Churchland High School - Trucker Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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Above right: Junior candidate Betsy Bulluck escorted by Kenny Maddrey. Above left: Homecoming queen and maid of honor beam with joy. Left: Band members prepare to march. Right: Excitement fills the crowd. Below left: Junior candidate, Lori Stokes escorted by Gary Carr. Below Right: Helen Bulluck, homecoming queen for 1977 whispers congratulations to Tammi Porter. HOMECOMING 21

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IPAIRA Churchland’s Homecoming is usually a very special event and 1979 was no excep- tion. Among the festivities were an afternoon and evening parade, an alumni dinner, an exciting football game, the half-time show, and a PTA- sponsored dance. The parade featured Mr. Morgan, the members of the Homecoming Court, the varsity and junior varsity cheerleaders, the ROTC, and three floats made by Cem Tri-Hi-Y, the Foreign Language Department, and the Band. The winner of the best float contest was Cem Tri-Hi- Y, whose theme was “Brand the Mustangs.”’ While the game was certainly not Churchland’s best perform- ance of the season (-5 yards rushing), with the help of key players like Matt Cobb, Fred Jones, Sherwood Hall, and Steve Williams, Churchland defeated the Manor Mustangs 7-6. The band played several different styles of music during halftime and ended by tackling and disrobing a staged “Western Branch Bruin,’ played by a member of the band. Ma- jorettes Sherri Phelps and Sherry Downey twirled hoops and fire batons to add to the ess Panne ole Above: Homecoming Queen Barbara time show Barbara Kaplan was Kaplan is stunned by her victory. crowned Homecoming Queen and Below: Drum Major Travis Gray. Tammy Porter, Maid of Honor. Right: Senior Candidate Kim Wise. LHe: PEG

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See? Tar oS PES. ae Fee cee AE Bo a eae tee OE ENE ; ae Se LEILA ELLEN A EPL AILS F LOWERS FOR ALGERNON Wiley Kidd - David Kersey « Jeti Joyner . Jerry Candrilli - Sheila Early - Mary Jo Brady, Directing For weeks before production to increase with his intelligence, cast stated. While the play did of the fall play, Flowers for and as Algernon’s mental and not sell out on any of the three Algernon, students were urged to physical states begin to decline, | show dates, three quarters of the see a ‘’story of a man in search so too do Charlie’s. Algernon’s — auditorium was filled each night. of himself.’’ Flowers for Al- death foreshadows Charlie’s sim- gernon was indeed that, and it ilar decline to his previous IQ also was, as one member of the of 68, and the play closes with audience stated, ‘“much, much, a touching scene depicting more.” Charlie Gordon placing flowers Flowers for Algernon concerns — on the grave of his comrade, Al- the story of a young retarded man, gernon. who, because of advanced brain Charlie Gordon was played by surgery, becomes a genius in just Wiley Kidd. Other major roles a few months. The play deals with were filled by David Kersey, the emotional adjustments the Sheila Early, Jerry Candrilli, character faces because of his Jeff Joyner, and Kim Wise. The sudden rise in intelligence. He play was directed by Mrs. Mary befriends a white mouse, Algernon, Jo Brady, and the student direc- an experimental animal who has tor was Wina Rudisill. Above: Early in the second act, undergone the same operation. Student attendance was ‘’fan- Wiley Kidd confides in Sheila Charlie Gordon’s problems seem tastic,’’ as one member of the oe 22 FALL PLAY