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

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ln the poignant death scene in CAROUSEL, Nettie Fowler lWilma Happyl consoles Julie Jordan lBecky Wrightl by singing You'll Never Walk Alone. Mistaking Carrie's naivete for faithlessness, Carlisle Landreth as the kindly Mr. Snow sings Geraniums in the Winder in the production CAROUSEL. ln the production BERNARDINE, Mike Ambrose as Dink, Philip Shore as Carney, and Chuck McConnell as Beau listen intently, while Stan Hubbard as Wormy makes several telephone calls to old girlfriends in a hope- less attempt to set up a date. Proceeds from BERNARDlNE go toward the Junior-Senior. l4 Assemblies, plays, Varied were the productions that dif- ferent groups prepared to be presented in the auditorium. The dramatics di- rector brought the first to light in the talent show of l963. With students from all classes and of all abilities, an excellent show was composed that was successful in the eyes of all who saw it. Bernardine was the next production, a play dealing in a humorous fashion with the typical problems and anxieties of young people as seen in the teen- agers of Sneaky Falls, Idaho. Carousel, the biggest production of the year, was brought into existence only through the tremendous efforts of the faculty involved. Few people really realize the efforts that so many people must make in order to stage a musical of this type. At the end of the year, students taking a more advanced French course pre- sented two short plays. Finally, the drama classes produced a group of one-act plays. Talented Leland Schwantes gives his rendition of the beautiful song Gigi in the Show Biz Revue, '63, presented in October in the Myers Park Auditorium.

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ks . 2.010 S F'- . V - ' V m if If . .1 f ,- KH . S - J ,r' ff- 1 .CQ .T i, -'D wi A, ,Mi '--at A W3 Q4 5 ,, Rosemary Hill and Tracy Whitaker fire questions at Torwald Ripa, the exchange student from Sweden, about his country's customs. ln October members of the American Field Service extend a hearty welcome in present- ing an AFS Tea held in the library in honor of Torwald and Kazuko Tsuchiya, exchange student from Japan. One strolling through Myers Park's spacious library of approximately l2,000 editions catches students either studying or leisurely reading the daily newspaper. Fortunate are these students in having a library made avail- able to them which ranks as the largest secondary school library in area in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. -V! Aff Students delve into humanities offered Most ot the students know it as LA in- stead ot the Language Arts building, and almost every student in the school has at least one class per day held there. Being in the center of the cam- pus and having such a variety of classes taught within its walls, this building is perhaps the most used of any on campus. All of the students use the spacious library tor either study, research, or enhancing personal rela- tionships. At any lunch period there is usually not a seat lett vacant as the students endeavor to catch up on the material for the next class or begin homework tor the next day. The Cali- fornia Achievement Test is only one ot the several tests that are administered to the students in the library. Several ot the larger clubs hold their meetings here also. It a club does not meet in the library, it probably assembles in a classroom ot this building. The large language clubs, the Girl Ambassadors, and the National Honor Society all meet here and make their plans for service projects and other activities. QL+-,...., , I6 . 1?