McAuley High School - Gilmarian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Student Council Demolishes Doldrums 51'- ' 5, ,' 3rftL,Eil 1 ,.,w.. :1.-5-Tl -fa' f I is D While Cathy Peat enjoys the sight of all the Valentine heart cookies being sold to support the Heart Soci- ety, Karen Quinn sighs as she thinks about eating all those delectable cookies. Student Council Executive Board mem- bers and advisors met once a week behind the closed door of room 314 to brainstorm on school activities. Ideas were thrown out into the open where they were either named as possibilities or forgotten. Some of the considered ideas were Bagel days, Roller Skating parties, and Christmas and Valentine Post Office. Bagel Days, known for their success in the past, were approved. On Bagel day almost every student, diet or no diet, bought either a raisin, onion, pumper- nickle, garlic, egg, or for the less daring a plain bagel. For those students who wanted to go all out, cream cheese was sold as a bagel topping. Christmas and Valentine Post Office gave the students a chance to secretly mail their presents, cards, and Valentines to their friends. The profits from the Post Of- fice were then sent to help the mis- sionaries, so just about everyone gained something from the activity. Roller skating parties gave the students a try at roller disco . Certain students re- ally got into the disco scene and used cos- tumes to express themselves. Some of these disco freaks were Liz Plezia who spent hours braiding her hair to attempt to simulate the Bo Derek imageL Liz's disco partner, jean Gray, expressed herself by a colorful outfit of fishnet nylons and red satin shorts. Executive Board, after trying many suggestions, succeeded in providing sev- eral alternatives to spending evenings and free mods doing homework. As soon as the general activities were planned, the board centered their ideas towards plan- ning the MAIN EVENT: Student Council Week.

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' iv -v. 1 '15-un. The juniors show class spirit as they play Crack the Whip at the Student CounciI's first skating party. While Tammy Schnapp is hard at work selling bagels, jane Skibski is ready to devour her fingerful of bagels. -'l'1- - if V M S..

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Crazy Days ttack The cafeteria tables were shoved aside to ac- comodate jitterbuggers practicing for the bash that night. Kicking their heels up high are Nancy McCloud, Cindy McCarthy, joan Beaudry, Cheryl Frick and Karla Merrells. Sue Hess checks out the winning numbers to see if any match a number on her array of rain- bow pins while Karen Quinn and Cindy Hib- bert verify her chances of winning a rainbow surprise. The cafeteria was decorated in a bright spectrum to chase away the Monday morning blues. Roll Your Tootsies was the theme of Student Council's second skating party. Tootsie rolls were sold during the day to stir up excitement for that night's skating pany. Crazy hats, rainbows, tootsie rolls, painted faces, saddle shoes and red lipstick. What on earth was this non- sense? Well . . . here's a plausible explanation. Although the students' age range was between 13 and 18, they needed an outlet to vent frustra- tions and anxieties brought about by school and adolescent pressure and the outlet usually emerged in a juvenile and silly mode. Executive Board plotted and plan- ned to devise a different Spirit Week. Flower day was thrown to the com- post pile and rainbow day emerged as a colorful replacement. On the second day of Spirit Week, there were many unrecognizable girls strolling the halls - it was Paint Your Face I N--.L ,L 1 Yu-..NL - I va. 1 1- ' rl' T .if 'Hu F. ' 'L il E I' - .. -4-.V I- J, , ,V ,Q , , i 1 I ' ,ff ' 'rf ..- ' ..,, 4 Ti' f.:7 4r,,5l - . .. ,- 121 1'i1fa'1C'31f .-'Q f ' 'Q ' Day. Smiles literally stretched from ear to ear. Roller skaters had the chance to roll their tootsies on Wednesday. 1200 tootsie rolls were sold in a record 20 sweet minutes. Thursday, girls rummaged through attics to don absurd hats. Friday was the grand finale - Greaser Day! Except for a handful of girls who turned the day into a jeans day, most girls saddled up and greased up to rock into the '50s. The day culminated with the Greaser Dance. Disc jockies from WOHO spun the tunes of the 1950's and or- ganized a dance contest. Seniors Laura Landes and loanne Kuhn won the jitterbug contest and received two tickets to the 1. Geil's concert. The purpose of Spirit Week surely was successful. Each girl frolicked in the carefree, uninhibitive environ- ment created by the craziness of Spirit Week. At least for a week, smiles and laughter and silliness evoked a happy atmosphere in the freezes of February activities.