Rogers High School - RYB Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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Bye Bye Birdie sends the Rogers stage Back to the 50's As the Stray Cats brought back some of the old 50's Not only were the main characters new to the Rogers music, and the HRock-a-billy'i look brought back the 50's Stage 50 W35 the diTeCtOFI Mrs. Michelle Heeg. New to style, the Rogers Drama Club, brought back the the Rogers faculty, Mrs. Heeg had her first experience as a presentation of Bye Bye Birdie. director with Bye Bye, Birdie. She brought a new style Although the Drama Club lost many of its members of set designs and abstract scenery. This meant that to graduation in 1982, many new faces came out on the the sets were less complex and the audience had to use stage this year. Two of the four main characters were its imagination to understand the scenes. first-timers on the stage. Debbie Main made her debut Laughing and yawning together through the early as Rose Alverez, and Conrad Birdie was portrayed by morning and late night rehearsals, the Drama Club newcomer Tony Babovac. The other two main characters, qUiCle became a family. The new Drama Club members Dan Glossenger as Albert Peterson and Michelle Savinski became veterans t0 the stage, and they 3 helped to make as Kim MacAfee, were not entirely new to the stage, but Bye Bye, Birdie a success. neither had faced main roles before. -Scott Barnes Kim Appleby tells Janet Rhoades The MacAfee family discuss It's time to settle down! and Dan Glossenger about her their problems at home with extelaims Kim MacAfee iMicholle skills. Albert. Savinskii. Fall Play 21

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Fans of Conrad Birdie gather at a Now York Station. A local teen-ager tGordnn Gardan gossips with his frivndx. Reporters Dave Pritchett and Peggy Post hear the story of Conrad Birdie tTony Babovaw from Albert thn GlossengerJ and Rosie HDvbbic Mdim. 20 Student Life

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As Edie Crosley Iooks at the Vallm Girl T-shirt Lynn Grant; holds up, she gets grossed out to the max. Many styles of music are shown through T-shirts worn by students at Rogerst Movies and music staged an Invasion from foreign lands Strange names and faces appeared on the top of The Flock of Seagulls, the Pretenders, Buggies, and movie and music charts in 1982-83. The strangest face Duran-Duran became common names on the rock stations. came from a distant planet and went by the name E.T. Yet the big event for rock music was the farewell tour Packing cinemas everywhere he went, E.T. found a path into of The Who. Playing three times at the Rosemont Horizon everybody's heart. The Dark Crystal, An Officer and a Stadium, the group decided to venture into solo careers Gentleman, and Rocky III were also hits. after finishing the tour. Two other major groups, Rock music also made its way into the cinema. Genesis and the Rolling Stones, released live albums. Quadrafenia by the Who, Let's Spend the Night Genesis released Three Sides Live and Still Life was Together with the Rolling Stones and The Wall by produced by the Stones. Pink Floyd were released during the year. The Wall With a pleasant mixture of new and old names, the was based on the album, released in 1979, and the stage year in entertainment was never boring. Radio stations show, performed during 1980. and movie theaters showed a great deal of variety in Appearing on the top of the charts were strange names order to keep pace with a hungry audience. This proved that after gaining success in Europe and Australia, to be a benefit for the consumers. have crossed the oceans and have made it big in America. - Chris Chlebek 22 Student life