Bay High School - Pelican Yearbook (Panama City, FL)

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Yum-Yum fBarbara Langstonj prepares for her wedding to Nanki-Poo fMickey Matthewsh . The Mikado fl-Iughie Rochey arrives in search of his son The Mikado finds his son happily married to Yum-Yum Ko-Ko fBilly Rumphj wot-,S Katisha fKath- leen Weeksj with the disappointing love song about a bird. rf 0 0 0 Nanki-Poo has fled from the court of his father, the Mikado oflapan, to escape marriage. He has then fallen in love with Yum-Yum, but he has been prevented from marrying her by Ko-Ko, who wishes to marry her himself. Ko-Ko, however, has been condemned to death for flirting. Nanki-Poo hastens to find out whether Yum-Yum is free. Nanki-Poo learns that Ko-Ko has become Lord High Executioner, thus preventing the sentence from being carried out. Ko- Ko is, in fact, going to marry Yum-Yum. A letter comes from the Mikado ordering Ko-Ko to execute somebody or else lose his position. He can't find anyone to execute, when Nanki-Poo appears bent upon suicide because he cannot marry Yum-Yum. By marrying Yum-Yum for a month, Ko-Ko persuades Na.nki-Poo to be the subject for the execution. The rejoicing is marred by the appearance of Katisha, in quest of Nanki-Poo. She is driven away, but threatens to tell the Mikado. Ko-Ko comes in with the news that when a married man is executed his wife is buried alive. To save Yum-Yum, Nanki- Poo decides to kill himself. Nanki-Poo offers himself for immediate decapitation, but Ko-Ko cannot do it without some prac- tice. Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum leave the country. The Mikado soon appears. The only hope for Ko-Ko is to produce Nanki-Poo alive. Ko-Ko solves the problem by offering him- self to Katisha. The opera ends very happily.

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'4 W4 W , ' . . -' ' f In FIRST ROW: Phyllis Groom, Mary Johnston, Carole Law, Betty Ann Williams, Angeline Bedsole, Joy Bryan, Carol Henderson, Betty Jackson, Nancy Cobb, Joan Owens, Irene Pons, Charlotte Ellis, Sheila Leto, Bette Fuller, Pat Cox, Sandra Clark, Carol Spicer. SECOND ROW: Carla McKinney, Barbara Langston, Merial Sale, Linda Wim- berly, Gwen Lee, Barbara Johnston, Linda Moore, Harriet Zediker, Peggy Vann, Ann Pons, Jo Dell Tiller, Mar- tha Johnston, Katherine Griffin, Flora Dudley, Nancy Talmadge, Ann Setterlind. BACK ROW: Kathleen Weeks, Janet McCall, Pat Samuels, Betty Callihan, Barbara Broxton, Nell Bozeman, Carrole Baggett, Reta Melvin, Mari- anne Brown, Bettye Sowell, Diane Nelson, Joyce McDaniel, Joyce Teagle. FIRST ROW: Fred Johnson, Mickey Matthews, Stuart Jones. Jesse Farr. R. L. Emanuel, Jerry George, Freddie Con- rad. SECOND ROW: Arthur Pratt, Herbert Sapp, Jennus Kilpatrick, Bobby Wilder, Buster Waters, Raymond Rumph, Ted Arnold, Hughie Roche, Tommy Ward, Mays Swicord, James Warren, Billy Rumph, Willard Dean, Wayne An- derson, Mike Coleman, Ray Burdeshaw, Kenneth Pitts. BACK ROW: Thomas Byrne, Sydney Langford, Kenneth Davis, Artemus Brown, Oscar Bland, Sonny Parker, Tommy Allen, Robert Felton, Wade Bryant, Gene Warren, James Felton, Ted Haney, Roy Aiken, Dennis Kilpatrick, Bobby Tolbert, John Langston.

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'F .I ,- IN MEMORY OF Orin Whitley BAY HIGH BAND DIRECTOR 1937-1955