Harpeth Hall School - Milestones Iris Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Junior Play Early in the summer of 77, the Juniors began work on the Junior Play. In September, countless meetings and slumber parties later, they found themselves with a fully-written play which involved getting one hundred girls on stage, preparing a gourmet buffet dinner menu, and presenting the class theme, Participate! All of the class members did, in fact, participate. Every girl contributed her own ideas on the play ' s subject matter, the projected amount of productions time, and the composition of songs and dances. The class decided to spend a substantial amount of time on the play and dinner, with rehearsals every school night for one month. Besides rehearsing for the play, girls had to design and build sets, paint the backdrop, draw publicity signs, sell tickets, plan the dinner, decorate the cafeteria, and prepare the food. Juniors accomplished all of these tasks with the invaluable aid of their sponsor, Mrs. Gower. The night of the play, over six hundred people watched Sam ' s Angels, investigators from the Junior Class, solve the kidnapping of Mrs. Gower and the dog Heidi. The mystery could not have been solved (nor the play produced) without the participation of each class member. Thus, the production resulted in a unified class and $900.00 to be used for the Junior Prom in the spring.

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American Field Service Mrs. Frey, Sponsor; A. Alderman, Secretary-Treasurer; H. Hazlehurst, Pres- ident; S. Wells, Publicity Chairman Not pictured: MP. Hamilton, Vice- President Student Council Fall Play Every year, the Student Council ' s fall and spring combos require money raised from many projects. Fund-raising for the spring combo began in November with the production Impromptu, a thought-provoking one-act play. The Student Council co-sponsored this play ' s two production nights, November 18th and 19th, with the Drama Club members. The production of Impromptu revolved around the belief that life should not be acted out. It is neither planned nor predicted, merely a series of improvisations. To emphasize this philosophy, there were no props, production crews, or stage managers. The Forensics Club entered into the production with There Are Men too Gentle to Live Among Wolves, a play including prose interpretations, poetry readings, monologues, and scenes from this year ' s team competitons. Both Impromptu and There Are Men too Gentle to Live Among Wolves provided a unique and individual experience to both the actors and the audience. Last November in its Celebration of Many Lands, the American Field Service once again turned Little Harpeth into a miniature world. In this effort to raise money to help in sponsoring an exchange student, AFS succeeded in raising the school community ' s awareness of other cultures. With posters, maps, music, food, crepe paper (even paper snowflakes hanging from the ceiling in the Switzerland room, where one could be fitted with skis), and above all with much hard work and creativity, students transformed classrooms into foreign countries. Guests ate crepes in the France room or steake an ' biskits in the Ireland room across the hall. In the Italy room, Alessandra Dechigi, this year ' s exchange student, supervised the preparation of authentic Italian recipes, while visitors from Colombia added a decidedly Latin American flavor to the room representing their country. Israel and Germany also put in a colorful appearance, as did the not-to-be-forgotten U.S.A. room, where guitar music and red bandana shirts contributed a real down-home atmosphere. The A.F.S. club successfully combined its fund-raising project with an enjoyable cross-cultural experience for many students, parents, and teachers.

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Triad Doro Phister, Allison Draper, and Dana Buttrey were attendants to the Queen, Amy Grant, at Triad Homecoming. Front: D. Buttrey, Sergeant-at-Arms. Back: H. Williams, Athletic Manager: J. Reynolds, Vice- President; T. Stevenson, President; A. Smith, Secretary-Treasurer; Miss Felkel, Sponsor. Ariston Among the guests at the Ariston Halloween party were witches, ghosts, and Tootsie Rolls? B. Swartzbaugh, President; M. Bounds, Vice- President; D. Hogue, Secretary-Treasurer; Mrs. Schmid, Sponsor; B. Richardson, Sergeant-at- Arms. Not pictured: B. Gibbs, Sergeant-at-Arms. 18