Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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ri -T H The pep assembly, sponsored by Student Council, for the West High basketball game on December 14 started off with a bang as mad scientist Ken Tolliver and announcer Steve Hudgens sent BHS students eleven hours into the future for the night ' s game (left). Three West High cheerleaders (above), Bob Borberg, Bob Greenleaf, and Lee Hurt, cheered the Yellow Bears to a spectacular defeat. Student Council also sponsored the West High exchange assembly. (Below right) Lana Richards and Drinda Drake practice their act just before trying out. Student Council Sparks City, The girls below wearing victory vests display results of just one Student Council project. Besides the vests, Student Council sold BHS sweatshirts, class pins, class rings, and Bronc decals. The council rented the false ceiling to clubs who wanted to camouflage the gym for special dances. Student Council, however, did not spend the entire year playing salesman. It sponsored Open-House and the Welcome Ali dance during AFS Week in the fall. It presented four BHS PRESENTS radio programs, highlighting special school events (THE MUSIC MAN, B-Day, Christmas preparations). It originated the ideas for a snow-sculpture contest and a Spring Carnival. On the whole, students felt that this year ' s Student Council has been one of the most active in the school ' s history.

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Holiday Mood Various choruses in the music department infused much of the Christmas spirit into BHS students with their practices, caroling in the halls, and Christmas Concert. More than a month before Christmas vacation, chorus students started humming carols in the halls between classes. Classes near room 221 -C heard choruses rehearsing their enunciation, harmony, rhythm. The last week before Christmas vacation, three choirs caroled through BHS halls during their chorus periods. But the main event of choral Christmas preparations was the Christmas Concert in which Concert Choir, Prep Chorus and A Capella Choir participated. The concert presented many traditional arrangements and effects. A narrator, Steve Hudgens, read the Biblical Christmas story to tie the carols together. Special scenery and tableaus illustrated the songs. Choirs sang antiphonally, a group in the balcony echoing one on-stage. Alumni were asked to sing one number with the A Capella choir. The most spectacular event of the pro- gram, however, was the Christmas tree formed by 56 A Capella choir members. Each student carried a pine bough and a blinking Christmas tree light and wore a gold garland around his neck. Caroling Enlivens Christmas Spirit A Capello choristers carol in BHS halls during third period. Concert Choir and Prep Chorus also sang through the halls during their own chorus periods on one day of the last week before Christmas vacation. Mr. Brandvold leads Concert Choir members through one of their Christmas Concert numbers. The choir is a stepping-stone to membership in A Ca- pella; students with ability and conscientiousness may here gain experience.

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There ' s no percentage in bringing an apple to your teacher anymore-Student Council has a monopoly on that sort of thing with its Teacher Appreciation Day, a year-old tradition at BHS. The council started several new projects this year, too: a new ring design (above) which will be used for the next three years, or the Student Council bulletin board (left), displaying official minutes of the meetings and announcements or special advertisements. School Events President Burley Packwood called the meetings to order every first and third Tuesday, first period, in the auditorium. After Secretary Betsy Brown read the minutes, the council settled down to business. Committee chairmen reported on the progress of the point system or the winter carnival . Representa- tives requested clocks and new numbers on classroom doors for their homerooms, and asked why the cafeteria couldn ' t offer coke and coffee. Problems raised during the year varied from mandatory activity tickets to serving mustard with hot- dogs in the cafeteria. President and Vice President, Burley Packwood and Ken Tolliver, (right) dis- cuss committee proceedings before a meeting. Student Council members take notes, listen during a meeting.