Middletown High School seniors flooded their auditorium stage with dances, skits, songs, costumed performers and poems this morning as they began their Senior Day with a two-hour "Swan Song" variety show. Their program opened with a "Goofus Dance” and ended with a "Bunny Hop" and found time to offer an imitation Wally Cox, a fake Al Jolson and a young man disguised as a young lady. A Goofus Dance is an art form which features eight girls attired in shorts, paper bags, and Middletown cheerleader jackets. The dancers twist their bodies to music in what has been described as a "goofus" or "screwball" manner. After piano and violin performances, the show was stopped to allow Wally Cox, who turned out to be student Bob Rock and not Mr. Peepers at all, to strut across the stage to the theme music of Terry Sam's trumpet...

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