West High Singers Swing Show "Hooray for Hollywood"
West High West High Little Theatre hosts fall swing show Hooray for Hollywood on Thursday and Friday evenings. Freshman Sophomore Varsity Singers and Good Time Company perform pieces from Aspects of Love White Christmas The Little Mermaid Cats Evita Song and Dance and Starlight Express. Directors Larry Kelley Joe Hamm and Anita Kilkenny set the program tickets 4 adults 3 students seniors. Call 339-6817.
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Iowa City
West High Singers
Hollywood
West High Little Theatre
Good Time Company
Anita Kilkenny
West High
Linn County 4-Hers Earn Third at National Math and Livestock Contests
Iowa City West High Math Club earns third place at the Platteville Math Contest with 37 schools competing. Team members include John Morriss Kyle Meade Nicholas Ettinger Anna Chwang and others. Separate Linn County 4-H horse judging team from Center Point and Cedar Rapids places third at the Western National Livestock Roundup in Denver with Laura Hannen earning top individual honors.
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Iowa City — West High
Platteville
University of Wisconsin
Chyung
Song
Boyer
Seery
Sato
Linn County
4-H
Iowa
Denver
Brandi Bowers
Debbie Bowers
Laura Hannen
Center Point
Patti Hofmann
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon Our Town slated by high school drama department
Mount Vernon High School will stage Our Town on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the new auditorium. Tickets are sold at the school, Shepley's Pharmacy, or at the door. The play follows life in a small town around turn of the century with Ted Neal as narrator and Emily Webb’s growth central, performed by Janda Mott Danielle Huber and Maria Snodgress, with Barron Bremner Heather Fuchs Vince Ellison Anne Halsey Shannon Mitchell Lavonne Meyer and Gail Halsey in supporting roles.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon High School
Our Town
Shepley’s
Ted Neal
Emily Webb
Janda Mott
Danielle Huber
Maria Snodgress
Barron Bremner
Heather Fuchs
Webb
Vince Ellison
Anne Halsey
Mrs. Gibbs
Shannon Mitchell
George Gibbs
Lavonne Meyer
Gail Halsey
Jesse Lynch Finds Stage Lights Draw His Way
Washington High School junior Jesse Lynch captives audiences with song and dance while using a walker and a motorized scooter. He began acting after joining the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and later played a villager in Fiddler on the Roof. His dream is a stage lead and a theater major, with plans to work in sets or directing if acting does not work out.
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Gail Ireland Gazette
Jesse Lynch
Washington High School
Lynch
Jesse
Lawrence Lynch
Park Ave
Michael Cervantes
Colonel Manderson
Cervantes
Washington
Charlton Heston
Cedar Rapids
Col. Manderson
Angie Ryan
Brad Hawkins
Prairie students reach out to U S S R via classroom computer
Cedar Rapids teens in Prairie High School and student teacher Barry Love use telephone lines and a Soviet bulletin board to post messages to peers in Tallinn Estonia. They seek cultural exchange and music tapes, documenting plans in a file labeled USApals for potential replies.
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Zette
Cedar Rapids
U.S.S
Russ Werning
Prairie High School
Soviet Union
Barry Love
Cornell College
Love
Tallinn
Estonia
Saudi Arabia
Gorbachev
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Usapals
Nick Epley
Eft
Matt Ritchart
Greatest life impact books and films cited
YouthViews asks readers to name works that shaped their views. Respondents mention The Pig Man The Breakfast Club Zoya Red Storm Rising and Pretty Woman noting lessons on aging friendships resilience realism and perspective shifts. The Breakfast Club is praised for relatable student dynamics.
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Prairie
U.S.S.R
Gail Ireland
Gazette
John Mcivo
Tom Clancy
Bea As
San
Robyn Amendt
Washington High
Vinton
Andy Markland
Jenny Kuukkonen
Linn-Mar High
Marion
Mike Reams
Jessica Wellington
Jeremiah Johnson
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