Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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LA DONNA PALMER was chosen by the football squad to be the Football Homecoming Queen. In an appropriate ceremony arranged by the Pep Club, she was crowned at the Homecoming Game by Team Cap- tain Winfred Alford. At the dance after the game, Queen La Donna reigned with poise and dignity. 2a

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CAROL BURTON was nominated by the Varsity Club and elected by the student body as El Dorado JUCO ' s candidate for the Wheat Shocker Queen at the Wheat Bowl game in Wichita, November 27. The student body was proud to have Carol as a representative at the festivities and ceremonies connected with the game. 2S

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tizzlies On the Basketball CoWtt Seated, left to right: Jim Graham, DeWayne Powell, Paul O ' Neal, Bill Barnes, Jack Baker. Standing: Gene Bonnell, Clay Lumpkins, Coach Bob Douglass, Jim Lininger, Harley Singer, Dell Reed. Not pictured: Max Shafer, Raymond Kellstadt. The El Dorado Junior College basket- ball quintet started the season in fine style by winning their first three games against Iola, Parsons, and Chanute respectively. It was in the fourth game that the hex was thrown on the Grizzlies, when Fort Scott edged El Dorado in the closing sec- onds of the overtime game which was played at El Dorado. Then the locals traveled to Chanute to play in the eight team invitational tournament held at that city. El Dorado turned in a one-win two- loss record for the tournament, having lost to Chanute and Independence and winning over Iola in their final game. Immediately following the tournament, the Grizzlies began their loop games in the traditionally tough Western Junior College Conference; and again the plague overtook the El Doradoans, for they drop- ped eleven consecutive games, nine of which were conference games. Then fol- lowed two consecutive wins over Central College of McPherson, both games being won by a wide margin. El Dorado finish- ed the season by dropping their final con- ference game to Ark City. The final rec- ord showed El Dorado having six wins in twenty-one starts. El Dorado began the season with an entirely new team, for there was but a single returning veteran from last year ' s team. Soon after the season commenced, the team suffered the loss of several play- ers because of various causes. Although the Grizzlies did not enjoy a success- ful season in the conference, the students of Juco readily extend their sincere thanks to Coach Bob Douglass and his charges for their great amount of work and effort. Even though the six wins for El Do- rado were all non-conference, the Griz- zlies showed power in whipping the Cha- nute team in an early season game, and also by turning in two wins over Central College of McPherson late in the season. The team played ten games on their home court and eleven games away and were forced to postpone only one game during the entire season. 30