Snyder High School produces talented people each year.
Alumni from the past 30 years went back to the school to be inducted in the Theater Department Hall of Honor on Saturday at Worsham Auditorium.
Inductees were cast and crew of the 1970 state one-act play Elizabeth: The Queen, Janneen Janeen Patterson, Powers Boothe, Brade Maule and Barry Tubb.
Patterson is a 1966 Snyder graduate who participated in theatre throughout high school. She was inducted for going above and beyond during her teaching career as a theatre director at Snyder Junior High School before retiring in 2004.
“It gives me great honor to induct Patterson,” Jannette Allen said. “She always went above and beyond for her students. Some may remember the Grease performance, where she had her husband mount a car to the stage so her students can perform on top it. Her productions never failed to amaze us.”
Pamela Boothe accepted her late husband’s, Powers Boothe, plaque. He graduated from Snyder High School in 1966 and won an Emmy in 1980 for his role in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. Maule graduated from Snyder High School in 1970. Among his TV credits are Charlie’s Angels (1976), Three’s Company (1997), and Malibu (1983).
Tubb is a Snyder High School 1981 graduate. He performed in various TV and film productions, including Top Gun and Lonesome Dove. He has since written and directed four films in the Snyder area, including Gand Champion.
“Their legacy is what this department stand for,” committee member Michael Rodriguez said. “This mean a lot to the current theater students who wish to follow in their footsteps.”
Before the induction ceremony began, former graduates got a chance to see how the school’s legacy continued this year with the state-qualifying one-act play, A View from the Bridge.
“It was an honor to perform for the legends that walked these halls,” sophomore Cuahtemoc Olvera said. “Snyder produces great people.”
Joe Wilson, who was a member of the 1970 one-act play, agreed.
“I felt honored to watch these students perform tonight,” Wilson said. “I thought they were great. I really do believe Snyder is back, they had very good character development. It was a very good performance. I was totally engulfed. They swallowed me up.”
Rodriguez said the banquet will be an annual event.
“The people who walked these halls went off to do amazing things,” Rodriguez said. “We will continue to recognize them each year and we thank everyone who joined us tonight.”
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