Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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ALTOS DEANNA DUREN, Norma Gross, Nanci Gross, and Al ice Osborne practice their parts in preparation for the upcoming Christmas concert. MR. BEN ELLIOT Choir MR. RICHARD PAYNE Art I. II, III, Arts and Crafts MR. LES SIMONS Band I, II Fine Arts Creativity Finds Expression What is art? Ask any of the students enrolled in the MPHS fine arts classes and you would get answers of every type. Art is practicing a piece of music until you can understand the composers every feeling. Art is painting a beautiful sunset. Art is fulfillment. Come on kids, start together!' We have only six more practices before the concert. This was the familiar admonition to the students in Les Simons' Band II classes. Hours were spent tuning up and rehearsing individual parts until the final minutes before an appearance. Band I students spent the biggest part of theiryear learning technique, embouchure, good posture, and breathing habits. These basic skills must be mastered before advancing to Band II. Gooey clay smeared up to the elbows and a smudge paint on the nose was nothing unusual to the students in Richard Payne's Art I class. Here students learned to draw perspective and studied color art and history. Art II students delved into many phases of art throughout the 1966-67 school year. Sculpturing the head of a friend brought about many comments varying from Hey, that really looks like me to Are you trying to be funny? Richard Payne also taught advertising, cartooning, and illustration. Arts and crafts covered everything from pottery to copper tooling and created objrcts of every shape and size. Choir students, directed by Ben Elliot, went over popular music like Scarlet Ribbons and Moon River as well as the more traditional numbers. Singing was practiced 'a cappella’ to encourage good reading habits and correct pitch. 16

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Many speech students participated in these contests and gained much knowledge from the experience. A survey of music, art, and literature was given to Gail Smith’s senior humanities students. Among the highlights of this year's studies was a trip to Eugene to see a modern version of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.’’ Term papers, which allowed the student to express his own point of view on life, were required. This year’s course of study included Greek Mythology, “Othello’’, “The llliad’’, and “The Od-dysey’’, “Lord Jim”, and “The Catcher in the Rye.’’ MRS. BETTY ALBRANDT English II MR. RICK BOYLAN English 11,111, Journalism MRS. JEAN SCHUDDAKOPH French I,II,III,IV SENIOR SHERYL HUNTLEY practices oral interpretation in her second period speech class. GUIDED BY MARGARET SCHUDDAKOPH, French I student utilize language laboratories. 15

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BLOWING FOR all they are worth, saxes CHERYL ROBERTS and Dennis Elliott hurry to add the finish- Teresa Floyd and Diane Motz strain to be jng touches of paint to the plaster 'piggy banks' which they heard over the blast of other instruments in created in arts and crafts, their sixth period freshman band class. OUT WITH THE OLD, in with the new. Laura Herman blacks out a discarded painting in order to replace it with her own in Richard Payne’s Art II class.