Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Young lady, be your oun man! is the message Henry (Joe Edwards) has for his new student (Ronda Manning) in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. Escape from the cruel real world is achieved for the crippled, shy Laura (Mary Houseman) when she looks a I her glass menagerie. After a night out on the town, Corey Bratter (Beth Redmond) comforts her tired and angry husband (Paul Montgomery) during Barefoot in the Park. Go to Canyada is told to runaway slave, Henry Williams (Tom Brown), by philosopher Henry David Thoreau (Joe Edwards) in the spring play. 128 Drama

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Statistics of each homcroom ' s totals of yearbook sales are posted by business managers Judy Ruble and Shelly Brown. A total of over 800 were sold. v ' fJjlliJ Pub joined work and fun News stories, newspaper and yearbook deadlines, photographs, interviews, cap- tions and copy, popcorn, cai es and cook- ies, drives, and football games were all a part of the ' 79 Publications year. Fund drives were sponsored to give money to poor families during Christmas by the selling of Christmas wishes and money for the Heart Fund was accumulat- ed by the selling of Valentine wishes. Annual yearbook subscription drives were held to lure the students to purchase their yearbooks. Homeroom of the Day award was given to the room which had sold the most orders that day. The ' 79 edition of the Reflections has more color than ever before, including the opening and the senior sections. Due to the largest budget ever for the book, the price was boosted $1 on its subscription. During the season of the Girls ' Basket- ball Sectionals a 12-page Sectional edition was printed covering all of the teams, facts, and statistics. This was a first for the paper. In photography, the darkroom was giv- en a treat. .Members of the photography staff gave the room a coat of flat black paint. Popcorn odor floated through the halls on occasions. Often someone would bring in some popcorn and everyone was in for a treat. For basketball games a guess of the score was taken and the winner was pre- sented a cake baked by a fellow Pub mem- ber. During the year all Pub and Journalism classes would get together to crown a new football champ in the annual Pub-Journal- ism football game. The winner this year was third-hour Publications. Coin matching became the ultimate decision maker as to who got the picture, newspaper or yearbook, as shown by editors Paul .Montgomery and Rhonda Smith. A uniform for the annual Pub-Journalism flag football game is presented by newspaper staffers to adviser .Mr. Ed Henderson. Popcorn, anyone? Taking a break from the chores assigned in Publications are a group ofPubbers sam- pling a snack of hot buttered popcorn. Publications 127

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A rare moment of peace is reached between mother (Babctte Spain) and son (Wayne Dunham) during The Glass Menagerie. Six flights of stairs proves to be too much for Mother Banks (Linda Tyler) as Paul (Paul Montgomery) and Corey Bratter (Beth Redmond) assist her. THESPIAN SOCIETY: {Bonom Row) Bryan Maddox. Linda Tyler (sec. treas.). Beth Redmond (pres.). Clay Miller. (Row 2) Wayne Dunham, Eva Dell Seel. Jodi Boxell. Linda Mikkel- son. Pam Strine, Mr. Robert Coscarelli (spon.). (Row 3) Paul Montgomery, Pam Bales. David Wilkins, Larry Stockton, Amy Sills, Janie Caperton. 3 plays in Thespian year Celebration! was the theme of the 50th anniversary of the International Thespian Society. Blackford Thespians, along with over 2,200 Thespians from all over the world, attended a week-long cele- bration at Ball State during the summer. During this week they attended many workshops and saw full-length plays pro- duced by fellow thespians at Emmens Auditorium. The Glass Menagerie, the fall play by Tennessee Williams, was concerned with the problems between a domineering mother, a rebellious son, and a crippled daughter. This was the first play Ms. Bar- bara Douglas, has directed at Blackford. The 25th anniversary- of Project Theater 100 and the 10th anniversary of Black- ford ' s Thespian troupe were celebrated with the reunion of former Blackford Thespians during the winter show. Bare- foot in the Park. Barefoot, a Neil Simon comedy, drew laughs from the audience as the lives of Corey and Paul Bratter. Moth- er Banks, Mr. Velasco, and a phone man become entwined. The philosophy and ex- periences of 19th centun. ' philosopher and poet Henry Thoreau were shown during the spring play The igbt Tboreau Spent in Jail. Drama 1 29