Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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LEFT— The little girl with the sucker”, Carol Cristofolis, tries cheering up the sad and homesick Dodo by offering him her sucker. BELOW—Steve Elser, origi¬ nally costume chairman, assists Dave Yacko in the application of his makeup for his part as Mr. Frumpkins. LEFT—Virginia Witovet and her baby stroll past Frumpkins’ store and admire The Most Beautiful Doll in the World, Gloria, played by Jean Madison. FAR LEFT—Dolls Becca Cartmell, Liz Ploog, Diane Hoffman, and Becky Haack are placed in Mr. Frumpkins’ window by Andrea, Frumpkins’ assistant, played by Chris Berman. 13

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THE CLOWN THAT RAN AWAY After several months of diligent but fun work after school and in the evening, the Drama Club presented the children’s show “The Clown That Ran Away.” The students, mostly amateurs under the direction of Miss Drucilla Stillwagon, learned vocal, emotional, physical, com¬ ical, and other important techni¬ ques of acting. Eventually they were all more than ready and willing to present their show to children and adults on Novem¬ ber 17 and 18. “The Clown That Ran Away” was more than just a play. Dodo, the star, had the youngsters participating enthu¬ siastically. At one point in the show Dodo said that he was hungry and one of the children actually threw a cookie on the stage for him. Humorous occu¬ rences such as this took a lot of adlibbing on the actors’ part, but made the show so much more worthwhile and enjoyable. The work, and even the playing, paid off, since the first two shows were full houses and the first one paid all of the play’s expen¬ ses. The show concerned a clown, Dodo, and his horse, Gla¬ dys, who ran away from a cir¬ cus. Soon afterwards Dodo met “The Most Beautiful Dolls in the World” from Frumpkins’ store. Dodo fell in love with the most beautiful doll, Gloria. Villains came one evening and robbed Frumpkins’ store and poor Dodo was assumed the culprit. Just in time Gladys saved the day by finding the crooks with the dolls, safe and sound. The performers from the show teasingly called it a “tear jerker” because Dodo and Gla¬ dys returned to the circus. In other words, Dodo didn’t get the girl, or the doll, or whatever you might call her. ABOVE—Dodo, Jay Dillion, has a snack before hitting the sack in front of Frump¬ kins’ store.

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Sophomores missed the highlight of high school life— study hall, room 208. Mr. Chil¬ dress announced its end at the beginning of the 1972-73 school year. Study hall became a free hour, and students could do as they pleased, except of course, the ultimate no-no’s” like leaving campus and wan¬ dering through the halls. Some violated these rules which kept our principal busy making warnings now and again as to the resumption of those dull, drab hours spent in room 208. The lucky ones, those having study hall either 4th or 5th hour, could leave campus and no one really knew the dif¬ ference. Thus, the path to the pool hall was well worn, and the race to get a booth was even more competitive. A few brave souls raced out to Burger King or the Lure instead. Those daring to violate this supreme school policy usually received their just desert by ending up in detention for days, some¬ times weeks on end. As always, the cafeteria, or pit was packed for either snacking, lunching, or studying. Lunch hours and study hall were as un-entertaining as in past years, either for sleeping, eating, listening to music, roaming the halls, sipping a coke from the now defunct coke machine, or just getting away from it all for one or two hours of the day. FREE TIME BECOMES LURING ABOVE—The sometimes muddy path uptown was trod, as always, in the great race to get anywhere first. BELOW— Karen Mikulich, Kathy Navarro, Dawn Steuer, and Renee Samano eat their lunch away from school in the always packed, favorite hangout of high school¬ ers, the Pool Hall.’’ RIGHT—This chair, idle in a state of suspended ani¬ mation, represents many minds and bodies in the long, lost study hall hours.