Marshall High School - Dial Yearbook (Marshall, MI)

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LET’S DANCE. Demonstrating the line dance are seniors Karla Vincent and Kyle Mauer. The line dance is always a hit at the 50’s dance. —B. Armstrong LET’S DO THE TWIST. Show- ing how the “Peppermint Twist is done is senior Kent Smock and sophomore Theresa Basse. The twist is one of the popular 50’s dances. —). Carroll COOL DUDES. Front: Kelly O’Dowd, Jenny LaBonte. Lisa Kimball, Debra Kannegeiter, Cindy Rexrode. Lance Elyea, Jamie Holt. Jody Crull. Kris Wood, Nikki Russell. Karla Vin- cent. and Todd Turner. Second: Tony Charameda. Mark Costa. John Pratt, Alex DeMott, Chris Mann, Tom Blanford, Bruce Schroeder, Steve Day, and Kyle Mauer. —B. Armstrong AROUND AND AROUND goes Mollie Laing. senior, led by Todd Turner, senior. This is just one of the many steps the stu- dents did in the 50’s. —B. Arm- strong HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? The limbo was demonstrated by se- nior John Pratt during the pre- dance held at lunch in the cafe- teria Friday afternoon. —J. Car- roll 20 50’s Dance

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Aloha! The snow outside didn't stop junior Scott Whitesell and sophomore Kris Schmidt from dressing in spirit. Tropical Day was one of the three dress up days for Spirit Festival. — T. YVakenight Pull! Pull! The senior tuggers give it their all towards a first place finish in the Tug-O-War competition. In the end. the se- niors won this event and Spirit Festival as a whole. — T. VVakenight It was time again. School pride shone as the week of Spirit Festival be- gan. The week started out with the announcement of the theme, “Board Games.” Senior Julie Lapp mentioned, “I thought the theme was a unique idea, but. after four years, any- thing looks good.” Each class had six days to complete their finished window display. Seniors came on top with a check- er board arrangement. Ju- IM niors, along with the soph- omores, tied for second place, and the freshmen completed the standings. Once again, the dress up days took place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday was College Day; Thurs- day was tropical Day, or “Get ready for Spring Break” Day; Friday was the traditional Red and Black day. Junior Tina Hughes added, “Tropical Day was the only fun dress up day. I consider College Day an excuse for people to grub and say they’re spirited.” On Friday the entire student body spent 5th and 6th hour in the gym participating in events. Students had various opinions as to which event was their favorite. “My fa- vorite event is the mum- my wrap because every year that Kelly O’Dowd and 1 have done it, we have won!” mentioned se- nior Mark Monk. Sopho- more Jason Eslinger add- ed, “I like the tug-o-war because it really shows which class has the most strength.” Freshman Diana Orns commented, “The pizza eating contest is definitely the best. It shows how many pigs we have in school!” As the events came to a close, the senior class came out on top with the juniors, sophomores, and freshmen to follow. Spirit Festival excite- of pride ment continued as some of the teachers put togeth- er a skit that made fun of the Lakeview Spartans. Finally, the Marshall High School basketball team was introduced and the student body was dis- missed afterwards. That night, Marshall played against Lakeview and Marshall came out victorious. Following the game, the cheerleaders sponsored a grub” dance. Everyone dressed as messy as possible and photos were taken with their favorite partner in grub. Spirit Festival

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Twisting to the tunes of the past Students prepared for an evening of the past by brushing up on old dances like the hokey-po- key. bunny hop and the line dance. Every day students heard the voice of Big Daddy” Armstrong on the announcements rockin' to the “Peppermint Twist.” “Let’s go to the Hop.” the original “La- Bamba,” and many other 50’s hits. “ ‘Big Daddy,’ Arm- strong really set the mood the whole week by play- ing the old songs. By Fri- day I couldn’t wait until the dance,” commented Lynda Dirmeyer, sopho- more. Friday afternoon some seniors put on a predance show in the cafeteria to demonstrate the various dances, which really got the students fired up. “It was great watching the seniors dance to the old songs,” stated fresh- man Paul Reed. The dance was from 8:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. and Northern Lights played the medley of hits which really got the stu- dents swaying. “My favorite part of the whole dance was watch- ing everyone try to dance to the songs. If they didn’t know how to dance to the songs they resorted to twisting,” exclaimed Tammy Gage, junior. The Limbo contest is always a highlight of the 50’s dance. The over-all winners this year were seniors Kelly O'Dowd and Steve Clark. After the fun was all over it was time to put away the poodle skirts until next year when stu- dents could take another step back in time.