Fairmont East High School - Falcon Yearbook (Kettering, OH)

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V5 h. 1+ f Above Leff: The frue meaning of Chrisfmas is shown by Pam Shepherd as she places a gif+ under fhe free while her dale John Delaney wafches. Leff: Mr. Sanla Claus, Barry Schulfz. admires 'the rose presenfed +0 Mrs. Sanfa Claus. Gail McBroorn. Above: Rick Durrenburg and his dale. Amy Morfer enioy refreshmen+s provided by fhe business srudenfs.

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Children's Hospilcil receives mciny gifts from donce couples Dayron Children's Psychialric Hospi- ral received numerous gifls from +he couples who allended 'rhe Chrisrmas dance. Couples parlicipaled by each bringing a Chrisrmas presenr for a child a+ rhe hospiral. The evening's acrivilies included rhe lradilional crowning of Mr. and Mrs. Sanra Claus, Gail McBroom and Barry Schulfz. Their courl' included seniors Lee Browder, Debbie Jolley, Sheree Sunder- meyer, Bob Merzler, John Schmid? and Mike Wagner. Cindi Whillier headed lhe decora- lions commilree. Greal American Dis- asler provided rhe music ar lhe senior class dance of l972, Chrisrrnas in Can- dyland. Above Righfz Vicki Schafer and Mark Koogler dance lo a slow Tune. played by The Greal' Amer- ican Disasfer. Above: Senior class vice-president Tim Drumm, emcees fhe presenlafion of Mr. and Mrs. Sanla Claus.

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Tecicher's ploy 'LiTTle Boy Found' given by juniors The junior class presenTed LiTTle Boy Found, a hearT-warming comedy wriT- Ten especially Tor The class oT l974 by The direcTor, Mr. RoberT Riley. IT was The TirsT original play ever given aT EasT. Each nighT iT was given, The play received sponTaneous sTanding ovaTions. lT also broke The school record Tor The number oT curTain calls, which was pre- viously held aT Tour. l.iTTle Boy Found received Tive. The idea Tor The play TirsT occurred To Mr. Riley during The previous sum- mer when he encounTered many prob- lems Tinding a suiTable play and con- cluded The only way To geT whaT he wanTed was To wriTe iT himselT. The play cenTers around a young bachelor, Allan Sloane, Greg Long, and his Trials in adopTing a son. WiTh The help oT his Triend, J. B. Douglas, Sandie Akerman, Allan arranges To adopT a lif- Tle boy, Skipper, Joey KalTer, John Wells. Allan daTes many girls, buT iT Takes The help oT his housekeeper, Mrs. Con- ners, Mary Ann STark, and a liTTle maTchmaking To prove To him whom he loves. l-le proposes marriage To J. B. The play was unique in many aspecTs. The Two boys who played The parT oT Skipper were Trom Meadowlawn and CroTTshire ElemenTary Schools. lT was The TirsT class play To have musical accompaniment provided by a sTudenT orchesTra direcTed by Dick Tun- ney. Slides, Tapes, modern TurniTure and up-To-daTe cosTumes were uTilized in making The play realisTic. Upper Right ATTer his TirsT day of school, Skip- per, John Wells, has a TaTher-To-son Talk wiTh his dad, Greg Long. Lower RighT: Under The direc- Tion of Dick Tunney, The orchesTra opens The show wiTh Brian's Song.