Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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Tensions eased a+ concer'rs. dances This year. S+uden+ Council decided +0 abandon +he annual RED FEATHER MIXER and. in ifs place. a concemL was given by STYX, along wifh SIN, neHing over $3.000. The proceeds wen+ +0 +he Oak Park Communify Chesf. Along wifh +he concert numerous dances were held af +he school during +he year. Along wifh Homecoming and King of Hearfs, +he annual Take-A- Break dance was held affer mid-year finals. Again in confrasf +0 previous years, We dance was heid in +he affer- noon and admission was free. SIN also played a+ Take-A-Break.

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Gues+s believe. OPRFHS - a nice place 1'0 visi+ H can well be said Hwaf +he I973-74 school year was Hue Year of Hue Visi- for here a+ Oak Park. Over 600 for- mer sfudenfs refumed +0 +hese hal- lowed halls and nearly IOO adulfs foured fine building. Besides +hese 700 plus. numerous colleges senf inferviewers +0 meef wifb prospec- +ive applicanfs and various clubs and organizafions broughf arfisfs, feach- ers, and social workers. an asfronamL and many ofher respecfed people +0 our school for presenfafions and on special evenfs such as Dr. King's birfhday. According +0 Mrs. Mary Lee Brown, guesfs and visifors are sfeered +0 our school by such organi- zafions as Jrhe Infernafional Visi+ors Bureau, and H18 Na+ional Conference of Chrisfians and Jews who spon- sored a frip by sfudenfs from Harlan High School in Chicago. Callers from as far as Tokyo. Japan. or as near as our own village speak +0 Mrs. Brown wanfing informafion on our school. Dozens of sfudenf feachers from several sfafes also vishL Oak Park as parf of +heir +raining.

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Audience applauds wi+h 'Ernes+' Ernesf In Love opened +he I973- 74 Drama+ic Season on November 3, 9. and TO. A musical farce based on Oscar Wilde's The Imporfance of Being Ernest +he play, se+ in ninefeenfh cenfury London, +eHs +he sfory of +wo young men who seek +he hands of +wo young ladies in spife of social obsfa- cles. The obsfacles are no more seri- ous +han +he men: one has very IiHle family background. having been found in a handbag in Vicforia Sfa- +ion: +he ofher has lived a life of indo- lence for so long fhaf Jrhere is some doubf +ha+ he would ever fall in love. The young ladies +hemselves are nof wifhouf +heir problems. One is dominafed by an overbearing mofher whose main inferesf in life is an advantageous ma'rch for her daughfer. The o'rher desires +0 mee'r a fruly wicked man. Bofh vow +hey can only love a man named Ernesf. Neifher young man meefs Jrhe lof- +er qualificafion and a comedy of errors ensues when each affempfs +0 remove +his minor obsfacle by being chris+ened, Ernesf. The o+her obsfacles are resolved in a revelafion scene in +he end. This LiHle Theafre producfion was direcfed by Mr. Harold Lee Redford and choreographed by Mrs. Beverly Wehrli.