Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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To entertain the Land of Light people, Clowns Neil Wilson, Sue Boilek and Robert Wolanin perform circus tricks. Because it may contain the location of the Golden Periwinkle, Melinda (Cecilia Stojan), Lulu (Pam Magginnis), Benjamin (Kevin Laurion), Lady Sunshine (Paulette Szczepanski) and Thaddeus (John Swanson) look in the flower book. Plays — 23

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Pair staIks treasure It brings joy and happiness to anyone who owns it ... “The Golden Periwinkle . This notion seems especially appealing to an unhappy, nasty old man and a greedy spoiled brat of a little girl. So Thaddeus T. Mulberry and Melinda set off to find the treasure. They begin in the magical country of “R where all is beautiful and happy, yet the Golden Periwinkle is not there. The Land of Light may hold the secret of it’s where-abouts, but the pair must travel through the dark and spooky Land of Night to arrive. Mr. Stanley Elgas admitted, “I’m not totally satisfied with the script, but I am satisfied with the experience of writing and directing the play.’’ “Where ' s Melinda?” Citizens of R Susan Masick, Leslie Casper, Pam Magginnis, and Mark Noldin search. On their perilous journey, Melinda (Cecelia Stojan) and Thaddeus T. Mulberry (John Swanson) encounter the Land of Night ' s creatures. 22 — Plays

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■5coop Highlight Cult commits mass suicide in cvies • Superman •Animal Meuse • Meaven Can Wait •Crease •Cocky Merrer One of the most devastating acts of suicide and murder occurred at Jonestown, Guyana. More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple religious cult died. The California-based religious sect was located at Jonestown, Guyana in the jungle on the northern coast of South America. Reverend Jim Jones, a once respected Indiana-born humanitarian, headed the colony. Visiting Americans, including California Congressman Leo Ryan, three newsmen and one defector from the colony, were ambushed when trying to board two planes that were leaving Guyana. They had been checking the cult’s strange doings. Rev. Jones, upon hearing of the ambush, felt that the colony was being threatened and ordered a destructive suicide. The followers sipped a lethal drink concocted of potassium cyanide and potassium chloride. Purple Flavor-Aid sweetened the potion. Parents and nurses squirted the poison onto the tongues of babies with syringes. Gacy charged. Hears! freed First he put handcuffs on himself and unlocked them. Then he persuaded his victims to try the cuffs on but failed to teach them the trick in releasing them. In this way, John Gacy alledgedly trapped 32 young men and boys and strangled them. Gacy alledgedly buried most of the victims under his house and garage, and threw five into the Des Plaines River. If his confession to 32 murders is true, he will be the worst mass murderer in U.S. history. After thousands of calls and letters, President Carter and the Department of Justice decided to act upon the requests to free Patty Hearst. Her sentence of seven years for her part in the S.L.A. bank robbery was commuted, and she was released five months before parole eligibility. 24 — National, Local