CONCERNED MOM TAKES STEPS TO CUT ANXIETY OUT OF PROM NIGHT.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Alemany High School's post-prom party chairwoman raised her fist in the air Thursday morning, and let out a victory yell. ``We just hit 500,'' said a jubilant Shirley Fabian-Endlich. It was working. Most of the graduating seniors in the Class of '96 were coming to the school's first post-prom party - a drug- and alcohol-free alternative to the traditional drinking parties that have marred so many young lives before they've even had a chance to get started. Drunk driving fatalities and injuries, date rapes date rape n. forcible sexual intercourse by a male acquaintance of a woman, during a voluntary social engagement in which the woman did not intend to submit to the sexual advances and resisted the acts by verbal refusals, denials or pleas to stop, and/or physical , drug overdoses Drug Overdose Definition A drug overdose is the accidental or intentional use of a drug or medicine in an amount that is higher than is normally used. - tragic, frightening stories that make the headlines of too many newspapers across the country the day after some seniors get carried away celebrating their graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. . The horror stories horror story Story intended to elicit a strong feeling of fear. Such tales are of ancient origin and form a substantial part of folk literature. They may feature supernatural elements such as ghosts, witches, or vampires or address more realistic psychological fears. that put gray in the hair of parents all over this country. It was those kind of horror stories and that gray hair Shirley was trying to avoid a few months ago when she walked into Father Robert Milbauer's office, and suggested to the principal that Alemany take a page out of Chaminade High School's yearbook, and begin throwing its own post-prom party. The key, she said, was to make it hip - the ``in'' party. Sort of like Spago's after the Oscars. If the kids thought only squares were going to attend the sanctioned school party - if they figured they'd be standing around all night drinking punch with their math teacher - the idea would never work. They wouldn't come. So, with Milbauer's and the parent board's blessing, Shirley Fabian-Endlich - the mother of a freshman son, a mother thinking ahead - went to work putting together one of the hippest post-prom parties you're going to hear about from any of the graduating classes of '96. It's a primer prim·er n. A segment of DNA or RNA that is complementary to a given DNA sequence and that is needed to initiate replication by DNA polymerase. for parents at all schools to learn from and copy - to help hold that gray hair at bay on your own kid's prom night. When you sit up all night silently praying that they make it home safe and whole in the morning. The idea wasn't looking good as late as a few weeks ago. The word of mouth around the campus had been pretty good, but only 213 students so far had signed up to attend the school party after the prom dance at the Castaways Restaurant in Burbank. With a graduating class of 360, Shirley still had a ways to go to sell this idea to the class of '96. Everything else had been falling into place. The community around the school was responding to the idea with donations and door prizes. Parents were supportive and grateful for an alternative. They'd raised enough money to stock eight game booths with prizes, and offer door prizes, like snow boards, tickets to the taping of popular TV shows, and cash prizes - every hour on the hour, from midnight to 6 a.m. when the party would end. They had lined up some of the funniest, craziest games you've ever heard of. Games like sumo wrestling, where the kids put on big plastic outfits that make them look like sumo wrestlers See
And, they had this wild game called Bungee Run, and so many others to go along with the entertainment, music, and raffles Raffles leading Victorian criminal-hero. [Br. Lit.: Herman, 19–20] See : Thievery . Unique stuff that was going to keep these kids having a ball until dawn in an environment where trouble was not allowed and alcohol not missed. Yeah, it was going to be a blast. Now, all Shirley had to do was convince the class of '96 of that. She had to break down that old prom night mentality men·tal·i·ty n. The sum of a person's intellectual capabilities or endowment. that it had to involve drinking or drugs - that seniors had to party hard and expensively all night in some fancy hotel that charged an arm and a leg for what? Her party was $10, and a heck heck interj. Used as a mild oath. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck. [Alteration of hell. of a lot more fun. Last week, the video that would prove it started making the rounds around the Alemany campus, accompanied by a couple of graduating seniors from Chaminade High who had gone to their school's post-prom party last year. The Alemany seniors watched the Chaminade seniors having a ball at their own post-prom night party - without alcohol or drugs, and without paying an arm and a leg to some hotel. The school party wasn't a drag. It was cool. It was happening. They were going. So, that's why Shirley Fabian-Endlich was letting out a victory yell Thursday morning - the morning of the day that 500 of Alemany High School's best and brightest attended the senior prom For the formal end-of-school-year dance, see . Senior Prom is a still-classified U.S. Air Force program to develop a stealth unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle (and possibly as a cruise missile), designed to be launched from a DC-130, B-52, or B-1. at the Castaways Thursday night. Returning to school at midnight to party safely, sanely sane adj. san·er, san·est 1. Of sound mind; mentally healthy: "their protector, the strongest and sanest of them all" Pat Conroy. 2. and wildly until dawn today. MEMO: Dennis McCarthy's column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. |
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