Northwest High School - Silvertip Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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? bg l 3' -c Qt. 5 . 4 S 5 .. . ,gs il fwuilil W The act receiving the loudest laugh from oth audiences was the Weathemomen alias Genia johnson and Rhoda cwilliamsj to the song It 'J Raz'm'ng Men. hese two over-weight females sang and danced around the stage rejoicing about the availability of men falling from the sky. Northwestls Stage Band played Sweet Seorgze Brown, Can't Stop, Portuguere Cove and Norwegzkzn. Seniors Shane Ap- Jlegate, Kris Oblinger and juniors David img and Wade Evans performed solos with :he above selections. M.C.'s for the performances were Lora -lull, Bruce Adams and Derrick Nielsen ivho entertained the audiences with magic tricks. If they were not tieing up Nielsen with rope to see if he could escape, they were trying old card tricks. The only suc- cessful trick of the three M.C.'s was right before the intermission of the show. Nielsen made the audience disappear by the wave of his hand and by saying the magical words It's intermission . The evening came to a close after nearly two hours of musical entertainment. The finale included the performance offimenba from West Side Story by the Northwest Singers, Concert and Sophomore Choirs. The vocalists were accompanied by thel Northwest Stage Band for the finale. -Kelli Brown ' TOP LEFT: 'Men Without Shoes' was one instrumen- tal group performaning an original song, TOP MIDDLE: Struttin her stuff, Genia johnson per- forms the Weatherwomen song 'It's Raining Men,' BOTTOM LEFT: Singing in harmony is what the Sophomore Barbershop Quartet is all about, BOTTOM MIDDLE: Politics receive a stab from Sharl Vogt's 'Edith Ann' monologue. CENTER: 'Saturday Night In..' takes on a new mean- ing when performed by this group. ABOVE3 Choercgraphy enhances the finale of the combined choirs in 'America'. Bearlesque ' 97

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...nan-ull 'imit- v l ? l i s Marzo, laughter fills aadzfcmam Singing Magze To Do, the Northwest Singers opened Bearlerqae '84 on May 4 and 5. The two-night variety show was held in the Northwest theatre and was presented by students in the vocal and instrumental music departments. Many different acts were performed throughout the show. Because of the strong vocal department, 11 of the 37 different acts were solos. The style of music and mood varied with each performer as 96 ' Bearlesque evidenced with Holly Kardatzke's romanti lyrics Can 't Hehb Lovin' That Man, to Bruc Adam's version of Y0u're Never Full Dressed Without... Sharla Vogt performel a serious solo, A Pzece of Shy, from th movie Yenlle. The audiences identified with each of th different acts. The taste of the progran ranged from a comedy monologue witl Edith Ann to a song chant by tht Northwest Singers about basketball. Th Singers also performed a series of 50's song called Golden Age of Roch and Roll. Ad ding to the 50's theme was the Sophomor Choir's performance of the Happy Day Medley.

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DRUM MAJORS jane McCarty and Ed Webb MARCHING I PEP BAND fFront Rowj Stephan Dailey, Terry Green, Kevin Brightup, Terry Sherbondy, Marty Crawford, David Krug, Todd Pierpoint, Doug Bedichek, john Schwiethale, Tim Smith. fSecond Rowj Ed Webb, Kathy jones, julie Crot- chett, Darwin Crawford, Paul McGinty, David White. Mark Tucker, Shane Applegate, jeff Walker, Greg Crot- chett, Maria Marshall, Kim Gore. julie Watson, Tim Mclsemore, jane McCarty. CThitd Rowj Lori Deloziet,jac- que McKim, Tonya Allen, jerry Goodman, Tom Laney, Todd Crowley, Kevin Berg. Gordon Bedichek, Mike G'Hern. Wade Evans, Toni Dodd, Barbara Bipes. fFourth Rowj Cindy Draving, Kelli Brown, Randy Holland. Amy Holyoak, Michelle Neel, Mark Pennington, Pat Brewer, jeff Chester, David jantz. Robert Kyle, Tim McGlwson, Charlie Moreno, Bruce Dimick, Don Rice, Todd Dillon. Proc Hoffman, Kay Swan, Alicia Darnell, Dana McLean, Scott Keimig, Rick Brewer, Michelle Hunt, Alison McCue. Susan Van Steinberg and Lisa Hull. 'Huy I , Q'rZg,-.ZZ-i,, . Ziff hw , Instrumental Groups Performing, mzlting money mee time 98 ' Instrumental Music Throughout the school year, the in- strumental music department spent many hours rehearsing and performing for school functions. With instrumental students spending an betweeen 30 minutes to four hours practicing instruments each week, it seemed that there might not have bee much time for anything else. Besides working hard for concerts, tl' groups also spent a great amount of rin selling magazine subscriptions, fruit baske and all-purpose cleaner to raise money. Tli profit from these sales was used to b music for Marching Band, Concert Ban Orchestra and Stage Band. It was also use for entry fees to festivals and for the repa of instruments after a wet parade. Th fund-rasing money was also used to pu. chase one marching French horn and tw bass drum carriers. Perhaps the most noticeable instrument' group was the Marching Band which prd