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

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Teachers got into the act as Mr. Hans and Mr. Freitag strummed and David Hawthorne does his rendition of Norwegian Wood'C sang. Kelly Flint and Pegy Kunkel combined to sing some of their favorite folk songs. Pictured is Peggy Kunkel as she does amazing justice to a Joni Mitchell tune.

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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.

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hat do wrestling, Homecoming, music, and gymnasts, all have in common? These were the subjects for Elston High School's student assemblies. Sometimes the stars of the show were guests and other times they were our very own talented people. At the Christmas Assembly the music department helped to deck the halls of Elston with a special kind of joy. And Elston Shows Contain A Homecoming wouldn't have been Homecoming without those gifted girls that were candidates for the crown. Our wrestling team also proved successful as they won their match at our first Wrestling Assembly. This assembly made many of Elston's people aware of the excitement involved in wrestling. The visiting gymnasts provided fun, knowledge, and excitement as they performed various stunts on the trampoline. A group of High School Mr. Timberlake tackles gymnasium acoustics. Juniors and Seniors from DeKalb County made up The Conglomoration who danced and sang for us. The point is, if there were so many Elston students willing to show their talent then there must have been more sitting up in the stands wishing they could perform in exactly the same way. Come on wasn't your laugh merely an indication of how much fun you had at last year's assemblies? Too bad some people had to miss them.