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

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Fall Invades Myers Park Campus With Brisk Winds, The Myers Park Publicity Committee sends its cheery greeting to the South football team by way of the cafeteria poster. Cartoon characters invade the Myers Park Homecoming festivities in the early fall. Due to unalterable cir¬ cumstances, the dance and the Home¬ coming game must be on separate weekends. Our varsity players peer at the dancers from the bodies of such personalities as Flash Gordon and Bugs Bunny. The following Fri¬ day night brings us the long awaited Homecoming game. What could be more appropriate than for the Home¬ coming court to be presented from the doors of Snoopy’s dog house? The Senior Class presented Teahouse of the August Moon for their annual production. Here the student body sees their classmates transformed into black-haired, almond-eyed Oki¬ nawans. Teahouse depicts a small Ned Lipford, Gerald Colbert, and Debbie Hutchison perform a self-written satire on THE CANTERBURY TALES for their English class. Waiting on the walls to greet the guests at the Homecoming Dance are Coleman Smith and Chip Holden alias Jughaid and Loweezy Smith. The Foreign Exchange Assembly gives those students who went abroad and the foreign exchange students to Myers Park a chance to express their opinion of foreign travel. 20

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Jess Pittard and Mike Pool provide back-up music for the Show Biz Revue. The “Psychedelic Wonderland” brings out of the Rockettes for a guest appearance. myriad of talent, including the Charlotte chapter Hoppy Elliot plays Angel for the Day. “Hang in there, Hoppy.” Parents also turn out to support “Mustang Saturday.” Here PTA members package and serve barbeque to hungry students. On the eve of the Myers Park-Olympic game, Sara Rion and Debby Wright pose atop their painted pick-up in their spirit clothes to show their Senior Girl spirit.

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Grey Skies, Rain Okinawan village where the United States government plans to execute a program of reform and where the villagers want to build a teahouse with the government’s money. Students, restless from nearly three months of school, greet Thanksgiv¬ ing with the usual enthusiasm ex¬ pectant of the holidays it brings. Myers Park fully participates in the city-wide Carousel activities. Our cheerleaders accent one of the many beautiful floats as they escort it down the parade boulevard and the Myers Park Marching Band high steps its way over national televi¬ sion. Baxter Hutcheson is selected by the school to be the Carousel Prin¬ cess and to represent MP at the Ca¬ rousel Parade and Ball. The Homecoming Court for 1968 consists of Baxter Hutcheson, Senior Attendant; Betsy Bolen, Queen; Jeannie Wisdom, Junior Attendant; Becky Holly, Sophomore Attendant. Gathered into a crowd, students are rapidly affected by the spirit which surges among them during a pep rally. Mr. Barber’s art class reaps the annual harvest of carrots from the Spring planting of last year. Drummers Richard Archer and Bobby Claw¬ son wait for instructions during afternoon Richard, Barry, Bill, and Robert transport themselves into the characters of an Okinawan band practice. village for the production of TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON. 21