Alief Elsik High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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 forget the show on stage, we have our own show up here! — ginger burkholder and neil starks practicing her speech, jennifer bray addresses her hand and ignores mike snyder oops, that's not my cue! — exclaims tracy ray to angie armstrong “believe it or not, finger exercises improve our acting. susan shieh and debbie pierce 1 04 the actors and speakers have i got a girl for you! dale peterson and mike robinson

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a family portrait, left to right — ginger burkholder, april youngblood, tracy ray, and angie armstrong. and my show-and-tell project for today is ... debbie pierce a new ad for the armed forces?? it must be her perfume. getting help from mrs. starnes, brett shine prepares his speech. “the final reward.. . together, we did this ginni leathers the actors and speakers 103

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1st row I to r: Jennifer bray, pari.; ginger burkholder, v. pres.; colleen conroy, pres.; neil starks, sec.; pat cherry, treas.; paula black, publ. relations. 2nd row: frank futrel. laura wilson, heather chunn, kathleen brewer, judy Shaffer, lujean kreisner, donita holt, lisa lyon, april youngblood, renee bates, 3rd row: ms. leathers, sponsor; jeanne gendron, nina sinha, Shirley dipasupil, michele engelman. helen chang, shessy thomas, brena bowman, wilda stuart, sherry follis. 4th row: mike peat, tracy ray. sally dipasupil, ui choe, debbie pierce, angie armstrong, cathy simms, rosana lin, sandra mcgarry. 5th row: leah mccoy, gib gibson, leesa moreland, dana rogers, debbie wiener, mark bias, brett shine, glen brewer, wayne longoria, mike snyder, susan shieh, john shieh. chad ladner, sam doolittle eyes gleaming with dreams of stardom, mark bias relaxes with fellow thespians tina leicht, ms. mcclure, debbie wiener, mike peat, and debbie pierce. no, tracy, that's not how you make hot tea! — ginger burkholder and tracy ray no, you may not pick my teeth with that backscratcher!” — angie armstrong and april youngblood this was the first year for the combined elsik speech and drama club, the purpose of uniting the two clubs was to encourage the advancement of the performing arts at elsik. this was first achieved by the produc- tion of the musical “godspell.'’ it brought together the dramatic and musical depart- ments of elsik in a very successful perform- ance. many speech tournaments were attended in the 79-80 school year, awards were won at most of the competitions, the u.i.l. one-act play, the effect of gamma rays ..by paul zindel was also very suc- cessful. by the beginning of april, the play had won district and was on its way to area, previously at zone the cast received all- star cast and tracy ray won best actress.” it proved to be a very successful year for the elsik’s speech and drama club. the actors and speakers 105