Douglas Southall Freeman High School - Historian Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Es FINDING ROMEO DEAD, JULIET TEARFULLY BESEECHES THAT HE MAY HAVE LEFT A DROP OF POISON FOR H READY TO GO ON STAGE, Glen Shivel as Romeo listens to new instructions repeated by the lights technician, Brenda Stroud. SEEKING A LO REMEMBRANCE, a white butterfly, A Brown pleads with Leslie Dodd to help her in the search.

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CURIOS FROM FOREIGN LANDS, placed in upstairs hall cases, attract interested Rebels during Language Emphasis Week. INTENT UPON HIS WORK, an art student with steady hand carves on a linoleum block. Rebels pass winter with dramas, Language Week With a few experimental forays, spring once again began coy preparations for her entrance. After weeks of chilly mornings, Rebels would awake to find dew xe- placing frost on the grass. They alternated sweaters with winter coats in their efforts to combat the muta- ble weather. DSF thespians resumed their drama activities as the Night of One - Act Plays approached. When the red curtains parted and the plays began, actors treated audi- ence to a variety of moods—the wistful poignancy cf A White Butterfly, the comic strangeness of Joey, the tragic tenderness of Romeo and Juliet. Hardly pausing for breath, energetic students fol- lowed the plays with Language Emphasis Week. To acquaint fellow Rebels with the customs and languages of other countries, members of language clubs decorated hall cases with displays, and they prepared European delicacies for after-school bake sales. At assembly pro- grams, Freemanites who studied Spanish, French, or Latin invited an interested audience to join the singing of songs in unfamiliar tongues; German students taught conversation in their skit showing the troubles of an ¢nglish-speaking student abroad. Classes continued at their normal pace since students had not yet caught spring fever. Seniors, however, were suffering from another equally wide-spread ail- ment, “‘senioritis.”” While exasperated teachers strug- gled to cope with this, their charges continued to dream of picnics and graduation.

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Juniors and SCA conduct universal talent quest THE HI-Y’S “JIVIN’ JAVA MEN” LIVEN UP TALENT.-STUNT NIGHT WITH THEIR SLAPSTICK MUSICAL ANTICS. A SYMPATHETIC FAIRY GODMOTHER (Cherry Wolstenholme) promises Cinderella (Ann Lyon) that she may attend-the ball. The whir of lawnmowers and a scent of wild onions drifting through open windows heralded the arrival of spring. Revels intermixed lethargy with restless energy as they sat in classrooms and watched sun and shadow making patterns on the lawn. Dreamily listening to birds sing, they often found themselves starting and stammering at a question posed by an instructor. Juniors and SCA workers directed a part of their energy to their joint production, Talent-Stunt Night, set against a background of “Heavenly Stars.” After an astronaut, searching for talent, entered outer space, a parade of entertaining Rebels crossed the stage. The fairy tale “Cinderella,” somewhat altered, came to life; cavemen pounded on logs and rocks; dancers and singers performed. When the procession ended, judges made their decision and awarded prizes to the Hi-Y and in- dividual acts of folk singer Dave Jones and the Preps, a jazz instrumental group. Athletes involved in spring sports began to stay after school as teams initiated their practice season. Voices echoed from the front parking lot to the football grid- iron, both temporarily occupied by the track team. Joming the other groups of Rebels, cindermen did lim- bering-up exercises and ran time trials. Throughout the school a new sense of urgency be- came apparent. The late rush of term papers, parallel reading, and book reports was beginning. Year’s end was almost in sight.