Dresner. Shirley Engerson. Dennis Kennedy. Joe Kennedy. Jeannette Leahy. Amy Mary Ewig. Frederic k F i sh er. Bob Fowler. Pauline McKenzie.J ames M cKenzie. Kevin M cKenzie. Claire Malis. Frechette. M ary Gage. Gale Gill. Karen Gill. Tom Gill. Joe Maltby. Barbar a Muller. Ruth Overby. Susan Kazuko Harada. David Hull. Vicki Kaywood. Dennis Pettygrove. C hristina Rayn e r. Norman Ri ce. Jill Kennedy. Steven Kulieke. Jeannette L eahy. Phil Searchinger.Jean Sincere. Tom Turner. William Wedepohl. Laurenson. Iris Lieb erman. Charles Likar. J ames Litwin. Mira Weiss. Melva Williams. H. Wood. Matthew Wood. Amy McKenzie. David McKenzi e. James McKen zie. Maggie Francesca Zambello. Magerstadl. Bernice Matthews. M ary Markson. Nikki 1975 Company Marsh. Spencer Milligan. Richard Olla. Olla Schlesinger. Mick Alderson. Linda Bailey. Pel er Bailey-Britton. Joe Becky Spooner. Richard Stadel mann. Jack Swanson. Bell. Carle Bensen. Denise Besselte. Mary Best. Ly nn D. Thomas. Michael Toburen. Eleanor Vaill. Steven Bilek. Tom Birmingham.Jeanne Bolan. Mark Buchanan ... Vickers. Dennis Worth. Lorry Young. Barbara Underwood. Tom Conners. Stewart Dawson. Jessica Epstein. Frederick Fisher. Patricia Fisher. Curtis Katz. Dennis Kennedy. Rick Kotrba. James McKenzie. Kevin McKenzie. Rulh 1971 Company Overby. J ill Searchinger. Geoffrey Stoner. Lisa Tolf. Tom Fred Adami. Marji Bank. Donna Bartholomew. Christine T urner. Peggy Turner. William Weclepohl. Matthew Wood. Becker. Joe Bell. Carle Bensen. J eanne Bolan. Russ Brusek. Anna Bull. Charles Christensen. David Classon. Tom Conners. Stewart Dawson. Ian Dexter. Judy Fields. 1976 Company Frederick Fisher. Palricia Fisher. Marla Friedman. Mary Mick Alderson. Gerald Bailey. Pcler Bailey-Bri tton. Michael Gage. Vicki Kaywood. Dennis Kennedy. Adrienne Kent. Barnard. Belsy Baun. J ohn Baun. Carle Bensen. Grel la Stephen Kuliek e. Jeannetle Leahy. Charles Likar. David Ber gham mer. Cr aig Bero. Peggy Birmingham. T om M cKenzie. J ames M cKenzie. Maggie Magerstadl. Freel Birmingham Robert Breen. Joe Broida. Tom Conners. Marlow. Bernice M atthews. Rulh Overby. Ronald Phillips. Eilee n Daubner. Gai-y Dunnigan . J ess Epstein . George Thomas Sobey. Michael Toburen. Barbara Underwood. Glander. M arcJ acobs. Freel Kopp.Jeannette Leahy, J ames Steven Vickers. William Wedepohl. Dennis Worlh. Lorry M cKen zie. William Munch ow. D. Osborn. Neil Pat rick. Young. Paul Z indel. R. Porter. Leslie Schanen. Jean Sincere. Beth Smet. Joey Smet. Robert T hompson. T om Turner. William Wedepohl. 1972 Company Chris Wilson. Fred Adami. Linda Bailey. Marji Bank. Carle Ben se n. Pal Bense n. Mary Besl. Mike Birmingham. Tom Birm ingham. J eanne Bolan. Kenneth Brocious. Gerald Castillo. David 1977 Company Classon. Tom Conners. Stewart Dawson. Harmon Dresner. Mick Alderson. Terry Anastassiou. Betsy Baun. J ohn Clair Ellard. Frederick Fisher. Pat Fisher. Mary Gage. Bob Baun. Gretta Bergham mer. Greg Birmingham. Peggy Gibson. Richard Gilliland. Laurie Heineman. Dennis B irmingham. Tom Birm ingham. Janice Bloecher. Hilda Kennedy. Adrienne Kent.Jeannette Leahy. Charles Likar. Boi se. J oseph Broida. Tom Conners. Vicki Childers. Brell Thomas Long. David M cKenzie. James M cKenzie. Ma1-y Crandall. Jessica Epstein. Barbara Fordney. Gale Gill. Martin. Bernice Matthews. Mitch Maurer. Ci ndy Overby. George Glander. GaryGruchalski. Joh n Hammond. Sheila Ruth Overby . Alan Robin. Thomas Schram. Rach el Hilke. Rober t Richard Jorge. Denn is Kenn edy. Jeannelle Stephens. Roberl Thompson. Donne Toburen. Michael Leahy. Amy McKenzie. Jam es McKenzie. J. Menachcr . Toburen. Barbara Underwood. William Wedepohl. Barton Patrick. Neil Patrick.Jea n Sincere. Brian Soren son. Lani Sundsten. Michael Tcn-y. Robert Thompson. Tom Turner. William Wecl epohl. Chris Wilson . 1978 Company 1981 Company M ary Agneessens. Mick Alderson. Terry Alderson . Mike Alan Abarbanell. Greg Birmingham. Jenny Birmingham. Arcesi. Marji Bank. Betsy Baun. John Baun. Greg Tom Birmingham. Peter Blatchford. Vicki Childers. Birmingham. Tom Bir mingham. Megan Cavanagh. Vicki Jodean Culbert. Montgomery Davis. Stewart Dawson. Childers. Cindy Cochran. Tom Conners. Shane Curry. Stephen Day. Jonathon Doss. Anne Driscoll. Paula Ferries. Montgomery Davis. Barbara Fordney, Jeff Gendelman. Mary Ganus. Pam Gay.Jane Glomski. Chuck Henry.Jane George Glander . Cynthia Harding. Thomas Janssen. Henry. Tom Henry. Scott Johnson. Dennis Kennedy. John Karp. Dennis Kennedy. Laura Loper. Mary Anne Jeannette Leahy.Amy McKenzie.James McKenzie. Chris McGarry. Amy McKen zie. J ames McKen zie. Kevin Phillips. Tom Salkowski. Ruth Schudson. J ean Sincere. McKenzie. Neil Patrick. Tom Salkowski, Barb Schreiber. Dana Sprenger. Sandra Stein. Michael Tezla. Robert Colleen Scott. Patr icia Sheridan. J ean Sincere. Michael Thompson. B. Sara Vanzant. Louis Vasseur. Patrick Tezla. Robert T hompson. Robin Vance. B. Sara Van Zant. Walker. William Wedepohl. Betsy Weiner. William Wedepohl.
1982 Company 1979 Company Greg Birmingham.Jenny Birmingham. Tom Birmingham. Greg Birmingham. Tom Birmingham. Erin Butler. Leo Peter Blatchford. Vicki Childers. Helen Dahlen. Brooks Carusone. Alexandra Cortese. Shane Curry. Montgomery Darrah. Montgomery Davis. Mary Ganus. Pam Gay. Davis. Stewart Dawson. Corinne Granof. Walter Ellman. Chuck Greenwood. Lindsay Harris. Caitlin Hart.Jill Hass. Barbara Fordney. Mary Ganus. Chuck Hen ry. Douglas Chuck Henry. Tom Henry. Scott Johnson. Don LaFave. Hidding. Dennis Howes. James Ivey. Bob Karp. Dennis Ken Lam part. Jeannette Leahy. Dennis Kennedy. Janet Kennedy. Jeannette Lea hy. Laura Loper. Amy McKenzie. Klutterman. Amy McKenzie. James McKenzie. Megan J ames McKenzie. Mitch McCrary. Bob Miressi. Neil McTavish. Eilee n Manganaro. Margaret Murphy. Andy Patrick. Ron Relic. Carol Ryskoski. Tom Salkowski. Jean Njaa. Becky Njaa. Ellen Parfrey. Chris Phillips. Rosemary Sincere. Terrie Stengle. Michael Tezla. Rober t Thompson. Prem. Ron Relic. Tom Salkowski. Jean Sincere. Sandra B. Sara Van Zant. Patrick Walker. David Ward. William Stein. Rober t Thompson. B. Sara Vanzant. Nan Wade. Wedcpohl. Sara Wingate. Jake Woitesek. Patrick Walker. William Wedepohl.
1980 Company 1983 Company Greg B irmingham . Tom Birmingham. Marion Boyer. Carle Bensen. Cindy Berquist. Bridget Browning. Vicki Colleen Bresnahan. Vicki Childers. Jodean Culber t. Childers. Claudia Dalton. Brooks Dar rah. Stewart Dawson. Montgomery Davi s. Mary Ganus. Ann Graff. Corinne Shelly Elwood. Mary Ganus. Dan Green. Dawn Harbron. Granof. Chuck Henry. Tom Henry. Bob Karp. Dennis Kurt Johns. Scott Johnson. Bob Karp. Dennis Kennedy. Kennedy. J eannette Leahy. Mark Maranto. Mark Mayer. Mia Keyes. Jeffrey Krueger. Jeannette Leahy. James Mitch Mccrary. Amy McKenzi e. Jim M cKenzie. James McKenzie. Bruce Mielke. Jeanne Morick. Margaret McKen zie. Cheri Nordahl. Monica O'Meara. Chris Phillips. Murphy. Chris Phillips. Richard Pickren. Rosie Prem. Tom Salkowski. J ean Sincere. Michael Tezla. Robert Ron Relic. John Scavone. Ami Silvestre. J ea n Sincere. Thompson. B. Sara Van Zant. Louis Vasseur. Patrick Tom Si vak. Sandra Stein. Robert T hompson. B. Sara Walker. Sara Wingate. William Wedepohl. Va n zant. Nan Wade. Pam Walker. Patrick Walker. William Wcdepohl. Chuck Henry.
"THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS," Designed and edited by Jim Legault, Cover Illustration - Kash Yamada, Calligraphy - Kari Brandt Photographers: Leonard Reinhardt, Herb Reynolds, Harmann Studios, Bob Buchbinder, Tom Salkowski, Jessica Epstein, Bruce Mielke, Peter Jung, Jim Legault, Amy McKenzie and Stewart Dawson Collages - Amy McKenzie Research: Barbara Fordney, Amy McKenzie, Patrick Walker, Jim McKenzie Content Responsible Person: George Spelvin Printed by: Independent Printing Co .. De Pere, WI Thanks to all those who generously contributed time, memories and photos. Special thanks to Chan Harris for assistance and encouragement.
The Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation Inc. Board of Directors Officers: Chan Harris, Thomas B. McKenzie, Tom Birmingham, Ron Berg. Members: Frank Butts, Tom Conners, James OeGroot, James B. McKenzie, Tom Reynolds, John Torinus, Madeline Tourtelot. Peterson Builders, Inc. congratulates The Peninsula Players as they enter their 50th season ofproviding an excellent repertoire to thousands ofappr eciative Door County citizens and visitors. This Golden Anniversary is truly a milestone ofsignificantimportanceforyouas well as the community. Your continuing efforts to provide quality theatre for our benefit and enjoyment clearly testify to the dedication and hard work so diligently displayed by The Peninsula Players a ctors, management, staff and crew over the years. May the next 50 years be asfruitjul and rewarding as yourfirst half century. Sincerely, PETERSON BUILDERS, INC. Ril Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS
The Bank of Sturgeon Bay salutes The Peninsula Players on providing 50 great years of culture and entertainmentfor the people of Door County and our manyfine visitors. Door County has become a cultural center for the entire Midwest Our area provides excellence in music, painting, sculpture, pottery, carving and otherforms of art. The Players stand out like a jewel in the arts for what they have provided in the way of professional enter We at Bayprint are proud of the role we have played in tainment the history of the Peninsula Players. Our partnership began 50 years ago when we produced the Players' The Bank of Sturgeon Bay is very proud to first playb/11 as an In-plant print shop of the Door County Advocate. This printing tradition continues have had a close association with The Players today, as it has for the last 14 years, under the name of for these many years. We hope to continue to Bayprint, Inc. support them and we trust they will give us We thank you for an entertaining 50 years, and look another 50 years and more of their artistic forward to many more! abilities.
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