Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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f, 'sd 'Gammer' earn kudos, applause Drama students won big this year with t'Gammer Gurton's Needlef, ln competition at Cali- fornia State University at Sacra- mento, they received a special judges' award for superior en- semble acting. Tokay won all the awards in competition at the University of LaVerne. 'iWe swept it, said Larry Linda, drama adviser. We won 'Best Productionf 'Best Scenographyf and 'Best Per- formance' lChristina Wallj. Wall was the first junior to win the award. l. Junior Christina Wall, freshman Michelle Monarque, and sopho- more Paul Pickett perform one of the scenes from Gammer Gurton's Needle. 2. Christina Wall displays her award-winning acting talents along with junior Darrin Martin and Paul Pickett. 3. Ale house patrons were played by senior Doug Kester, junior Mark Jordan, and sophomore Michael Curry. 4. Junior Erik Smith and senior Kymn Trujillo share a scene. Photos by Matthew Silber t 600 According to lVlr. Linda, the judges gave the Tokay dramatists a standing ovation and shouted, Bravol 'iAt both festivals, every perfor- mer was important, said lVlr. Linda. 'iThere were no weak links. The judges said all the kids were magnificent. Gammer,'i a middle English play written in 1550 and translat- ed by Mr. Linda, revolves around the loss of a needle and a lunatic traveling the countryside, starting a series of brawls in a normally quiet English community. The play is acted in the rough-house manner of pre- Shakespeare England and the English accents were as strong as the fights were knock-down- drag-out, said Linda. ln addition to Wall, who played Gammer, the cast featured Erik Smith, Darrin Martin, Kymn Trujillo, and Sam Ferrer. Other THSPA productions in spring included Jigsaw Puz- zle, a cumulative performance by all areas of the Performing Arts Department, and The Diviners, the spring play. by Helen Schorr

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Parti ipation improves s eec year Frankly speaking, Wayne Read, speech adviser, thought Tokay's speech team was an improvement because of the in- crease in participation. This year we have two classes instead of one, said Mr. Read, so we're offering more. This year we had a significant increase in participation and the quality was better. According to Mr. Read, the average number of Tokay partic- ipants in the speech tournaments was seven last year. Presently, the average was 15. We achieved awards this year more so than last year, said Mr. Read. We had additional plac- ings, and some students won money. According to Nlr. Read, this year's quality students were Lisa and Lori Whitney, Christine Hir- ata, Thuc Nguyen, Eric Perez, Cha Lo, Darryl McLaughlin, Cherie Sintes, and Kimberlee Giberson. We're working on time to rehearse, said Mr. Read. We don't have a whole period to practice our speech presenta- tions. This year l had people come in after school to rehearse if they wanted to. We got some practicing done, but not en- oughf' According to Lisa Whitney, the events in the speech tourna- ments that she had success in were the Duet Interpretation and Congress. 4. Wayne Read, speech director lectures on impromptu speeches. 5. Citing a speech with hand gestures is senior Thuc Nguyen. 6. Giving a speech on abortion is senior Lori Whitney. 629 Ms-'...,.. . . fm, i 1 According to Perez, th speech program has improved. When l first started, ther were only about five active merr bers, and we weren't very suc cessful, said Perez. This yea we have about 20 active men' bers and usually we place high i the individual events at the toui namentsf' by Zuriel Cervante. Photos by ALisa Stone mTwmTT -.