Pike High School - Pikes Peek Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Left: In this before shot, juniors worl on their soon-to-be number one float at Clark Brooks ' house. Below: Junior Cathy Price shows her elation at the girls ' powder puff football game. The juniors lost to the seniors 6-0. Bottom left: The juniors ' winning final product waits in line for the halftime parade. All of the floats had bicentennial themes. frosh out of first place, 34-33. Juniors and sophomores tied for third with 26 points each. Apart from the perfect senior record (four losses), there was no major dif- ference between the 1975 home- coming and those in the past. A large, enthusiastic crowd full of past gradu- ates was on hand for the festivities. At half-time, a queen, Joni Cummins, was crowned, and cars full of cheer- leaders, lettermen and junior leaders drove by. The night wouldn ' t have been complete without the big traffic jam after the game. And that ' s the point of homecoming, this year and in years past— nothing to- tally unique, just a little fun com- petition, spirit and enjoyment.

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Right: During halftime festivities, Susie Rothl opf, last year ' s winner, crowns ttie 1 975 homecoming queen, senior Joni Cummins. Below: Band members stuff paper napkins into the chiGl en wire of their drum float which even- tually placed third in the competition. Bottom right: Sophomore Joanie Crowe poses in her ' 50 ' s outfit as freshman Mike Mason exits. PSPS sponsored ' SO ' s day before Friday ' s game. 14 §r as the halftime announcer who didn ' t Icnow the micro- phone was still on said, I know. We got beat. For the first time since perhaps the beginning of time, a class (this time, the one of ' 76) went through four years at Pike without winning the float competition. The junior class be- came victors (as in many years past) with their Liberty Bell float. Soph- omores were second, the band third, frosh fourth and seniors fifth. However, all was not lost for the se- niors because they won the overall competition in the pre-homecoming events. After winning the powder puff football game, pie-eating, root beer chugging, girls ' sack race and the boys ' tug-of-war, they nudged the

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l Raisin in tine Sun, a milestone in I drama, was first presented I March 1 1 , 1959. This was no or- dinary play because it was the first play written by a Negro woman, Lor- raine Hansberry, to be produced on Broadway. It was the first to be di- rected by a Negro in over half a cen- tury and became the first play written by a black to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. On November 7 and 8 the drama was also a first for Pike in that no other predominately black play had ever been presented here. It was the story of a Negro family in Chicago who wanted to better them- selves. Walter (junior Pete Randall) wanted to invest his deceased father ' s insurance money in a liquor store, much to his wife ' s dismay (senior Tracey Middlebrooks).. Walter ' s sister Beneatha (junior Karen Gordon) wanted to use the money to go to col- lege and become a doctor. Mama (ju- nior Daron Walker) desired a decent home in the suburbs. Other cast members included senior Tamee Hyde, juniors Jeff Edwards, Tim Holmes, sophomore Michael Diggs and freshmen David Arnold and Steve Robertson. Author Lorraine Hansberry, who died at age 34 of cancer, said, I tried to show . . . the many graduations in even one Negro family, the clash of the old and the new, but most of all the un- believable courage of the Negro people. Above: Pete Randall tries desperately to explain to his mother (junior Daron Walker) that a man has to better himself and his family ' s future. Above right: Junior Karen Gordon and junior Da- ron Walker comfort senior Tracey Middlebrooks who now is pregnant and is considering an abortion. Right: Freshman David Arnold listens as the grownups discuss the prospects of moving into a new house in a non-integrated neighborhood.