George Mason High School - Mustang Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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Season Marked by Bold Experimentation Jr. High Drama Club. From Left, Front Row: Mary Beth Betts, Jeff Nelson, Pam Millan. Second Row: Debbie Wood, Nancy Nicholas, Phyllis Donnelly. Back Row: Kitty Porter, Anne Peret, Erica Herfindahl, Kim Walker, Anna Earman, Kim Perry. Thespians recognized for excellence in dramatics are, From Left: Candy Siler, Rory McBroom, Barbara Mahaffey, Mary Oltman. Not pictured: Joe Driver, Laurie Bolster. JUDITH BAKER B.A., Oglethorpe. English. Seventh Grade Sponsor. Dra- matics. 19

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Dramatists Combine Experience, Ambition in Recognizable by their bleary eyes and wilted scripts, Drama Club members ranged from the Class of ' 69 on down. From Everyman to the Children ' s Play, the club showed that high- quality productions could be per- formed on low budgets. The clubs involved the entire school with Everyman ' s production in true house-that-Jack-built style. Art students designed sets for shop students to construct, to the cos- tumes that Home-Ecers stitched, for the cast to wear, to the origi- nal score that the band played. The result was lauded by the community. Late winter found Senior Drama actors at Madison in prep- aration of the Three One-Acts, while Junior Drama Clubbers ex- perimented with stage techniques. Efforts paid off as a bus load of eager members arrived at District Competition. CAROL HULL B.A., Hamline University. English. Speech Drama. Senior High Drama Club. From Left, Front Row: Betty Eckert, Donna Smith, Carol Gray, Gayle Waitzfelder, Karen Daniel, Sheila Jones, Susie Gendreau, Melanie Allan, Judy Wurz, Beth Mileson, Vicki Boyd. Second Row: Lisa Drummond, Anita Cerio, Peter Herrick, Suzanne Hollandsworth, Candy Siler, Chris Larson, Susan Mileson, Rory McBroom, Mary Oltman, Craig Medak, Barbara Mahaffey. Third Row: Alycon Pierce, Sandy Jones, Laura Avery, Janet Harding, Lyn Grove, Robin Segall, Carolyn Diehl, Carol Humphreys, Cindy Herfindahl, Susan McQuary, Tricia Kinney, Mary Karnis, Barbara Checknoff. Back Row: Jeff Strait, Keith Thackery, Robert Waring, Ted Bain, Laurie Hilliker, Pete Fredenburg, Linda Fernald. 18

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Five New Teachers Shape Department The curriculum of the Social Studies Department is second only to that of the English Department in its variety. Ranging from the old staples — U.S. and Va. Gov- ernment, Geography and U.S. and Va. History, it extends to a wide range of stimulating electives — Psychology, International Rela- tions, Social Problems, Civics and Economics. Sporting five new teachers, the Department employed new and unorthodox methods of in- struction; once the students be- came accustomed to them, things went smoothly. Co-ordinating current events with a thorough understanding of the past, the Social Studies De- partment helped us understand a complicated election year. CHARLES HAROLD M.A., Glasgow University. Chairman, Social Studies Dept., World History, World Geography. Soccer Coach. The excitement of the daily grind — class is over. CAROLYN HARDMAN B.A., M.A., University of Rochester. World History, Freshmar Class Sponsor. 20