University High School - Clarion Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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Dancers in Clouds at 'Dreams Adrift' RIGHT: Rick Gutierrez dances with Susan Abbey to a number while an audience looks on. ABOVE: A group of dancers stops to admire the center attraction, a pond. . iv ,mga I ! ABOVE: Dignitaries of the Prom overlook banqueters. BELOW: Prom-goers are seen enioying the dinner Wayne McCormick gave the invocation which opened the 1959 Banquet and Prom. Bob Curry, master of ceremonies, introduced Junior Class President Tom Doman, who gave the welcoming speech. Joe Gauss, Senior Class President, replied for the seniors. After the banquet of fish or meat fProm was on Fridayll, Glenn Leonard played a drum solo and Dr. C. A. White, head of the ISNU speech department, spoke. Then at nine o'clock, Prom began! Dreams Adrift, the theme for the dance was carried out by paper seahorses, fish netting, and a green- haired mermaid gazing into a goldfish filled pond. Committee chairmen for the Prom were Jim Wilson, Bob Curry, Lynne Johnson, Nan Anderson, Arlene Gillett, Ellen Remsburg, and Martha Hunter. After the Prom, Junior Class Sponsor Mr. Almy stated, lt didn't surprise me that the best iunior class in the history of U. High put on the best Prom. This is a bit biased, perhaps, but l959 Prom-goers agree that Dreams Adrift was a wonderful Prom.

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fi' 1- qs: in ..., ,.. ,o THE ENTHUSlASTlC audience at an all-school party laughs and applauds long and loud after some seemingly funny entertainment. FUN Best Describes All-School Parties Part of the fun of going to U. High is the social aspect. Even the most studious pupils find an all-school party now and then to be a big riot ltranslation: a lot of funl. Entertainment at the parties ranged from dancing to readings, from songs to leg and hula- hoop contests, from skits to iust talking. A party at Cook Hall Cot coursel to acquaint new students with the typical U. High dance, began the informal social year. The Basket Ball, Underwater Fantasia, and a party at which Student Council election results were announced fiust before everyone went to Biloxil all came oft successfully. A May dance and the Class Night dance ended the year. ,v CHIP MCKNIGHT, king hula hooper, and Bob Spry watch as Nancy Wilson shows her talent. JOHN ACKLAND, master of ceremonies, laughs at the antics of Fred Lewis and Bob Spry. THE BERMUDA-clad group of Ellen Remsburg, Susan Landgraf, and Sherry Shirley performs.

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Seniors Bravely Present Last Program An i890 melodrama, complete with entre-acts, was the Seniors' contribution to Class Night. After a medley of Gay '9O songs, a can- can line kicked out onstage and down into the audience, with two dapper fseniorl gentlemen in pursuit. At this time, concessionaires, selling every- thing trom notecards to red hots, descended upon the surprised spectators. Scene one of The Wicked Wolf and the Wirtuous Woodcutter followed. Here, accompanied by hisses, sighs, and cheers, the dramatists started the plot going. Assisted by singers, two drunks, and their mother, a temperance speaker next expounded the evils ot liquor. The second and third scenes of TWWAWW followed, in which the villain, garbed in long cape and top hat, appeared. A male quartet sang between the two final scenes. ln the finale, the Class marched to the roll of drums and the band's Stouthearted Men. T LEFT: Ray Mecherle, Jim Evans, Dan Greer, and Chip McKnight attempt to vocalize. ABOVE: A genuine imported Ui French can-can line dances for audience. ABOVE: Karen Efford as Red Riding Hood looks dubious about Joe Gauss, the Villain. BELOW: Judy Kellogg, Karen Efford, Debbie Hill, and Joe Gauss clean up. I9