Archbishop Mitty High School - Excalibur Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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Truhe sucessfully lifts Yen during uThe Fruge extensive practice Brandy Parris, appeals to Scott Charlie, by singing Could See Charity, Parris, offers her to Andy Vanyo, lbottoml. longer practices were as the opening night drew costumes were provided by the si and the Civic Light Opera. ln order make the sets more pleasing to the e and to intensify the mood of the oduction, certain color schemes were ed throughout the sets and costumes. i'lt was a great relief to have decent stumes. lt added a spectacular fect to the show, commented rolyn Brilla, senior. Those who were not playing major naracters assumed up to six different lies. This posed a problem with the ailabilily of room back stage and the creased number of corresponding Dstumes. With only three weeks until the open- ing night, the infamous uhell week be- gan. During that time the cast, crew, and band came to school at eight o'clock in the morning and did not leave before ten o'clock that evening. At promptly three o'clock practice be- gan, and for six hours the final touches were made on costumes, dances were practiced until they were perfect, and every scene was rehearsed until cues, lines, and actions ran smoothly. Most people don't realize that many nights we were here until two o'clock in the morning, explained senior Brandy Parris, alias Sweet Charity. Parris spent longer hours than most, but the rest of the cast felt pressured. What to do when it is one week from the opening night and people are feel- ing that they might not do well? The nat- ural reaction is to panic, but MTA de- cided to organize a retreat. The retreat enabled students to unify themselves for the sake of Sweet Char- ity. During this time the cast decided that they were going to do the best they could and not let all the long hours of practices go to waste. Monday, however, marked the uphill climb that the cast still had to endure. But finally, all three performances went well. How does one do it with two hours of sleep a night, a supplementary seven course meal of junk food and home- work on top of that? As more than one cast member noted, lt wasn't easy. - Tina Johnson - Mark Leary, Daddy Brubeck takes the Rhythm of Life Church very seriously fleftj Don Vendrell and Dan Norbutas tum Brandy Parris Charity, upside down to get the water out lbelowl

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,'41X 28 Andy Vanyo, Vittor- io, argues with Claudette de Car- bonel, Ursula, with little violins in his voice. Mark Leary, Daddy Brubeck, gazes prospectively over dance hall hostess Johanna Ryssemus in the ballroom. Pompeii patrons cast a disdainful stare at Brandy Par- ris, Charity. Brandy Parris, Char- ity, tries to cheer up Dave Truhe, Oscar, while stuck in an old elevator. wing 10 w, 'Sweet Charit ' How do you spell relief? P-a-n-i-C, u-n-i-t-y vives on two hours of sleep, and m ages to complete school work du class, then you should have auditior if lf you are the kind of person who i I for MTA s Sweet Charity The cast managed to pull off the duction despite the odds and a mc and a half of rehearsals. During the first few weeks, practir were held in classrooms and dance hearsols in the band room. During time, Catherine Sanders began painstaking procedure of blocking, ancient art of stage directions that gi depth and meaning to the dialog However, because rehearsals wt

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ww gifs , . is Wu i 5 f l ,:... f ... . if The winter of our discontent The snow caused more excitement than the United States did the first week of the Winter Olympics at Sarajevo,Yugoslavia. Hungry from their 1980 performance, including an upset victory over the Russi- ans in hockey, the U.S. troops were primed, but were they ready? The hockey team began with an opening loss to Canada and continued downhill from there. And figure skating contender Rosalynn Sumners took second, disap- pointed she did not win gold. Things didn't improve dramatically, but the U.S. did suddenly spurt into the limelight when Bill Johnson and Phil Mahre, followed at second by brother Steve, took unprecedented firsts in down- hill and slalom skiing. Scott Hamilton won gold in men's singles figure skating, and Kitty and Peter Carruthers placed second in pair skating, the best American finish since 1952. The events were also graced with an- other, and highly unusual, first: British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean rated 6's across the board. The courts and big business First the good news: the supreme court decided against taxing video recorders, the space program conducted its first un- tethered EVA, and Martin Luther King's birthday was made a federal holiday. Now the bad news: since AT8rT broke up, it may cost you more money to talk to your friends about the good news. NASA's Challenger launch was first marred by the inoperation of two multi- million dollar satellites which failed to respond to signals shortly after their launch from the craft. But the mission included a number of unique experiments, including the first unmanned walk through use of an armchair-appearing device known as a manned maneuvering unit. 30 On january 1, local Californians said goodbye to AT8zT and hello to Pacific Bell as the parent company moved from local to strictly long-distance service. Phone users hoped for only a mild crunch as higher rates were expected. In the courts, newscaster Christine Kraft won, then had overturned, her suit against a local station she said fired her because she was too old. Former Califor- nia NOW head Ginny Foat was acquitted of murder in her trial in Louisiana. And, in a precedent-setting decision, the Su- preme Court reversed an appellate court's decision not to grant the estate of Karen Silkwood a monetary suit against the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant. The political arena The stock market said it all: it was the l of times, it was the worst of times. Reflecting the tenor of the country, Dow jones Industrial Average set rec highs last year, but it also plummet dramatically as the market reacted national events. Inflation and unemployment b worked their ways down, but interest rs continued to maintain a stubbornly h level as President Ronald Reagan r posed a budget resulting in record defif with an emphasis on defense spending. Meanwhile, Reagan continued to l members of his staff, the most infam being former Secretary of the Intel James Watt. Watt's resignation follow his response to a question conceming own staff. The Secretary noted that he l one of everything: a black, ajew, a won and a cripple. Public reaction led to Wa departure and the installation of tl National Security Adviser William Cla: November ,elections set a few precedei Martha Layne Collins became nation's first woman governor, ins alled Kentucky. Several blacks won elections including Philadelphia's W. son Goode and Harvey Gantt in lotte, North Carolina. I 1 And in local news. . . Barely five years after his conviction the murder of San Francisco George Moscone and Supervisor Milk, Dan White was paroled and leased in Los Angeles without the kn ledge or consent of that city's fathers. San Francisco station KRON-TV br a nationwide story concerning the harn effects of pesticide EDB, and Betty C1 ker, Duncan Hines and others saw tl products pulled from market shelves. And Marriott's, fighting a gloomy fir cial future, declared itself available to highest bidder. The city of Santa C voted narrowly to make the purchase.