Madison East High School - Tower Tales Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Rollie Willan and Virginia Holmes, the 1957 king and queen. of homecoming, pose for a royal portrait. The grand march, one of the many memor- able highlights o:E the evening, was led by: Lynn Johnson, Bob Herrick, Dick Pfanku, Betty Q1-1'Fe 't. Vireinia Holmes .and Rollie Willan. Homecoming Purgo:lder's Promenade was the title of the 1957 homecoming dance held in the Crystal' Ball- room of the Loraine Hotel on November Z. Bob Arden's band provided the music for the couples who danced from 10 RM. to l A. M. at the event sponsored by the East Side Youth Mayor's Council, Miniature football characters and cardboard silhouettes depicting football scenes, together with pennants from all the Big Eight Conference schools, decorated the ballroom. Virginia Holmes was named queen and her date, Rollie W'illan, was named king after Vir- ginia's name was drawn from the name box by Tom Vander Mfuelen, East Side Youth Mayor, during intermission. He crowned her with a garland of purple and white chrysanthemums. The ceremony was climaxed by the grand march, led by the king and queen and a court of two other couples.

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Pageant Night 1 IQS7 Oklahoma , the theme of this year's annual pageant by the East High band November l, featured the melodies from the popular Broadway play of the same name. Led by drum major, john Ahrens, the band marched out in a drizzling mist Saturday night onto a slightly muddy field to go through with the traditional festivities. The week before a drenching downpour forced band director Robert XVoollen to postpone pageant night. Oh, Wliat A Beautiful lXlorning was the first number played, as the band spread out in a sem-circle to give the il- lusion of a brilliant sun coming up over the horizon. The band's next formation included two huge eutwined hearts pierced with Cupid's arrow, which set the mood for People XVill Say VVe're ln Love. Oklahoma couldn't be complete without a surrey. The spoked wheels turned slowly and the fringe of bl-we and yellow crepe paper iluttered in the breeze as our surrey made its way across the Held to the tune of The Surrey with the Fringe in Top. Our final salute to OKLAHOMA was the formation pictured below. Then the band swung into the East High Pep song which brought to a close the 1957 Pageant. Our Alma Mater. Th e letters of the familiar EAST are formed by the band at the end of the half-time exhibitions. The color guard leads the band in the pre-game march. -9-

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Silhouettes Silhouettes was the theme of this year's fall party, give by the senior class on November 22, in the East High Gym. Norm Kingsley's band provided delightful music for dancing from S130 Barbara Ayen, Dan Mil- sted, Kay Jorenby, and Wayne Luck dance to the theme song Si1houettes . as the wonderful evening comes to an end. to 11:3O. The theme of the party was carried out in the striking decorations which included huge black silhouettes, laced with pink and powder-blue crepe paper, and around which stars and muisical notes gently floated. Multi-colored streamers also casaded downward from the huge crystal moon high up in the center of the gym. Bottom Left: Work before play! Here part of the decioirations committee finishes up one cf the large cardboard silhouettes. Kneeling: Myrna Hanson and Bar- bara I-Pofppe. Standing: Mary Bliese, Diana Golden, and Sally Felt. Bottom Right: Mrs. A. J. Barrett gazes dreamily into the distance, as Mr. and Mrs. August Vander Meulen have a down- to-earth conversation. ...ll-