Washington High School - Lens Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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I -•— (1) Principal J.J. Me Habe, (Brian Rhone) disciplines Joe Ferone, (Wade Booth) a hostile rebellious student. UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE Cast Faculty SYLVIA BARRETT BEATRICE SCHACHTER PAUL BARRINGER J. J. McHABE ..... ELLA FRIEDENBURG FRANCES EGAN CHARLOTTE WOLF SAMANTHA BESTER Students LOU MARTIN LENNIE NEUMARK CAROLE BLANKA ALICE BLANKA .... VIVIAN PAINE .... LINDA ROSEN JOSE RODRIGUEZ CARRIE BLAINE .... HARRY KAGEN ..... RACHEAL GORDON JILL NORRIS ...... ELIZABETH NORRIS . CHARLES AARONS EDWARD WILLIAMS . JOE FERONE ....... HELEN ARBUZZI FRANCINE GARDNER KATHERINE WOLZOW ELLEN ........... Stephanie Barton Marcia Guillory Eddie Schefter Brian Rhone ........Jean Gaps Britt Ellis . . Cheryl Johnson ....Debbie Lloyd Ken Carey ......Doug Wolfe .....Ann Wiebe .....Lisa Passarelli Kathy Van Horn Marlene Nulph Peter Schuurmans ......Tracy Piazza Michael Lamb .......Kim Dillon .....Shery Tidwel ......Traci Hartel . . John Jorgenson . Jeffry Hinman Wade Booth Katie Goodfellow ......Kathy Barry ......Amy Degler Kim Williams 17

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UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE PERFORMED AT BUCKMAN Due to remodeling the auditorium, the cast and crew of Up the Down Staircase had to rehearse and present the play at Buckman Grade School auditorium. A lot was learned by all of us in adapt- ing the show to the small Buckman stage. It's called, do the best you can with what you have. We certainly came to appreciate the Washington High facilities more then ever, expressed Miss Mary- lin Olsen, the new drama director. Rehearsals lasted nine weeks with two weeks of three o'clock to ten o'clock practices. Each actor was responsible for their own costumes. The student actors were a marvelous group to get to know, added Miss Olsen. She presented a beautiful cake to the cast after the Saturday performance. The show centered around Miss Sylvia Barrett, a new teacher at a New York City High School, who, through many poeple decides that it would be challenging as well as rewarding to keep teaching at Calvin Coolidge High. I felt Up the Down Staircase could have been much better if the cast and crew would have been more ex- perienced in theatre arts, commented Eddie Schefter. Up the Down Staircase was presented November 18 and 19 to good size audiences each night. All were disappointed when they learned that no work had been done on the auditorium until after the play was over. (1) First year teacher Sylvia Barrett (Stephanie Barton) grades English compositions before class. (2) Sylvia's friend Ellen (Kim Williams) talks about the possibility of Sylvia (Stephanie Barton) trans- fering to a small suburban college. 16

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CHOIR TOUR SURPRISES ALL MUSIC GROUPS IMPROVE Washingtons annual Music Tour May 12-13 started off on the wrong foot. The first performance was to take place at Hood River, but was cancelled at the last minute because both the gym and the auditorium were unavailable. A hastily arranged performance was set up at The Dalles High School. The Choir performed five songs to the small crowd of music students and drew cheers for their rendition of “Joshua Fought the Battle of Jerico featuring Brian Wrighten and Michael Hunter as soloists. The Band and Stage Band followed, under new director Nelle Ross, and showed marked improvement. The Choraliers sang two of their most popular tunes, Emotion featuring the golden voice of Mary Linn, and You Ought to be Havin' Fun with dancing and magnetism by Jimmy Heffner. After a fast food lunch in the Dalles, the musicians moved on across the Columbia River and into the State of Washington. Short- ly after, one of the buses broke down while negotiating a hill. The entire group was taken to a cafe-grocery store-gas station. From there a new bus was ordered and the Band with some Choir members, went on to Yakima, eighty miles away, where they were to begin the concert and hope that the rest of the group would come in time to finish the concert. The new bus finally came, after four hours of eating and wander- ing around, but it delivered the Choir and Choraliers too late to perform for West Vally High School. So the Wa-Hi musicians de- parted with their hosts for the evening to change clothes, and find out what was to do in an ordinary city like Yakima. I enjoy meeting new people. It doesn't bother me a bit not knowing the people you are staying with, senior Karen Puls expressed. On Saturday morning everyone loaded the buses to continue on to Seattle Center for some relaxation. The Space Needle was a blast. concluded senior Gary Harlan. (1) The Concert Choir performs at the Spring Concert. (2) At the Pops Concert, Beth Ca- meron accompanies the Sophomore Ensemble. Left to right: Deanne Celsi, Vivian Dea, Valerie Lockard, Steph- anie Barton, Robin Sheehan, Mary Kusch, Amy Degler, Fong Ng, Mary Smith, Marlene Nulph, Kate Wedic. (3) Special Edition sings a popular Barry Manilow tune entitled Day- break . Left to right: Rosalie Roberts, Mike McCauley, David Morton, Da- vid Knight, Judi Ure, Linda Williams, Julie Jost, Susan Holmes, Donna Keesling, Mary Peake, Britton Muller, Molly Dinneen, Jeff Carlson, Doug Celsi, Richard Fancher. 18