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

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A Sophomore boy is posed for his annual picture; an ordeal each underclassman must endure. Big Brother and Sister William Bennett and Betsy Bolen welcome th. Sophomores of Mr. Jones’s homeroom. Myers Park Launches Into the 1968-1969 School Yeai Committee chairmen Oliver Johnston and Lou Nachman speak at the Sophomore Assembly. September 3, 1968. On this day. nearly two thousand students invade the silent halls of Myers Park. New¬ ly painted classrooms feel the swell of student voices; lockers are once again slammed with the same fervor they have felt for seventeen years. Old friends, new teachers, battered textbooks, boisterous pep rallies—all add to the spirit of Fall in Mustang- land. Sophomores receive orientation with thrills, confusion, and concentration. A bevy of clubs await membership, upperclassmen often mistake the gym for the biology building, and high school teachers seem more close¬ ly related to college professors than to junior high instructors. Juniors stride through the halls with one year of experience safely tucked Leading the daily migration from our campus, Harold Harkey returns to an afternoon of summer activities before mounting school work and cold weather prohibit such pastimes. 16 under their belts. These student have already acquainted themselve with the various activities of Myer Park and are ready to begin anew. The mighty Senior is the epitomy o sophistication: a seasoned veteran o two years. Seniors have weathere innumerous assemblies, term papers quizzes, and committee meetings, am serve as advisors to the less experi enced Mustangs. Only nine month more of additional labor lies ahea of the Senior before he is able to ob tain his diploma, obviously makinj him the envy of all underclassmen. Together the three classes providi the service, enthusiasm, and experi ence necessary to Myers Park. Spiri has once again been injected into th veins of our school and another aca demic year is well under way. The debonair Gerald Colbert portrays the dashing duke of THE FATAL QUEST.

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STUDENT LIFE

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' erforming during the halftime of a home game, the Myers Park Marching Band forms the “Mustang Monogram.” This familiar insignia appears , n cars, jackets, and notebooks and is as much a part of a student’s life as his school books. sVith More Enthusiasm, and More Unity Than Before lach student must go through the routine roeedure of height and weight measure- lent. The practice of study must be renewed in the fall with the advent of new books, new teachers, new assignments, and new tests. iarly in the Fall, Dance Committee begins the preparations for the first dance of the year, rlomecoming. King size comic strips are mass produced to adorn the cafeteria walls. Forced to the sideline s by a knee injury, Tommy Land pensively watches his team. 17