Homestead High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Rain doesn't dampen spirits Senior take powderpuff It was not exactly the Super Bowl, but it was close for those who were a part of it. It was Powder Puff 1982. The big girls foot ball game was just the finish of weeks of high hopes and hard prac- tices. For almost a month before, the teams had been planning and practicing. The coaches were looking for talent and working on plays that would hopefully bring the reward of victory that everyone sought. It was a new world for the young ladies as they found out what football was about. lt was work to learn the 14 Powder Puff Football plays, and hours and hours of practice after school, in the evenings, and on weekends. It was running and exercis- ing, and drilling and then do- ing everything over again. It was bumps and bruises, and skinned elbows and knees. But it was also fun. There was a feeling of friendship with the people who were sharing the time and with the people who were sharing the hopes and expectations. It was a time of spirited hellos in the halls between classes and a few notes passed during the classes. It was a time of teachers and administrators wishing everyone well and trying to have a regular day of classes when some people's atten- tion was getting increasingly harder to hold. And finally it was here. But it was cold . . . the ther- mometer dropped below the freezing mark and the rain that fell all day was almost turning into snow. But it was Friday night and it was time to go play Powder Puff foot- ball. The game was hard fought and the fans were lead to frenzies of cheering Cand laughing, by the guys dressed as gals who were the cheerleaders. And it was slip and slide as the two teams tried to play on a field that was rapidly turning into a sea of mud. When it was over, the Se- niors had won. They had de- feated the Iuniors. But the big thing was that this experi- ence was shared and another Homestead activity had been Made To Order for the people who participated. Rain reduced playing conditions to a mud bowl as the Powder Puff game continued to slide along.

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Fall play fills auditorium 'Iabberwock' i big success Tremendously successful these two words, said by di- rector Ed Kozcergo, sum up six weeks of rehearsal on the fall play Iabberwock. Most people don't realize that a two hour play can take hundreds, if not thousands of combined student-teacher hours. Every play starts with an idea created by the direc- tor. l get my ideas from read- ing past performances and using my own judgement, but mostly from my own per- sonal experiences as a direc- tor. commented Kozcergo. After an idea is thought up, six weeks of contruction and rehearsals are ready to begin. One might not understand rs 1 why a play takes six weeks to rehearse but each scene must be practiced many times. Also there are hundreds of lines to be learned. But a play isn't just hard work and long hours. It can be a fun and enlightening ex- perience. For example, When Mark Westlake and Bekki Krueger got into bed and someone forgot to turn off the tape recording of Stars and Stripes, remembers ju- nior Amy Olry However se- nior Ieff Lawso thought, the funniest event that hap- pened during practice was when Mr. Kozcergo drove the golf cart off the stage. Is there a reason a cast of twenty-nine actors and ac- tresses and a crew of twelve people would devote hours upon hours and sacrifice late nights for a play? Matt Wil- liams said, I loved the praise. Sophomore Paige johnson also commented It's kind of like a special time set apart from everyday life. Se- nior Karen Counterman had another reason, Because all of us cast and crew alike were joined together to obtain one goal: to make people forget their dreary lives and live in a chaotic setting like that of the Thurber household. We were one. Many people agreed that Grandpa, played by senior Matt Williams, was probably the best acting job done. But junior Kim Thieme and se- nior Iulie Miller said, We all gave it our best. Thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars, plus for- ty people made Jabberwock a smash hit with the students at Homestead. Mr. Koczergo commented, It was a play that gave us the opportunity to laugh at ourselves in times of trouble and cry at mo- ments when everything was exquisitely perfect. Both the cast and the audience were amazed at the goings on that filled the stage. Iabberwock 13

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