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

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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

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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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CAST Cast, crews give vacation to stage Helloy Dolly production After a strenuous Easter vacation spent readyin g Hello, Dolly for produc¬ tion, Choral Club gave two perfor¬ mances, April 23 and 24. Vohr school students were treated to a matinee, view¬ ing selected excerpts from the musical Miss Mary Clark directed the group in the production. Pete Peronis as assistant director scheduled rehearsals and man¬ aged crew workers. Claudia Barnhouse sang the title role, Dolly Gallagher Levi. The male lead, Horace Vandergelder, was double cast, the parts being sung by Mike Spurlock and Pete Peronis. Rudolph maitre d’ Hannonia Gardens, takes orders as the waiters prepare to serve dinner. Dolly—Claudia Barnhouse Horace—Pete Peronis Horace—Mike Spurlock Irene Mollay—Jill Edwards Irene Mollay—Terri Pettis Minnie Fay—Debbie Cinder Ambrose Kemper—Norman Montgomery Barnaby—Rick Issac Barnaby—Mike Sangerman Cornelius—Rodney Freeman Ermengarde—Mary Jo Cobb Ermengarde—Pam Mullins Rudolph—Derrick Anderson Dolly Gallagher (Claudia Barnhouse) and Horace Vandergelder (Pete Peronis) arrange for another meeting. 24