Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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continued, the field got muddy. The bleachers got wet. 5:00 approached, the time that Oktoberfest was to begin, and the rain continued, abating only to a dull drizzle from time to time. Despite the foul weather, Oktoberfest managed to be a success as had been expected. At least 100 revelers appeared between five and seven p.m. ready to dance, sing, drink and generally be merry. SGA even managed to rake in about 150 dollars in profit. As for the game, well ... the Navy never showed. Could a lit- tle wet have deterred them? The band, with their delicate in- struments, opted to spend the duration of the game in the gym with the Drill Team, leaving the drumming up of pep and spirit to the slicker clad spectators freezing in the stands. Both groups emerged at the half, however, and the mid-game show proceeded oblivious to the rain. The band and jazz lab played their pieces, the drill team dazzled the devoted crowd, and the Homecoming attendants chosen the previous week filed over the muck in as regal a manner as they could manage, led by principal Steve Kurds and SGA Chairperson Mary Gibson. The balloons were sent up as scheduled, though they became entangled in the power lines, dabbing a bit of color and spirit over the York- town section. The Patriots trailed the O'Con- nell Knights throughout Ihe second half by four points; the final score was O'Connell 7, Yorktown 3. After the game, the diminished crowd splashed its way through puddles and mud out of the stadium, some dreaming of electric blankets and roaring fires, others hoping the Homecoming Dance the next night would surpass the game. Homecoming Game 9

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When the Lights Go Down In the City .. Saturday, October 24, Home- the attendants enter arm in arm, coming ... a night filled with each girl bearing a single red fantasy and fun. A night when rose. Then the Homecoming the cafeteria is transformed into Court is announced, Amy a glittering ballroom, the Main Dugovich escorted by John Hallway becomes M Street in McGovern, Kathleen Palmes Georgetown, your jeans are escorted by Henry Stewart, and swapped for formal wear, and this year's Homecoming King dinner is served in a swanky res- and Queen: Charles McLauch- tuarant instead of at Pizza Hut. tin and Kim Mosimanl The After dinner it's on to the crowd cheers and shouts their dance for three hours of whirling congradulations as Charles and twirling under the silver and Kim are led towards their spray-painted stars. thrones where Kim is immediatly The band Highway Friends crowned as Charles receives a plays in rhythm with the pulsat- royal ceptor. The ceremonious ing colored lights allowing you dance for the members of the to boogie to your heart's de- Homecoming Court begins, light. The entire evening whirls by in There is a sudden hush as a blur and before you know it, at people stop dancing and the stroke of eleven, the magic crowd together in front of the ends. The lights go on to illumi- Dlsco Crowdi 7 two empty velvet thrones resting note the dance floor which, alas, side by side on a raised plat- in reality is only the familiar red form. The Underclass attendants and gray tiles of the cafeteria. are Introduced ... For the The star-lit world of fantasy Freshman Class the attendants Georgetown may be trans- are Chris Hallet and Kristy formed back into cattered Grove, the Sophomore Class tables and Macke machines, are Steve Nicholakos and Dede but it's time to go out and top off Simmons, and the Junior Class the night in the real world be- attendants are Steve Herrlein cause for you, the night has just and DeeAnn Klassen. The begun ... WHEN THE LIGHTS crowd claps enthusiastically as GO DOWN IN THE CITY. Homecoming Dance 11