Myers Park High School - Mustang Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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January, Leaving Ninety Days to Go The New Year of 1969 begins with Myers Park gaining additional hon¬ ors to its long list of accomplish¬ ments. On January 5, the Marching Band returned from their two day stand at the Orange Bowl festivities. The band appeared in the three mile Orange Bowl Parade and was the featured band at the Fireworks Fes¬ tivities on Friday the third. After four months of practicing guiding right and watching their parallels, the band members more than wel¬ comed the Miami vacation and the opportunity to show off their talents. January also brings us news of our Morehead finalist. Dicky Corbett was selected to receive this esteemed Senior A Senior girl’s spirit shirt spreads enthusiasm on Mustang Spirit Day. scholarship after a series of inter¬ views and an examination of his school record. Exams are a major part of a high school student’s life. At the end of eighteen weeks, an exam is given in each academic subject. Authors, equa¬ tions, dates, irregular verbs, and ex¬ periments all add to the anxiety of last minute cramming. Finally, the exams are completed and report cards loom in the near future. The Mid-Winter Dance comes appro¬ priately after exams and before re¬ port cards. The dance was punctuated with glittering stars, a frozen pond, and a blazing fire, setting the perfect mood for a winter’s evening. A strong warning against drugs is issued by Mr. Henderson, a prominent Charlotte lawyer. An aerial photographer catches the Myers Park Marching Band in the act of pacing out three and a half miles of downtown Miami boulevards for the Orange Bowl Parade. Gerald Colbert exercises his senior privilege to relax in the Student Lounge during his lunch period. Lunch time provides a needed opportunity for senior girls to relax, eat, and gossip. 27

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Jane Coone and Jon Thompson deliver an Students flock to the library to finish homework, to grab last minute information for a test, original drama to be rated by their history and to merely avoid the cold weather. class. Bill Marsh and Ivey Stewart lend their “talents” to the Key Club cheering section in the annual student-faculty game. Student monitors hold a constant vigil during the lunch hours. Winter months leave their mark on the Myers Park campus in the form of grey skies, barren grounds, mud holes, and bare trees. Dorothy Wood concentrates on push-buttons and programming for her first semester computer exam. 26

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The Myers Park choir anticipates the coming snow holidays in their winter concert. Each singer donned winter costumes for the presentation of such “snow songs ’ as “Jingle Bells and “White Christmas.” A slow down of the Mustang machin¬ ery occurs in the second month of 1969. The annual third quarter slump has settled like a cold in the chest of the student body. Teachers and stu¬ dents alike use this time to get a fresh start after the end of first se¬ mester. For a short while, Myers Park is void of any service projects, assemblies, or presentations. One nationally recognized holiday, however, does affect Myers Park — Valentine’s Day. School sweethearts present each other with candy, cards, and small presents. One of the school’s clubs, Hi-Y, cashes in on this “love day” by selling singing valentines during the lunch periods. Immediately following Valentine’s Day, the student’s dream is answer¬ ed—Snow! At last our campus is buried under a soft blanket of white fluff, and enough of it to close school Flurries Finally The Fashion Merchandising showcase invites all who Decorations for the Mid-Winter Dance are avidly taped to the ceiling pass to place their future in a Fashion Merchandising by industrious Dance Committee members hours before the dance is career. scheduled to begin. A solitary bush gives the general c ampus feeling during a snow holiday — beautiful, yet cold and alone. 28