Meade High School - Genesis Yearbook (Fort Meade, MD)

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PEGASUS '84 The Literary Magazine The Pegasus is one of Meade's displays of literary and artistic talent. Ev- ery year the students of Meade pour their fears, emotions, joys, and hardships into their writing and art. These passages and drawings are sorted, debated over, chosen, placed in a layout, typed up and sent to the printers. When it comes back to be sold to the public it can be proudly held aloft as representing a year of diligent work and care. 4 Philip Grant and Michelle Puls work on promotional posters urging people to submit literary material. V Pages from the annual edition of Pegasus are displayed in the English area. Literary Magazine l 121

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EX p S S I 0 I I I I I Meade students find the Express to be interest- p ing reading. For 250 a copy, who could afford to The Express Students interested in journalism had an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience by joining the Express staff. The Express was supervised by Mr. William Sheppard and run, for the most part, by Marie Wauldron - News Editor, Stacie Seifrit - Feature Editor, and Oriole Nagy - Sports Editor. They were very busy publishing the school's newspa- per throughout the year. The paper featured articles concern- ing school events and editorials on students cars jMean Machinesl, graduate updates, and music puzzles. A few of the investigating Express reporters - Hope Alexander, Philip Dashiell, and Brian Mowery - contributed greatly to the success of this school's paper. Mr. Sheppard said of the entire staff and paper, The Express is the voice Meade's student body. We want the stu- dents to remember that we welcome their com- ments and suggestions miss it? Mr. Sheppard is the advisor of the Express. V on any area of the news- paper. We hope the stu- dents will continue to support us, and we also want to thank' them for their support during the 1983-84 schoolyearf' The many faces of newspaper journalism at Meade. A 120 X Newspaper

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122 X Drama Brooke Joiner applies stage make-up to Liz Dick before tile opening of Pomp and Circum- t s ances. Brooke Joiner, Laura Crockett and Renea Mills fill helium balloons before the Homecoming parade. V Meade's Drama Club The Drama Club is one of the most popular clubs at Meade. As usual, the Drama Club attracted many members at the beginning of school, and grew to about thirty strong. The president of the Drama Club was Flebecca Cole, the Vice- president was Bruce McLellan lthis posi- tion was later turned over to Shirley Wil- liamsi, the secretary was Shirley Williams and the treasurer was Danny Beck. The Drama Club was under the new direction of English teacher Deborah Pferdeort. One of the first undertakings of the club in the 83-84 season was the Homecoming parade. For the second year in a row, the Drama Club members dressed up like clowns and marched along with the pa- rade, carrying balloons and making spec- tators laugh. At the Homecoming game, the members sold the helium balloons to the fans. The Drama Club usually sponsors a drama or comedy in the fall, a series of one act plays in the winter months, and a musical in the spring. This year was no exception. The fall production was Pomp and Circumstances, which featured Shirley Williams, Todd Ritter, Elizabeth Dick, Rebecca Cole, Jay Buttner, Mike Wiggins and Wendy Gotwalt. The play was about a high school senior lHeather Flockj, and all the traumas she encoun- ters during her last year in school. Tryouts for the one act plays were held following the Christmas break. Although the turnouts were good, the heavy snow in January caused the plays to not go on as scheduled. Instead, the club hoped to put these plays on during school in a series of assemblies. The best of these plays would go on to compete at the county festival.