East Henderson High School - Highlander Yearbook (Flat Rock, NC)

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ig Air : Teacher Kathy Jones and ‘Pet’ David Jenkins. Being a Freshman is perhaps the most difficult task for a high school student. Planning our own class day te i) 1961 was a new and challenging experience. Marie S G h O O | D ad y S Morrow’s school room had little discipline, especially with her two intellectuals, Paul Levi and Eddie Lindsey. Remember “Dangerous Dan” Figart who eliminates “Evil Elley’” DeLozier? “Hot Rod” Haseltine called the plays at the faculty-freshman basketball game. Freshman Day, a total success, set the pace for the following classes. Thirteen freshmen eagle star s. Freshmen entertain school with comic skits. The model classrooml

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Mrs. Davis reveals an intimate knowledge of bug life. The sophomores went one better than our govern- ment’s scientists and turned back the sands of time. The gay twenties were here again. With flappers, gangsters, and prohibition they lived it up for an hour in the famous speakeasy, “Blue Moon.” Headlining the star-studded floor show was Mrs. Davis, 9th grade English teacher, who taught us all about the educated bugs. In rapid succession came Dennis Kronenfeld as the worried father and Billy McClure and Bert King as two good-for-nothing fish- ermen. As a grand finale the customers were treated to a gay-twenties French chorus line. As the applause faded all agreed that the venture into time travel had been highly successful. “He were dat long.” The Thinker “Roaring Twenties’ Three flappers do the Charleston—the twist of the twenties Jan and Richard combine talents for “Some Enchanted Evening.”

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How to enjoy French auisine. East High Goes Gay Paree! The place—the East Henderson High gym. The theme—April in Paris. The event—the first Junior-Sen- ior banquet held in the new school. Entertained by song and dance, wined and dined with food from a French menu, the Juniors and Seniors took a night off away from the cares and worries of school life to enjoy a soiree in French atmosphere. Imported straight from Paris for the occasion was an original French chorus line (sophomores to you and A young Frenchman’s dreaml me); four young madmoiselles singing a French song; and three burly messieus, French too we think, who sang ‘Froggy” (with a French accent, of course). The at mosphere was further enhanced by the lovely decora- tions and silhouette of the Eiffel Tower. Combined with an informal speech by Mr. Tom Cassi- dy and a delicious dinner, the evening flowed smoothly along. French (????)