Elston High School - Elstonian Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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Spirited Students Back Devils ach year the week of the sectional is set I aside as Elston Spirit - Week. Each day is designated as a special dress-up day. Last year we had Clash Day, Masquerade Day, two Red and White Days, and City Slicker Day. The two most popular were Red and White Day and City Slicker Day. The kids rummaged through closets, trunks, and drawers trying to find clothes appropriate for the particular day. At the pep session a Mr. and Mrs. City Slicker were selected from three couples, one couple representing each class. Scott Blamey and Terri Wisser, Mr. and Mrs. Red and White, and Donna Mershon and Pat Wenzel, Mr. and Mrs. City Slicker, were the winners. Both couples were from the class of '77. To open the Spirit Week pep session, the players take a little ride. Scott Blarney and Terri Wisser put up a tough fight during Red and White Day and prove that Elstonts glorious colors look good no matter where you put them. Representing the Class of 77 , Donna Mershon and Pat Wonzol are the reigning Mr. and Mrs. City Slicker for 1976.

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Students Are Squoze After Squeeze Week 0, Elston's students are I not running around on half the sugar of regular homemade lemonade. In this case, Squoze refers to the way that students felt following 1976's Squeeze Week. Squeeze, which is an annual money-making drive for charity, was enormously successful this year as it totaled $4137.12. The senior class contributed $1471.85 which was the highest contribution from a class. Mr. Keene's homeroom took top honors as they turned in a total of $366.79. However, the biggest and most impressive effort of this year's Squeeze was Mr. Jones' special squeezins. On the last morning of Squeeze, Mr. Jones realizing that we were not going to reach our goal, extended homeroom for one final squeezing. With the $181.67 he brought the final total up and over the goal mark. Later that morning, a Squeeze assembly took place followed by another post-Squeeze tradition called the Class Olympics. Mr. Jones, biggest squeezer of all, watches Class Olympics with intentness and cue card in hand. Students battle for the winning points during the Class Olympics. The students pictured are playing Tug of War.

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Hams And Lambs ls Revived -Sort n the happy days of yore, Elston always had an annual talent show known as Hams in Lambsfi In the 1974-1975 school year, however, students managed successfully to display their incapability of following tradition; there were not enough entries to have a talent show. Fortunately, this year, students took advantage of the opportunity to exhibit their talents and bounced back with enough people to make the show possible. On May 14, 1976, in the Elston Junior High Auditorium, the Honor Society sponsored a talent show with a variety of talented performers. Helping to fill the evening with good cheer were the invincible team of Hans and Freitag. These two gifted performers posed in the daytime as intelligent Elston teachers. But at 3:30 pm. each day, they emerge from telephone booths as guitar strumming supermen. Stan Holdcraft, the popular Kojak Iook-alike of Elston High School, was the Master of Ceremonies. Mr. Holdcraft told jokes to pass the time between acts; some people are still debating whether the word jokes , properly applies to the oratories that he delivered. Everyone laughed at the time. Last but not least are the students. Folksingers, a country singer, and a couple of musical comedy lovers revealed their gifts in a way that pleased themselves perhaps more than the audience. In alhdue respeCt' maybe that IS One of the novelty acts - in fact, the only novelty act in the talent show was a couple of scenes hOW It ShOUId haVe been all along, from Cabaret . Matt Lau is pictured as he portrays the MC. because everyone involved had an enjoyable evening.