West High School - Shaheen Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Cost Shows How To Succeed Viewing the musical from behind the scenes is the way many people, who don't always receive the credit they deserve, see the production. Those people are the ones who work endless hours to create scenery at its best. Along with the cast and crew, the pit orchestra mem- bers, who no one can see, dedicated several endless nights of late night rehearsals. After talking to a few of these members, this is the picture of life backstage: Senior Steve King stated, I hadn't played in the last two musicals, and everybody who had, told me it was a lot of fun. They were right. Another pit member, Senior Greg Hawkinson commented, Because I had played in it fthe pitl two years before and I really enjoyed the type of music associated with the musicals. One of the back- stage crew, Junior Paul Pietzonka replied, You have to have something else to do besides schoolwork. It keeps Practicing a scene takes both time and patience as Senior Paul Marberry and Junior Connie Weiman found. 20 Musical me from going crazy! Not only did the hidden talents create a wonderful performance, but the cast excellently portrayed the characters in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. This musical attracted a total of 2,200 people. Saturday, November 22, was a complete sel- lout, with 900 or more people attending the entertaining musical. A member of the cast, Debbie Frogley, who portrayed Miss Krumholtz, said that the reason she tried out for a part was because, It gives me good experience for college and I really like our Drama department here at West. All in all, it seems that all students who participated in this year's musical enjoyed it a great deal and that's why, for so many years, a musical has been produced. The office girls show off their Paris originals. Enthusiasm and a smile help senior Matt Logsdon as he tries out for the musical. in

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To add to the Christmas festivities, cookies were baked and expertly decorated. Trying to select one animal from the zoo of animals appears to be a tough decision for social studies teacher, Mr. Rasmussen. Christmas Is For CBigD Kids Seven year old Jimmy Stevens woke up with a start one dark, snowy, December night around three o'clock a.m.. Clop! Clop! The noise that had startled him before, sounded again. Silently, he slipped the covers off of his pajama-clad body. His tiny feet touched the cold floor and carried him over to the window across from his bed. He peeked through a crack in the drapes and peered at the roof below him. His big, baby brown eyes grew wider as he watched the scene below him. There on the roof, to his amazement, was the man who had been to him, only a jolly character in a story book, Santa Claus. During their childhood, not many West high school students were as fortunate as young Jimmy Stevens. But Christmas does not only mean the arrival of this jolly figure, it also has several other meanings to people. Even though it may be twenty degrees below zero out- side, to some people Christmas represents a tempera- ture of three hundred and fifty degrees. This is a person who slaves before a hot, steaming oven, preparing fes- tive Christmas cookies. To other people, Christmas is a time of celebrating the birth of a baby boy, Jesus. These are the people who concentrate on the traditional view of this holiday season. Most of the population can be found in the crowded shopping malls at'one time or another, shoving their way through the mass of people. Whether a person belongs to one, two, or all three holiday groups, Christmas holds its own special meaning for each person. 22 Christmas 'efyvf it? 'HV 'B 1 m,.:5ef ' 'VV As shown by the apparent long Ilst, someone firmly believes they deserve a massive pile of presents. Christmas brings not only joy and anticipation of opening presentsg it also brings the traditional setting up of Christmas trees. E l