Donoho School - Gauntlet Yearbook (Anniston, AL)

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ai' AT TOP: Cast members of the 1978 spring play, You Can't Take lt With You, perform for a sell-out crowd. AT LEFT: Pati Tiller Cseatedj, Polly Enger, John Hill, Mike Smith, and Ellen McKay greet visitors to their Old Folks' Home, BELOW: A rejuvenated Polly Enger, Pati Tiller, and Ellen McKay rehearse for FROM FAR LEFT: Lucy Roberts and Hugh Jones take the conven- tional approach while Bowen Woodruff tries the old bIood-to-the- brain method of learn- ing his Iinesg Rozelle Burt and Bowen Woo- druff rest during prac- tice for the spring play, The Prime Time Crime.

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Mrs. John Hancock directed the Donoho Voices, an all-girl chorus this year, in a variety ot works, accompanied by pianist Caryl Her- rington and guitarist Bill Burnham. The group was made up of solo- ists, the Girls' Ensemble, and the choir. The ensemble, formedof voices selected from the main choir, included the chorus's officers fPresident Jackie Sonnberger, Sec- retary-Treasurer Gena Brown, and Music Co-ordinator Laura Albrightj, Jennifer West, Julie Jenkins, Kathy Fry, Jenny Fry, Anne McNaron, Michelle Dubee, Lucy Roberts, Mic- helle Kemp, and Suzy Hoube. The main chorus consisted of the ensemble and Marilyn Sonnberger, Kathy Rowe, Pat Fetner, Candice Dobbins, Donna Burke, Allison Jones, Tracy Johns, Susan Bryan, Julia Wilson, and Heather Jenkins. The Donoho Players joined the chorus on a Christmas program that featured a musical program and two one-act plays. Mrs. Webb directed senior-high players Polly Enger, Ellen McKay, John Hill, and Pati Tiller in The Christmas Dress, a play about two old ladies with one party dress between them, and their two equally elderly neighbors. Meanwhile, Tom Kilby directed junior-high players Stephanie Fos- ter, Leigh Dillon, and Blake Smith in The Christmas Tea, a fantasy involving toys awaiting the arrival of Troupers Santa Claus - played by Mike Smith in both plays. Mrs. Webb also directed while Pati Tiller worked on costumes anc Caryl Herrington provided music foi the spring play, a parody on who- dunnits entitled The Prime Time Crime. The cast included Sam Johnson Carrie Coley, Blake Smith, Jenny Fry, Johnny Reaves, Cindy Nunnel- ley, Travis Stewart, Susie Dillon Brenda McWhorter, John Hill, Rich ard Byrd, Stan Wilson, Russ Dori sey, Jack Swift, Polly Enger, Lucy Roberts, Hugh Jones, Bowen Woo druff, Rozelle Burt, Carl Walker Ellen McKay, Mike Smith, and Joe MacKenzie. fit 5 'S Yi i CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE LEFT: Marilyn Sonnberger, Laura Albright, and Jackie Sonnberger await the downbeatg Choir mem- bers open wide for Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Han- cock demonstrates the fun of choir singing to her students at the Lower School, Caryl Herrington shows off her virtuosity at the keyboard. 80

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Changes of Pace Five courses served as breaks in the everyday Donoho curriculum. Two of these were required while the other three were offered to stu- dents who had interests in the spe- cial areas. For some, P.E. provided a nice change from a day of scholastic curriculum, for others, it was the hardest and most tedious period of the day. Regardless of the point of view, P.E. remained a manditory class for all students. Driver's Edu- cation was manditory for all future drivers. According to some stu- dents, anyone who could handle Coach Smith's jokes and Coach Grubb's occasional late arrivals FROM TOP: John James threatens to throw the ball at Bill Kell, Joe Reed, and Todd Wey- mouth, A lone P.E. student escapes the tor- tures of the gymg Coach Smith sticks his neck out for his driver's education students, Coach Smith is pleased with the results ot the projecting of his neck. could easily make it through a driv- er's license test. Mrs. Couch provided instruction for potential Rembrandts whose work brightened our walls and the library shelves throughout the year. Mrs. Nyman taught typing to the nimble-fingered students who wished to avoid writing out future term papers in longhand or wasting their precious money on someone else's ability. Mrs. Nyman also offered psychology to those who wanted to learn how to probe the minds of their fellow students, or who preferred to avoid chemistry, physics, and physiology.