Garland High School - Owls Nest Yearbook (Garland, TX)

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Getting in the mood, Lee Blankenship portraying Madam Arcati, gets ready forthe seance. .9--ant After dinner, Ruth Condomine, played by Martha Caster, gives Edith, Stacy Bouska, orders to not disturb them for any reason. Before the seance, Ruth waits and waits for her husband Charles, Jim Rebstock, to give her a martini. 12 student life . . ,ts lift 4 Q sg TJ

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Closed for Labor Day The first Mondoy in September is known for its Sorry, closed for Lobor Doy signs. These signs ore the pro- duct of the effort put forth by the Knights of Lobor in 1882 to obtoin o Iegol holidoy for workers. It wos this lobor union thot olso recommended thot porodes be held in honor of this doy. ln, 1894 it become officiol, Lobor Doy wos pronounced o notionol holidoy. Among the list of those tok- ing the doy off, students ore ploced ot the top. After the confusion of the first week of school, the excitement ond frivolity of this three-doy festivol is well opprecioted. A porode ond the Joycee Jubilee, occented by cotton condy, cold drinks, rides, gomes, friends ond the Miss Gorlond Pogeont highlight this weekend. Trying to convince o timid spectotor in- to riding the Tilt-A-Whirl, Chris Shotwell describes how soothing to the nerves o spin oround the oir con be, , ,,,,, soma. , The hot Texas sun does not prevent Coptoin Kothy Sortin ond the Gold- jockets from showing their precision ondspirit, As the tradition commands. the Mor- ching Bond proudly ploys the fight song os they poss in front of GHS. In keeping with the principles set by the Knights of Lobor, Gorlond holds o porode which is one of the lorgest in Texos. The porode runs from Willioms Stodium through downtown to end up ot Centrol Pork, where floshing lights, whirling rides ond skillful gomes of chonce identify thejubilee, At this scene, more thon one noive schoolboy hos merrily spent his whole week's ollowonce. ln spite of the defloted pocketbook, the only regrets were, there wos not more money to spend. Though the roin did not dompen the spirits, it did couse o few chonges in plons. The finol night of the pogeont wos held indoors in the Gronger Gym with only relotives ollow- ed in due to the shortoge of spoce. Domp, but hoppy, the jubilee goers finished out Lobor Doy ond prepored to settle bock into their normol routine while eogerly owoiting Foir Doy, the next vocotion from school. .,.,.,l.. T lls, V tr Q, g m, ., ,,g, V M T A T Concentroting on the routine, senior Donny Thomos spins his rifle in time to the music. joycee jubilee 11

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Elvira sneaks up on Violet ond beorge Brodmon, ployed by Wendy Divine ond Bill Cross, who unsuspectingly joke obout the supernoturol. Is she bormy? Edith questions os she glonces ot Modom Arcoti, After weeks of toil, sweat. tears, Thespians present Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit' Crudl l got molse-up oil over my costume. Con you believe she soid thot? People, I don't lsnow my lines. l wish this ploy would hurry up ond get finished, so we con do UILH' Whoever thought putting on o show wos eosy, hos not worked with one. There were costumes to molse, sets to be built ond pointed, molse-up to opply, properties to locote ond set in ploce, lights to hong, focus ond odjust. Then those three thousond other little, unheord of toslss thot someone who hos never been boclsstoge before will never hove even given considerotion to. Thor wos very clumsy of you, Charles, Elviro, ployed by Chris Toylor, soys when she returns from the ofterlife. After the initiol cold-woter shock ond the thought of Gee, l'm octuolly going to be on stoge performing in front of o flesh ond blood oudiencef' wore off, the blithe cost members of Noel Coword's Blithe Spirit got their oct together ond finished seven weeks of exhousting, ond often frustroting, reheorsols by giving the performonces of their lives. The perenniolly populor ploy wos directed by Dione Leemon, the Theotre Deport- ment sponsor ond director. After four performonces in mid-November, one Cost member wos heord soying, l'm glod to be finished with the bump ond grind of 'Blithe Spirit,' but I con't woit for the next show, Con she foretell the future? Violet hopefully osks os Mr. Brodmon looks on. 'Blithe Spirit 18