Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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ABOVE: Lee Barricklow directs the Symphonic Band at Christmas in the Round. BELOW: Members of the Symphonic Band present their part. an :ff 1 1 rm fs 1, , 37? 3? TECHOIR prepares for the Halleluiah Chorus on the Monument Circle. 7 lt's Christnias at Tech again Christmas time came to Tech in the hearts of all. It seemed as though the entire campus changed during the two to three weeks moving up to Christmas. The season was started by the Music Department's annual presentation of Christmas in the Round, which features most of the major music groups at Tech. Keeping in stride with the merriment, the different organizations had their individual activities. lce skating was sponsored by the SAO, while the 300 program sponsored a roller skating party. During all this, the Sen- ior Council featured a dance on December l 3 in the Cafeteria. Key Club, with SAO assistance, completed a successful Toys-for-Tots drive on campus, adding more to the true feeling of the season. Other club activities took place in the Service Club, XYZ Club, and SAO. Then on the last Friday before vacation the Techoir embarked on a city-wide caroling spree, bringing a wonderful sound to many downtown business people and shoppers, followed by caroling to friends of Tech on the Monday after. However, the Tech Christmas was not over until the Techoir Christmas Special was seen on TV on December 24. lt's obvious that the Christmas spirit was at Tech. ABOVE: Channel 8 photographers prepare to film the Techoir Special. BELOW: Anna Porter, Terri Hill, and Cindy Wells bring a Christmas card to all. vim ' mqgf ..w 1.-V my .,,. .

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It is a mystery that birds can sing. That men can fly and reach the moon and then return to earth. It is a mystery that one can see, That one can hear, that we have minds, that we can think and plan. lt is a mystery that we can speak and share our thoughts with others, and through TV Our thoughts spread everywhere. It is a mystery that we can write and share our thoughts with those unborn Who take our places here on earth. lt is a mystery that we are born, that we can live, that we can grow, that we can die. lt is a mystery that in our own genes is found the pattern of all living things, the gene that tells each cell its duty. It is a mystery that we get warmth, light and power stored in iet black coal, Sunlight came to earth countless years ago. It is a mystery we have the earth, we see the moon and all the stars, stars which are the suns of other galaxies than our own in the unmeasured depths of space. Are all these mysteries for me? I wonder how. I wonder why. Was all the cosmos made for earth-bound man alone? It cannot be, on other planets circling other suns There must be life, perhaps a life more sentient than our own. A signal, then, a radio message send To see if we can bridge the distance we're apart. We wait reply, we wait, alas, in vain, For answer to our call would come Two-thousand years since we're dead. I wonder when it all began. I wonder how it all will end. Charles F. Teeters, former Tech vice-principal, was ninety-five years old when he wrote these poems recently. He retired thirty years ago but is still remembered by Tech friends, some of whom were his pupils.

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EDWIN MARSHALL, Orron Coleman, Chris Warrenburg, and Joe Brown aid Mike Thomas during a crying fit. ABOVE RIGHT: Cece Carter, Mike Thomas, and Alfenia Martin spill it all out. JOE BROWN looks surprised as Mike Greene enioys the latest news. W? Fall November 'IO the Forum. Students gath- ered from all corners of the campus. The lights dimmed, the curtains opened, and suddenly, before all eyes appeared the great fall play, THE ODD COUPLE. Fea- tured in the title roles were Mike Thomas as Felix and Mike Greene as Oscar. Other performers were Edwin Marshall, Orron Coleman, Chris Warrenburg, Joe E. Brown, Cecilia Carter, and Alfenia Martin. new-W'-Y play's an odd one The play was a takeoff on the popular tel- evision program. For those who didn't see the play, it was about a man who ioins his separated buddy after his marriage fails. ln the end the perfectionist finds romance with not one, but two young females and leaves his distraught partner to return to the life of being a slob. . . .AND MAMA always told me gamblin' was illegal.