Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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Roman Classic Toga .or not toga he average visitor to the McCall junior high gym would have wondered if they had been time warped into ancient Rome. People were dressed in makeshift togas try¬ ing desperately to move and dance in their confining dress. As the evening wore on, togas were piled in the hall resem¬ bling a Chinese laundry. Not all of the sheets were the tradition¬ al white, rather there was a wide variety of colors and pat¬ terns. Jody Moody was draped in a toga covered with trucks and Alison Alberts and a couple of her friends came outfitted in metallic sheets. Matt Micciche appeared wearing a unique checkerboard style toga. People used unusual accessories to ac¬ cent their togas. Ties, laurels, and rope belts were used to highlight normally simple togas and give them some individual¬ ity. “I found it difficult to figure out how to wrap such a big piece of cloth around me. It took al¬ most a half hour to get the the toga the way that I wanted it,” Keeping in step with the music, Eliza¬ beth Herlihy, Sabrina Patrick and Sarah Fitzpatrick dance around the McCall gym. explained Elizabeth Dahm. Some freshman boys played wiffle ball in the hall amid the discarded togas while others spent their time talking to their friends in the bleachers and on the stairs outside the gym. For the freshmen, the toga was sig- nifigant as it was their first dance as high schoolers. Megan O’Neill and Nicole Giambro agreed, “at first we were scared, but then we started to have fun.” The rest of the people packed the floor of the gym and danced to a mixture of popular hits and classics from the past. “The toga has traditionally been a senior function. It has always been something special that the seniors have had for themselves,” said senior Piyum Samaraweera. There were more than a few seniors who were against the idea of an all¬ school toga bacause some felt that only the senior class should have a toga dance. They felt that they should maintain the toga as a senior function. De¬ spite some senior objections to having a toga other than their own, there was a surprisingly large turnout. Kristen Kupjian, junior class president said “the all school toga dance was a smashing success, we raised over one thousand dollars.” Senior Jay Moore said, “I feel that everyone had a really good time. There were more people at the toga than there were at most of the other dances.” -Steve Buttacavoli and Heather Mills Thedincel w s a smash¬ ing siicTess, we raised n erj ,|jEiethdMsand| |larS.y SiKristen Kupjian

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Looking good for the camera, Tom Maher and Chad Haskell find the per¬ fect pose at the toga dance. Carefully counting the money, Mrs. Borsari, Michael Queenan and Chris Ward keep an eye on the door during the dance sponsored by the junior class. Strutting their stuff at the toga dance, Tony Pacione and Matt Micciche show off their fashionable togas before joining the danc¬ ing. B-8-B-B-B - a -B-■-■-B-B-B-■-■“ All School Dance , , . Fifteen ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■MB ■ ■■■■■■■■■■