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

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Collecting research material for debating are, clockwise, Mike Burkhead, Jan Wuertenberger, Pete Gaskell, David Purnell, and Holmes Eleazer. Club members work individually on debates in preparation for try- outs at college forum. Varsity and Junior varsity teams are chosen. Debate teams participate at Wake Forest Working outside school Hlls most of the Debate Club's program. Debates on the National Debate topic, HResolved: That the United States should promote a Com- mon Market for the Western Hemisphere, were prepared when the topic was announ- ced. During February, the varsity and JV teams were chosen through practice sessions, along with the teams which will represent Myers Park at Emory, Wake Forest, and Winthrop Forums. The club ends its year with an annual banquet. Co-President Mike Burkhead, Secretary-Treasurer Margaret James, Co-President Holmes Eleazer, and Vice President David Purnell head debates. 0 Tom Stenson, Don Grigg, and Carroll Walker, members of Amateur Radio Club, set up equipment for broadcasting over shortwave sets. Boys talk to other operators over entire country. lub monitors space satellite The Amateur Radio Club, one of the newest and most energetic clubs on campus, pro- vides some medium wherein students in- terested in any phase of electronics can gain experience and enjoyment of their hobby. A code and phone station, WA4FPD, is maintained by this organization, properly licensed members operate the station and talk to other amateurs all over the country. During 1962, the club participated in proj- ect OSCAR, monitoring the first civilian- built satelite to orbit the earth. Although relatively small in number, the members of this organization derive knowledge in such fields as Hi-Fi recordings, ham radio, and experimental electronics. Qai 19

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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.

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Minor staff members work to produce annual. Sitting: Emily Walker, ,lan Query, Kay Beatty, Frances Jones, .lan Wuertenberger. Standing: David Purnell, Candy Snepp, Bill Blair, and Pete Gaskell. Photography staff of the Mustang receive instructions on the use of a graphic camera. The photographers spent many hours in taking and developing pictures for the yearbook. Front row: Don Grigg, Tom Horack, Stan Mantiply. Second row: Chic Myers, Chuck McConnell, Kavin Broome, and Frank Wright. 20 Mustang staff The publication of an award-Winning an- nual Was a difficult and challenging task to face, and the yearbook staff and their advisor Mr. Browne began work in Sep- tember in order to complete work by the deadline. Top awards were won by last year's annual from National School Year- book Association, Columbia Scholastic Press Assocation, National Scholastic Press Asso- ciation, and North Carolina Scholastic Press Association. The major staff members of the annual were responsible for making all decisions con- cerning the Mustang. Major staff members Sally Pennigar, Editor, Charles Van Wag- ner, Business Manager, jeff Mitchiner, Treasurer, Stella Alexander, Classes, Susan Stafford, Clubs, Bernadette Scott, Organ- izations, Kitty Kuester, Features, Tommy Spencer, Sports, and Morris McEwen, Pho- tography, made decisions concerning the type of print to be used, the design of the cover, and the theme. Other staff members assisted section editors and helped Where possible. The major staff for the 1964 an- nual was chosen from the juniors of this yearls staff. Editor Sally Pennigar, Business Manager Charles Van Wagner, and Advisor Mr. Browne check the arrangement of the sections of the annual. . , , ,, QXQV t I I V vt. A K . ,mbmgwl elf- new ' , ' , MW, , f ' N. c 4 W I-..?r6ia,, ...-'-s14Yf'-'-..f ffa4l06fpn:'!f...Mgspfaqg,,Wv.kg,Qgg,,gQ.-3. YV-Ai'-givin MAZ1 xx W, z -z' V, , ,,,. , V A p k f A 1 - V.