Brownstown High School - Webb Yearbook (Brownstown, IN)

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Charlestown wins boys’ title; Salem takes girls’ competition Charlestown broke a 6-year winning streak held by Brownstown by capturing the 1976 BCHS Invitational Relays title with a total of 62 points. They also set new records in the Freshman Mile relay (3:52.4) and the Varsity 440 relay (45.3). Brownstown placed second with a score of 52 points. Salem won the girls relays title for the second year in a row. They had a total score of 81%. Charlestown placed sec- ond with 35 points, and Brownstown came in third with 25. Relay records were set in the long jump (16’ 134”— Charlestown), 100 yard dash (12.3—Sa- lem), shot put (35’ 9”—Salem), 440 yard dash (65.1—Salerh), 880 medley relay (2:00.6—Salem), and the 440 yd. relay (53.6—Salem). Barbara Russell was crowned queen of the Invitational Relays by Frank Lah- rman. Patti Sherrill, Susan McCrary, and Cathy Owens were her court. Relays 23

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22 Relays ABOVE: Jeff Brown clears the last hurdle in front of Edinburg in low hurdle competition. TOP: Barbara Russell, escorted by Terry Gambrel and crowned by Frank Lahrman, was elected queen of the 1976 BCHS Invitational Relays. Mem- bers of the court were: Patti Sherrill, escorted by Tom Burton; Susan McCrary, escorted by Kamron Wright; and Cathy Owens, escorted by Jeff Blevins. RIGHT: Babs Hurley finished close behind Char- lestown’s runner in the 880 yard relay. This relay team set a new school record at 2:00.8. Members of the team included Babs, Diane Callahan, Penny Gilbert, and Shelly Benge. TOP RIGHT: Deanna Thompson follows through on her softball throw in relays competition. FAR RIGHT: Dexter Jones hands off to Tim War- ren in the mile relay, Brownstown finished first in this event.

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“Old Boston” is setting for Bicentennial play Backdrops from a street in Boston to the “Old North Church” and John Han- cock’s house across the river highlighted the stage setting of “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” the Senior class play, presented November 14. As the play began, a high school girl (Cathy Conner) was reading Longfel- low’s poem and became so involved that Paul Revere appeared and began to explain the fallacies in the poem con- cerning the occurences of that famous night. Revere, played by Steve Bach- mann, involved the girl in the real story of his historic ride. Other characters por- trayed colonists involved in warning the countryside that the British were coming. Julie Hackman concluded the play with a dramatic reading of “| am Amer- ica.” According to Mrs. Doris Burcham, director, the reading was added to fur- ther enhance the impact of the Bi- centennial theme. ABOVE: While practicing for the Senior play, Brit- ish soldiers Faith Pottschmidt, Kim Wessel and Pam Holman tell Paul Revere (Steve Bachmann) to get off his horse. 24 Senior play RIGHT: As the narrator (Cathy Conner) reads from Longfellow’s poem, Bob Newman (Daryl Doty) hangs lanterns to warn of the British approach. TOP: Mrs. Burcham, director, tells Dave Gutting and Cathy Conner when Cathy should come onstage.