Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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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

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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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What clicked...and didn't Ideally yearbook staffers would decide on the pictures they needed for their layouts, hand their photo assignment sheets to Head Photog- rapher jeff Correll and sit back and wait for their pictures. But the ideal seldom happened. Staffers usually found themselves waiting and wait- ing and waiting. But for every time a photographer didn't show up or didn't get the right kind of picture, there were hundreds of times when they made the yearbook staff members happy. Every one started out fine, but I Checking out newly developed nega- tives, Randy Neighbour inspects his photos, which he had taken the night before, at graduation. Cutting negatives into strips, Senior jeff Corre I gets ready to make contact prints. jeff's duty, as head photogra- pher, was to see that all pictures that staffers wanted were taken. 44 photographers know the photographers got tired of being yelled at, said Activities Edi- tor Leigh Whelan. Each photographer had individual responsibilities. jeff, for instance, took all group shots which Groups Editor Tiffany Doucette, junior, set up. People were always running into the room saying 'where's the photographer? He's supposed to be taking our group shots, said Publi- cations Adviser Peggy Schneider. In one six week period jeff took, devel- oped and printed 60 group shots. Naomi Bullock must have broken some kind of record. She set up, photographed and developed 30 honor award pictures in a little over 4 days, continued Ms. Schneider. Naomi's photographic awards included first in advertising photog- raphy in the state lnterscholastic League's competition, first in ad photography in the Texas High School Press Association and sec- ond in yearbook portrait photogra- phy in Texas. She was the first per- son in Stratford's history to have a photographic portfolio advanced to national competition. But staffers identified her most with a quiet do I have to? when approaching her for photos. One year-long dilemma turned out to be tennis pictures. Sports Edi- tor Betsy Bonvillain assigned at least eight tennis matches to be taken. I assigned tennis pictures in january when the season opened and May 30 I finally had to go out and shoot it myself, said Betsy. Cyrene was responsible for drai ing up the tennis layout. lt's real embarrassing when you set up pi tures over and over and they nev get taken. People begin to wor about you, said Cyrene. Definitely exasperating, fi Randy Neighbour, junior, yearbot photography meant taking mo pictures of sophomores than I ev wanted to take. Randy was famoj for taking pictures without filmi the camera. j Lisa Duncan, senior, was mo remembered coming into cla sleepy-eyed and late on days whi homeroom was scheduled. Shel say, Oh, was there homeroo today? Lisa, a two year veter. Mnemosyne staff member, d almost everything that was asked her said junior Maureen Kuzik. , ln addition to those photogr phers who were in yearbook cl: second period and who did t majority of the work, the two Ora: photographers, jennifer Van Gilg and Danny Boone helped out. j , nifer was responsible for all tra pictures and Danny was a big he during football season, said juni HeatherStewart. I Other photographers who co tributed their work to yearbo were Marc Ostrofsky, Greg Scha Steve Paine, Rolfe Williams, Be' Bonvillain, Yvette Helin, Robin Mt ris and Randy Rubin. ? 5