Mercer Island High School - ISLA Yearbook (Mercer Island, WA)

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othin ' recreates hakespearian theatre for I 59? Leads. Linera Lucas, Beatrice, and Bill Markle, B4-'nedir-lc. Caiety of peasant dancers brought another aspect of Old England to the show the aloofness of thc characters they portrayed in thc 8Udi8IlCP. play. Final scene was a satisfying conclusion to the All-school play. R ,D at -V

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Hero, Teri Brown, and Claudio, Mike Moore, paused during the dress reher- sal of the play. 'Much Ado bout Once again the Drama Club brought Old English thea- ter to Mercer Island. Cast and crew under faculty direc- tor, Mr. ,lay Caley, worked many months to make the presentation of 4LMuch Ado About Nothing similar to plays of Shakespeare's time. The sets were replicas of the Fortune Theater. The orchestra played instruments common in Elizabethan times, among them a harpsi- chord. Pre-performance entertainment included Madri- gal ballads and lively peasant dances. Student director, Emme Davidson, and student choreographer, Barb Cook spent long hours with the cast and crews insuring the play was performed on schedule. Mr. Gary Vaughn and the stage crew could be seen after school diligently build- ing the play's sets and backdrops. Mrs. Connie Lovejoy and Mr. Leon Bjarnason were also working and helping the people responsible for the production. Members of the make-up crew apply grease paint to nervous actors. Drama club officers were, ffrom left, Trish Nugent, secretary, John Rice, business manager, Teri Brown, president, and Todd Hagstrom, vice-president at the piano. Madrigal singers helped make the evening complete as they participated in the pre-performance.

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Pausmg for a picture are this year s Isla staff front row Mrs Carol dy McMillan, Carol Bialkowsky, Bob McTavish, Debbie Lazenby, Tori Mt Fadden adviser Bonnie Brand Laurie Hlrshberg Liz Macklin Ann Olson, Lane Bockman, Polly Sears. and Charles Beard. Isla, HI Tlmes staffs serve school throu h Isla Throughout the year room 301 was Mout of bounds during sixth period for all students but the Isla staff. The staff started the year selling more advertisements to local merchants than in the past. This allowed them to add four extra pages to the Isla as well as three colored pages and an embossed cover. The class was run on an informal basis. All of the fifteen staff members except Charles Beard, editor, had never served on the staff before, so all the jobs and procedures that it takes to produce a yearbook were completely new to them. This year's Isla, MWorld on an Island, will also have a sixteen page supplement to add to it. The supplement will include articles about spring sports, and the annual spring Tolo, the prom, graduation and the senior party. These subjects would not have been able to be put in the Isla because the annual had gone to press before these events and activities took place. Members of Isla staff work together to produce the school yearbook.