Putnam City High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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A S 'H -a lesson February 28, 1983, The last of February and the last of a legend. Students and faculty alike sat in living rooms, dens, even crouched in a corner at work to witness the final act of an eleven-year epic. The inhabitants of the 4077th M'A'iSi'H finally out- lived the war that had trapped them. and were permitted to character knowing in his heart that things would never be quite the same. M A'SxH, the long-running television program which had occupied Monday night scheda ules since before most of PCHS students remembered, was at last ending-by choice of all those concerned, not by force of low ratings. in farewells screen, as officers and enlisted personnel exchanged las' goodbyes after four years of the incredible stress which was the Korean conflict-the stress which spawned days when an- tics seemed to be the only wag to hold onto sanity. MXAgSxl-I touched so mang people because they identified with at least one of the char- rejoin a society that had been living without them, each if Alan Alda, as Benjamin Pierce, and Mike Farrell. as B. J, Hunnicut. discuss the prospect of the end of the war, Goodbyes come in all variations, as Pierce and Houlihan bid farewell, Pot- ter, Hunnicut. and Winchester, played by David Ogden-Stiers. try to do their best not to notice. 18 Entertainment Tearful faces mirrored the emotions of the people on the acters portrayed-the ironic in- anities of Hawkeye Pierce, the Jamie Far, as Maxwell Klinger. wedf his lady love at the 4077th, Best friends part to opposite sides of the nation, as Pierce gives Hunnicut a last hug

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Principal Robert Butler, standing, visits with North Central team mem- bers who visited the campus February 14-16 for the seven-year review. Diamond Jubilee, it if ' visit of evaluators unique Two special days which were unique, or at least rare, fell during this year. The first, November 7, was Diamond Jubilee for the State of Okla- homa, and in its honor, Put- nam City Schools paraded on a windy Saturday morning, with the Pirate Band leading out. All of the district schools Evaluators from the State Depart- ment of Education, Enid and Still- water, look over their notes on the English Department. marched, and members of the administration rode in open cars to greet the crowd along the route. In February, the school was visited by a team of evaluators representing the North Central Association, and once again PCHS proved what we had always known - it is an out- standing school in all respects. This was borne out by the final report of the evaluators and the written report which follows. We won't see them again for another seven years. North Central 17

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gentleness of B. J. or Co. Pot- ter, and ambition of Margaret Houlihan-everyone found a part of themselves clad in olive drab. As a complete epic, M'A'S'H had varying effects on its viewers. David Morales, junior. said, l really wasn't satisfied with the ending. There wasn,t enough impact for me. The emphasis during the whole series was how war affected people. and other than Col. Blake getting killed, everyone just kind of packed up and went home. Erin Palmgren, junior, re- marked, l liked M'AxS H not necessarily because of its war theme, but because it por- trayed a group of very different people who put aside personal differences to work together in the worst possible circum- stances. Alan Alda, Loretta Switt, Mike Farrell, and all the other cast members will be remem- bered for providing us with what no series has before-an anthology of human emotion which hereafter will be exper' ienced only as reruns. nf at William Christopher, as Father Harry Morgan, as Colonel Potter, and Mulcahy, wrestles with his feelings and Loretta Swit. as Major Houlihan. share his hearing impairment. a moment of closeness in their good- bye. .iwfffw H I in W Hunnicut leaves Pierce a note-a semi-permanent reminder of years and feelings shared. Entertainment 19