Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Um.-9' In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of all the spring activities that he will be able to take his favorite girl to. The first big event of the season was the Valentine Formal. This year the gym was decorated in the tradi- tional Valentine colors of red and white. At one end, a throne was set in front of two cupids under a canopy of red and white, and here Susie Snowden was crowned Valentine Sweetheart. The Fifteenth Annual Maroon Beauty Revue was an- other big event of the year. It was sponsored by the Austin Maroon under the direction of Mrs. Edith Kitch- ens. This year the Most Beautiful was named from seventy-two girls in a Land of Oz setting. The Wizard was portrayed by Cactus Pryor, KTBC television person- ality. According to the script, as written by the Maroon staff, the three most beautiful were chosen as brides of the three most handsome young men of Oz. . Joyce Webb was selected by judges as Most Beauti- ful , she was escorted by David Burleson, voted by the senior class as Most Handsomef' Robin Iones was named More Beautifulf, and she was escorted by More Handsome Bobby Ritter. Sandra Lung, who was named to the title of Beautiful, was presented by Mike Cotten, winner of the Handsome title. The Choral Department sponsored another big spring event - the opera. This year the group presented a folk opera entitled The Familiar Stranger. Starring in the production were Sandy Ewell, LaVerne Lundquist, Ioyce Webb, and Billy McCaleb. GOING OVER LINES and songs, LaVerne Lundquist and Sandy Ewell practice for the folk opera, which was presented in April. W :V .....s..,:,,1s,. . ,. A, , . THE BEAUTY REVUE audience was provided with loads of good entertainment etween presentations of beauties. Here the Black Tops sing O Boy while the actors look on. JUST WALKIN' IN THE RAIN was a common practice at Austin High this year. Lynn Bassist and Patsy Phillips hun'y to school trying to keep dry.