Wabash High School - Sycamore Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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▲ Tight grip, Ron Spencer hangs on tight to tne rope as it pulls him to the top of the hill. ▲ Desolate, night falls and the slope seems to be forlorn. 7 S SteuCettU -4 16 Ski Club

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' Ouch! screams Duke when Margaret gets ven for her new nickname — Hot Lips . • Relaxation— Mash styJeJ Lieutenant Phflhp Debbie Kime) and Trapper John (Mark Ireland) vist and whirl during some spare time away from le operating room. ; 4 sP- I a »- U gh! Captain Frank Burns Private Boone yells, Colonel Blake! It ' s When they finally let her out, she look- shrieks as he lets the dead section eight time! Burns, looking like a ed a little weary, but she was a good I ' ll get you for this, Hawkeye! You and For- est, you ' re in this together! This time ou ' ve gone too far! ' Private Boone, lieutenant Phillips, and Father lulcahy race into Burns ' tent to see ifhat all the excitement is about. Open bat and tell me what you see. demands turns, pointing to his foot locker. Father lulcahy peers in. Well, what do you hink of that? asks Burns. I think you 1 J I «.T ' - I button missing off your Ike jacket, ephes Mulcahy. Burns becomes frantic IS he reaUzes the dead cat is gone. He lives into the foot locker and tosses out hirts and socks galore. Finally, ex- lausted. Burns coflapses to the floor, :rying, Somebody stole my cat. cat, and plops his thumb in his mouth. Audiences laughed as they watched the multitude of funny scenes in Mash. However, some funny scenes were only observed by cast and crew members. Like the comic characters they played in the show, the cast members of Mash were michievious and witty in their own right. An exam- Ele of this was when one actor stuffed alloons (which were supposed to be caused a fellow actor to crack up with laughter. They started the scene over at least five times before things settled down. Another time, several boys shov- ed furniture up against the bathroom door. No, they weren ' t making room for the scenery. Miss Geible was inside. Despite the crazy atmosphere of rehearsals, the cast did work at learning personalities for their characters. Their end goal was to convey a message to the audience. Mash is not merely a play about war. It tells about the valiant ef- forts of doctors and nurses of the 407th to find humor in their daily lives. Without this optimistic outlook on hfe, they would have been overcome by the horror of seeing young men die, and roundings. The cast, whose backstage antics equalled (maybe even topped) the onstage antics of the Mash unit, cer- tainly had no problems getting their message across. Fall Play 15

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t ' s 2:34. Most people are waiting anx- iously to get out of school, but you feel indifferent. You ' re going skiing for the first time and you aren ' t sure you ' re ready. You ' re thinking to yourself, Can I actually stand on the top of a moun- tain with boards strapped to my feet and go down the slope without falling, break- ing my leg, hitting the lodge, or skiing right off a cliff. You ' re so worried that you jump when the bell rings. You stroll towards the Idus. Your friends try to comfort you by saying You ' ll do great. These are some of the feelings experienced by first-time skiers. One of the newly formed clubs at WHS this year was the ski Club, sponsored by C. J. Yocum and Jeff Goris. This club provided a break from the winter blues by giving students a chance to try a new winter activity. ' The club, approximately twenty- five inexperienced skiers, took weekly treks to Mt. Wawasee, ten miles north of Warsaw, to ski for the modest price of $10.00. The students boarded the bus on Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. and returned bruised, and strained, but not broken at 9:30. Winter scene. A yearbook photographer captured this shot at the Wabash City Park during winter vacation. Goofing off! Mary Schetszle and Doug Middleton take a break from skiing. Airborne. Evan Beauchamp eyes a soft landing for his jump. Novice skiers learn fast and are amusing to watch. The novice must first learn how to put on the skiies. This usually takes as long as it takes to find a kind-hearted, experienced skier to help. Once the skiies are on, the beginner journeys to the rope tow. This journey is monotonous because all the progress one makes is lost by sliding back down the hill. Eventually the skier reaches the rope tow, looking forward to that easy trip up the moun- tain, but he finds out it is also difficult to grab onto a fast moving rope while keeping the skiies straight and the balance right. The top of the incline is the easy part: it ' s downhill all the way. By this time the beginner is ready to lean back for that easy down hill slide, and it is easy until he has to stop. There are many techniques to stopping. First, there is the bowling method: this is when the skier aims himself at the towline and hopes he will be stopped by a line of people. Second, there is the Wall technique: this is when the skier uses the lodge to stop himself. Third is the tumble method: this is when the skier merely falls down, in- advertantly of course, and this certainly does stop him. However, after a few runs down the hill most skiers become professionals, Well, most tnat is except for the ones who can ' t handle it and end up in the lodge by the fire for most of the outing. Ski Club 17 ►