VOL. V, NO. 5
NOVEMBER 15, 1963
Karen Rivard and Eric Berg
To Star in Play
To Star in Play
"Life's a riot being married to Karen Rivard!" exclaimed Eric Berg, one of the leading actors in this year's senior class play.
Eric is 5 feet 11 inches tall, has brown eyes, and has a great sense of humor.
When asked what he thought of the senior class play, he responded, "I think it will be a great success. It is very funny and should be amusing to everyone." He plays the part of Lionel Toop, a vicar, 35 years old who is married to Mrs. Penelope Toop, played by Karen Rivard. He is a conservative person, and she is the exact opposite. The results are hilarious.
"Tom Jacobs '64, talked me into trying out for the play, and the ironic thing is that I got the part he was trying out for!" This is how "Bergie" answered the question why he tried out for the play.
Eric has been on the swimming team all four years at Maine. He lettered in his junior year.
"Bergie's" favorite pastimes are sleeping in study halls, listening to jazz, playing bridge, entertaining a Senior brunette, and attending school here at Maine. In fact, he wishes that he were a freshman again and could spend four more years at Maine. Eric thinks that Show Band is the greatest, and he wishes that he could play an instrument very much. Eric's pet peeve is that he can not stand boys with athletic abilities who do not use them.
After graduation Eric plans to go to college to enter business administration or marine biology. At this time he does not know which college he will attend.
(Note: Davis Hall is also a co‑star in See How They Run, but will be interviewed later as director of V-Show.)
Eric is 5 feet 11 inches tall, has brown eyes, and has a great sense of humor.
When asked what he thought of the senior class play, he responded, "I think it will be a great success. It is very funny and should be amusing to everyone." He plays the part of Lionel Toop, a vicar, 35 years old who is married to Mrs. Penelope Toop, played by Karen Rivard. He is a conservative person, and she is the exact opposite. The results are hilarious.
"Tom Jacobs '64, talked me into trying out for the play, and the ironic thing is that I got the part he was trying out for!" This is how "Bergie" answered the question why he tried out for the play.
Eric has been on the swimming team all four years at Maine. He lettered in his junior year.
"Bergie's" favorite pastimes are sleeping in study halls, listening to jazz, playing bridge, entertaining a Senior brunette, and attending school here at Maine. In fact, he wishes that he were a freshman again and could spend four more years at Maine. Eric thinks that Show Band is the greatest, and he wishes that he could play an instrument very much. Eric's pet peeve is that he can not stand boys with athletic abilities who do not use them.
After graduation Eric plans to go to college to enter business administration or marine biology. At this time he does not know which college he will attend.
(Note: Davis Hall is also a co‑star in See How They Run, but will be interviewed later as director of V-Show.)
Watch out all you people who are phonies! Stay away from that senior girl called Karen Rivard, or she may say "Yukchkii" which is her favorite expression. You see, this senior leader has an extreme aversion to phonies or people who try to be someone else. Her psychiatrist would probably say that this is a result of her constant imitating of others, such as Jane Ashton in "Brigadoon" last year, or Debbie Mallard in the '63 V‑Show, or, most recently, her portrayal of Penelope Toop in the Senior Class Play.
Her head shrinker could also analyze Karen's membership in Tri‑M, Choraliers and A Cappella Choir as a result of her obsession for music. She acquired this obsession by being around church so much as a member of the youth group and, this year, as president of that group.
Karen thinks she is interested in her important job as editor-in‑chief of the Legend but she is really preoccupied with thoughts about a certain boy who knows nothing about it as yet.
Being a member of Quill and Scroll, National Honor Society, and an A‑Honor Roll student, Karen has achieved quite a lot in her high school years and hopes to attend either Cornell University or Northwestern. This providing, of course, she stays on her skin doctor's diet of salads and tea while she's away at school.
Karen has displayed at Maine West not only her mental qualities, but also her personal qualities. She likes most people and prefers those who have certain characteristics which make them an individual. She detests conformity and believes there is too much of it, says her psychiatrist.
To say the least, Karen is quite a healthy individual and needs no head shrinker at all - only for those occasional tensions when Legend deadlines, homework, and her music interests get to be too much.
Her head shrinker could also analyze Karen's membership in Tri‑M, Choraliers and A Cappella Choir as a result of her obsession for music. She acquired this obsession by being around church so much as a member of the youth group and, this year, as president of that group.
Karen thinks she is interested in her important job as editor-in‑chief of the Legend but she is really preoccupied with thoughts about a certain boy who knows nothing about it as yet.
Being a member of Quill and Scroll, National Honor Society, and an A‑Honor Roll student, Karen has achieved quite a lot in her high school years and hopes to attend either Cornell University or Northwestern. This providing, of course, she stays on her skin doctor's diet of salads and tea while she's away at school.
Karen has displayed at Maine West not only her mental qualities, but also her personal qualities. She likes most people and prefers those who have certain characteristics which make them an individual. She detests conformity and believes there is too much of it, says her psychiatrist.
To say the least, Karen is quite a healthy individual and needs no head shrinker at all - only for those occasional tensions when Legend deadlines, homework, and her music interests get to be too much.
