Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Inquirinq Minds iVdnt To Know For the second year in a row Seaholm participated in the high school Quiz Bowl. The quiz bowl is an almost game show- like competition and as Mrs. Marian McLeod put it, The way it ' s set up and the type of questioiis asked is similar to the game show ' Jeopardy ' . It ' s an academic competition in which a four man team goes head-to- head against another four man team. This year, Seaholm ' s team lost to Mary Star of the Sea, from Grosse Pointe, which put an early end to their second season. Another cable TV game Mike Albrecht, the captain of the Mind Your Language championship team, including Lynne Sherwood and Josh Calomeni. calmy waits to go on the air. by E, Sard and D. Quinn show-type endeavor was instigat- ed this year by English teachers Marjorie Taylor and Henry Malo- ney. Mind Your Language was entirely intramural, and the events were specifically English- related, as opposed to the varying topics of Quiz Bowl. The events included spelling, grammar, and word usage com- petitions, as well as completing a limeric. Captains of the three-man teams were all seniors who scored high on a short quiz distributed in the Spring of 1985. Captains then chose a junior and a sophomore as teammates and competed in a single elimination tournament of 11 teams. The eight regular season episodes were aired on BPS followed by two playoff rounds. Favorite Actor 1. Michael J. Fox 2. Rob Lowe 3. Clint Eastwood 4. Robert Redford 5. Bruce Willis 6. Sean Penn Harrison Ford Going for the Gold Last year Seaholmwon the national title for the Science Olympiad. They ' ve got the abili- ty to win if everybody lives up to their potential said the organizer of the current team, Mr. Jim Bedor. Our toughest competi- tion is Troy High School, they were runner-up last year. The competition is run a lot like a real Olympics. There are twenty-one events at regionals, held at Oak- land Community College and twenty-four events at states, held at Michigan State University. Events vary from orienteering and pentathalon to indoor events by D. Quinn like science bowl. They also have technique events like quantatative analysis, laser shoot and name that organ- ism. The competition is fairly tough; out of eighteen teams, only four get to go to states. The team has 15 spots and there are 17 people trying out for them. Bedor added. This year ' s team was made up of mainly juniors and seniors, and hopefully we ' ll always do as well as we did last year (which was the first year of competi- tion). Matt Klimesh, Jim Stephen. Linda Cadar- et, Ramsey Alsarraf. Gayle Kirby, Dave Williams, David Pierce, Simon Tomkinson. Yuko Maeda, John Tholen, Amy Zan- gerle, John Marshall, Tim Carroll, Andy Song, Jim Bedor. photo by P Donar Moving Right Along This year ' s Loren B. Fischer Memorial speaker was Elizabeth Dole, the secretary of transporta- tion. Secretary Dole came to Seaholm mainly to speak about what the transportation depart- Elizabeth Dole accepts her authentic Seaholm hat from Ramsey Alsarraf and Randy Winograd at the conclusion of her speech on February 28. by D. Quinn mcnt does. Some of the prob- lems they ' re confronting are: different drinking ages in differ- ent states, seat belt laws, drunk driving laws and airway safety. I liked it (the assembly) be- cause it was different to get to hear a woman of such high position speak. said senior Chuck Stern. OVERACHIEVERS 29

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OVERACHIEVERS Scholars iVin Scholarships Based upon their performance on the PSAT test, twelve Seaholm seniors were selected as National Merit Semifinalists during the fall of 1985. These students then were allowed to apply for nomina- tion as National Merit Finalists, determined by the students ' grades, extra-curricular activities, and community involvement. Nine students were selected as finalists: Michael Albrecht, Ken Alexander, Sue Davis, Matt Kli- mesh, Yuko Maeda, Dan Muir, Beth Snider, Andy Song and Amy by Michael Albrecht Zalman. These finalists were eligible along with some 13,500 finalists across the country for one of 1,800 National Merit $2000 Scholarships, funded by grants from business and indus- trial sponsors. Another 4,000 scholarships are offered to finalists who meet specific re- quirements of certain corpora- tions, colleges and universities. FRONT ROW: Lisa Ament, Yuko Maeda. Amy Zalman. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Baldridge. Eric Fernando. Matt Hogben. Burt Engel, Dan Muir, Matt Klimesh. Ken Alexander. Pre-Publications Preparation In hopes of supplementing their already impressive journalistic talents, two groups of Seaholm students spent a week of their summer vacation at a workshop at Ball State University in Indiana. Yearbookers Kathy Young. Kristin Fitzpa- trick, Katy Andreae, Paul Mylod, Clau- dette Rowley, Liz Krebs. Libbie Wilson, Elissa Sard, Stacey Springer, Doug Engle. by S- Springer Members of both the Highland- er and Piper staffs spent their time organizing the student newspaper and the yearbook for the coming school year. Although the trip isn ' t listed in the top ten dream vacations, the week long workshop proved to be worthwhile, if not mildy entertaining. Favorite Actress 1. Meryl Streep 2. Molly Ringwald 3. Kathleen Turner 4. Katharine Hepburn 5. Cybil Shepard 6. Glenn Close Ally Sheedy Jolly Good Journalists n The frustrations, the late hours, the pressures of dead- lines. Is publications work really worth it? To most members of the Highlander and Piper staffs, the rewards are plentiful. For those staff members who have done superior work in publications, such as writing, editing, management or pro- duction, and are in the upper third of their class in general scholastic standing, a special reward awaits them. It is accep- tance to Quill and Scroll, an international honorary society for high school journalists. Nominees of Quill and Scroll were Mike Albrecht, Lynne Sher- wood and Linda Cadaret from the Highlander and Katy Andreae, Heather Burch, Paul Donar, Kris- tin Fitzpatrick, Liz Krebs, Kathy Morgan, Elissa Sard and Stacey Springer from the Piper. Andy Jordan and Claudette Rowley, from the Highlander, were induc- ted last year. 1 986 Quill and Scroll Nominees. FRONT ROW: Kathy Morgan. Paul Mylod. Lynne Sherwood. SECOND ROW: Uz Krebs, Elissa Sard. Heather Burch. THIRD ROW: Mike Albrecht. Linda Cadaret. Stacey Springer. Katy Andreae, Kristin Fitzpat- rick. photo by Paul Newton 28 STUDENT LIFE

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FIDDLIN G AROUND Music to the Fiddler ' s Ears The members of the pit orchestra for this year ' s produc- tion of Fiddler On The Roof worked hard just like the cast and the stage crew. Members were chosen by Mr. Tom Course, for being the best in their section. In all, there were approximately twenty mem- FRONT ROW Ben Hufford. Jeff Turc- zyn. Simon Tomkinson. Scott Shober. Bill Solomonson. John Hill SECOND ROW Alice Lenaghan. Beth Szuhay. Liisa Laakko Alisa Troelsen. Megan Markee Bob Bird. THIRD ROW Gayle Kirby, Licia Carlson, Kate O ' Brien. Linda Cadaret by Sarah York bers who practiced four or five times per week before the play. Ben Hufford, an oboe player, enjoyed his job playing in the orchestra. It was really fun playing, because we were able to go to all of the performances, and we felt that we were actually a major part of the play production. It was a good experience for me, he said. The orchestra members real- ized that through hours of practice they helped make the play the hit it was. Let There Be Light Lights, camera, ACTION! The opening, the singing, the dancing, and the finale. But where does all of the atmo- sphere, the special effects come from? It is not the camera or the action, but the lights. Lighting and sound is a major part in a musical production. The lighting sets the mood of the scene, it picks out the main characters, and empha- by Karen Reynolds sizes the distances and depth of the set, explained lighting crew head Mike Winters. There are 109 different lights, and many months go into learning how to operate them. The four crew members dedicated 8 hours a day to enlightening the production. Jim Peters. Karl Hochkammer, Steve Kopcha. and crew head Mike Winters all agree on this general consesus: Lighting crew is where the fun is. Smell of the Grease Paint Working on Make Up Crew really helped me build stronger relationships with the cast. You can ' t help but get close to a guy when you ' re concentrating on keeping his lipstick on straight, senior Stacey Spr inger said of her experience on the make-up crew. Members of the group signed up in February and in March and were taught the how-to ' s by Larisa Charla, Amy Bowen, and Student Director and makeup crew co- head Dan Jackson skillfully applies stage nakeup. Jackson also was in charge of making the beards for the play. by S. York and S. Springer Dan Jackson, chairpersons. Each person was assigned to different members of the cast, for whom they were responsible for the entire run of the play. Always fifteen minutes behind schedule, the make-up crew worked through the sweltering heat of the make-up room, fighting for the last eyeliner to get the stars of the show done before the curtain rose. FRONT ROW: Keri Mangiapane. Sta- cev Springer. Gail Rose. Karen Gun- ther. SECONDROWJJ Wentz. Patty Kowalski, Carrie Page. Amy Bowen pholo by Doug Engle 30 STUDENT LIFE