Northwest Classen High School - Round Table Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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Northwest ' s first play ut tlie year, Life With Father, was seen by a ncar-tapatity crowd of 1872. Enacting one of the scenes are Mike Puiliam, Randy James, Sandra Walling, Craig Busey, Ann Gibbs, Doug Chew, and Bob Mayer. Art students take advantage of beautiful October weather to sketch from nature on the patio.

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Students face the inevitable traffic tie-up in the parking lots cluring heavy 3:30 traffic. Hold Student Interest i ,.. immer, as near-drought conditions threaten the state. A pensive Robert Roark discovers that hours of hard work lie behind the glory of being Student Council president.

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♦ ♦ Sharing Widens World of NWC . . . The houseliL;hts dim. Backstage several dozen people wait, tense. In these few seconds, excitement explodes in the deafening silence. The curtain parts . . . . . . Autumn screams out e erywhere; it can be felt in the thin, brittle air, in its snow-cone freshness. It ' s one of those flame and icedays, beautifully new and distant. The art student reaches for his water colors . . . . . . The 707 roars to a stop with an achint;, piercing wail. Expectantly, students shift toward the gate. A boy from New Zea- land descends the boarding ramp. Behind him is home, school, friends. Ahead of him lie the same things, but also incalculable experiences. He smiles . . . In a sea of misunderstanding. Northwest Classen students seek vita! communication. They attempt self-expression through speech, drama, music, art, writing. In the absorbing world of youth, they try to assemble and interpret the things they take in with their ink-blotter minds. To share a feeling is to double it, so they share, giving of themselves to others. From these other people, they receive new impressions — vague, swimming ideas unrelated to themselves. The world is at once sharply defined and dimly distant. It slaps them in the face with its relentless reality, but remains lazily, maddeningly aloof and indifferent to their searching, pleading questions. They shrink from the unknown, but grasp at the new and different. These paradoxes of youth concern them, make them unsure, and they redouble their efforts to communicate as the need for re- .issurance from others increases. Developing real friendships gives insight, and as relationships begin to mature, they find words woefully inadequate. Knights and Ladies greet AFS Exchange Students Ted Hansen and Wally Koeneke with a traditionally warm welcome. 13