Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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I Choir tries -?52W:isf- :L X .. X v c. , fnfixgvewkf -.v 1 f .5 . ,,---T-T772 -,, K gfxfifikirxidpx gr '.M'?3'5'ffaff1 'bn' xv ,ff Concentrating on his music, junior Ken ar the Ngtfingham Forest 'W0man'5 Lewis perfects a song to be performed Club. Listening to Mrs. Derry tell the order of to practice their songs. As members of their performance, Laura Cox, senior, the Chorale, they were required to try- and jennifer Williford, junior, get ready out in front of Mrs. Derry. 42 choir t mpc With choirs ranging from Freshm Concert Girls to the Chorale and Str ford Singers, all of Mrs. Virginia Derr choirs seemed to make the electi class last more than an hour a day. Freshman choir members were eitl placed in the Concert Girls or the Cc cert Mixed choirs. I joined chi because I love to sing and I want to b singer, commented Freshman L Caneda of the Concert Girls. Felli classmate Karen Ice explained, I had extra elective so I signed up for choi had been in choir since fifth gra though. I After spending a year in the freshrr choirs, members advanced to eitl Advanced Girls Choir or the Chorz which required try-outs in front of Iv Derry. junior Courtney Bazar explair I was originally in Advanced Girls bi was supposed to do a solo for a chu! play so Mrs. Derry helped me learr and moved me into Chorale. I Some Chorale, Advanced Girls a Concert Girls members tried out Region, held at Klein High School, vs people from choirs all over Texas. Fre man Diane Seedborg stated, I v nervous and scared because I did know whether I was going to make il not. ' Mrs. Derry commented about I Advanced Girls Choir saying, We hj some strong singers in that grou Their best concert in Mrs. Derry's vii was the All district Choral Festival r two, held at Memorial High Schi March 30. joined by the Concert G Choir, and the girls' choirs of the I other schools in the district, the chi rehearsed previously-prepared mt directed by clinician Mrs. Diane Tabj junior Heather Stewart said, We sr about fourteen songs, mostly class and some in foreign languages. All District Choral Festival first ti place Feb. 2, this time with all the C rales singing Durafle's Requeim I Mozart's Regina CoeIis. Mrs. Dc said They did an outstanding job 'Regina Coelis' because they enjo' doing it and it showed. Chorale president julie Smith stat Our Christmas Concert was the bi with the opening song performed in dark with members holding candles. Outside class, the Chorale joined hayride, went Christmas caroling at

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Some pay for them by hard cash, oth- 5 by checks or store credit cards and ll others buy them with Visa or Master large. Most people grumble about the st, but no matter what, clothes have be bought. The variety of clothes to choose from is immense. Girls could wear designer ans, wool skirts and velvet blazers, d boys could choose from t-shirts or lour sweaters. Perhaps the most significant fashion acovery for girls was straight-legged signer jeans. These were jeans made such names as Calvin Klein, Sassoon, ine Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt. Boys fashion, too, changed. As junior jke Myers said, Styles have changed. st year you wouldn't see a guy dare to ear a shirt with a hood and pockets in 2 front. Now anybody wears pretty ich what they want, within reason. iys are a lot more limited in what they wear, though. Like when girls go pping they can buy just whatever ks cute. They say that they've 'just t to have it.' Girls can throw a lot of ff together, guys just have shirts and ts. enior Cheri Edwards explains, What ear in school is different from what l ar when I go out. In school l like to ar what is comfortable, but I don't , to dress sloppy, except maybe for ays. , ost girls agreed that velour shirts, ight-legged designer jeans, Candie's es, rabbit fur coats, skirt and blazer ts, boots, and spike-heel shoes-were 2 most fashionable things to wear. ys, on the other hand, indicated that they really needed were jeans, tennis les or boots and t-shirts. slevertheless, Cheri echoed the lughts of many students when she Zlaimed, lt's like a fashion show netimes. Lots of girls really overdress school. flo matter what kind of clothes were tight, someone had to pay for them. s burden either fell on the student's 'ents or the students themselves. jun- Karen Hyde shrugged her shoulders she said, Visa. I pay for my clothes h my parent's Visa card. For other dents buying was more complicated. ny had to work part-time at local t-food joints, grocery stores, or aartment stores to pay for their thes. lhe places students bought their lhes were as different as the styles inga five dollar bill out of her jacket ket for change, junior Leslie Haga- n commented later, Getting ssed up is fun. It makes me feel d. l get tired of wearing just jeans. two-piece suit was bought by Leslie money from her allowance. they wore. The majority of students pur- chased their clothes at Foleys, Palais Royal, loskes and other department stores. Many shopped at the smaller boutique-style shops in Memorial City Mall. Still, there were some that prefer- red to travel to the Galleria in hopes of finding something different. 'TX No matter what, or when, how, or why, the styles, in the end, were as uni- que as the people in them. 4-.v rn., 41. Attired in a velour sweater and like-col- mother picks out a lot of his clothes for ored corduroy jeans, junior Mike him, he adds that he usually likes what Emberg watches a fellow art student she gets. create a design. Explaining that his fashion 41

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rent banks and the Original Christmas ore, and had a surprise party for Mrs. erry's birthday at Farrells with hats, mise makers and two ice-cream oo's. Staging, dancing and acting became rd with choir as well as the drama rpartment in the production of Strat- rd's first musical, Bye Bye Birdie. All choirs gave their final perform- ces in the Spring Concert, May 15, wging all pop music, like, Boogie oogie Bugle Boy , Top of the orld , lt's a New Day , and My Fair dy . To finish the program the choirs ng Mrs. Derry's favorite song He n't Heavy, He's My Brother , a yearly idition. The choirs then wound up a year of sw ventures and lots of singing with le Choir Banquet held at the Houston icquet Club May 18 with dancing, K6 awards and celebration. Singing a solo in the Drama-Choir pro- duction Bye Bye Birdie, Senior julie Smith portrays a young girl who has just run away from home. This perform- ance was really different. I had to chore- ograph my dance so that I was close to a microphone the whole time, she explained. Practicing for a performance for a Hous- ton Legislative Branch brunch, Seniors Lori Montgomery, Susan Paul and jeff Flinn Laugh at the antics of Lori's part- ner, Ken Lewis, junior. choir 43 Q Q