Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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Junior Drucie Ramey hands Sophomore Karen Hirsch a name tag to help lessen the confusion at Sophomore Orientation. Japanese cameramen watch and take movies of WJ defeating Blair. The film was for a series on youth around the world for Japanese television. September, I 962 D u r i n g September, sophomores found an Orientation Night, run by the Student Council, helpful in ad- justing to their new alma mater. A pep rally during the first weeks of school also helped amalgamate the student body. Japanese cameramen, filming ex- amples of American education, chose Walter Johnson from among the high schools of the nation to make films to be used in Japanese schools. The S. S. Walter Johnson, held soon after the beginning of school, successfully launched the social sea- son. To get the student body organized and the Student Government func- tioning as quickly as possible, elec- tions of Senior Class Council repre- sentatives, Junior Class officers, and intrepid Publications Representatives were held in September. 190 Social Calendar

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f -ft, -1, Q '1, , Q -V k . in i 5 fi 5 it g p ' N1- : , i. A t Vlzel - L'K'- wear mfr ff' ' S: Seniors Bill Hayden, Bob Datoli, Hal Logan, Mike Barch, Gil Larson, Corky Corchrin, Toni Warner, and John Schwartz act tough in the West Side Wildwood spoof in Good Knight. June,I962 June completed the 1961-62 school year with many frenzied activities, especially for the outgoing seniors. Having finished their tests early, the seniors concentrated all their en- ergy on the successful execution of Senior Week, highlighted by the long awaited Senior Prom and by Senior Night with its Good Knight pro- gram. Senior Week also included Senior Teach Day during which peda- gogically inclined seniors lectured on Toynbee, limits, and radiochemistry. The climax of three years of compre- hensive schooling was the June Com- mencement exercises. While the seniors frolicked, the less fortunate juniors and sophomores un- derwent final examinations, two-hour horrors designed to prepare them for the rigors of writing coherently un- der stress. The last days witnessed a frantic scramble as Wiwdzllfs were handed to eager students by the harassed staff of the school bank. Social Calendar 189

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Cctober, I 962 Highlight of October was Fantasia, the magnificent all-school variety show. Presented earlier than usual this year, its eerie Halloween theme had as mistress-of-ceremonies Alice White, who so bewitched cast as well as audience that her actions gave her red roses. School spirit soared during Beat B-CC Week, climaxed by the game and the Walter Johnson-BCC Quar- terback Sneaker Dance. Students solemnly watched the Burial of the Baron and listened eagerly for the traditional prophecy of the game's outcome. Teachers kindly refrained from as- signing homework on October 31 so that students could attend the Wheel Club-sponsored Halloween Dance. The Cuban crisis produced a flurry of activity as school officials stored supplies for emergency use and led a practice alert in which students bur- rowed into subterranean rooms. George Rasmussen limbos under Linda Brylaw- ski in the Zombi Jamboree, during Fantasia. Mr. Walsh waits with Larry Kent, Robert Freer, Greg Sarsfield, Bob Lawrence and Mike Czarneki in a shelter during an alert. Social Calendar 191