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

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Queens Reign Cupteinb at LPf-fC On October 21, many spirited Slicer fans joined the Homecom- ing festivities. Due to the decision not to have a parade, students decorated their cars and trucks and paraded them down Lincoln- way in an effort to spur on their fellow Slicers. Slicers were then escorted by a police car to the bonfire on “A” St. After their spirit was aroused, Slicer fans headed for Kiwanis Field to meet the opposing team. During halftime BSC nominee Marie Benjamin was named the 1977 Homecoming Queen. Marie's court consisted of Chris Kramer representing Art Club and Julie lemmolo representing Pep- per Club. Queen candidates were escorted by BSC members. The 1978 Spring Sports Queen was Marie Benjamin. Other candi- dates were P. Deardurff, C. Kramer, K. Rippy, and P. Heyse. After each club had nominated three girls, spring sports partici- pants picked five outstanding girls to be nominees. Then on May 16 students voted on one girl to become the 1978 Spring Sports Queen, who was announced at a Slicer Baseball game on May 20. 15

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1. Marie Benjamin expresses her excitement as she is crowned 1977 Homecoming Queen. 2. The Sheer tamborine helps pro- mote spirit. 3. Marie Benjamin and her escort Rip Ludlow express their happiness as the winner is announced. 4. Spring Sports nominee Karen Rippy receives a bouquet of flow ers. 5. Members of the football team participate in a pep session. 6. Ray Cox announces the Spring Sports Queen. u

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' Bye Bye Btotfe’ ’ Becomes FcM t-fib Bye Bye Birdie” was the title of this year’s musical which opened November 17 with two other performances on Novem- ber 18and 19. The musical centered around Albert Peterson, (Bernie Killian) a manager for a rock star, and his girlfriend Rosie Alvarez (Dawn DeMarco). Rosie wanted Albert to give up his managing job and marry her. To help Albert earn enough money to pay Conrad Birdie (Randy Black) his share of their part- nership, Rosie dreamed up a plan to have Conrad give a sym- bolic last kiss to Kim MacAfee (Evie Thake) before he joined the Army. He would sing a song which would become a hit and earn a lot of money. But the scheme was complicated by Kim’s jealous boyfriend (Jeff McGee) and Albert’s domineer- ing mother (Susan Zickmund) who didn’t want Albert to marry Rosie. Director James Lampl and musical director Eddie Burk were largely responsible for the show's success. The orchestra and director Guy Foreman pro- vided the background music, and Robert Rhodes was the technical director. After the final performance on November 19, the cast pre- sented Mr. Burk with two birth- day cakes. When asked to give his age by the cast members, he declined.