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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1972
Page
6
Growl Editorial highlights two acts of school spirit at MHS. The Key Club male members volunteered for a April 29 work day, despite manpower limits in the Girls led Pep Squad and Publications departments. Student Council voted to donate all Block Party profits, May 6, to finance the MASCOT printing costs, a first in its history.
In a delayed 8:30 start the Beach Boys played a two part show at Brewer Fieldhouse. Carl Wilson Dennis Wilson Mike Love and Al Jardine led four to five accompanying musicians. The first act featured Surfs Up era songs and newer cuts while the second revisited classics including Surfer Girl and California.
The Beach Boys deliver a varied set with high energy piano bursts and early rock influences. Highlights include Good Vibrations Welcome to the Promised Road and Student Demonstration with a 1950s piano flair, plus an encore of classic oldies. The crowd sensed the band had grown beyond car and surf themes while maintaining their easygoing sound.
Freshman English classes perform poetry programs chosen by students led by Donna Davis Steve Wolf and Mark Farnen They rewrite nursery rhymes with current news figures producing witty politics satire The piece includes lines about Little Bo Peep llama sightings in the Bahamas and parody political figures referencing Howard Hughes Humphrey Dumphrey and Dick Nixon
A satirical verse titled The House That Used To Be laments a political racket and the neglect of truth. It invokes figures like Spiro Agnew and warns that supporters have deserted as elections near. The piece harshly critiques perceived enterprise and loss of public trust.
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