Burke High School - Burke Book Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Game Win Highlights Homecoming Eventf Homecoming began for the Sophomores immediately after school on Thursday, September 30, as they began decorating the cafeteriag the Juniors decorated the stairway, and the Seniors worked far into the night decorating Senior Hall. Homecoming dawned crisp and sunny as the students filed down Senior Hall to the Pep Rally in the gymnasium. The theme for Homecoming 1976 was We Can Make It Together which referred to both the football team and the integration program, indicating that if individuals join together, success would be inevitable. The parade preceded the game and the floats created by the classes and the various clubs within the school centered around the theme. The juniors won the float competition with Bulldogs pushing a sinking Viking ship in to the water. The Seniors did not enter a float in the paradeg however, they won the contest for the best hall decorations. At 7:30 the Burke Bulldogs and the North Vikings clashed on the gridiron with Burke taking the win 20-14. Saturday evening the Homecoming Dance was held in the Burke Cafeteria with the theme We Can Make lt Together again being carried out in the decorations. The atmosphere was hot and couples danced and boogied to the sounds of Louis Metoyer and his band Odyssey. At the magic hour of 10:00, couples streamed out of the cafeteria into the auditorium where Pam Mullins was crowned Queen and Alan Bruner, King. llj Cheering the Bulldogs on to a possible victory are the Burkettes, cheerleaders, the Burke Band and the Burke rowdies . Q21 Helping to decorate Senior Hall is Laura Bauer. 131 Mike Hancock shows surprise at the large number of seniors that showed up to help decorate Senior Hall. 141 Senior Al Forrest is busy spray painting a large black '77 on one of the front windows. Q51 Seniors Laura Lowe and Liz Hayes are busy painting one of the many signs that adorned the sides of the hall. 165 Friday morning the Burke student body gathered in the gymnasium for a pep rally before the clash with the North Vikings C73 We're done and it's good.

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Burke High Presents Unusual Dram Something really different . . . revealing and open . . .very emotional. . .timely with integration this year . . . kids' innermost feelings are brought out in music and a delightful script. This was how many of the cast members felt about the play The Me Nobody Knowsn which was held in the Burke Auditorium, October 13-16. The play evolved around twelve innercity children, who tried to define their roles in the world around them. There was no concrete plot so it was up to the individual viewer to interpret the reactions and dialogue of the children in the cast. Directed by Ms. Peg Shafer and Senior Carla Fortina, the characters and cast are as follows: Rhoda, senior Wendy Branch, Lillian, Suzy Wright, an eighth grader at Beveridge, Carlos, Keedy Samuelsg Benjamin, senior Brian Bagstadg Katherine, senior Stephanie Marino, Melba, senior Laura Bauer, Lloyd, senior Frank Baker, Donald, senior Dennis Murphy, Clorax, Gary Williams, William, Kevin Hutchinson, Nell, Debbie Hemmingerg and understudy, junior Pat Engler, who played the part of Lloyd on opening night. The musical opened with the song, Dream Babies sung by Laura Bauer. This led to one of the brightest songs in the show, Light Sings sung by the cast and Gary Williams. In the songs that followed, the city children expressed the same fears and dreams as children everywhere. They explored their feelings about being alone, as well as about their friends, their parents, death, religion, sex, and the many other people and events that touched their lives. Their fears dealt with crime, darkness, drugs and violence. They also pondered what they would do if they suddenly became wealthy, in a song entitled, If I Had A Million . ggi 4,