Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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Marriage plans, usually no laughing matter, some- times are in a mock ceremony, as Seniors Mark Grasso, Amy Brown and Rhonda Pearson show. Not just anyone looks good in a mini-skirt ;however, Seniors Pam Fullenwider and her date Jimmy Winkle show off their legs at Sadies. With a doivn-home setting for Sadies pictures is Freshman Penny Townsend and her date Senior Jerrv Williams. Double your pleasure, double your fun as Fresh- men Andrea Heath, Yvonne Morey, and their dates Max VanCleave and Shane Southerland kiss their mutes. SADIES 15

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Replacing the flannel shirt, bibs and straw hats at the Sadie Hawkins dance were pullover sweaters, parachute pants and leather ties... Sadies. The Dance where the tables are turned and the girl gets a taste of what is ' s like to be the de- cision-maker on a date. She also may find out what rejection feels like. I asked some- one from a different school, so I was nervous that he wouldn ' t want to go to another school for a dance. It ended up that he was happy to go and we had fun, stated Junior Maria Godwin. Those 160 girls who found a date to the November 10 dance were welcomed by Mrs. Karen Brammer and her husband. Once inside, the couples danced in a mel- low, easygoing atmosphere of music and flashing lights, provided by Electric Dance Company. I thought the music was good, but they could ' ve used more videos, was the opinion of Sophomore Brett Brown. Taking a breather, couples cooled off with fruit punch or cider dipped from a tin cup and ate coo- kies. Pairs sat along the student center to escape the heat generated from wild people dancing in the cafe, to get off of their feet, or to find out who had brought whom. After couples had time to get their pictures taken, the Corn King award- winner was an- nounced. With last year being no different than thi;- year, Junior Dan Flynn was the ; was glad to have won, especially when you ' re up against seniors, who usually win, Flynn said. Mark Hill Another common sight on this night was couples walking down the white paper-covered aisles to get hitched bv Marrvin ' Sams Athletic Director Bob Harrold and Principal Jerome Secttor. In their dignified hillbilly hats and robes, they collected the sacred vows by the bride and groom. It was fun pre- tending to get married to Eddie, (Clevenger) but I ' m not quite ready for the real thing yet! commented Senior Candy Fogle. In the last couple of years, fashion at the Sadies dance has changed from the trad- itional flannel, □ overalls and straw hats, to striped and plaid button downs, fashion- able pullover sweaters, leather ties, and of course jeans. Trying to get a grip on the fashion scene were Seniors Pam Fullenwider and Jimmy Winkle who wore matching mini-skirts. Pam and I were out looking for shirts and we saw mini-skirts. I joked around and said we ought to wear them. After that, she got two to- gether and I told her we were going to wear them. It was just something crazy and different to do, Winkle laughed. Senior Alissa Ziegler com- mented about Winkle ' s choice of dress, It was funny. It didn ' t sur- prise me at all, because Jimmy ' s always doing things like that! King for a night is Junior Dan Flynn with his date Senior Amy Garrett as they celebrate Flynn ' s Corn King Nikki Rudbeck 14 SADIES

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A predominately rookie cast spent late nights rehearsing a play that relied heavily on dialogue but was still worthy of... PRESENTING Ine rront rage t ' s Chicago and the time is the 1930 ' s. The scene is the newsroom. It ' s here we meet Hildy, portrayed by Sophomore Leon May. Hildy wants to break away from the news- paper business and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy ' s hands falls the escapee as hostage. He hides his prize under a rolltop desk and calls his editor Walter, played by Fresh- man Brett Lotz. The three act play, presented on Novemberl and 2, by members of the Drama Club, was an especially difficult play to present, according to Director Terry Nelson. It was a difficult play to pro- duce because the story relied heav- ily on dialogue. There was a lot of memorization and late rehearsals. It was so unusual in that over three-fourths of the cast were new- comers to the stage, Nelson said. The story re- lj . volved around a jailbreak and break- ing of a big story . The come- dy, once made into a popular movie starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, popular- ized poker playing outside of rehearsals and at the cast party since the reporters in the play had to rehearse the game so much. Besides the on stage direction and acting, the set crew, consisting ofbot s and drama club corn- worked hours on weekends transforming the audito- rium stage into the setting of a 1930 ' s Chicago newsroom. The Steve Winslow ushers added to the illusion as they even dressed as newsboys and passed our Front Page programs to high- light the performance. Also instrumental to the show ' s suc- cess were the light and sound crews, consisting of Juniors George Poulsen and Joe Sanders, and Seniors Todd Young and Frank Williams. The sound men handled the task of working out the loopholes in the new $20,000 sound system. Poulsen admitted, We got feed- back from the new equipment and had to work around it all, but it worked out alright in the end. Besides the trou- ble with the sound system, the cast was confronted with another prob- lem: Where were they going to find a rolltop desk big enough to stuff the escaped murderer, played by Senior Steve Winslow? The prop committee members couldn ' t find one, so Nelson simply rewrote part of Act Three to hide the murderer under the desk. Nelson laughed, The results were funnier than how it was originally written. Student directors were Thespi- ans Jennifer Johnson and Dawn Taylor. The tough, macho reporters were fun to portray, stated Senior Kevin Morey, who played Reporter McCue, but it took me forever to get the ' Chicago twang ' . That ' s right, Walter, I quit! fumes Hildy, played by Sophomore Leon May, while reporters Fresh- man Jeff Riggs and Junior Todd Gilbert look on. Brad Holloway 16 FALL PL A Y