Estes Park High School - Whispering Pine Yearbook (Estes Park, CO)

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GET DOWN. Exuberant dancers Heidi Bigler and Rich Slizeski (left) boogie to the beat at the Christmas Morp. sponsored by StuCo. BLISSFUL MOMENT A slow dance offers Rodney Rudel and Karen Dcrmody (below) a respite from the feverish disco pace at Morp. Dances assist in fund-raising Ever-popular as fund-raisers, dances were again numerous. As clubs and classes ran low on cold cash, a dance was usually scheduled. National Honor Society opened the year with a Halloween costume disco dance on Nov. 3. Sedate students paid a regular entrance fee. while the more enterprising wore costumes to get in at half price. Costumes ranged from monster masks to hula skirts and togas. First and second prizes went to Doug Smith as General Douglas MacArth-ur. and to Liz Stanley as Betsy Ross. Another disco dance. Morp was sponsored by Student Council on Dec. 1. Music and lights were provided by Q-2, a Denver-based computerized light show. Morp. an annual event, is prom spelled backwards, and allows girls to treat their dates to dinner and a semi-formal dance. Student Council again sponsored a dance on Feb. 12. Following ski day, a dance was held in the student center. Once again. Q-2 provided music and lights. Two dances held in March rounded out the pre-prom slate. Spanish Club hosted a dance on March 1 to raise funds for its summer trip to Mexico. The Senior Class’ March 29 dance, to raise money for color portraits in the yearbook, was the final minor dance. Dances 23 DANCE CLASS. History Teacher Dave Martin instructs Carolyn Backstrum in the nroper technique of couples dancing at Morp.

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»»4 PARDON MY MANNERS. An embarassed Terri Carney (right) attempts to recover her dignity at the NHS-sponsored Halloween dance. ODD COUPLE. Cleverly disguised as Frankenstein and his father. Alan Nugent and Mindy Smith (below) relax at the costume dance. ROUND YOUR PARTNER. With a do-si-do. Jim Dickinson and Angie Coalc (above) do a modern-day version of the All-American square dance at Morp. HOME ON THE RANGE. Cowgirl and cowboy Anita Moore and Mark Pallissard (right) find togetherness in the student center during the Halloween costume dance. 22 Dances

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‘Fair Lady’ stars in spring musical The select choir, under the direction of Mrs. Claudia Irwin, presented Lerner and Loewe’s musical, “My Fair Lady,” April 11-12. Over the past two years, the choir’s annual spring musicals have steadily improved. “My Fair Lady” clearly displayed the best effort and talent yet. The musical concerns British dialectician Henry Higgins (Dave Kemmer) and the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Sandy Van-Camp) . His friend Colonel Pickering (Rich Slizeski) bets that Higgins can’t make a proper English-speaking lady of her and pass her off at a ball in six months. Higgins can’t refuse such a challenge and so he takes the girl in. The lessons prove to be difficult and trying for both Eliza and Higgins, but finally Eliza is ready to pass the test. And she does so with flying colors. Now she faces a problem: what to do with her life. She can’t go back to her old way of life, and yet she doesn’t wish to marry or work in a flower shop. Eliza leaves Higgins, and during this time they realize how much they need each other. She returns to Higgins, in the final scene, content to continue the relationship as it is. The choir members sang and acted exceptionally well. There were some unavoidable problems, such as long set changes, the small size of the choir and the length of the play. Credit should also go to Larry Tyson as Eliza’s father, Alfred P. Doolittle, and to Ann Houtz as Higgins’ mother. ONLY THE NOSE KNOWS. Colonel Pickering (Rich Slizeski) defends Eliza (Sandy VanCamp) against a brutal onslaught from Higgins during rehearsel. 24 My Fair Lady NO! Eliza (Sandy VanCamp. above) refuses to be mistreated any longer by Higgins, while Mrs. Pierce (Paula Pochop) stands by. LADY FRIEND. Eliza (Sandy VanCamp) persuades Higgins (Dave Kemmer) to take her in.