Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Decking the sky One of the ad- vanced art students, Anthony Styer, tries out his design project kite. It flew! Final check Kathy Talley, Jeannie Grubbs and Lynn Woodlief make sure the painting is finished on one of the auditorium banners, Critical eye Mr. Everette Butler looks at a print for imperfections. Taking away the blahs... The end Lionizing the wall Finishing touches of the gym gets some help from Kim are put on the cafeteria mural by Summer and Betsy Stoud. Kathy Talley and Lynn Woodlief during the Summer. SST Fine Arts 15

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== Fine Arts They decked the halls The past year brought about some rather drastic changes in the blank wall scene around school. Mr. Ev- erett Butler put his advanced students to work on graphics in the cafeteria, gym and auditorium. Kathy Talley and = Lyn Woodlief put the finishing touches ona jungle scene on the cafeteria wall during the summer. It was a project done collectively by some of Mr. Butler’s advanced art students at the end of last year. It’s generally agreed by 14 Fine Arts all users of the cafeteria that the mural brightens the area considerably. There has long been an acoustical problem in the auditorium, so Mr. Butler ap- proached Miss Priscilla Barth, the drama instructor, about having his students design and execute large banners to hang on the walls to help re- flect sound. The best designs from an advanced art exam last year were chosen and the artists, Kathy Talley, Lyn Woodlief and Jeannie Grubbs went to work this year painting them in acrylics and adding felt borders. The motif was one of playing cards. The far end of the gym wall had a blank look, so Kim Summers, Betsy Stroud and Tina Pritchett went to work painting a large mural con- taining symbols for all of the sports played in the gym. They spent afternoons com- pleting the work. All of the other art work in the gym has been executed by Mr. But- ler’s advanced students. The poster for the chil- dren’s play ‘King Arther’s Sword”, was designed by Yun Lee. The illustration on the poster was also used on the program and tickets. They were all printed at the Tech Center. Yun also did the illustration for the ‘81 Sceptre cover. No one can say that the students in art and photogra- phy don’t learn anything. One only has to turn to a wall or publication at Meadow- brook to find evidence of what they’ve accomplished. Get the point? Yun Lee checks over her artwork on the poster for King Arthur’s Sword.

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— Fine Arts Behind closed curtains As the curtain went down no one attending the play “King Arthur’s Sword” really knew what happened be- hind the scenes. Up front the play was about a contest between eli- gible knights, the saintly Ar- thur and the evil Pellinore who is trying to pull a sword from a magic anvil, thus proving who is the rightful heir to the throne. Merlin, the wizzard, who set the sword in the anvil, proclaims that Arthur is the true son of the late King Uther of Eng- land and persuades Arthur to try and pull the sword from the anvil, which he does. Ar- thur is proclaimed the new King of England. Behind the scenes dressing | Please come out Arthur, played by junior Johnny West, shows that he is the only one who pocesses the pow- er to pull the sword out of the anvil. 16 Fine Arts all of the characters in me- deival costumes was no small task especially when it comes to persuading high school boys to wear revealing leo- tards on stage. The rock upon which the anvil rested collapsed several times before it was finally made sturdy enough to hold the sword pullings, Merlin, Bryan Tunnell, developed an allergy to the glue required to hold his beard and often went beardless. A scroll which had to be unrolled during a scene, which hap- pened to be a very serious scene, always turned up something of a rather shock- ing nature to the unroller, Jon Stonestreet. Bryan Tunnell was not happy at the prospect of be- ing painted green for his frog scene but a green leotard, frog head and mother-made flippers save the day. The set and props themselves took a tremendous amount of work which did not cease until late the evening before the play opening. There were the trees to make, a large back drop re- quired the use of the largest ladder the school owned and a huge cathedral window was required in the final scene. The play closed with a great deal of laughter as Ar- thur knocked Pellinore’s sword off stage and a little boy in the front row politely threw it back at a nonplussed Pellinore who bowed his thanks. Extra, Extra Jon Stonestreet reads some on coming news. What? Me? “Pull a sword out of a rock?” replies freshman Barry Cook. Tech. Crew First Row: Margaret Watson, Jenny Blaine, Pam Laslie, Carol Kiger, Spencer Cook, Steve Combs, Kenneth Williams, Jimmy Casteel Back Row: Paul Haynes, Dane Bragg, Shawn Stockwell