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

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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

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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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The Arrival of Fall Sparks ’Stang A comfortable position is assumed for the construction of dance decoration. The Myers Park cogwheels grind on¬ ward into the year as the days grow windy, cold, and short. Students once again break into new textbooks and map out their daily route of class changes for the semester. Football games, assemblies, the Show Biz Revue, and the Barbeque add them¬ selves to the list of student activities. Faculty and students combine their efforts to produce another outstand¬ ing year for Myers Park. Parents follow a condensation of their child’s schedule on “Back-to- School Night” to become better ac¬ quainted with the courses and teach¬ ers of their son or daughter. The PTA also sponsors the tremendously successful “Mustang Saturday.” Par¬ ents and students alike spent many hours selling tickets, folding boxes, wrapping utensils, taking orders, cleaning tables, and providing enter¬ tainment for the Myers Park Barbe¬ que. Sophomores were further inducted into the student body at the Orienta¬ tion Assembly. The co-chairmen of the various committees extolled the activities of their committees in hopes of recruiting new members. The Sophomores were also intro¬ duced to Dr. L£wis, the counselors, and the student council officers. The Show Biz Revue was issued in under the title of “Psychedelic Won¬ derland.” A wide variety of talent was exhibited to the student body in¬ cluding solo singers and instrumen¬ talists and even a group of hippies doing the Charleston. A bevy of sen¬ ior girls “did their thing” in the Senior Girl Follies which certainly proved that Senior girls can at least dance. After three performances, the Revue closed after receiving top re¬ views. Hard rock, soul sounds, and mood music are provided by students as entertainment at the Myers Park Barbeque. A new technique in teaching is employed by Miss Whitaker—surprise tactics! Parents search for the room number corresponding to their child’s schedule card during the annual Back-to-School Night. 18