George C Marshall High School - Columbian Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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Susan Phillips gives a Colonial Heights bump to Greg Schwemley. Gail Perry rolls the Freshmen wheelbarrow in a valiant but vain effort. Jeff Monet and Lee Harris dance with Donna Ces-taro and Sean O'Connor (not pictured). urn LV'fcii-

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spark Sadie Hawkins Life in Dogpatch resumed once again as time for the Sadie Hawkins Dance rolled around. Sponsored by the Key and Keyette Clubs, the dance provider! lots of informal fun and countrified atmosphere. Dogpatch boasted some new developments as a walk-in haystack and many colorful posters joined the familiar forms of the jail, outhouse, signpost and wishing well on the dance floor. Sadie Hawkins revelers were dressed for the occasion as they were hitched by Marryin' Sam in the Dogpatch Chapel or harrassed by the Sheriff and his brothers in the law. Besides boogieing and bumping and watching the real policemen get thrown into jail, the evening’s entertainment included a hog-calling contest, wheelbarrow races and a giant tug-o'-war, with the Seniors and the Freshmen against the Juniors and Sophomores. As a result of Sadie Hawkins Week's competitions (which included tossed marshmallows, a three-legged race, pie eating and the hesitant chugging of an evil looking mixture). Seniors Frances Daisy Mae Little and Tim Lil Abner Smith reigned during the dance as representatives of the winning class. As the successful evening drew to a close, the dancers, spent with hilarity, reluctantly said a fond good-bye to Dogpatch. Yee-ee-ha! Seniors pull together to yank Sophomores and In mors across the dance floor. 22

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Descending upon Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., thirty Marshall Humanities students compared classes and customs. Wilson was composed of 70% black students, 15% foreign, and 15% white students. Since Marshall sported a 3% black population, the Marshall students arrived with some measure of apprehension, uneasiness, and lots of curiosity. But, after spending nearly 3Vi hours there. Statesmen had definitely changed their opinions, and in many cases, their entire viewpoint. Perhaps even more enlightening, though, was the second half of the exchange, when thirty-six Wilson students visited Marshall. Because it was the day of the first basketball game, Cheerleaders, Georgie Girls, and Majorettes were decked out in full uniform, so the Wilson students got a taste of the school spirit their school both lacked and missed. The vocational department was the highlight of the tours; most of the visitors were appalled that academically-minded Statesmen knew very little about such fine facilities. Generally, the Wilson students considered their student body to be more unified than Marshall's. This, one Wilson senior stated, was because of the fatal shooting of an administrator three years ago. It made us realize how bad it could be, he said, and we didn't want it. We realized we had to stick together. The two-part field trip dispelled rumors and false ideas that D.C. schools are full of hoods and racial tension, and opened the eyes of a handful of Marshall students to the notion that friendship is colorblind. 24