Holland Hall High School - Eight Acres Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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In Tommy, one of this year's most lavish musicals, Elton john, as the Pinball Wizard, taunts the deaf, dumb, and blind Tommy, Roger Daltrey. Movies Give Us Crackers And Sex Lost in an avalanche of balloons, African Dave jumps while all hell breaks loose at the Helluva Dance. In the most economically successful year since the post-WW ll box office boom, the American movie industry went scampering back to the frothy romance and escapist opiate to appease an inflation-worn, Watergate-weary audience. Moviegoing became the most popular form of entertain- ment once wallets and pocketbooks were too depleted for nightclubbing and burlesque shows. This new audience was treated to thrillers such as Chinatown and Murder on the Orient Express, musicals like the delightfully trite Funny Lady and the painfully trite At Long Last Love, comedies like Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and Prisoner of Second Avenue, along with other such varied ventures as Fellini's Amarcord, The Godfather Part ll, The Towering Inferno, and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Holland'Hall's Robert Redford fans tboth of theml got their just desserts in The Great Waldo Pepper. Fans of rock opera and half-baked religious allegories grokked over Tommy, a 53.5 million rock spectacular with an all star cast. For fans of sado-masochistic kinky sex, Nazi style, there was The Night Porter, which broke box-office records talong with perfume bottles, bones, teeth, etc.J everywhere. Adulators of the Marx Brothers were able to see the re-released Animal Crackers of 1930, one of their lesser films but pretty good nevertheless. For foreign film fans, Fellini's Amarcord, a nostalgic recollection of childhood, was heralded as the Master's greatest work. Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage and Michaelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger each played in Tulsa for one week, proving perhaps that the Oil Capital of the World is not the foreign film capital of the world. In fact, The Passenger was replaced by Charles Bronson in Breakout. There's a lesson to be learned here somewhere. l 5

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On August 9, I'm o Quittern On August 9, I'm no quitter joined the ranks of the Classic Premature Statements, along with such other favorites as Don't worry private, they never attack at night and Well lack, you can't say that Dallas hasn't been good to you today. It was on this day that the 37th President of the United States resigned in disgrace, to be succeeded by the first unelected president in American history. Vice-presidents have ascended to the presidency in the past due to deaths from illness or assassination, but never before has a vice-president ap- pointed during the course of the administration ascended to the presidency. Therefore, this country's celebration of its 200th year of democracy in 'I976 will be celebrated under a president who was personally selected by Nixon. At this writing, Gerald Ford has been president for a few days short of a year. It's too early to predict his place in history with any precision. As for his performance of the past year, he has proven himself, at the very least, an immeasurable im- provement on his predecessor. tl'm tempted to say at this point that anyone would have been. But i'll keep my mouth shut.J His handling of the Mayaguez incident was roundly applauded as a shot in the arm for America's dropping morale. His program of ' amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters, though unsuccessful, was at least a nice attempt to please all of the people at once. His ill-timed pardon of Nix- on, though probably well-intended, has slammed the lid on the full story of Nixon's participation in Watergate, possibly forever. As for Ford's chances for re-election, stay tuned for the editorial in next year's yearbook. Richard Nixon skips in San Clemente, while President Ford swims in the White House's newest addition. East is East, West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

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' 3 5 ' 'F W ,, , , , Mr. Bird, with one year as head- master behind him, has yet to create a totally unanimous impression of himself among the students. Perhaps he hasn't really emerged from his shell. Compared to the eternally-jovial Mr. Moore, he seems rather strait-laced. But his humor comes out at odd moments, proving to be almost as dry as that of Carlos Tuttle himself. He has a deep interest in theatre which he demonstrated in the all- star production of lonesco's The Bald Soprano, which he co-directed with Mr. Elmer, and also in his appearance in the upper-school talent show, Ex- pression One, in which he contributed his baritone voice to the faculty quartet. l'm looking forward to the 1975-76 school year with a great deal more in- terest and anticipation than usual, as it just may be the year that Mr. Bird, now secure in his role of headmaster and well-known to the Holland Hall com- munity, casts 'off his shell and truly becomes himself with the students. As the Vietnamese put it, 1976 may be the Year of the Bird. Above: During his visit to the United States, Alexander Solzhenitsyn converses at a Washington dinner party, Directly Above: Discussing the prospects of a bus to Casady, Mr. Brown and Mr. Bird ponder the pro's and con's. Left: Rick Chadsey passes the time during one of the many class meetings that concerned Senior privileges.