Wheaton Community High School - Wecomi Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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.1 -.pc-sf., s-.Jn-Y. ...f-5...,,,p za.,44p: ,,,Q,., L-Q4-Ml-w nu----Q-, -.M.,...--4F,,y.,.- f T ' TOP ROW Coach Hodges Slllllllhlh Brown Fdwards B Shurtleff Faulkner Harwu Cuuld Hrmls 9 'IHIRD ROW SIUSSQ McCallum Wm li xd llnrkholder An n Vhleer lorter fmanaeer 9 SHOXIIJ ROV! lxlhnm Qehnndt Mlsnnn Durlnt Inseher Allen NVessels FIX S u Ill 1 111 L 4 Cmdor Mon The TIELFS, under the efcpeneneed Lillelllllg of Mr Hodges, have mtde If 1 tr1d1t1on tlwlys to represent Wheaton vuth a stood trlek and Held telm Lookmg haek IIIIO the records we End that last ye lr marked the tenth eonsecutlse se 1son that the Tlgers had gone undefeated 111 outdoor durl meets lt was also the fifth con secutne tnme they had won the class 13 kllN1SlOIl of the Wheaton Relays, not to IHCIHIOII thelr NILIOTICS 111 the IDLIPIQC County Meet and the Ceneseo Relays The Whetton tlnnellds were tlso well represented 111 the 1947 state meet The hoys who qlllllllttl 111 the d1str1et meet and made the tr1p downstlte were 18 follows laxan MeC1llum 1nd Earl Dry den ID the dashes Barton Anson 111 the mlle Altn Conley 111 the d1scus, and Phll Dur1nt 111 the shot put The relay team wh1eh con s1sted of McCallum, Dryden, Ward Carlson, and Denny Bassett, also ran 111 the state class1c Each year the Txgers look forw 1rd to the Wheaton Relays As th1s IS one of the blg meets 111 the state, the fans see plenty of keen compet1t1on and br1ll1ant ab1l1ty Last ye 1r seventy five schools were 1I1V11CLl, and If turned out to be one of the best track events 111 the state To top off an excellent setson, the Hodgesmen followed 111 the footsteps of the 1941 foothlll teams and won hoth th Vars1ty and Frosh Soph L1ttle Seven Conference meets Although many of the mam POIIII getters were graduated last year, the T1gers st1ll had plenty of talent left th1s year and were lookmg forward to another VILIOYIOUS season as they started work mg out th1s sprlng Ill lf Sl'll'N VK he :Ion N me rx1lle K h If es enex Dundee x West C lue so Syt nnore Captain McCallum CURI' S J 90 T 3 A . , - ff X , 1, 2 I . ' '.', .' 'L ' . , . ' ., . , ' ' ', ' f, 1 C , ' 's. ' : e 1, ', ' , '15, 1v', ',. so, v , 1 - Lb, ft, lt 11':,.' ' , Ls. . , 1 7 ., , I 4, lie ' . 0 lflR. l' ROW: 17 sk' , Brown, I. Shuttl '11, Lacey, Pinkard, Gln l'IllIll'. W -stwood. . 3 . I I K' 5 A nl x . h ' 1 N 1 - I I L' ' I. I 2 2 1 f ' V ' O, 2 - ' - 1 l ' - Q, 1 Il, . . 1 . S A , I C . . K. . ,, ,Z l. t Y H F , X - , x 1 , 1 fi 13 If H ' , , K , . , ' Ag . w 1 55 1f2 ' X V 1 5 1- V St. 1 4 l-J 25 1X5 , cs- A11 15115 1 Y L K. . . 1 A. , . . , H ' ' 1 ' ' ' gj Lg ' ' 3 1 , '- l54lILl'l1l 3 fl 'T if' ' 5 1 lv 1 1 ' 1 I ' '41 1 . . 1 ' , . , , , - T1 ' 1 1 ' ' 2 . . ' ' 2 - ' ' . 1 ' ' K . I . I C C L ' . . L -

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Showing off again l, 2, 3, 4 Don't jiggle! Girls Working There are two tliyisions of girls' athletics: the requiretl gym classes untler the tlirection of our gym teacher, Miss Bixler, anal the G.A.A., letl hy Shirley Olsen, the cluh presitlent, anal supervisetl hy Miss Bixler. The gym classes have really heen going to townl, in the line of physical fitness this year. We startetl out with soccer, speetl hall, ancl volley hall, having interclass tournaments in each. This is as it hatl heen in precetling years with the first two playecl outsitle antl volley hall in the gym, hut our next activity was something entirely new: a physical fitness program in which we learnetl how to molcl ourselves more nearly to our itleal. After we hatl heconie perfect specimens, we tlitl gymnastics every gym periotl to stay in trim and then . . . calisthenics. This was a new type of murtler for many of us, hut we liyetl through it. Stunts and tumhling came next, anal we were pretty limher hy that time, reatly for anything, which was folk tlancing. Then it was spring, antl we happi.ly took our sore muscles outsitle to keep fit with baseball and archery. if . A F, l. H ' Q .. . 1 ll s coming at you ' , I ' Wuleh that figure, Gen. First uid please , Cupid's helpers X, A4 1' l' -if- ls van' V, . 4QJ,. -it 'fd'