Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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x , X 'k'war' Successful gamblers become prospec'I'ive bidders af fhe firs+ annual Mon+e Carlo Nigh+, sponsored by lhe Sfudenl' Council, with Sieve Jeffries and Charlie Acquard presiding as aucfioneers. Wifh fhe fheme 'The Show Musl Go On,' Gloria Edwards, Melody Knox, and Cheryl Ferguson sing and dance lo 'l Belong +o You' for lhe Junior Council Talenl Show. l975 Spring

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I I Gambling becomes legal IT was a busy spring Tor STudenT Council and choir perTormers. STudenT Council sponsored iTs TirsT lvlonTe Carlo NighT, providing parTicipanTs wiTh 5,000 dollars in reTurn Tor Their S I .50 enTrance TickeT. lvlosT gamblers losT Their money playing rouleTTe, poker, blackjack and craps, buT a Tew increased Their holdings To millions oT dollars and boughT posTers, albums or a dinner Tor Two during The aucTion. STudenTs also elecTed new council oTTicers: Richard Merriam, presidenT: Cheryl Kosarek, vice presidenT7 Vicki Silverman, secreTary, and Dina lvlonTalvo, Treasurer. Junior Council sTaged iTs TalenT show, wiTh Cheryl Ferguson's When Will lSee You Again? winning over I I acTs. The STudenT Council campaigned Tor sTaTe vice presidenT, using The Theme 5 4 i Fairy Prince Paul Dunne Takes a 'Flying leap onTo The back of Mean Dragon STeve Sanford aT The annual choir Pops Concer-T. 20 AcTiviTies Sparkling CiTy by The Sea, buT losT To Apple Pie and Tivy High of Kerrville aT The sTaTe convenTion in San AnTonio. OuTsTanding council members, chosen by The oTTicers, were Diana BallesTeros, Oscar Benavides, Deban Dawson, Jill Gary, Laura PaTTerson and Connie STewarT. Choir sTudenTs produced Two performances, one in coniuncTion wiTh Mrs. J. J. Rains' speech class. A Tolk opera oT romance and murder, Down in The Valley, sTarred choir members Alan WroTenbery, Kay ChasTain and James Harris, wiTh speech sTudenTs in The supporTing casT of The March 7 producTion. The choirs held Their Pops ConcerT April 29, wiTh The Theme Re'llecTions. Besides skiTs and commercials, songs including The Way We Were, lime in a BoTTle, Be and PainT Your Wagon enTerTained sTudenTs. Campaigning for The sTaTe vice presidency means keeping many aTTer-school hours Tor STudenT Council member Laura Pa'Herson and Vice PresidenT Brenda Nichols

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I., xiii? VZ '3 1 0 I I Tigers sweep WheTher musical or academic, spring compeTiTion gave sTudenTs a chance To be recognized. On The naTional level, Ann WhiTe won Third in sTenographic pracTice, level I , aT OTTice EducaTion AssociaTion compeTiTion in Chicago, aTTer winning The sTaTe evenT. ln UniversiTy lnTerscholasTic League compeTiTion, Carroll earned iTs TirsT SweepsTakes TiTles aT The disTricT and regional liTerary meeTs. ATTer placing high in disTricT and region, six sTudenTs wenT To STaTe MeeT in AusTin May 2-3. STeve Jeffries and Lauren PaTe compeTed in ready wriTing7 Gary LivingsTon, ediTorial wriTing: and Barbara RaTekin and Ronnie MarTinez, persuasive speaking. Marcelle FlenTge placed sixTh in shorThand. OThers earning poinTs aT disTricT were TirsT place winners Mike Lopez, poeTry inTerpreTaTion: Ann Talpey, spelling: and Karen STaudT, shorThand: -l'renT Turner, second in inTormaTive speaking, and Joe STarr, Third in prose reading. ln The NaTional Forensic League sTaTe 22 AcTHiv1iTiiefs AT her reTiremenT Tea Mrs. LeTa Gay Pricer, school bookkeeper Tor I8 years, admires a silver piTcher presenTed To her by Mr. Hook on behalf of The TaculTy. Harem girl Gene Creely Takes Time ouT from his duTies as a slave To help Mr. Milam King, TaculTy member and 'Fellow slave, explain American hisTory To his second period class. UIL confesf meeT, Tommy Garza placed TourTh in original oraTion, Joe STarr l8Th in dramaTic inTerpreTaTion and Barbara RaTekin among The Top IOO in exTemporaneous speaking. Five soloisTs and Two ensembles enTered sTaTe musical compeTiTion. From The choir, Alan WroTenbery, James l-larris and Willie l-leard compeTed, wiTh Alan raTing superior and James excellenT. From The band The TluTe quarTeT oT Lisa Millard, Cindy l-luTchinson, Theresa Ferris and Dawn Gormley received a superior raTing and The saxophone quarTeT oi David Saldana, RoberT Ghormley, Mike Salazar and MiTchell Brumfield an excellenT raTing. For solos, Lisa raTed superior and Cindy excellenT. The publicaTions also won ILPC awards, The Anchor receiving an Award oT DisTinguished MeriT and The Carroller an Award of AchievemenT. The yearbook sTaTT goT word in March ThaT The '74 Anchor had won The TrendseTTer Award from The Columbia ScholasTic Press AssociaTion. H I --.MM 1 II 'A J... 'Nw...,,,.i A . T