Anoka High School - Anokan Yearbook (Anoka, MN)

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ABOVE LEFT: Unique lighting makes Hal- loween spirits come alive on a store front win- dow. ABOVE CENTER: A house painted by a Fred Moore Junior High student haunts its residents on Main Street. ABOVE: Pumpkins take on the characteristics of many objects, including this superstitious black cat. FAR LEFT: A bewitching trio, conjuring up a brew, add to Halloween festivities. MIDDLE: Hatching out of a pumpkin shell, Jill Pfoten- hauer's chick takes third place. LEFT: Alice in Wonderland provided an eight-dollar, first prize idea for senior, Debbie Reedstrom. l9

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Student Art Decorates Anoka, Halloween City As one of the first cities in the world to go trick or treating, Anoka bears the title, g'Halloween Capital of the World. Each year, students participate in a week of decorating and celebrating October 31. For the fifty-first anniversary of the title, AHS art students held a pumpkin sculpture contest. Judges l8 from AHS and around the district chose seven winners: Debbie Reed- strom, first placeg Marta Johnson, second placeg Jill Pfotenhauer and Joe Fern, tied for third, Magdeleine Mesure and Deb Herr, tied for fourth, and Kathy Payer, fifth place. HThey were displayed this year and there was better participation than last year. - Mr. Darwin Follrath Senior and junior high students alternate years in painting Windows of the town. One AHS student corn- mented on Fred Moore Junior High's Windows this year. 'They used their imaginations and made it feel like Halloween.

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At Some Time in Our Lives, We Are All Fiddlers on the Roof Hey, look out for that light! Anybody got a pin? Who wanted a pin? You there, come here and hold thisf, Who, me? - ok, I've got it. Hey, you're not with the play. Who are you? I'm with the yearbook this lighting system looks complicated. How did you learn it all? I worked the lights at Jack- son Junior High for their plays, and I've worked for the AV De- partment for three years. - Bruce VanValkenberg Do you make a lot of mistakes? Naw, the only thing we do wrong is lose our place in the book - that's funny, though. You can let go now, thanksf' Sure, oops, excuse me oh, Miss Westerberg, how's the scenery going? Tremendous We made sets from flats used for three or four years. Each student had a job and did it quickly and efficiently. I gave them a problem and they came up with a Cl After putting on makeup for a dress rehearsal, Mendel fDave Helfinstinel, Mordcha, the innkeeper fMike Houserl, Fyedka fScott Dan- ielsonl, Lazar Wolf, the butcher fMike Hir- schil, Perchik, the student lDaVid Jonesj, and Duvidel fTim Newtonl head for their places behind stage. 20 solution. - Miss Westerberg The credit given to the set crew is minimal because no one realizes how much is going on backstage. But no one backstage expects a lot of creditf' - Greg Reynolds, stage manager Curtain time, places everyone. You there, you're not with the play . . . 'Tm with the yearbook. You must be the student director. What, exact- ly, do you do? I set up the stage before prac- tices, prompt the cast, and help them learn their lines. And now, as part of my job, I must ask you to leave the backstage area. - Sheila Kraemer OK, thanks . . . oops, excuse me. It's so dark in here, I can't see.', There,s a seat here, better sit down before you fall down. It's so crowded in this auditorium. I can see why, though. They're producing the play of the year and everyone's anx- ious to see the results. From what I can tell, it's gonna be great.