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

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Judy Weinberg and Maureen Miller sip tea, ably served by butler Ed Janus, in a scene from the Senior play The Importance of Being Ernest. Brian Stevens deftly flicks a short pass over the outstretched arms of Bret Harte in the Seniors Tri-Tilt victory over the juniors on March 12. The Navy Band performs Tenting Tonight from The Bugler of Arlington at a concert held,in the gymnasium for WJ and visiting elementary school students. Sinai-m Coach J. Paul Miller presents quarterback Jack Blomquist with the County's Most Valuable Player Award. March Two concerts and a play dominated culture in March. The Navy Band thrilled the school with a medley of patriotic songs, while WJ musicians hosted the band from Haverford High School. The Senior Class added a light note with Thornton Wilder's rollicking comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. The Tri-Tilt and Powderpuff bas- ketball games conclusively proved that both male and female seniors could out-dribble the juniors. The It's Academic Team of Carl Pope, Harriet Ritvo and Ken Cohen downed St. Albans and Ascencion for its first victory of the year. A Thousand Stars was the theme of the Junior-Senior Prom, a switch from the planned basis of Girls, which proved to be impractical.

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fm, ,gl o...., WX r.,-Q L l l ll J l 2 l Wl i x 9 ll 5 A , Eh all 5 S f-fi fi 5 ' AT the AFS Assembly, Anne Blanchard describes soccer, France's favorite sport. Mr. Muir leads the band in selections from Can-Can at the Pops Concert on February 7. FebrualfY, I963 Students relaxed after the close of the first semester, cramming Febru- ary with divertissements. Capering with St. Valentine, students honored the red heart saint with Cupid's Caper, sponsored by Student Coun- cil. Greatly enhancing the cultural status of our school, students, freed for the night from homework, attend- ed in droves to hear the music of George Gershwin and Cole Porter at the Pops Concert. Quill and Scroll inducted journal- istically distinguished students at a banquet where Martin Buxbaum was the featured speaker. Sports Car Club enthusiasts turned out 40 strong from schools nearby to follow a course testing good driving. International Week, climaxed by an assembly at which exchange stu- dents frorn area schools discussed foreign life, brought exoticism to WJ. 3252? if Calendar 195

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Special Awards A total of 24 National Merit Final- ists, Leon Barnhart, Peter Beall, Ken Cohen, James Colbert, Judith Dubes- ter, Susan English, Roger Friedman, Mary Lynn Hendrix, Paul Highby, Carole Johnson, Bob McBride, Char- lotte Misegades, Suzanne Mitchell, John Norman, Thomas Parsons, Christine Payden, Carl Pope, Linda Offutt, Michelle Rich, Shea Rutstein, Beth Schmell, Leda Schubert, Roger Traut, and William Wickner, set a new school record. Five of these, Ken Cohen, Roger Friedman, Mary Lynn Hendrix, John Norman, and Christine Payden won scholarships. Students garnering other honors were Bob McBride and Bill Murray, who presented papers at a Science and Humanities Symposium. English contest winners Leon Barnhart and Barbara Weitzen, and gymnast Fran Wagner. Roger Traub won recogni- tions from the Computing Society and Beverly Schreiber earned a youth Recognition Award. Junior Class President John Culp crowns Louisa Flaningam Queen of the March 29 Junior- Senior Prom. Greta Smith receives the DAR citizenship award as Mr. Gregory congratulates her. Special Awards 197