Myers Park High School - Mustang Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Key Club sponsors buses to out-of-city games 1 n F Anxiously anticipating bus trip to football game, Sara Alexander and Saxby Chaplin wait in bus for departure. Anne Townsley, Jim Kessaris, and Ken Cannady give tickets to Norman Pease and Bobby Boyd before boarding bus. Buses were under the sponsorship of Key Club. Van Wagner and Benoit ut Mustang late on car P D P M-LQ'cL -v-.. 7.-......i.i,..., .... -..W Y .lohn Bristow and Buddy Finch ready directories. Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, the Myers Park Key Club is responsible for aiding their community through their high school activities. This responsibility makes it nec- essary for the members to devote more time to club projects. The Key Club's schedule begins with the opening of school. Selling advertisements for the Key Club Directory starts in the early fall. The day before Christmas holi- days begin these booklets are distributed free to each student. When the Peruvian Amigos were at MP, the Key Club gave an open house and dance in their honor after the Harding football game. To help- pro- mote school support for the football team the club sponsored buses for students to the Salisbury and Rocky Mount football games. The turnout for this project was so large that more buses had to be chartered at the last minute. Also, in the way of school spirit, the club furnished flowers for the cheerleaders for each football game. To help Mustangs publicize their school pride, the Key Clubbers sell Mustang license plates. When Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around, the club always proves itself most generous. The members give their full support to the collection of canned goods at Thanksgiving. The next month is a busy one for them. Money is donated to the gift drive for the maids and janitors. In March comes the annual Key Club District Con- veniton in Charleston, South Carolina. Five representatives are elected from the Myers Park Key Club. At the Honors and Awards Assembly the club annually presents the Sportsmanship trophy. A tally of the events of the Key Club's year shows that they have well met the standards set up by the Kiwanis Club. Key Club members. Front row: Burg, Chaplin, President Pease. V. President Hogewood, Secretary Jones, Treasurer Starnes, Eleazer. Second row: Finch, Cathy, Weldon, Bristow, Van Wagner, Boyd, Davis, Ander- son, Benoit. Thircl row: Joerchal, Bolen, Shoemaker, Elliot, Beaver, Verch, Edwards, Chaplin, Annas, and Gilmour. lla. sv, 7. V 17

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.4 Q CAC. Front row: Treasurer Lindgren, Secretary Patterson, Vice President Blackwell, President Spratt. Seworzd row: Rich, J. Alexander, Horne, Manning, Frost, Boger, Scott, Elliot, Sara Alexander. Third row: Lincherger. Grosholl, Lipford, Bain, Morrison, Dowd. Strawn, Nakling, Lymberis, Kuester, Barach, Pennigar. Fourth row: Advisor Sifiord, M. Dulin, Barnes, Ed, Heacock, Jones, L. Dulin, Teat, Stella Alexander, Honey, Miller. Boyd, and Advisor Carmichael. mbassadors entertain faeult at hristmas part Betty Jones sells pompom to John Faulk. V, V Q 16 Girls from the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades have a busy year of serving others through the Girl Ambassadors Club. Their activities are not confined to the school, but include civic services as well. New girls at Myers Park get acquainted each year at the Ambassadors, New Girls Tea. Making and selling pompoms is always the club's most important project during football season. December is a month crowded with activi- ties for the club. First on the schedule is the annual faculty Christmas banquet. Talented members put on an array of enter- tainment for their teachers. To add seasonal spirit to the campus the girls decorate the large tree beside the library. While on Christmas vacation the Ambassadors give a party for-the children at Good Samaritan Hospital. They also go caroling at the homes of the faculty. As the year progresses, the club's enthusi- asm does not dwindle. Collecting for the March of Dimes is the first project after semester exams. During second semester, girls who have the required number of points and have been approved by the members are inducted into the club. Also, in the last half of the year, there is a cake bake, which is the club's most prosperous project. Entertainment and soft drinks are provided for the Sadie Hawkins picnic by the Key Club and Ambassadors. At faculty Christmas banquet Birch Lipford, Roberta Frost, Sally Boger, Corinne Horne, and Townley Spratt present skit Mountain Dew. Other talented Ambassadors also entertained teachers with original acts after dinner. Each member took part in preparation of banquet. f l I, I t i 3 t I 1 i t l

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1- --.... ational Honor Society members tutor students f may National Honor Society. Front row: Bigham, Beattie, Elliot, Stewart, Manning, Grosboll, Boyd, Cisne, Scott. Second row: Pennigar, Strawn, Stroupe, James, Dawson, Seawright, Townsend, Ellis, Kimel, Dowd, Ed, Stafford. Third row: McHenry, Pease, Stinson, Barden, Mays, Ham, McGinty, Spencer, Purnell, Line- berger, McGarity. Fourth row: Weldon, McNeill, Hanes, Greene, Beaver, Wallas, Brown, Shackelford, McKaig, Shoemaker, and Hoag. Alice Ann Kimel congratulates Steve Barden who has just been tapped into the Honor Society. 18 As an incentive to new students to stress academic study, the four officers of the National Honor Society spoke at the fall initiation concerning the four standards of the Honor Society: Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character. In an impressive ceremony, the top ten per cent of the senior class was tapped in the first induction cere- monies held in Myers Park's auditorium. That night, new members provided enter- tainment for old members through skits, songs, and impersonations. To raise money to buy a Hag and spotlight for the school gymnasium, members offered their services as tutors. Beginning in Feb- ruary, several students were in the library first and eighth periods to offer their assist- ance, private tutoring was available when desired. In the Spring, to climax the yearls Work, the top Fifteen per cent of the senior class and the top five per cent of the junior class were initiated. Ms' S vt, David McGinty entertains members by relating the story behind Ulysses, travels and his waterwings.