John A Johnson High School - Maroon Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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merican teamwork spirit is also applied to the group artistry of performance. A Choir sings at assemblies and operettas and sweetens times of reflection and change with 5Oc chocolate fund- raising candy bars. Sitting on fake leopard skin pillows, the class play cast mimics the stuffiness of adult life. Amall welds the luxury of harmony and myth. Silk turbans, peasant rags, and a human flamingo on crutches overcome sentiment to a refined production of a children's opera. Mouthing a play dialogue or lyric can fill a mold of com- munication to compensate a void of one's own. 1 I i l

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. . .And you don't have to sit in alphabetical order. ACTIVITIES gray pop machine operates to quench the thirst of homecoming dance arrivals. Clusters ot vested, turtle- necked, and striped tied boys gather around the decrepit tag board price sign. Heads appear in scattered attention, dispersed from lecture rooms into individual social contacts. Like teenage refreshment of pop, pizza, products of Mac's or Vic's, school activities break the monotony ot the classroom. Students become one in an activity common to each other besides textbooks, report cords and operate in atime for change and reflection unguided and unordered. A tield trip, ci Guthrie play, the class trip, tournoment climaxes, home- coming coronation, and prom lighten atmosphere with planning and anticipation. Decorations may be strips of crepe paper put up with Scotch tape and the band unphenomenal, but the group is well-known and friendly and you don't have to sit in alphabetical order.