Marshall High School - Dial Yearbook (Marshall, MI)

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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.

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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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PURCHASING HIS DATE’S cor- sage is Matt Davis. This is one of the many errands that have to be done during the day of prom. —A. Albright WORKING ON IUST ONE of his spectacular jungle paintings is junior james Mestemaker. James, along with Shelby Low- man. deserved a lot of credit for their amazing artistic work on the jungle. —S. Hatcher AFTER COMPLETING the back- drop for the couples pictures, ju- niors Karen Lee. Debbie Fhaner, Sally Hatcher, and Lori Cook de- cided it was time for a rest. But first, they had to give it a try by getting their picture taken with it. —J. Mestemaker BUILDING THE BRIDGE are ju- niors Eric LaFleur and Greg La- bun. The bridge was part of the tropical rainforest area. —S. Hatcher I 22 J-Hop Preparation