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

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Attendance at basketball games and assemblies hits maximum Spectators Sandra Thompson, Joan Gilreath, Judith Davis, Ann Teat, and Sue Ed are entranced by the slap- stick Student-Faculty game held in the Myers Park gymnasium. Comical Nurse Dixon, prepared to give instant assistance to the players, keeps a vigil at Nurse Wright's First Aid stand stocked with the necessary supplies. Amid friends' congratulations, laughter, and general confusion, excited Judith Alexander in her haste drops one of her shoes beneath the bleachers as Sue Ed taps her into the National Honor Society. Forgetting her lost shoe, Judith manages to regain enough composure to walk across the gym to receive her Honor Society pin. At the Student-Faculty game Lucy Dulin tries to block the basketball from Miss Carmichael, while Susanne Veasy runs in to help recover the ball. .nhl 24

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rt, Home Economics classes located in Technical building Coming down the temporary wooden ramp that has lines of dripping water running parallel at certain areas when it rains, the visitor comes to the Tech- nical building. lt can be noted for its lack of activity on the exterior and in the hall, but once inside the classes, the opinion is quickly changed. All of them are teeming with activity. In the Foods classes the girls learn to prepare and serve food. ln the world literature classes students are exposed to various cultures through study of their litera- ture. No student of this class can for- get the test days when he entered to be met by the smiling instructor who set a wonderful mood. After the test the student wonders what the smile had really meant. Without the facilities provided for the study of the manual arts and without the space provided by the parking lots for the roadsters brought by the stu- dents, Myers Park would be greatly lacking in her ability to provide a com- plete education for her students. Advanced art students Lisa Muilenburg and Lloyd Whether a creative student wants to become familiar with fundamentals or to learn more difficult techniques, the art classes held in the Technical building are an inexhaustible source of appeal to many students. hK: 'g, In Y 'VII' fy .Ns-K As a former tourist to Japan, Miss Phifer uses a Japanese umbrella of brilliant colors as a visual aid to a world literature class in its study of Japanese literature and drama. Open to qualified seniors, world lit cul- tivates an appreciation and enjoyment in literature as varied as the ancient Greek and the very modern. Displaying her culinary abilities acquired in Foods l, Louise Steiger removes a pie from the oven, while Carolyn McKericher admires her work. Miller sketch the construction work between P and T. un VVS- .- fi M V 5 - .N M L i L W ,I i N is f' Q i 1 1 -ff '!'q' I -02.9 V' , ,. ' ' ', ' 5' . , .1 Q 3 . ,. Aga 'A 7 .L ,V 'N 1iH,fT ' ,i e 1 'Q A 4 - 2' M252 T' as e J L J f- pd i 1 f' sf . 'LJ lag,

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in MP gymnasium The many uses of the gymnasium are in evidence for the newcomer from the beginning to the end of the school year. Fast-moving basketball games, exciting wrestling matches, large as- semblies, and over-crowded pep rallies are all held there. Provided with a fine coaching staff for all sports, Myers Park is proud of its winning teams. There are victorious Iandslides as well as bitter defeats, but best of all, there is the joy of competition. The noises of shuffling feet and scram- bling for the ball are found inside the gym as members of the basketball team show their speed and endurance in the swift game. When the students and faculty take the floor on opposite sides, only laughter and a chance of playful warfare can prevail. Gasps and tears are typical of the second Honor Society tapping held in the gym for the benefit of the entire student body. The gym is also the place for the loud, rollicking pep rallies where all spirit- minded students cheer to show teams their confidence. Triumphantly revealing the jubilant crowd's gratitude toward the basketball team and its coaches for securing a 71-68 victory, Herb Goins and Jim Estes boost Coach Jim Hartman on their shoulders after the Mustangs trampled the Maroon Devils in the Myers Park-Asheville game held in the Myers Park gymnasium in January. 25 M ,.,. ,V . Ap, ...pP Dressed in their green-and-white uniforms, nine cheerleaders, each responsible for releasing enthusiastic spirit, cry out to the Mighty Mustangs for a Stampede to Victory at a pep rally in the gymnasium. Streaming into the gym from all over the campus, students, packed into bleachers, reinforce the cheerleaders' echoes. Sidney Lowe of the Jolly Green Giants, the senior champions of the boys' basketball intramurals, goes in for a lay-up shot in the Student-Faculty game.