From PantherPix: “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” request Mary Perrin, Marilyn McCarthy, and Sue Rouillard to Tim McManus, Ed Callahan, John Moore, Paul Greely, “Fuzzy” Dufresne, and Eddie Lambert.

On this day (the third Friday in April) 50 years ago, members of our class participating in the Minstrel Revue were anticipating, maybe gladly looking forward to, closing night of the four-day 1964 show. (In 1964, Friday was April 17 and Easter had been celebrated on March 29.)

Thanks to Jacqui Artiano Ruest, we are able to present Minstrel Revue programs from 1964 (and 1963, at which the pictures in PantherPix used in this post were taken). The scans, available on the “Back Then” page (click in the bar just below the main blog header photo), are of program page spreads, two at a time.

Theme of the show was “Cathedral’s version of the World’s Fair” and among the groups performing were “South of the Border,” “Our World’s Fair,” “That’s Amore,” “Hut Sut Group,” “Japanese Group,” “Irish Dancers,” “Typically English,” “Polish Dancers,” and “In an Old Dutch Garden.”

Class president Jim Montanari was master of ceremonies. Among classmates performing specialty numbers were Bill Danoff, Jean Landry, Dianne Dillon, Robert Fitzgerald, Larry Dempsey, Brendan Montano, Mike Reavey, Peggy Morneau, Mary Lou Lattinwille, and Rita Arsenault. Group directors were Ellie Mayotte, Peggy Morneau, Roberta Quiriy, and Theresa Yesu. Jacqui Artiano was supervisor of the make-up crew.

Does anyone have pictures from the 1964 show, or related to it? Or of any other Minstrel Revue? We’ll be putting up the other two programs from our time at CHS very soon.

The programs themselves are telling, of course. Cost $.10. Notice the ads. Some from institutions long gone. No zip codes, but “zones.” No area codes, but “telephone exchanges.” Were you an “RE” or a “ST”? Dreikorn’s bread, in the orange wrap, boasts “Untouched by human hands.”

Were you a performer at the Minstrel Revue? (I doubt they would call the show that now.) Were you a backstage assistant? What do you remember about Minstrel?

From PantherPix: Slipping back into their “barefoot days” are performers Diane Girouard, Mary Lyons, Kathy Kirwin, Joanne Moore, Betty Gordon, Linda Louraine, Ellie Mayotte, Linda Nickerson, Susan Barrett, Ellen McCaffrey, Rosemary Hickey, and Ann McGinity.

From PantherPix: CHS Rockettes include Kathy Hamel, Betty Gordon, Jackie LaPlante, Peggy Morneau, Georgia Gotha, and Sue Know.

From PantherPix: “Tico-Tico artists” from the 1963 Revue are Diane Kruger, Rory Lyons, Bonnie Keane, Sue McKenna, Louise Brochu, Roberta Quiry, Mary Ulrich, and Joanne Carroll.