Vaiden Whitley High School - Shield Yearbook (Wendell, NC)

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Preceding another talented performance, Emcee Landon Wilder amuses audience with a timely quip. White-cloaked bartender Robert Horton listens expectantly for Crazy Guggenheim Bill Hodge’s stammered greeting, “Hi ya, Joe.’’ To the vibrant strains of the guitar, Destiny’s “House of the Rising Sun.” Variety Show Awaiting the grand finale, Ruth Stalvey and Debbie Liner pause for a backstage snapshot. 14

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Ruling Seniors commmd frosfi oSedience, Red Baroness Helen Glover adeptly manipulates senior lunch trays. Exhibiting brotherly love. Senior Robert Horton playfully prods Freshman Ronnie Horton as he laboriously nose-rolls crushed paper down Whitley corridor. Senior Week again provided these elect upperclassmen vGth special privileges while lowly Freshmen feU victims to their varied demands. Made-up faces, unorthodox dress, and tedious tasks identified participants during this May week, sponsored by the Student Council. While Freshmen polished shoes, ran errands, carried books, fetched lunch trays, and performed special feats, the Seniors strolled the corridors attired as sportsmen, Indians, cowboys, hippies, or in their Sunday best. It was a week of senior sovereignty—freshman obedience. In observance of Cowboy and Indian Day, Senior Sharon Johnson masquerades as comely Indian Maiden. 13

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I . .. M Children sober their public with the woeful tale, Attractive faculty members, Mrs. Gray and Miss Thomas, model colorful show costumes. Throngs of spectators packed the school auditorium in May, 1969, to enjoy the most spirited happening of the year, the popular Variety Show. The four-night run, one night more than last year, drew an estimated fourteen hundred people. In an Aquarius setting, intensified by abstract lighting, Landon Wilder emceed a masterful display of student and faculty talent. The audience was charmed by the Thirteenth Dimension’s vocal blends, the spriglitly dancers’ soft-shoe jazz, the bhthe comedians’ Crazy Guggenheim acts, the bubble gum and soul singers’ melodious trills, and the Marijuana Brass’ throbbing beats. The Music Depart¬ ment’s two-hour spectacular entertained young and old ahke. enifiralls audience for four evenings. Senior Andrew Broadie reveals his phenomenal talent a.s he soul fully sings “Poke Salad Annie.” Talented Linda O’Neal captivates audience with resonant sounds of “Baby, 1 Like What You’re Doing to Me.” 15