Willard High School - Chief Yearbook (Willard, OH)

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ABOVE: Anxious for the battle ahead, tri-captain Tim Conley rips onto the field. Queen Ann Reigns r | ’he 1977 Queen Ann Schlatter A and her court paraded across the football field. After being crowned by last year’s queen. Cathy Reidy. Ann moved to a small stage to watch the game. Her court: senior attendant, Kathy Johnson, junior attendant. Sue Steinmetz. sophomore attendant, Rachel Smith and freshman attendant, Cindy Morales, sat beside her. A close game with Shelby, the peren- neal football powerhouse and arch rival followed. The Flashes held their oppo- nent the first half keeping the score 0 to 0. In the second half. Shelby scored one touchdown and won the game. TOP LEFT: Smiling Rachel Smith, sophomore attendant and Curtis Coodsite, her escort enjoy the evening. LEFT: Cindy Morales, freshman attendant graces the floor with Bill Slosser. her escort. Homecoming 19

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ABOVE: The Homecoming weekend for Ann Schlat- ter. the 1977 Queen began with her Friday night crowning and culminated Saturday when she reigned over the Homecoming dance. Her escort was Kevin Wallace. RIGHT: Kathy Johnson, senior attendant and her es- cort. Tim Conley pause during their special dance. FAR RIGHT: Enjoying her evening. Sue Steinmetz, junior attendant joins her escort, Mark Hinebaugh in a dance. 18 Homecoming

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Final Bicentennial Tribute . . . As a celebration for the bicentennial, Mr. Mil- ler chose plays with Americana themes. These included Eugene O'Neills “Take Me Along, and Rodger's and Hammerstein’s South Paci- fic and Oklahoma! . As a featurette, two films entertained the crowds; one depicted theatre through the ages and included pictures of past W H S. productions, the other showed a re- hearsal of “South Pacific” and was cinemato- graphed by Rick Shellhammer, a WHS. aluminus. Guns, cowboy hats, and bandanas decorated the Oklahoma! stage, as the thespians por- trayed the famous western characters. The story involves the courtship and eventual marriage of Laurie, a pretty farm girl, to Curly, the model cowboy. The story complicates as Jud. a dirty farm hand of Laurie’s Aunt Eller, also falls in love with Laurie and tries to win her over. Laurie’s love for Curly, her fear of Jud, and the eventual brawl between her suitors are displayed in a ballet illuminated by strobe lights. The whole situation is lightened by Ado Annie, a fickle farmer’s daughter who “cain’t say no.” A traveling Persian peddler flirts with Ado and with the persuasion of her father’s shotgun is forced into courtship. Then, Will, Ado’s love- sick cowboy returns and saves the peddler from marriage by winning back Ado. In the end, Laurie and Curly marry, Jud dies by falling on his own knife in a fight with Curly, the peddler is forced into marriage of another farmer’s daughter, and Ado and Will are engager! to be married. Happiness engulfs the last scene as everyone faces a new future in a new state, Oklahoma Jo.