Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Students gather around the bonfire at the pep rally in the over- The thin crowd attending the Homecoming contest cover up flow lot on Thursday of Homecoming week. against the rain only to see Fort Dodge defeat Ames. سیھب س የቃ Be‏ سا “p መቓ es p — ማሻ - 6۵ Ir ` ۱ IS. , We ar re) ፖ ዘ ጎያ v ۲ میں‎ =. - Tr ats . bo ፡ LE “መዳ ہس‎ KS » x ۱ ۱ Zei Ml E P ኤሌ) ۹ ‘wee ty rM KR. T — n . SIN 27 ۱‏ سی wy m c ያ I ۹ ' 9 ۱ . e )‏ ہہ سے SDE ae Pt vs ffe መፈ‏ اوج Aaah‏ + ری The Homecoming Queen finalists, Michelle Shorten, Nance Engen and Holly Thies are introduced to the student body Friday morning at the pep assembly in the auditorium. Homecoming 21

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Change infiltrates Ames Homecoming tradition Change finally managed to infiltrate the long Homecoming tradition at Ames High. Following the example of ISU, the Student Council decided to switch the emphasis from the election of the Queen to the returning Alumni. Another first was the informal dance following the game. The changes re- flect the re-evaluation of such traditions by the students, who are ultimately responsible for their continuance. The Homecoming committee polled the student body to find out whether or not they wanted to elect a Queen. The majority of students were not quite ready to follow the Univer- sity's precedence and drop the Queen from Homecoming com- pletely. However, instead of emphasizing the Queen it was de- cided to invite a class back as formal guests. The Class of 1951 was invited to attend the football game and an after-the-game function. On Homecoming Thursday the Pep Club held their bonfire- pep rally in the overflow lot. During the evening student body president Steve Buck announced that Nancy Engen, Michelle Shorten and Holly Thies had been nominated as the three Queen finalists. Shortly after, the crowd was bolstered by the addition of nearly 100 participants of a motorcycle caravan, organized by a group of senior boys in the North Grand parking lot. Halfway through the rally they swept down 20th Street and swung into the parking lot to join the rest of the crowd. During an all school assembly on Friday morning in the -“ Part of the large crdwd attending the Homecoming dance boogie the rock sound of Schlitz Betty. 20 Homecoming auditorium Holly Thies was crowned Homecoming Queen. Friday night the Little Cyclones hosted Fort Dodge. Playing on a mud-soaked field the two teams slogged back and forth, the Dodgers holding a 14 to 8 lead. The Little Cyclones offense finally caught fire in the final three minutes and drove to the Fort Dodge 25-yard line. The drive stalled and Ames was forced to turn the ball over to the Dodgers. The defense held to give the offense the last shot with less than one minute showing on the clock. Quarterback Jon Stal- heim passed th e Little Cyclones down to the Fort Dodge goal line. On the last play of the game the coaching staff sent in the order to quarterback sneak the ball into the end zone. The play ended with somewhat of a dispute. It seemed that Stal- heim had gone far enough for the touchdown but the officials didn’t see it that way and ruled against the score. The game ended on the play and the Little Cyclones went into the locker room with a 14 to 8 loss. After the game the first informal Homecoming dance was held in the gym where nearly 600 students stomped to the rock'n'roll of Schlitz Betty. In the past Homecoming dances were semi-formal events where everyone had to have a date. In order to attract a larger crowd the Student Council decided on an informal dance. The result was close to the largest crowd attending a dance in several years. A- ao ————————

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