Northeast High School - Viking Log Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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Practice pays off, especially when the drama department worked so hard for months on their presenta- tion of Look Homeward Angel. Peter Bauer and lim Marshall played brothers in the successful play. Sketch a sketch. Dave Domingo uses the care and patience needed to Create a masterpiece. Drawing re- quires a lot of creativity and is a great way to express yourself. Lifting ladies and other ballet moves are part of what Dana Parrish learns at B.l.'s School of Dance. Dana gracefully holds his teacher, Barbara Hodges, in a classic ballet position. Playing it with skill, Mike Rowan skillfully blows a tune on his sax- ophone. Mike's hard work and prac- tice pays off as he often solos for the stage band. e e i if M ,,,. me if 1 '?e14,s'fsLsi:2,:i:jf k -t ,. .. . , ..., . ...

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helping Giving his blood, senior Steve Thompson volunteers a valuable gift during the Roian-sponsored blood drive: contributing were both students and teachers. Tender, loving care is what everyone needs. Iimmy Ritter gives this to a patient at a local nursing home: she cherishes every bit of the attention that she receives from him: it makes her day brighter. A volunteer, according to the dictionary, is one who enters into any service of his own free will. Many found the time and the inspiration to become volunteers in various jobs around town. At hospitals there were candy stripers, who helped to get things for patients and who did other odd jobs. There were also volunteers at libraries, helping to stack and to check out books. Firemen and paramedics benefited Rn... from volunteer services. The schools had student assistants who helped the employees by checking papers and sell- ing things. If students wanted a cer- tain job in the future, they would often be a volunteer in that field. This gave them ex- perience and hopefully helped them qualify for a good job in the years to come. They also became volunteers to feel good about themselves and to help people. Giving some help . . . Ieff Horick assists patients at the Masonic Nurs- ing Home. He helps them celebrate the Christmas holiday with a treat of punch and cookies. VOLUNTEERS 45

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Warming up and working out, Dana Parrish learns some tap steps at his dance class. Dancing is the oldest and liveliest of the arts and is called the language of the body. Point and lift. Kelly Harrington at- tends dance classes frequently. Ballet, like many other forms of dance, requires great skill and concentration. Starry-eyed and dreaming, they drifted through the year, thinking of the future and the chance to fulfill their goals, anticipating their moment of glory when all the hard work would pay off. Hard work was what it was, too. Practices and per- formances gave them ex- perience and made them better. Their talent went virtually unnoticed except to their closest friends and teachers. They were quiet about their abilities, but when the was on, they their skill and us with their brilliance. The dancers, the singers, the musicians, the actors, and the artists all shared one idea, the subconscious need to create - the need to ex- press themselves. Some succeeded and some didn't. Those who did found recognition. Those who didn't learned from the ex- perience and strove to perfect their skills. As the curtain fell and the spotlight dimmed, they took a moment to reflect on it all. They realized that, most im- portantly, they gave it their best. 'XpI'eS5i FINE ARTS 47