This brief article describes the Spring Festival, held at the Oakland Community School on April 22, 1979.

Students aged 2 ½ to 11 performed skits, told stories, and sang songs, covering timely subjects such as a nuclear “accident” and gasoline “shortage.” The school’s 17-person drill team, “Mighty, Mighty Panthers,” opened the show.

Like the 1974 school performance, the Spring Festival covered important political topics. The article finishes with information about how to purchase tickets to an upcoming champagne fundraiser for the school. There is an interesting difference between this article and the previous coverage of the school performance. While the IYI play coverage focused on the sense of joy and community, this article—on what had then become the Oakland Community School—emphasizes fundraising efforts sponsored by the Educational Opportunities Corporation.