Manchester High School - Memoir Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Battle of Brains Team Advances Hedda Galder, Porgy and Bess, The Mikado and Ghosts are four of the plays seen this year by the English honors classes. Most of the freshmen classes saw the movie version of Ro- meo and Juliet, and in Miss Pickles’ class and “‘Elizabethan Festival’ was celebrated. Besides movies and plays, some students participated in the Battle of the Brains competitions. Under the di- rection of Ron Gunter, the four team members advanced to the finals. Most outstanding English student, Susan Pre- ville, accepts the English Department's highest award from Department Chairman Ada Hill at the Senior Awards Assembly. Intellectual champions. Michael Pemberton, David Keeler, Susan Preville, and Andrew Brandt made up Manchester’s Battle of the Brains team. 8 Literary World

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LNRM OP fp State Finalist. Jennifer Brandt, Harold Goldston, Janet Guthrie, and Chuck Shelton starred in Impromptu, a one act play which made it to the state level of competi- tion. Academics Division 7

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Working on a speech, Senior Kim Slayton reads an article as preliminary work. Job description. Senior Rick Rickman delivers a speech on the occupation of his choice. What a day! English teacher Ms. Laura Trimble sighs in relief after a long, hard day of work. | don’t see what they see in Shakespeare. Seniors Terry Outland and Mark Ingram read their classical literature assignment. Literary World 9