St Marks School - Marker Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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SOCIAL EVENTS Highlight of the winter social season was the Christmas dance. Students danced and socialized in the study hall decorated in gold and silver. Mrs. Claire McGivney and Mr. John Loomis organized the entire student body into a fast paced day of field events. Speedster Jack Berryman tags Rick Stevenson during one of the relays. This was the first year the bazaar was a joint effort. The result was twice as much fun for all with the boys operat- ing a Mona Lisa picture gallery, a cake walk and assorted fun games. The only place large enough to hold the large student body was the gym, where one could see anything from a play rehearsal to skits to pep assemblies and sometimes even a gym class. 52

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On stage! Cast and crew prepare for the final dress rehearsal. Holding the talking heads are A Citizen (Bruce Barnes), the Peddler (Tanny Goodman), and technician Doug Snedden. With the dragon are AAr. Fox ' s assistant, Ray Gibson, The Weavers (Craig Knight and Judy Little), and the Blacksmith (Rob Priest). THE DRAGON AAembers of the cast gather before the sets in AAr. Fox ' s studio prior to leaving for the theatre for final dress rehearsals. For their play, the seniors selected a fresh attack on an old problem; autocratic govern- ment. The play, a satire on this form of gov- ernment, was given its third presentation since its premiere in Russia. The Dragon, by Eugene Schwarz, tells the story of Lancelot (a distant connection of the original), who rids a town of a dragon. In so doing, he dis- covers that dragons have a way of reappear- ing. The play ' s success was enhanced by the imaginative and colorful sets designed by Mr. George Fox. One striking feature of the set was a three-headed dragon that material- ized before the audience ' s eyes. In an early stage of rehearsals AAr. Cat (Becky AAarkley), Elsa (AAichele Hackett), AAelissandra (AAischa Axiine), The Dragon (Kit Sumner), and Lancelot (Wim Ray) practice act one. 51

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PUBLICATIONS Weekly policy meetings with Mr. Larimer, advisor, and Wim Ray, editor, were a feature of this year ' s pre-publication work. Marker staff members gather in the publication room to finish last minute details. Tanny Goodman, art editor; Bill Scheef, business manager; Hobby Hogle, photographer; gather around Chuck Culp, athletic editor; and Kit Sumner, activities editor. The editor, Wim Ray, checks out pages with lay-out editor, Doug Snedden while Phil Patterson, copy editor, types the words for the picture held by photographer, Craig Knight. Perhaps one of the hardest decisions to make in this year of the merger has been what to do about the yearbook. The new student constitution has established the job of one editor for one year- book. This means that The Marker, as a separate publication, will cease with this issue. From a be- ginning marked by inexperience and learning by doing, the book has developed and grown into one which we hope is worthy of the school. This year ' s editor, Wim Ray, owes a debt of gratitude to those four previous editors, Zeese Papanikolas, Dan Schwarz, Greg Papanikolas, and Bill Yaggy, and their staffs, who aided so much in this develop- ment. This year the second edition of a combined literary magazine was published by the creative writing class. Sponsor of the book is Mrs. Enid Zim- merman. Boys on the staff are Tanny Goodman, Rob Priest, and John Litton. 53