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Heading up our crew this year is its manager
and recipient of all evils that befall it, Don Keel.
He is the pensive one who is always cleaning up
the mess that the others leave. Stage-managing
and Friday night dances are his specialties and
he is often found running down the halls until
all hours of the night looking for, who knows
what. Don had the dubious pleasure this year of
submitting a requisition sheet for supplies to the
office and due to a slight over estimation on his
part ended up with two thousand feet of unusable wire.
Co-managing and co-operating with Don is this year's greatest D.J. - Rick Seymour. A reckless man who is carefree and loves loud music, handles the lighting for the major auditorium events and dances. He and his friend, Pierre Renaud have recorded eight solid hours of popular music on tape and are directly responsible for what you listen to and enjoy at the Friday night dances - loud, ear-splitting music! Following Rick and Pierre, but of no less im- portance, is Matti "mad-dog" Ingerman the crew's one and only true philosopher. Matti likes to supervise staging and to control the sound panel. Being a nut on sound systems and long-hair music, he has recorded miles of tape of Renaissance music, all of which he absorbs into his super IQ while concentrating on his main interest - girls. Jim Buckerfield, a man who also digs girls, is our defense against the outside world. He is a karate bug and to our sorrow he often practises on Rick. Jim is mainly a lighting man but is always available in the prop department if needed. I don't know what we would do without Jim and his hammer. Speaking of hammers, this brings in one of our grade twelve members, Neil Haist. Neil is always hammering out corny jokes and quite often a friend or two when they are unfortunate enough to be in his way. Neil, Guntis Rozitis and Maris Zvejnieks are responsible for the Grade twelve auditoriums and most of the school assemblies and movies. They are good men to have on the crew, always willing to work. They shall be next year's leaders. |
Whenever Maris comes into the dimmer room,
affectionately known as the "DIMMER ZIMMER",
he shouts in his loudest voice, "Turn it down!
You can hear that radio allover the school." So
"turn it down" Maris has come to realize the
chaos which Guntis misses because he takes
junior lunch. Dimmer room chaos is one thing that
the crew is noted for, but we do try to keep it
at a functional minimum. This chaos lends a
certain amount of homogeneity to the crew in its
very heterogeneity.
Two quiet fellows, John Yip, our spotman and Victor Wong, our heavy duty man help to keep our shows running smoothly. Their efforts at the dances and assemblies go unnoticed. Yet without them an important part of these events would be missing. These boys do the work of prop and lighting positioning and are the basis for a show's success. This year a new precedent was set within the crew with the admission of a young lady, Laura Harris, to our ranks. She handles the grade eleven history lectures and at the same time adds her feminine pulchritude to our otherwise unglamourous dimmer room. Over all these hard working people is the man responsible for keeping the crew together, Mr. Stewart. He has a moderating influence upon the crew and offers consolation in times of desperation during heavy performances. Since it is Mr. Stewart's first year with the crew as staff adviser we would like to congratulate him on being able to step in where Mr. Prior left off without losing his stride. Certainly his is the most gruelling task of all - controlling all the controllers of the crew. All in all this year we have an excellent crew and it looks as if, when this year's grade thirteens leave the crew, a very capable group will replace them as next year's leaders. Don Keel, 13A |
