Grandview High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Grandview, MO)

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Jackie Haywood, senior, portrays Princess Fred with a broken heart in the second act of Once Upon A Mattress. Passionalely in love, sophomore Carrie DeLapp and senior Dan Neef as Sir Harry. sing Yesterday I Loved You. Behind the scenes, in the sound booth. junior Tim Dereberry. runs the audio for Once Upon A Mattress. Musical I BE

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West, being the only major league team to run away with a division. And Royalmania reached epidemic proportions the day the Royals re- turned home from Philadelphia. After a reception of several hundred fans at the Kansas City International Airport, a morning Downtown parade and rally were in the planning. March- ing up Grand Avenue towards the Li- berty Memorial, the parade welcomed home the American League champions. As confetti poured down from the royal blue sky, the procession crept to the Memorial where a crowd of over 85,000 fans were gathered. Tagging out Willie Randolph in the top of the eigth inning during the second playoff game, catcher Darrel Porter prevents the Yankees from scoring. Setting a Kansas City major-league record, re- lief pitcher Dan Quisenberry gets his 33rd save as the Royals edge Oakland 4-3 on September 14. lt was a gathering that dwarfed the late-night Crown Center Square party two weeks before where fans huddled together in the cold evening, listening to a distant voice on their pocket ra- dios. -Doug Larsen After hitting four for four against Toronto, third baseman George Brett recognizes his ,401 batting average, August 17,

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FINALL . Once Upon A Mattress was a musical the dr5a depart- ment had long awaited to produce. This year all the ele- ments were present l O Opening night, November 20. Mrs, Howard has wanted to do this f, . The auditorium was dark and still. for twelve years, but we didn't have ' ll M The audience anxiously awaited the enough boys with good high tenor . O results of a month and a half of re- voices, Fred Tarry. vocal instructor, T hearsals. October 1, they started. The said. cast stayed every night after school un- Once Upon a Mattress was diffi- til two weeks before the musical when cult to learn due to new material. they began coming at 7 pm and stuck lt was tough, but if we were going to it out until 10 or 11 p.m. do this show it had to be this year, ' Mike Feagins, senior, who played the Tarry said. minstrel. stepped into the spotlight, But the players hopes were high. ,- g and sang Many Moons Ago. thus l All worked well together and a cast of W . starting Once Upon a Mattress. people became a close-knit group acting 5. O O The musical, a modernized satire on as a single body, according to Tarry. the old tale, The Princess and the As the entire company sang the fina- Pea, was a show easily chosen for le, Once Upon a Mattress, they had production this year. once again astounded Grandview audi- ences. -Missy Thompson - 'Qu-' 1'