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

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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.

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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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Crowds gather in MP athletic stadium to witness seasonal Q -N' Referees were forced to call time during Myers Park's football game with South Mecklenburg held in Septem- ber in order to search for one of John Lundy's contact lenses. On their hands and knees, frustrated players Ben Sandiford, Rick Arrington, Lloyd Watkins, David Hamilton, and John Lundy search for the lost lens. Well disguised in their feminine attire, sportive Key Clubbers Holmes Eleazer, Mitchell Grant, Joe Chaplin, Van Smith, Gary Snook, Joey Aiken, Bill Chalmers, and Jim McLaughlin strike up students' laughter and school spirit in their foolish antics as Garinger cheerleaders at a pep rally held in the Myers Park gvmnasium. Coming into prominence about once every three weeks during the football season is a group of unknown beings at the pep rallies who seem to resemble girls, yell like boys, and act like simple- tons. These, of course, are that stal- wart group of Key Clubbers whose grand displays of cheerleading abilities will always be recollected. Students can only hope the foolish skits will continue, they always bring a large response, despite the frowns of the faculty. For the majority of students, an ath- letic program consists only of games played in the stadium or the gym when the crowd roars with every happening. Because of the football team's un- usually good record, more spectators poured into the stadium during this season than perhaps would have ordi- narily, and they too become absorbed in the action. When the track season comes around, fewer spectators with more reserved show of spirit attended the meets, but the action is just as exciting. 'Lar- 4'--Q-..- 1 26