Homer L Ferguson High School - Mariner Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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I Powderpuff Basketball Sophomores Capture Powderpuff Victory Despite the blocking efforts of the Sophomores, Freshman Leslie Alex- ander shoots in hopes of gaining two more points. Backed bv their attractive and spirited cheerleaders. Freshmen appear optimistic about their chances of winning. Sophomores Sharon Dingledein and Julie Montgomery struggle to keep Freshmen Lynn McArthur from getting the ball. Tired girls continuous practices and learning strategy the patient coaches holding their tempers in trying to create a good team the mighty sophomores shine on the twenty-second of March and the determined Freshmen vow to win next year. Freshmen tried hard to keep possession of the ball in the close battle between the teams.

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One Acts One Act Plays Include Theater Of The Absurd Eight o’clock sharp and the curtain rises on Ferguson’s Night of One-Acts a night of experimentation and new techniques in theater moving the audience from auditorium to cafeteria and the Theater-of-t he- Round three plays “Thirty Minutes in a Street” “The Narrenschneiden” and “The Lesson’’ providing entertainment for an evening well-spent. Dale Ramsey (right) confers with his nurse Wendy Townsend about his patient in the Narrenschneiden”. Patty Henry attempts to secure her falling slip while Rodnev Martin (second from left) ponders a mathematical equation in Thirty Minutes in a Street . Tommy Abbott (right ) questions priest Boh Steiner regarding a house number in “Thirty Minutes in a Street”. Wendy Townsend gasps at the atrocious condition of Har- vey Credle in the “Narrenschneiden”.

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Steve Yates keeps the audience laughing with his Bill Cos- bv impersonations. Shegav Ooka displays a traditional Japanese sword dance. Stunt Nite Students Display Various Talents In Stunt Nite Friday the twenty-seventh of March— and Ferguson’s traditional Stunt Night The Smothers Brothers introducing (but everyone knows it was only Rodney and Tommy) Sheegay doing a sword demonstration and the cheerleader’s routine satire, a poetry reading, technical troubles and finally — the teacher’s skit, the North-wind forgetting his cue, the audience with tears of laughter rolling down their faces, and the climax at the appearance of Bonnie and Clvde Stunt Night— THE SCA’s best yet. A pompon routine is performed by the Varsity Cheer- leaders to “Music to Watch Girls By”. The Crossroad Singers harmonize in their version of “Maria”.