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DEARABBY 2 MOVIES 2 YOUR BIRTHDAY 2 TELEVISION 6 OBITUARIES 7 CLASSIFIED 8 Delaware Valley SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1983 Under Fire star returns for reunion COURIER-POST fl EmU Classified mm-- ifn Ly "She was athletic and friendly and liked to have fun," recalled Maury Cutler, now a Collingswood attorney. After high school, after Syracuse University, after marrying and having two children, Cassidy wound up in Hollywood. When she first arrived in California, where she still lives, Cassidy was touted as a glamour girl, the next Marilyn Monroe. It was a role she never wanted, she said. "I cut off all my hair and hid out for a while." Then, through an audition, she won the part of Claire, a radio reporter, in "Under Fire," which was released this fall.

4 "It's a story of human nature and it's what I'm most proud of," she said of her performance along- side Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman. "Under Fire" is set in Nicaragua in 1979, the last days of the regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza. The movie revolves around the attempts of Cassidy and Nolte, who plays a photographer, to find the leader of the revolutionaries fighting to oust Somoza. It is a movie that delves into the way the news is made and it has caused quite a stir among the' press.

She said she was given the role "because I have an intelligent look, without all that Hollywood glamour. I hope there is a lot more to come." Ken Artis, a classmate who accompanied Cassidy last night, said he revels in the career of his friend-turned-celebrity. "There's only one problem: Every time she's in a movie, I have to go three times. The first time I say, that's Joanne. The second time I watch Joanna and then I watch the movie," said Artis, who now lives in Madison, Wis.

i By MARGARET A. SCOTT Of the Courier-Post HADDONFIELD Joanna Cassidy did not make it to her 10-year high school class reunion, but last night she said she never considered missing the 20-year-after get-together. "I'm famous now," she said wiUi a touch of the boisterous, lilting laugh long-remembered by her classmates in the Haddonfield Memorial High School class of 1963. The girl, known back then as Joanne Caskey, who appeared in the'63Shieldyearbook in thecustomary round-neck black sweater accented by a single strand of pearls, had become an actress, known now as Claire in the movie "Under Fire" and Jo White in the television series "Buffalo Bill." And at about 8:30 p.m. last night, the hometown-girl-made-good, the 38-year-old Cassidy appeared at the Haddon Fortnightly on Kings Highway here to mingle and reminisce.

"Oh, come on. It's just me," she said, throwing her arms around a groupof her high school friends as she made her entrance in a scooped-neck black crepe dress with a dropped waist tied by a fuchia satin sash. Down the street from the Fortnightly, at the stately red-brick school building, Cassidy attended high school as the daughter of Virginia and Joseph Caskey, who still live in Haddonfield. "I was a rowdy kid. I remember leading a few rebellions.

High school was a really good time, it wasn't a questioning time for me. And I certainly had no idea I would be an actress," she said. She was a member of the hockey and softball teams, the prom committee, the Spanish Club and the student council. Courier-Post photo by Curt Hudson Joanna Cassidy, formerly Joanne Caskey, chats with a former classmate at the Haddonfield High reunion. Thieves leave gift home in i Area bowlers roll strikes for cystic fibrosis Courier-Post Staff CHERRY HILL Melissa McGuigan of Pennsauken appeared to be like any other 3-year-old as shestrained her tiny body to roll a bowling ball down an alley at Baker Lanes here yesterday.

But the cystic fibrosis poster child for South Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware probably didn't realize she was helping raise funds to battle the disease that makes her different from a healthy child. About 150 bowlers at lanes throughout the three states participated in the Bowl for Breath yesterday to raise money for research into the cause of the disease. The bowlers collected pledges of a penny a point for three games with the minimum allowable pledge being three dollars. Melissa's mother JoAnne McGuigansaid bowlers probably would raise a few thousand dollars. "It's a hidden disease.

Most of the time the children look healthy on the outside," McGuigan said. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease which effects the lungs and digestive system of children. It is the most common fatal inherited disease of children. Cathy Smith of Collingswood who also has a child with the who havcit won't livcto be 21." "I lost my job because of Jessica's illness," said Smith who collected 260 pledges, the most in South Jersey. "You have to choose your priorities." Jessica, 4, like many other children with the disease, must undergo rigorous daily physical therapy at home so she can breathe.

Parents must cup their hands and perform chest percussion on their children, sometimes as often as 16 times daily. In chest percussion areas of the chest are struck in order to free mucous that becomes trapped in a child's lungs, disabling their breathing. "It really gives the kids a workout," Smith said. By JEFFREY BRAMNICK Of the Courier-Post CLAYTON When the Vargos arrived yesterday to close up their summer house here and found that someone had broken in, they were pleasantly surprised to find nothing missing. But an even bigger surprise waited in the living room.

There they found a stereo console that didn't belong to them. Borough police hope tracking down the owner of the stereo will help them figure out how it got to be there. Right now, their best theory is that someone stole the stereo from another house and was stashing it in the Vargos house in the 100 block of Hillside Avenue until it could be sold. "Maybe they knew the house wasn't used in the winter and they were just storing it until it becomes unhot," said a borough police dispatcher who asked not to be identified. The dispatcher said police also considered the possibility that area youths might have planned to use the house as a place to have parties.

If so, the youths probably were disappointed that the home's electricity had been turned off. i 'There was nothing missing. Just some cigarette butts lying around," she said. The Vargos, a Philadelphia couple whose first names the dispatcher didn't have, had come to the house yesterday to turn off the water for the winter. They called police after finding a back window broken and the stereo in the living room.

mill iilil I liiiiliiililiiHIWHIIi ill iniiiiiiiiiliii III Fun fund-raiser Courier-Post photo by Curt Hudson Three-year-old Melissa McGuigan of Pennsauken, the for Breath. The event, at Cherry Hill's Baker Lanes, was cystic fibrosis poster child for New Jersey, Delaware just one portion of many such efforts in the tri-county and Pennsylvania, is given some direction by her area to raise money for research into the disease that mother, JoAnne, yesterday as she helps with the Bowl afflicts the lungs and digestive system. HFT Greeting I It 1 the season The holiday shopping season officially got under way yesterday with 'Black the Jxfete, 2 heaviest dav of the vear At iui aica niciiiiaiiio. left, the spirit of the day seems too much for Brenda Murisan and her 2-year-old niece, Crystal, who braved the crowds at the Burlington Center. Things appear a bit jollier at the Echelon 1 Mall in Voorhees (right) -'4) Mwsf A I '1, v.

where Santa Claus made his seasonal arrival along with a pair of clowns. Courier-Post photo by Evangelos Dousmanis Courier-Post photo by Sam Kuthner.