West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 Good always triumphs over evil. Grimmes! CAST Grandpa .......... Grandma .......... Baby Alice ....... Baby Bob ......... Widow Desperate .. Widow Aged ....... Gentle Grimmes ... Little Saccharin ... Dauntless Crusader Trickster......... Rotten ........... Sly .............. Ms. Shabby ....... Ms. Yesperson — Madame Presidente .......Will Hastings ... Cee Cee Premer ..........Liz Rose .......Kean Meyer ..........Liz Streitz Terry Daughenbaugh .......Andrew Wyatt .......Dana Gross .......James Farrell .......Carl Hobert .........Matt Lerner ..........Bill Jones ..........Janet Roos ....Margaret White ....Ellen Bormann There's dirty work afoot in this beach community. •Tm DESPERATE!! Pianist Amy Walsh helps director Ted Stelten babysit” the senior cast. 28

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.THAN A PLAce no PARff y0u The back parking lot is as much a part of West as is the lunchroom, the new gym, or room 300. Besides parking your car there, one can indulge in a little freestyle frisbee, throw a football, socialize with some friends, smoke a cigarette, relax on a ‘64 Ford, disco on a 77 Aspen, or wait for a ride home. The back parking lot is also the site of the annual Homecoming Pep Fest and the meeting place for T.P. attack forces. Activity begins with intensity in the fall, the beginning of the school year. This fall the most active group seems to have been the bees, hornets, and wasps. Soon, with the arrival of Minnesota's artic climate, only a few diehard students brave the sub-zero temperatures to smoke a cigarette. Eventually, warmer temperatures arrive, the snow and ice melt, and the dead bees from last fall thaw. The spring and anticipated end of school stimulate the lot’s most vigorous activity. Following the end of school, the lot passes into a state of dormancy with the exception of Mr. Allen and his behind the wheel students. 27

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 Zounds! Ms. Yesperson. can no one be trusted? I cannot thank you enough, kind sir. Now my tiny Banana Land Republic will be like any other modern nation! Zounds! It’s A Melodrama! Amidst the shambles of the humble cottage, next to the Smog Machine in the executive office, and from one end of Sunny Beach to the other the cries could be heard. The cast of the senior class play “Dirty Work In High Places” cried out, “Mr. Stelten, teach us the ‘Pose.’” The ‘Pose’ was the newest, most mysterious disco move, known only to “disco director” Ted Stelten. Andy tried to satisfy his peers with a Mick Jagger imitation, Jim hoped a slob contest would raise some spirits, and Mr. Stelten tried a diversion tactic by waltzing with Dana. The choreography for the Dirty Tricks Department provided some amusement, as did Matt’s “Rotten” solo, but the actors wanted more than that. “Toys” such as the 25,000 volt Smog Machine, Irve’s cigar, hat, boots, shades, and gun, complete with blanks, were fun for the cast to play with. Sometimes, however, they got .too exuberant and babysitter” Stelten threatened, It’s out into the snow or “into the paper shredder with you.” By keeping in mind the traditional senior motto “Homework? What homework?” the semi-Thespians survived laughing attacks, backstage jitters, cold hands, and the wild cast party. Above all. the cast remembered to “have an o--,” “be revolting. and to “knock before entering the dressing room of the opposite sex. Oh joy! Oh happiness! Widow Aged is running for Mayor! You all know me-honest Gentle Grimmes. My reputation is below reproach. 29