Cerro Gordo High School - Gordian Yearbook (Cerro Gordo, IL)

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WhaT a marvelous Thing o bond isl lT holds wiThin iTselT nearly every Tone Trom The deepesT rumble oT The bass and The cool, TloaTing Tone oT The cIorine+ To The peneTraTing coll oT The TluTe and The scream oT The piccolo. The band room is a caldron oT sound: a honlc oT a saxophone blasTs Through The wailings oT The clarineTs while The TrumpeTs laboriously climb The chromaTic scale: a roll on The snare, a beaT oT The bass drum and a sharp command oT lnsTrumenTs aT resT, soTTens iT inTo a buzz oT voices and a scraping oT chairs. The baTon is poised in mid-air waiTing Tor The Tallc To cease. Whiz! Down comes The baTon. A roar oT quarTer noTes and half noTes are Thrown TogeTher like Mulligan sTew. No, No! ThaT's noT The way. May l have your aTTenTion? l.isTenl lT goes lilce This: clarineTs, one-ee-and-a, Two-ee-and-a-and The resT oT you brass people are iusT The background. All righT, sTarT aT number 27-To where The Trombones come in, and, Kenny, give me a beaT on The boss drum in The TourTh measure. and l wonTo1 big cymbal crash. Brr-There goes The bell and we mill ouT To our second hour classes wiTh The oTT said buT soon Tor- goTTen, Don'T TorgeT To puT your music away. And so, liTTle Tunes are manuTacTured and merrily senT swinging Their way inTo everyday liTe. Z Frydenger, Bell, Dobson, Baker, Krall, Adams, Troxel, ChrisTner, Hiser, SheeTs, Fyd ger, Van Horn, Robinson, Derr, Dickey, Schiff, WrighThouse, Tirey, Reeves. Leach, E. Chapman, Parkhursf, Holcomb, Remmers, Snoke, M. Hiser, E. Chapman, Pollard, Myers, ETn y D. Chapman, R. Chapman, M. Mecurn, Warfield, Burch, D. Dobson, Kepley, Adv. Born, Grove, M. Mecum, Dickson, HuTfingTon, Veech, K. Bell, Crowe. SCUND EFFECTS 29

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0 19' :ls- u N4 THE CAST i H. Crisrnan, F. Adams, J. Parkhursf, M, Crowe, M. Mccum, R. WolTf, M. Edgecornb, W. Horlon. E, Arnold, N. Sealon, W. Hendricks, F. Tendiclc, Spcnsor, J. Tyler, M. MerriTT, E. Poberfs. We gay dogs oT The drama diTTer Trom oTher groups in ThaT we have no permanenT organizaTion. When The need Tor drama arises, a Troupe OT us ioin in Toilsome eTTorT Tor Tour weelcs and give our all so ThaT on The crucial nighT we can give a perTormance worThy oT our arTisTic TalenTs. To ours and everyone's amazemenT, we do bring glory To our arT in spiTe of TorgoTTen lines, misplaced musTachios, and padded Torsos. Do you recall The Gay DecepTion, whose casT appears here pic- Torially? The iuniors gave us an enjoyable sTory aT misTalcen idenTiTy wiTh maids and chauTTeurs running haywire and a bearded buTler aTTempTing To reTrieve The shaTTered Tamily TorTunes. Loolcin' Lovely, The all-school play, gave Emily, DoroThy, Lucille, EdiTh, Meryll, Mary Alice, KenneTh, l-larlow, Ed, l-loward, Lawrence, and Wayne Tull scope Tor Their un- doubTed Tlair Tor dramaTics. Campus QuaranTine, The senior play, gave promise oT even greaTer hisTrionic arT. No menTion oT drama can omiT The baclcsTage crew, oT whom Wilbur is King, nor oT Miss Tendiclc and Miss Douglass, who served as slave drivers or inspiraTions, depending on The poinT aT view. Feeling ThaT our producTions speak Tor Themselves, we modesTly re- Train Trom TurTher commenT on our selT-evidenT achievemenTs. 28

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ATHLETICS COACH EBBERT Coach Ebberl came 'ro Cerro Gordo's grid- iron bringing wi+h him an unqueslionable scholas- lic record and +he collegiale spiril in a blaze of hol socks and plaid shirls. l-lis good nalure made an insl'an+ hi+ wilh The looys and made him lhe obiecl of friendly heckling. The coach's merry ,crinkling laugh appears in ready response lhough The kidding may Touch his sacred Ford. Big and slrong like Popeye. he gels his roughage from lhe green grass on lhe foolloall field. Tension in a game finds him in a characlerislic pose kneel- ing on lhe sod clurching a weary dark head. This is Coach Ebber+'s lirsl year of coaching, buf he has buill' up an unimpregnable lighling spiril and has produced Okaw Valley Jropnolchers.