Midlothian High School - Trojan Yearbook (Midlothian, VA)

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winier carnival February - The cold- esT, dreariesT monTh of The year. SpiriTs were low, and TemperaTures were even lower. In an aTTempT To forgeT The weaTher, The Key Club and The LaTin Club joined forces To liven up sagging spiriTs. Their soluTion was a dance wiTh all The mak- ings of a good Time. The band, Local SculpTors, A New was a large aTTracTion since some of The mem- bers were former Ivlidlo sTudenTs. The dgnce was held on TheygjQay T before ValenTine's' Day. which added a romanTicfaTmo- sphere. Probably The mosT exciTemenT was generaT- ed by The rumor ThaT his- Tory Teacher, Mr. Rick Gray, would enTerTain The dancers. The rumor came .True as he surprised every- one by singing The bluesy classics, lvlidnighT Hour and 'Gimme Some Lov- ing. When some of his sTudenTs were asked how The king of soul per- formed, They played iT safe by replying wiTh a no commenT. Even wiTh all The aTTrac- Tions,iTurnouT was lower Than exoecTed. Only g abouT 75 couples braved The cold To go dancing. We did make a profiT of .abouT S11O.OO, said orga- nizer Jenne Wason. When .asked if The WinTer Carni- ivalwas The beginning ofa new TradiTion, Jenne re- plied. I Think sog iT jusT goT a slow sTarT! FINDING WARMTH IN NUMBERS, These dancers found lhe Winler Carnival To be a great place lo kick lheir shoes off and make some new friends. WinTer CarnivalfSTudenT Life

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TWISTING THE CHILL AWAY, Chris Gallavan and Melissa Bentley torget the cold outside and let themselves go. HEATHER RAGLAND AND MIKE EMERSON take a break from dancing to drink some punch and catch some new dance moves. z N SLOWING DOWN THE PACE A BIT. Local ScuIptors plays one of their few slower songs. The band, consisting of VCU stu- dents, performed mostly fast dance tunes. Student Llfefwlnter Carnival 5 J ff'?.- 15, Wg' Qs 'Q if 1 xv f is 1,

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TalenTed sTudenTs Dancing in Showcasing sTudenT TalenT mignT have been The inTenT, buT jusT having a good Time was The re- sulT. The annual TalenT show offered a line-up of enThusiasTlc and adepT performers who had Their audiences dancing in The aisles and crowding The sTage. The bands parTicipaTing were Sessions, Jolly Vege- Tables, ProcrasTinaTion, and Road Trip SoluTion. Singers Tom McCormack, Susan PauleTTe, Bill Buell, and Tom SchulTheis, along wiTh lVlaTT lvliTchell sang original songs as well as The popular sTandards. An emoTional momenT came when Tom and lVlaTT dedi- caTed an original song To The seniors. As Lisa Kelley said, Tom and lVlaTT's song broughT Tears To my eyes and made me real- ize how much l'm going To miss all of my friends nexT year. A number of Technical difficulTies presenTed a myriad of problems and some comical momenTs. VVheTher iT was micro- phone or guiTar Trouble or simply a maTTer of equip- menT being in The way, parTicipanTs handled The JOINING IN THE SPIRIT OF THE SHOW, tour volunteers cover themselves from head to toe with shaving cream. 24 STudenT LlfefTalenT Show X BY DEDICATING THE SONG TIME TO GO TO THE SENIOR CLASS, Tom Schultheis and Matt Mitch- ell arouse sentimental feelings from the seniors in the audi- ence. had The Crowd The Aisles hardships. As a maTTer of facT, The problems added a liTTle flavor To The snow. Some sTudenTs glared aT The microphone, oThers hiT iT, and some iusT yelled for help backsTage5 buT They kepf going. For Bill Buell, who could noT be heard, The crowd sang for him. JusT for show chorus moved righT along afTer running inTo microphones and Tripping over cords. When There was a big de- lay, hosTs Josh Rade- maker, lVlonTe lVlonTgom- ery, David Daniel, and Ed Cho kepT The audience enTerTained by playing The guiTar, Taking picTures of The audience, and spraying each oTher wiTh shaving cream. DespiTe The problems, The audience enjoyed Themselves and many felT ThaT This Talenf show was like no oTher. Amy ATkin- son besT summed iT up when she said, IT was The besT TalenT show l've seen in The years l've been here. l1 BLUES BROTHERS DAVID DAN- IEL AND ROBBIE LANHAM belt out a soultul rendition of Good Lo- vin ' by the Rascals.