On April 17 in Mount Carmel Academy's Duplantis Gymnasium, history truly came to life as over 200 eighth grade students represented ten different historical decades at the annual Eight Out Late event.
"They all get this one night to hang out with each other," said Melanie Johanson, who dressed as a 1920s flapper with the rest of her eighth grade homeroom students. "It's only the eighth grade involved, so they don't feel like they have to impress anyone."
Complimenting the flappers were other decade groups, including grandmas of the future, 1960s hippies, 1950s young women dressed in poodle skirts, 1940s military-clad students and 1990s babies to honor the decade in which these students were born. At the end of Eight Out Late, the grandmas decade group had captured the first place costume. The 1990s babies followed close behind.
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"The event is held each year to build friendships and class camaraderie," said Virginia Dabdoub, eighth grade moderator. "It helps them to have a better sense of their class as a whole and to start bonding as the class of 2013."
