Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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What Is MUS? Is our school the staid institution that began with Werts and Rhea, or is it the dynamic school that is known by the anagram MUS? Is it the white doric columns and antebellum South flavor of the front of Hyde Chapel, or is it the stark, contemporary ziggurat of the library? Is MUS the bronze plaque dedicating the library with a quote from Luke 2:52, or the water buffalo upstairs? Is our school the pristine virginity of the north courtyard, or the promiscuity of the lounge which everybody visits and defiles? How does the MUS student feel when he brags that his school is the best in the city, or when an outsider stereotypes MUS as a place for rich kids? Could MUS be the lantern atop the administrative wing, or the ham radio antenna? Is our mascot the sculptured owls in the foyer, or the hungry-looking buzzards on the back windshields of students ' cars? Is MUS the frenzied spirit of a 10 to 7 victory over CBHS, or studying all night for an exam? Does our education here consist of learning about nuclear fallout and sex in ninth grade health, or is it questioning the ethics of nuclear weapons and sex in twelfth grade Bible? Is MUS an Upper and Lower school? Is it that first day in the seventh grade or graduating after six long years? Is our school running that accursed cross country course on cold, damp mornings when your lungs burn and your feet get wet, or is it sitting on the porch of the lounge taunting the guys that run by you? What about Hatchett ' s locker and the threats to remove the food machines and the compliments on our behavior in chapel and the bells and microphones never working right? Is MUS a school with a million dollar endowment or a place to grow up? An explosion of oranges, reds, and whites pierces the black sky over downtown Memphis during the Fourth of July fireworks display. The bicentennial fervor of the celebration on the Mississippi River died soon after the last rocket burst had extinguished itself in the water below. MUS students remained passive to America ' s 200th birthday. Many students planned to attend the Independence Day festivities on the river, but most arrived after it was over. When skies turn blue and grass brightens from brown to green and trees begin to bud, MUS students look at the front of their school where the winter ' s gloom has been spent and think that it isn ' t such a bad place after all, him (■aMHMHMMia mmMm. 4 OPKNINC,

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The three cube-shaped lights outside the library are in contrast with the cupola atop the administrative vvin«. TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

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. W | 1 :W ■ ' JtJr m tJflfBf ™ IBfi i MM There are many places on the MUS campus which are rarely visited. One is the sign facing Park Avenue. From behind it, a member of the MUS community views the world in a different perspective. In such spots the cares and worries of the outside seem remote and unreal. Moved by the renewal of the MUS-CBHS rivalry. Col. Lynn, with the support of the cheerleaders, begins the first of 15 traditional rahs — team, team, team. One wonders if this overt display of spirit moved the football team to a 10-7 victory that night. OPENING