Adlai Stevenson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Livonia, MI)

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Service projects like making Christmas stockings for and Vice-President Cherie Amos were among those needy children in the inner-city were important new who finished off the worthwhile project by filling each undertakings for the GAA. Secretary Sally Hutchison stocking with candy. V K Leaping her way to the basket and two points for the Spar- tans, Barb Bosley exemplified the determination and will- power of by girls on the GAA sponsored basketball team. 4 New Members for GAA Gained b Extra Effort Me, join GAA? Gosh, I'm about as co-ordinated as a . . . Even if a girl had no talent for dribbling a basketball or learning to dance, she was still welcome in Stevenson,s Girls Athletic Association. Although the major emphasis remained on sports, the girls participated in activities that took them out of the gym. At Christmas time they made stockings for needy children in the inner-city. They also sponsored a can drive. For the girls themselves a pot luck dinner was held and at the end of the year they took a camping trip. While doing all this the club man- aged to maintain its high level basketball, speed swim- ming and synchronized swimming teams and its modern dance club. In view of all this, it was not too hard for anyone to understand why GAA gained more and more new members all the time. GAA 81

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X Work, Pla Go Hand in Hand for Varsity lub Boys were pushing pennies down the hall with their noses, singing Mary Had a Little Lambn in the lunch- room, doing duck walks in their homerooms and even holding hands! All this might have seemed very strange to an outsider, but Stevenson students took it in stride. They knew it was only the Varsity Club initiating their new members. The Varsity Club believed in having a good time, but they also believed in hard work. Club members worked toward the purchase of conference pennants for the gym and a video-tape machine for the school by selling pop- corn and sponsoring the Harlem Diplomat game. Selling popcorn was found to be quite a bit different than athletics to Varsity Club members Dave Stipe, Tom Pedersen and secretary-treasurer Doug Kurtis. K X se . . , . -fx 975 7 tis: I e gg-ggggif mf-X- ss is-Ei? ' t. . After gloriously earning their letters in various sports, pros- pective members were brouglzt down to the floor to push pennies with their noses for Varsity Club initiation. - 1 Action-packed and fun-filled, the Harlem Diplomat Game, spon- sored by the Varsity Club provided a great evening of entertain- ment for' all Stevensonites who attended. 2. K 80 Varsity Club If

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Wondering how to work the enlarger, Mary Culik con- With the last step almost out of the way, senior Mark Johnson centrated on adjusting her negatives in the darkroom. took his picture out of the dryer. Photo raphers See World Through 'Extral Eye Flash! went the cameras as imaginative students used numerous talents in the photography club. Meeting after school with the sponsors, Mr. Dennis Sparks and Mr. Charles Stern, the club often engaged in Held trips to broaden their views through the eye of a camera. Field trips were not the only activities of the photo- graphers. Photography techniques had to be learned, and in order to insure a fairness to all of the photographers, the club was split into two groups. One was for experi- enced photographers, and the other was for beginners. The darkroom was often invaded at night by the club, when the photographers were eager to develop their pic- tures. All the students who joined the club welcomed the opportunity to learn new skills in their artistic trade. Hoping for the best, Alice McCaHrey carefully lifted her hrs! picture out of the solution tray. 82 Photography Club -F a -ir WW, 'fl