University High School - U Highlights Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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foil lo win ossembly audiences but pep rolly offers o surprise During the Thanksgiving Assembly, Mat Saidel reads the poem A merica, America 'C An audience fidgets. The speaker raises his voice as if doing so will help to make what he is about to say more interesting. There is polite applause and another U- High assembly is over. This year's assemblies tried new for- mulas, but the key to complete audience interest still eluded program planners. The first of the new changes came at the beginning of the year with a sunrise assembly. A jazz band instead of the traditional speech opened the program. But no matter what the innovation, chat- ter and paper airplanes emerged victo- rious. The annual pep rally offered a few new cheers. The bulk of the program, however, was devoted to the basketball team running around the gym. The cli- max was the introduction of Andy Dwor- kin as new team manager. He made his entrance by popping out of a cart the team members had been pushing around the gymnasium floor. Laurie Duncan, left, and Harriet Epstein scream their throats out at the Pep Rally.

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Arts Week '69, Feb. 3 - Feb 7, was devoted to concentrating on all areas of art. It aimed at involving every U-Higher, all students were allowed to miss one session of each class during the week. U-Highers went to poetry readings given by students and faculty, saw full- length features and experimental films and heard vocal and instrumental con- certs. Wandering through the halls, they peered at the prints, paintings, photo- graphs and sketches on the walls and at the jewelry, sculpture and ceramics in the showcases. Awards for the best work were given at an all-school assembly. Arts Week Chairman lVlark Zelisko in- troduced Arts Week to Francis Parker, Morgan Park Academy, Latin, South Shore and North Shore Country Day Schools. Four of them brought dramatic productions to U-High and Theatre Work- shop presented its own show, Rosen- crantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The week's activities ended in Nledia 1212, a seven-school party attended by 800 people. lt featured movies, art from six schools and two bands. Arts Week invites other schools, ends with poriy improvised dances and projections of bubbles on a screen express Beauty, one of the themes ofLatin's Expressions of Thought . Junior Nancy Lyon waits for her cue at an Arts Week concert given by the Jazz Band. 29