Pulaski County High School - Cougar Pinnacle Yearbook (Dublin, VA)

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iv g m Brought students and countians to the little theater to experience Army life. Hawkeye!! Get out of the nurses tent! Now Hawkeye, not next Christmas. These sayings, which are some of the most famous in the world, came from the long- running T.V. series about Ko¬ rea called M A S H. When the Korean war fi¬ nally ended on February 28, 1983, after eleven years of being on the air, everybody felt as if a big part of his life had just ended. Yet, on De¬ cember 7-11, the Drama De¬ partment brought the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital back to life with its band of misfits and their zany antics. The play, which was taken from the book M A S H by Richard Hooker, took three months to prepare for at a cost of nearly $400. After au¬ ditions were held and the forty-two members select¬ ed, rehearsals began. The most time-consuming part of the whole production was the rehearsals, which made Mark Edwards, (alias Col. Henry Blake) state, ' ' They were really long hours; Ms. Ballinger made us do our scenes so many times so we didn ' t just play the part, but we actually became that character. We knew ex¬ actly what was going on among all of us, so it made the rehearsals a little more enjoyable and easier. Probably the hardest thing to do in the play was to learn your part from the 110-page script. Ms. Nancy Ballinger said, After about the third week they had their lines memorized, and it really wasn ' t that big of a problem. The kids practiced their lines whenever they could and when it was time for rehears¬ als, they didn ' t need their scripts anymore. When you put on this size production, there are always problems in finding time to rehearse. Since most of the actors lived far away from school, it was easier to stay after school to rehearse than to come back at night. This caused Ms. Ballinger to com¬ ment, At the beginning I thought getting them to practice would be a big problem, but after the audi¬ tions were over and a sched¬ ule set up, their willingness to stay after school and coop¬ erate was great. Many of them changed their sched¬ ules and rearranged appoint¬ ments just to make the re¬ hearsals. This made it a lot easier on all of us. There are always those few moments that a person will never forget, and the most memorable one to Robert Hodges or Haw¬ keye was the time that PM Magazine was there. I flashed half of southwest Vir¬ ginia in white jockey shorts with red hearts and little dev¬ ils on them. Now that was funny. When the last scene was over and the curtain drawn for the last time, a feeling of emptiness hit everybody. All their long hours and hard¬ ships were over. M A S H at PCHS had ended the very same way that the real Kore¬ an War had ended. Coming out for the final curtain call on Sunday, the actors and actresses received a standing-ovation for their excellent presentation of the play M A S H. Doing a little soft shoe routine for the troops at the M A S H party, Hawkeye and Duke put on their best to keep everybody laughing and to have a little fun at the same time. Asking for the commendation for Captains Hawkeye and Duke, Pri¬ vate Boone (Brad Nester) tells Col. Henry Blake (Mark Edwards) that he told him to put it in file thirteen. 14

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In the mock wedding, Lisa Frazier gets ready to sing There Is Love . Lisa spends a great deal of her spare time sharing her singing talents with others. In the IMC, Tom Coleman reads a book about Greek Philosophy. Tom got inspi¬ ration from Plato, Socrates, and other philosophers. Chip Sparks shows his talent while prac¬ ticing on trick skiis during summer vaca¬ tion. His summer was filled with many hours of skimming around on top of the water Setting her course, Branch Wyatt soars over Pulaski County in her single engine plane. 13 Funtime

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With various road signs behind them, Hawkeye (Robert Hodges) and Duke (Drew Szerokerman) discuss their bunk mate Major Frank Burns during the opening act of M A S H. Trying to figure out how to get rid of the three uninvited guests, April Estes, Kim Harrell, and Deeann Law- son conjure up a great scheme to get the girls to leave. After Talking with three dancing girls, Captain Bridget McCarthy (Cin¬ dy Ross) receives the third degree from Hawkeye, Duke about the way she treats visitors. Applying the final coat of make-up, Deeann Lawson rubs in the facial base on Father Mulcahy ' s (Barry Doyle) face. 15 M A S H