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Show I . .:. ? ... -. ' . I : i ,U if, fci.....: . . ...n. ii ..i.in-ww fc., FT -te.jr-v''L I Adelaide Elementary students performed in the recent PTA Founders Day celebration. , An original play, "America's Melting Pot", was written by Susan Vickery and performed by the students. Photo by Marvin Jackson. . . -Students sitedy founders: !, Adelaide Elementary School : PTA held its annual Founder 's Day - celebration on March 2. At 7 p.m. the PTA officers assembled to elect officers for the 1989-90 school ; year. Newly elected officers are: Kathy Brewer president; Marie Christiansen.esident elect; Pat u . Rogers, secretary Anita Sheffield, treasurer. ! Following the brief meeting, families fa-milies were treated by watching a patriotic musical presented by the sixth : grade ' which combined" comedy, drama, song, dance and students' artwork to . answer the , question "What Makes a Perfect ' Citizen?",-";-: , h'z-'-'T--- ',. Sixth grade teacher, Susan Vickery, Vick-ery, wrote an original script for the production. The , plot , centered around 5 two stodrats who : were i ' stumped by a homework assign-, ment in which they were to describe ' "America's melting pot," Al- ' though one child's motlier was no-, no-, , . torious for giving, long-winded an-swers, an-swers, the kids .were ifcspcrate nd they went to her for 'hehS. True to form,- the mother'' began a story about three magic, producing per- sons (two warlocks and one witch, due to women's liberation) who; ; were assigned to make a perfect citizen. ci-tizen. These three put into their "melting pot" elements from many 1 groups of people throughout history . who have helped make America what it is today. They began with Native Americans and included representatives rep-resentatives of explorers and immigrants immi-grants in several time periods to the present.. It was determined mat the model citizen would have to remain . unfinished because there are contributions contri-butions yet to be made by the im- ' migrants who are, still coming to America, v ---w-- Nora Jacksoni mother of a sixth grader,'' coordinated the program, played the piano, accompanhnent for most of the songs, and did some . of the choreography. Mrs. Jackson utilized the talents of parents, teachers tea-chers and students to involve as many people as possible. The parents of the cast put in many hours of work to insure the , show's success. Credit goes to l Nannette Hansen and Sundy Wa-: Wa-: - tanabe for choreographing some of the dance numbers. Susan Hum- phreys directed a girls' quintet, ana Janice Twede helped with costumes. cos-tumes. The set was built and donated do-nated to the school by Marvin Jackson. Jack-son. Yield Scholz organized the ' slides of students' original artwork . and ran the slide projector. . The kids themselves took respon-: respon-: sibility for some of the production tasks. The stage crew consisted of two students, Chris Richards and Scott Osguthorpe. The skeleton for merrwrx vasjBiade by Bea-llrfjaX)mei'stuJcna hciped- with special musical numbers 'in- : eluding Elizabeth Christiansen who 1 played the piano for one number and Brian Crofts and Tim Wilde who conducted two songs which were sung in parts (harmony and ) descant). Mrs. Porter's class played i "Greensleeves" on their recorders. More than 90 sixth graders were in ! Aecast - ;,. 'f- , .;' : lj Of course, the teachers were a major part of the whole project : They began by teaching a unit about immigration and had the students! do research on American history and period costumes. Mrs. Rebecca Kline worked on props and scenery ; and starred as the mother. Besides writing the play, Mrs. Susan Vick-' ery did much of the directing. Beth J . Porter directed the singing. ; Before' and after the program, families were encouraged to look at - displays of PTA history as well as "Reflections" entries.- i A two-day book fair was held in conjunction with Founder's Day. PTA Individual Development' Commissioner Nancy 1 Swain. I planned and executed the book fan-in fan-in fine style. Over 600 books were1 i. sold which netted the PTA $368 for their playground equipment fund. A . parent attendance contest was held offering the winning class $20i -v worth of books for their classroom. |