Highland High School - Shield Yearbook (Highland, IN)

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Invo vement The benefits are easily seen “Everyone becomes part of each other” W ell over two hundred students are involved in some form of the Arts at HHS. Various groups and clubs have been formed to accom- modate these students, in- cluding the Marching Trojan Pride, Drama class, Varsity Choir, Speech team, and Highland Theatre Company. These groups have proved a substantial outlet for peo- ple’s creativity through hard work and placement in com- petitions. Students in Band have about six weeks a year in which they are not work- ing, Speech Team works throughout the school year before, during, and after school hours, and an average of eleven hours a week is spent on rehearsals alone in HTC. Involvement in the arts can mean being on stage, as Karen Hartman plays Mrs . Higgins, while Mike Zim- merman plays in the orchestra. The long hours of training are well worth it. Speech team placed tenth in state in 1984 with the help of Glen Clark’s first place Radio piece, the best placement for the team in over ten years. HTC has also gained recognition as outstanding talent, compara- ble to Lake Central’s theatre program, one of the best in the region. A dormant class was re- vived this year by Mrs. Joyce Petrin — Drama class. Stu- dents work on group projects and improvisations to be- come familiar with some as- pects of theatre and feel com- fortable on stage. Mrs. Pe- trin ’s goal is for the class to perform the children’s play “Leroy and the Ark” for the elementary schools in the spring. The tangible benefits of in- volvement in the Arts are easily seen. Not so obvious are the intangible benefits people receive. They learn to get along well with each other and work for the common good. One of the best benefits is the friendships and feeling of family. As drum major Dave Hoffman says, “No mat- ter how you feel about people off the field, when you’re on for that ten-minute show ev- eryone suddenly becomes part of each other.” This feel- ing may not be permanent, but it’s a wonderful reminder of what things could be if we tried. All it takes is some pa- tience, good will, and an hon- est desire to be the best. Once we dream it, we need to only take it a little farther to make it reality. Caro| „ i||s Technical Director Chris Misner re- flects on theatre scenes such as Carol Mills and the chorus, Thom Holicky, Steve Long, Mario Ortiz, Danielle Smith, Jan Gray and Jen- ny Moore. Root t

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Thom Holicky, far left, looks over the scene in typical Henry Higgins style as Carol Mills as Eliza Doolit- tle tries to sell a flower to Colonel Pickering, Steve Long, who mar- vels at her accent. One of the show’s highlights was the scene of the “Ascot Gavotte”, where members of the cast took their roles in perfect seriousness. Debbie Pawlowski shows the graceful form which helped en- hance the show’s image, while on the opposite page Kevin Beck as Alfie Doolittle tries to explain him- self to Steve Long as Colonel Pick- ering. 20 My Fair Lady