Oak Park High School - Cambia Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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.1- -l: :I The A-Tram DJ's ham it up at the King of Hearts Dance. A surfin' safari - Christy Waiberg Stephanie Poggee, and Amy Collins, freshmen, attend the Hawaiian dance. Repetition causes dance turn-out to be and a loud chatter surrounds the room. Suddenly everyone silent, someone has been shot. . . NO - wait, it's just Tim and Dave Asbey, the DJ's of Atrain lnc. , promoting spirit for the sweetheart dance. But spirit was not always what it should have been, according to some of those involved. We divided up into committees and the dance committee put in a lot of overtime for the response they got, Staci Stathopoules, Stuco President, said. One reason the response was low, might have been there were too many in a row, l began to lose interest, Audra Tuggle, junior, said. Homecoming, Sweetheart, Cambia, Beach Party, Fifties, Hawaiian, and the small ones after football games made dance history for 1986. Dances might have had a better turnout if we had less of them in a row, Jennifer Ran- dolph said. According to Jennifer, dance committee chairperson, planning a dance was a lot of work. First, we had to check with Mr. Crews, activity direc- tor, and reserve the gym, then find chaperones, and form a committee to work on decora- tions, she said. The money spent on dances usual- ly breaks even, by the sale of tickets but Homecoming and Sweetheart pulled in a little extra, Staci said. My favorite dance was the home- coming dance. Everyone was having so he lunchroom begins to fill up small much fun and dancing around, Audra said. Brad Evans, junior felt the smaller dances after the football and basketball games were his favorites because they brought more people to games. Many felt dances needed more publicity and new ideas to get more people to attend. Maybe if we did more activities at the dances, such as dance contests and have little awards, more would want to go, Debbie Molleson said. Audra felt if the football stadium was at our own school more would attend the dances afterwards. Brad disagreed, lt's more a lack of spirit. Nobody seemed to care. Dances would be a lot of fun if everyone would have gone, he said. The dances varied from dresses and slacks to T-shirts and shorts. The Ha- waiian dance was fun. Everyone dres- sed crazy and it was different from the others, said Bobby Smith, junior. Brad felt the informal dances had better turnouts because You could just show up and have a good time. The variety of dances made each one special but the King and Queen dances promote the most spirit, Jenni- fer said. Bobby felt it was more then just school spirit. There is too much super- vision. We can't feel comfortable and just act crazy, he said. Despite the small turnouts, dances are likely to continue. Dances are an important part of school spirit and get friends together in the atmosphere outside of the normal school day, Staci said. By Lea VanBecelaere fad 22 Dances

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