Covington High School - Trojan Yearbook (Covington, IN)

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Don’t Ring the Bell! On March 31, Chief Werremeyer led his tribe of 117 select natives and a few faint-hearted missionaries toward the Louisville Settlement. After the hand played two fine concerts at Worthington and Huntingburg, Indiana, our drivers, Norma, Joe, and Rocky then turned the Conestogas toward Rockport and—food. After filling their stomachs, they proceeded to the world-renowned Pioneer Village, the former home of Abraham Lincoln. Mystic chants, “Don’t ring the bell!”, were heard through the still night air surrounding the famed shrine. Leaving their Rockport hosts stunned with the echoes of their last, sweet chords ringing in their brains, the group headed toward Fort Knox. After a game of army—with real guns and tanks—the Fort supplied the band with a K-ration type meal in their cafeteria. The band arrived at the Brown Hotel in Louisville at 9:00. The 1969 annual Rand Tour Awards were given at 10:30 in the Bluegrass Room. When it was over at 1:00 a.m., everyone immediately retired. This pleasant, very heavy sleep was brought to an abrupt end by Mrs. Hank and her band of shaving-cream-no-goods. After touring some Louisville industries, the music makers went to a plush theatre and slept through the spectacular show. Lion in Winter. Immediately following the evening meal the weary travelers departed for home. Mr. Werremeyer and Bill Ludlow draw the winning ticket for the raffle, which paid band tour expenses. Susie Stockdale, David Denhart. Jane Hegg and Patti Sanderson ham it up on the bus. Hi, Ma! C. Massey, T. Morris, J. Seeming. P. Bodine, C. Davis. B. Brewer. B. Ludlow, K. Conklin. J. Ludlow, S. Jolley, A. Clodfelder, S. Gross. J. Alyea. 22 Compliments of Covington Band Parents

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TOM JONES Juniors ham it up hack stage. The “new theatre” came to Covington with the production of Tom Jones, an impressionistic comedy based on the old English novel. The schoolmaster, Mr. Partridge (Gary Ellmore), narrated the tale as the servants quickly set up and removed mere suggestions of scenery. Young Tom Jones, a foundling (Alan Green-burg), was the ward of Squire Allworthy (Jim Boger), whose estate bordered on that owned by the blustery Mr. Western (Lonnie Jones), who was the lather of Tom’s love, Sophia (Karen Gerling). Pressured to forget Tom and marry the Squire’s repulsive nephew, Blifil (Curtis Hurley), Sophia and her maid. Honour (Linda Hegg), ran away to London to search for the banished Tom. En route they encountered Sophia’s hysterical cousin, Harriet Fitzpatrick (Jeri Warner); who was hiding from her irrational, Scottish husband (Dan W ood-row); the world’s most ineffectual highwayman (Mike Strawser); the harassed but candid innkeeper, Mrs. W hitefield (Diedre Cadman); the flirtatious widow of an army officer, Mrs. Waters (Dawn Allen); and the perpetually scurrying magistrate, Justice Dowling (Skip Epperson). Finally in London, the three girls found refuge at Lady Bellaston’s (Sharon Conner), the unscrupulous lady of fortune who attempted to marry Tom. In swift pursuit, the blundering Mr. Western was followed by his sister (Marcia Omahen), a very proper Londoner. After a duel, a misunderstanding and a trial, Tom and Sophia’s problem was solved by the unexpected testimony of Mrs. W aters and the unmasking of Blilil as the villain. Mr. Partridge presents the Lady.

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Come Swing with Us The Swing Band made another performance in the Spring Show with the serpentine strains of the Snake Dance. The brand new Swing Chorus performed for the first time before the Covington coummunity. Their numbers were “Windy’ and “Side By Side, which was accompanied by the Swing Band. 23