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

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Left: Ah, there goes a rotten kid, says junior Keith O ' Brien as he relates a tale about con- verting from rotten to nice. Below: Act two began with a concert that went from bad to worse. Pictured are sophomore Joanie Crowe, seniors Jay Poindexter and Paul Crowe and junior Linda Allen. Senior Tracey Middlebrooks The Crowes, senior Paul sophomore Joanie and Sophomore Ann Eastridge Juniors Jeff Edwards and Linda Allen

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grlttis stae allie mmm If the other plays at Pike were spe- cial or a little different from the norm, the spring play, A Feiffer Review, was completely off the beaten tracl . The satire by Julies Feiffer didn ' t have a plot, or a set or leads. But it did have cartoons pasted on the walls from newspapers. And it did have slides on the backwall that gave the title of each skit plus a strobe light and ringing bell when the cast rearranged movable platforms. If anything, A Feif- fer Review was unusual. The cast, all dressed as black and white cartoon characters, would give monologues, dialogues and conversa- tions that poked fun at any imaginable topic. The cast made fun of violence, parents, teen-agers, blacks, whites, getting old, politics and love. Splashes of color, costume-wise, oc- curred in the form of senior Tracey Middlebrooks ' Plaintive Song and senior Paul Crowe ' s rendition of Su- perman. Two of the people who were the same character throughout were sophomore Julia Navarre as the dancer in a pink tutu and junior Jeff Edwards as Bernard, the show ' s born loser. Not only was the play itself a break from tradition, so were the technical aspects. A tech crew normally has 60 to 70 cues per show. For Feiffer, under the direction of junior Beth Bailey, the crew had close to 300, which included lights, music, a fire bell and slides. An- other highlight of the show was when the lightboard suffered a major power failure on Friday night, and the cast finished the second act in work lights. Above: I scorn you! I revile you! greets the en- tire cast from senior Tracey Middlebrooks who is putting down liberals, whites in particular.

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Since 1976 was the nation ' s 200th birthday, the Bicentennial aspect of many things was exploited. In- dustry made money out of Bicentennial products. Bicentennial Minutes could be seen every night on television. Stores had special 76 cents sales. While the na- tion was celebrating its 200th birthday, the media reported various interesting news stories. During the 1975-76 year, reporters covered Patty Hearst ' s trial, the assassi- nation attempts on President Gerald Ford, Muhammad Ali ' sThrilla in Manila, YKNOWpLLIE, REALLY TWIN K THE FiCrHT BETWEEN ALI AND HI5WIFE WAS BETTER THAN THE TMRILLA .