Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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“Travelers” Spellbound That's it. Gaze into my eyes. Deeper. You are getting very sleepy. Your eyes are so heavy you can hardly keep them open. You are asleep and will do everything I say. Now you know what we're leading into here. These lines have to be classic among the movie or t.v. hypnotists that most people are familiar with. This year, though, the students had a chance to come in contact with a true-to-life hypnotist. Mr. Ron Hutchings, from Livonia, Mi., travelled back to GHS this year after a very successful visit two years ago to display examples of the power of hypnotic suggestion. Mr. Hutchings took volunteers from each class and performed both individual and group hypnosis on the volun- teers and also a few students who got caught up in the act from their seats in the bleachers. The show was very popular with the crowd. Hutchings sent the students on a trip to the moon, put them to work finding their bellybuttons, and introduced them to a hot seat. Said junior Ed Powers, You felt like you were under his command. Everything he said, I did. On some of the kids though, Mr. Hutchings methods didn’t work so well. As senior Brian Arntz put it, It just didn't seem to have much effect on me. By popular opinion this was the best assembly put on during school all year. Bobbi Jo Deal literally takes off her belt after returning from a trip to the moon with Dave Mai lory. Sara Drake, and Bob Young. 28 Shivering from the freezing temperature are Mary Mangus and Lyn Hallock after the heating system malfunctioned on the way to the moon.

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It’s 3:00! Do you know where your children are? “Hey, what’s the rush?” “‘Gotta’ get home by 3:00 O’Clock so I can watch my soaps!” Oh, which one do you watch?” All three, I switch the channel.” This conversation may be exaggerat ed, but soap opera watching has taken over most everyone’s afternoon activities. Soaps were so popular on daytime television that the networks infiltrated prime time viewing with shows like Dallas”, Dynasty”, and “Flamingo Road” and disguised them as drama series. Discussions about who did what to whom and why rampaged through sessions, end of the class talks and even the lunchroom. A large factor contributing to the number of soap “addicts” is the bizarre plots the writers create. Their imaginations have intrigued viewers with things such as plans to freeze the world to people dieing and becoming mummified. Another reason for the addicts” is that they are attracted by the characters’ fascinating lives. The characters have the best and worst things happen to them that ordinary people can only dream about. The realism of Laura becoming “Miss Star Eyes overnight or Billy Joe getting a television show and inspiring thousands is out of reach except in the minds of the writers. Soap addict Anne Betts commented on her passion, They are fantasy worlds and sometimes I wish I could do some of the things the characters do.” Once a person starts to watch a soap and gets involved in the characters’ lives it’s hard to miss an episode because they’ll always want to know what’s going on. When this occurs and the viewer becomes a soap addict” they are hooked and find the show becomes a part of their daily routine, a world just beyond their grasp. It's 3:00! Do you know that your children are glued to that machine that portrays fantasy worlds of make-believe characters. Getting comfortable and watching intensely as the climax comes to a peak. Wilson Bynum never takes his eyes off the set.

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Viewing a funny scene from a movie that the audience can't see are Ed Powers and Rhonda Bauman. Feeiing naked, Kelly Smith shies away from the probing looks of Jana Painter and Mary Mangus. Hypnotist Ron Hutchings weeds out the ones who aren 't really under his spell during the assembly. 29