Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Floored by a stray elbow, Honkey the Donkey displays his stubborn streak as Laura Sanderson tries to coax him into rejoining the battle. Each spring donkey basketball returns to MUS to enliven the squalid lives of the students. In the spirit of Joe Garagiola, Cecil White- Shoes Godman chews his chaw, while Chip Spaceman Lansden exhibits his beer gut. Participating in the tough American Legion League, MUS ' baseball team struggled through the season to a record of 8-8. The team was managed by Joe Davis. A benevolent Mr. Jackson looks at the hunger-crazed day campers, while Willie doles out more of the mysterious concoctions. As in past years, MUS Day Camp was very successful, providing future Buzzards with an organized form of summer activities. 24 STUDENT LIKE ' A

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£a TttaKC ct, ' V leant Applying her makeup, Jody Markell prepares for the role of Dulcinea. After an absence of 1 Vi years, she returned for her fifth leading role on the MUS stage. Torn between right and wrong, barmaid Dulcinea is ravished by seven wandering muleteers in a lonely tavern. She later met Don Quixote, who gave her life meaning and morality. News spread quickly when George Elder announced that MUSTA ' D would be presenting Man of La Mancha for the 1977 spring musical. To say the least, this was an ambitious undertaking for any high school theatre. Yet on April 21, 22, and 23 at 8 p.m., the lights of Hyde Chapel came up for a combined audience of over 1500 and the Impossible Dream became a beautiful realization. The action of this play takes place in a dungeon wherein Cervantes, a playwright, presents a play to the other prisoners so that they might not rob him of his belongings. With the aid of music, a few prisoners, some costumes, and several props, Cervantes tells the story of a mad knight, Don Quixote, who ventures forth to perform chivalrous deeds in a graceless and ugly world. Leading roles in the musical went to Flip Eikner, Jody Markell, Skip Jones, Hugh Sinclair, Jeanne Thurman, and Kimberly Cain; and for the first time Director George B. Elder and Stage Designer Andrew Saunders performed on stage as well. The set for the musical was unique in that it was totally black, and in that it had a raked stage so that the floor slanted down to the audience. It was the most effective setting we have ever used, said Andrew Saunders. It was apropos that Man of La Mancha was Director Elder ' s last production at MUS. He had dreamt of putting on the show for eight years, and doing it was an impossible dream come true. MAN OF LA MANCHA 23

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Keeping in tune with the nature theme of the Spring Festival, Earl McClanahan reverts to his primal instincts by consuming bushels of bananas. The banana-eating contest was but one of the many events, including an Arts and Crafts exhibition, Mr. Todd ' s sculpture, a magic show. Furry Lewis, and other performing artists. Having just obtained his sheepskin, Barry Rogers sets his sights on college. Leaving the protective cocoon of MUS. graduating Seniors scattered to areas throughout the world ranging from New York to Japan. SPRING — SUMMER 25 . i,