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

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Below: Emcee and senior Tom Roberson looks serious while doing one of his many impressions. He impersonated Batman and Robin and Richard Nixon, among other celebrities. Bichard Nixon, John Wayne and Foster Brooks all visited Pike October 11. Actually, none of these men stepped into the building, but all of them came in the form of Tom Roberson senior, to the Talent Show. Tom emceed the all-school show and did 31 comic impressions during the course of it. According to Mr. Richard Green- land, co-sponsor with Mr. Stanley Ricks of the show, there was a fairly good turnout for the Talent Show tryouts and the only problem that arose this year was that many of the most talented students in the school would not try out. The reason for this, he said, they won ' t perform because the audiences are so unreceptive to fine arts. The audience likes more of the vaudeville type thing.

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Below: Cindy Wison, junior, dances with the Pi- kettes. The Pikettes performed at other activities during the year including halftimes at basketball games. Below: Senior Jay Poindexter does a front walk over during the gymnastic exhibition act of the Talent Show. 8 Above: Bruce Corrigan, freshman, plays the ma- rimbas during the Talent Show. He played them as a solo act Right: Freshman Maria York sings a solo while being accompanied by members of the Pike High School Jazz Ensemble.

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H ovies and television played an important role in the lives of most people at Pike. Activities and schedules revolved around them. People made sure they were home or around a T.V. set in time for their fa- vorite show. On rainy weekends, people swarmed to the nearest movie theatre to see a movie they most likely had seen before. Television shows seemed to be striv- ing to be different. NBC ' s Saturday Night, despite its late viewing time was a strong favorite of many, along with Mary Haiiman, Mary Hartman and Wel- come Back, Kotter. The theme song of Welcome Back, Kotter even made the top of the charts in late May. Shows like Mary Tyler Moore and The Waltons continued to be strong. Seeing movies such as those shown at the right was also a favorite pastime of many students. The prices contin- ued to skyrocket as the theatre man- agers and personnel realized that people were going to continue coming at almost any price. What makes movies and T.V. so popular? Today, students seem to watch and observe an activity instead of actually participating. It is much more common to see a group of guys watch a baseball game on T.V. instead of going outside and playing the game itself. People take advantage of the al- ready-made entertainment instead of creating their own. Movies and T.V. are also a form of procrastination; I ' ll do my homework after this com- mercial , or But, Mom, I promised Sue I ' d meet her at the show. Still, no matter what the reason, they are a form of entertainment enjoyed by most everyone. ' NOW 6HOWI NE FLEW OVEi I an ■iiiaii Mil ilMilii iilAfii LYHDOHl IASH i Ti j RQLLERB LLILllJ bOTSTAXI DRIV o o o o c