Southern Alamance High School - Southerner Yearbook (Graham, NC)

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5 H :3 :This is your pilot speaking. Boyd J Birds of a feather flock logether. Mr. :Lougee pilots the band Non Stop 3 and Mrs. Ha; Hume and Mr. J. D. 3 Flite into a familiar tune to start the ; h Barrett take in the scenery of the silent 3 night on its way. ' 1 film stars. Boogie woogie flu. Gene Aldridge and time oul. Jackie Glover and Beth Candy Nelson are infected With the Graham dish out refreshments to Amy epidemic of dancing fever. Carlner and Mike Nichols as they es- cape the confusion of the dance floor. Prom 11

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w Rm , t Roots and the Bicentennial left a T btpand on everyone. Hysteria. and a T hilstorly kKle hit the country. A -,t mysterious riddle and a curiosity :t ., , cketd Americans into researching t? eirpredecessors antherit-agte. 1L9 .. ies andrtstatistics officesreopened thEIr'finES and rEcordsrto the fth'u'ndetrjhg public. Spedal displays T llined'Walls 'andtwindows while citizens Hooked on. The hoped to dig up a t famous, person or a 'kinsman. The tflurries and frenzies intoxicated Southern communities! too. The Sword of Peace and historical sites 0 ened. 30.16 shows and clothes came Eatck tcjreating an era of nostalgia. Following Tthis epoch of extravagance, Mrs. Dolly mugh act-to. follow. They needed a ip'EOj'E'Ct'Whi'Ch had meaning and appeal. F na'lly. a brainstorm blew across the continent - from Hollywood to. New E A r We're all in our places with bright shin- ing faces, as the cast joins for their grand finale. Shaw and Mrs. Nancy Wilkinson had a' . tit Wt? York and to Southern. Since its opening in New York in 1975, hundrede of communit theaters, primarily in the South, ha pla ed a musical. So why shouldn't Sout te'rn follow the trend to become one of bnly twent -six high schools to present Shenan oah? The last week of March 1977, Mrs. Carolyn Lupo delivered a summons over the intercom, All those t interested in the musical Shenandoah . . . Her voicetworked wonders, for eightyaone people turned up for auditions; Aftergthe audition rnany discovered they; had the ability to do more than th'eythad ever dreamed. Having to play d'ual roles, certain actors underwent psydhiatric treatment for schizophrenia. To prove a point, imagine havi'n :to be a marautder, sni er, Confe erate soldier, and Gene Altfridge at thetsame time! Male voices began to mature and mm 99 crack, so everyone thought. Astiti occurred though, Women's Lib pu in another request. The army of1861 knocked down barriers and allovtzed broad phyiiques to take on feminine curves. A 50:50 ratio between male and female appeared on both Confederate and Union sides. h The cast had an iron will to do anythin . They showed up for six weeks, t ree or four nights each Week, and put in two hours or more each night at rehearsals. When props became a necessity, they broughtttt em in without question. They even had the audacity to steal pews from Mt. ;Z on Baptist. Church. t t 1 At one of the last rehearsals we :could have seen more than 19th Century costumes. We could have alsotsee'n a reenactment'of Sherman's marchltc the sea. Although not included in the script, Phillip Mintz decided to eisplay x . , o, erk onfsEhedLiLes; 1h me 6r'k 2X 2 P 39' .7 L, h t - . z t 'o x