La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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Although many weeks were spent by prom theme and decoration committees in careful planning, when it come down to the initial tosk of transforming the Gvic Auditorium into a Southern plantation, several Juniors were faced with a strenuous week and sparse sleeping hours. Under the leadership and direction of Lowell Barker, Keith Piper, Jane Droege, and Beth Whitted, students were encouraged to prepare carefully. With their constont drive and enthusiasm, four hundred stors were foiled and hung, magnolia blossoms were created, and other seemingly endless tasks were performed. Impossible as it seemed, by Tuesday when the crepe paper depicting walls of ivy was hung, the Southern garden began to look more and more realistic and the downstoirs was converted into a formal dining room with paneled wolls, chandeliers, a fire place, and long draping curtains. Juniors also encountered the problems of painting white over the predominately black Swing Choir backdrops, stringing stors too low, and centering the mansion's roof — they survived. After the completion of the Southern mansion backdrop late Friday afternoon. Juniors anxiously owaited the arrival of their peers to see how successful they had been in creating A Taste of Southern Romance. AND NEITHER, WAQ THE- FRO U 25