Senior Year Events

(All pictures taken from the McKinley Tech Yearbook: Techite 1979 Volume 67)

Homecoming

Prom

Class Day

Baccalaureate Service

Commencement


 

Homecoming

 Date:  October 1978

 

 Miss McKinley Contestants

 

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Miss McKinley and her court

l-r Arleta Jones: fourth runner-up, Pamela Merritt: third runner-up, Mealnie Murray: Miss Gray:  Gaye Collins:Miss McKinley, Stephane Durant: Miss Gray, Pamela Green: first runner-up, Gladys Hollis:second runner-up 

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Miss and Mr  McKinley - Gaye Collins and Wayne Linsey

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The homecoming parade included a hearse with a sign that read "The remains of Dunbar HS Football Team". Unfortuanley, the joke was on McKinley because we lost to Dunbar 0 - 6.  

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Class Day

 

Date:            Friday, May 18, 1979

Time:               1 PM

Location:        McKinley High School Auditorium

 

 

 (Click image to read program)

Senior Superlatives

  

Category

Female

Male

Sweetest Personality Pamela Merritt Eric Wood
Best Dressed Pamela Green Guy Middleton
Craziest

Annette Carson

Joseph Walker
Most Talented Gaye Collins Wayne Lindsay
Tallest Karen Lilly Juan Jones
Most Attractive Sandra Paige Daniel Francois
Best Couple Robin Reis Reggie Bradshaw
Most Unforgettable Faye Phillips Clyde Penn
Smartest Deborah Addo Chad Uy
Most Helpful Lynette Middleton Warren Head
Most Frank Wanda Harris Guy Middleton
Most Talkative Pamela Green Jed Worrell
Quietest Belinda Taylor Darryl Carson
Tardiest Carolyn Wood Rick Holmes
Most Likely to Succeed Deborah Addo Chad Uy
Best Actor & Actress Pamela Merritt Calvin Matthews
 Most Poised Sherry Foster  Christopher George
 Most Poetic Edith Thompson   Jerry Bullock
Best Leader Carolyn Johnson Clyde Penn
Most Versatile Meta Gwyn Uchechi Opaigbeogu

 

 

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  Prom

 Date:            Friday, May 25, 1979

Time:               8 PM to 11 PM

Location:        Hyatt Regency, Main Ballroom

 

 

 

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 Baccalaureate Service

Date:                Sunday, June 3, 1979

Time:                    3 PM

Location:             McKinley High School Auditorium

Guest Speaker:  Rev. Richard K. Thompson, Pastor Trinity A.M.E. Zion Church 

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Commencement

Date:                Tuesday, June 5, 1979

Time:                    7:30 PM

Location:           Constitution Hall

Guest Speaker:  Arrington Dixon - Chairman of the DC City Council 

Valedictorian:   Chad Uy

Salutatorian:    Deborah Addo

 

 

 

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After Graduation Disco

Location:  The Clubhouse  1296 Upshur Street NW

 

 

 

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