Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Crea tive days boast spirit A chonce To be creoTive, To express new ideos, ond To show new fdshions were dll imporTdnT in creoTing o successful Spirii Week, spon- sored by SCOT SendTe ond I-lighlonders. While Trying To come up wiTh new ideos, TrodiTionol 'lddys were reioined. One wos color ddy when closses dressed in designdTed col- ors: freshmen wore whiTe, sophomores block, juniors red, seniors blue, ond foculTy ond sToff yellow. Winning The mosT spiriTed oword were The juniors who domi- noTed The holls ond closs- rooms wiTh Their seo of red. Along wiTh The TrodiTiondl days, Weor Your CloThes Inside OuT ond Punk- House-Prep doys were od- ded. I pdrTicipoTed in Punk- House-Prep doy becouse I goT To dress in The fdshions I liked, sToTed senior Ericko Gibson. Ldurie lvlerriTT, vice presi- denT of SCOT SendTe, sug- gesTed College SweoTs ddy. lvlosT everyone hos college sweoTs, ond I felT ThoT IT would look good if everyone wore Them on The some doy. The college I sow mosT of wds Illinois SToTe, she sold. Smoll pldsTic eggs were hidden dll oround The school for sTudenTs To porTicipoTe ln The EdsTer egg hunT. Those sTudenTs who reTurned Them To Mr. Michoel BorTel, High- Idnder sponsor, were given o chocoloTe Codbury egg. Flowers ond colors could be seen everywhere on Howoiidn doy, os sTudenTs showed off Their fovoriTe summer weor. Even The foc- uITy could be seen in Their shorTs. I liked To see fdculTy os well os sTudenTs porTici- poTing in spiriT-showing dc- TiviTies, ond since I love Ho- woii, iT seemed o perfecT wdy To show my 'Alohd' os well os my Thornridge spiriT, sToTed Mr. Richdrd Keller, os- sisTonT principol. The week ended wiTh o sTudenTffoculTy volleyboll gome ofTer school ond d gym jom ThoT Friddy nighT. TrddiTlonol days ond new ideds come TogeTher To creoTe d spiriTed week. ,lv i'Since i love ilowoii. ST seemed The pe-rieci way To show my Zlxlohof cis weli os my 'Thornridge spiriiif' W- lvlr. T-Eiicxireerd Highlander members, Brion Spiller ond Korrle Chmielewski, help ouT wiTh The onnuolly-sponsored sun- dde sole. Hunting for Edsier eggs in high school, Koren SchworTz ond Sheri Rdkowski seorch ThroughouT The courTyord. Spiril' Week 29

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Musical talent stages 'Pippin ' WhaT was happening OcT. 30 and 34? The aver- age sTudenT was eiTher waTching a movie for The fifTh Time aT home while eaT- ing sTaIe DoriTos and drinking a flaT SpriTe or having The Time of his life waTching The TheaTre G-uiId's producTion of Pippin, Pippin, direcTed by Mr. Tim Sweeney, was a brighT musical comedy seT aT The end of The eighTh cenTury. This colorful play Told The Tale of how Pippin, played by Tom Collins, searched for his idenTiTy. Tom, junior, had auife an advanTage aT Tryoufs. When I was eighT I did a producTion of 'Pippin' wiTh The Chicago HeighTs Drama Group. I plan on making a career ouT of TheaTre - maybe you'Il see me on Broadway one dayI he said. STacy Brown, senior, por- Trayea The lead player which was originally a male parT. STacy sTaTed, MBe- cause of The gender swiTch. we had To change The key on a IoT of songs. To be an onsTage per- former, The casT of 28 had To be able To sing and dance. However, if one couldnff fill These requiremenTs, he was welcome To join The Techni- cal crew ThaT had The very imporTanT job of building The seT. The seT offered an in- TeresTing challenge due To The muITipIe scene changes and ITs symbolism, said Ivlr. Rob Nerius, Technical direc- Tor. Many sTudenTs found Tech much more fun Than going on sfage and singing. OfTen Times Ponce a Techy always a Techy. Rich Alvar- ado, senior, commenTed. LasT year I worked crew. and because IT was fun - I joined crew for 'Pippin' I really liked making 'Pippin's' seT, buT I ThoughT The besT parT was Tearing iT down. Some of The crew goT upsef as Two monThs of work was Taken down, buT I figured There's always anoTher seT To be made. WiTh some sweaT and a couple Tears, buT a IoT of laughs and good Times, The casT and crew of Pippin IefT a lasiing memory for all who shared This mysTicaI producTion. Qi!',, ,Q 2,9 zwffifiv . . . U., T rfrrrxfcsrra' TT f 1 Tii22?' ' sc.aLil'2w sifsie :Life , . . I Q Qfws rr I Le' TTL...-I 5,55 11,1 1 5 swf 1.2 I T I T r IT I Tfif La iiiawnf 9--W iliich rlfivrrlrrgiriia Lead player, STacy Brown con- ducTs The acTion of The enTire show. Dancing In The final scene, Andre Fluker leads The resT of The casT in drawing Pippin inTo The flame. A ia -A Fall Play 31 ,