Horace Mann High School - Horace Manual Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Holiday leave cuts Twirp week activity to two days Twirp week activities were cut short this year because of the Christmas holi¬ days. December 21 and 22, the final days before vacation, were devoted to the young men. Mann’s young women carried books. opened doors and buttoned coats for the young men, bringing visions of future women’s liberation. Monday, class day, found seniors wearing yellow; juniors, blue; sophomores, brown; and fresh¬ men, green, colors assigned to classes. On their way to the guidance office, Martha Ortiz opens the door for Alex Medina. Tradition is reversed as Cynthia Brown helps Michael Mosley put on his jacket. Right in step with Twirp week rules is Pat Harris who carried the load for Eddie Brown. Lori Waiss holds a chair for Charlie Davis as one of the Twirp Week activities. U I EJ L 22

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Drama club in variety acts, Becky Guy recites “Some keep the Sabbath. PotpourrU as Drama club’s first show of the school year, entitled Potpourri, presented an assortment of sketches by noted play¬ wrights. The evening’s entertainment offered satirical views of society as in the Sketch Feiffers’ People, gay comedy from The Taming of the Shrew and timeliness of a season opens situation in A Raisin in the Sun. The cast, Bob Forszt, Frank Merced, Marsha Morris, Laura Sosa, Tom Sam- german, Becky Guy, George Taylor, Pat Gullet, Linda Mayes, Joy McDuffie, and Dykes Rice concluded the program reading The Body of an American. Smirvov (Bob Miller) shoves Luka (Laura Sosa) into Mrs. Popov’s arms, played by Joy McDuffie, demanding his money in The Boor. Doris (Linda Williams) tries to get Charles’ (Bob Forszt) attention in Feiffer ' s People. Mrs. Bailey (Marsha Morris) weeps over her son’s (Dykes Rice) death in Soul Gone Home.

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Dancing under blue and white streamers, couples in the small crowd at the Turnabout found plenty of the floor. Turnabout couples cross Bridge of Love Beginning the New Year in women’s lib fashion, Girls’ Club members and friends invited their dates to Turnabout, January 2. To enter the girls’ gym, couples walked up a staircase decorated in blue and white called Bridge of Love. Hearts, cupids, stars, streamers and a mural showing a bridge of blue paper flowers provided background for danc¬ ing to music by Birth, the band formerly known as the Stepping Stones. Girls invited their dates to the affair, paid for tickets, pictures and bouton¬ nieres; escorts bought flowers, paid for refreshments and provided transporta¬ tion. In charge of production were com¬ mittee heads Carol Neal, decorations; Myra Landrum and Iris Spruill, pub¬ licity; Carol Neal, Shirley Young, Nor¬ ma Arcehiga, and Vanessa Floyd, bids; Connie Vaught, band; Pat Harris, tickets; Vanessa Floyd, pictures; and Carol Neal, chaperones. Discussing decoratigns ' are Earl Puckett, Myra Landrum, Sharmayne Porter and Maurice Preston, surrounded by dancers from the next film. Dancing to the music, David Bryant leads his date for the evening, Pam Edger. 23