Catalina High School - Torch Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Gymnasts Were in City's First Legalized Meet f! i F' Catalina's Girls' Gymnastic Club participated in the first legalized girl's gymnastic meet on February 16 at Palo Verde High School. All Tucson high schools were asked to participate with awards going to individual schools. Catalina's team sponsored a variety show. Anybody could enter an act or routine in any type of gym- nastic event or free exercise. Girls in the club sold tickets for the show and donated the money to a worthy cause. Starting meetings in December, the club met every Monday for two hours. The club is a selective one. In order to be eligible, you must qualify in any of four events. These events are trampoline, parallel bars, horse and balance beam. Prospective members practice for a month and then make up and perform a routine of stunts and exercises in one of the four events. GYMNASTICS CLUB-Front Row: Miss Lois Weber, ad- viser . . . Back Row: Jill Hart, secretary-treasurer, Gail Bradley, president, Anita Russo, vice-president. Pirouettes Daneed For, lnstrueted Jr. High Girls Performing at the Dance Symposium, held here at Catalina in connection with the annual Junior High Volleyball Playday, was the main planned and exe- cuted activity of the year for the Pirouettes. In- structed by Mrs. Maxine Tovrea, the girls' modern dance group performed for junior high girls who came to take a model lesson in modern dance. During the second semester, although they did not have regular meetings, the Pirouettes participated in the Spring Variety Show. The members -of this' freshman and sophomore group met once a week in the first semester for in- struction and for practice during, the second half of the year. Any girl who is interested in modern dance, re- gardless of her previous experience, may join the Pirouettes. Many of the girls who belong to the club later join the advanced dance group, Dardanaires. PIROUETTES-Front Row: Marty Mikkelson, Connie Sayers . . . Second Bow: Valerie Boyd, Sonya Adler, Stevie Sul- livan, Sharon Bykerk, Kathy Brattain, Janne Hart . , . Back How: Jo Cline, Dianne Spruill, Darleen Berry, Nan Croy, Linda Wheeler.

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Dardanaircs Graccd Concerts, Dance Program Dardanaires peer through the looking glass of dance as they choreo- graph a routine for their program Dardanaires Presentf, Performing to music from the stage play Came- lotf, the Dardanaires reenacted the days of King Arthuris Court at the October 23 Fall Concert. Sponsored by the Tucson Contemporary Dancers, the Dardanaires attended the Young Choreographers' Concert on February 15 at T.H.S. March 12 was the night of Dardanaires Present, a program which included a number of original choreographies. In order to interest a variety of people, different dances, moods and music were presented. To be eligible for spring Dardanaire try-outs, a girl must be a sophomore or junior and have at least a 2.5 average. Sara Jane Kimberlin, Jackie Craven, Sherry Komberg, Vicki Curiel, Donna Graves, president vice-president secretary senior representative junior representative DARDANAIRES-Front Row: Sara jane Kimberlin, Judy Strand berg, Polly Mikkelson, Vicki Curiel . . . Back How: Donna' Graves, . . . Second Row: Elaine Schenk, Ianet Stitzer, Sherry Kom- jackie Craven, Jill Hart, Suzy Simpson, 123

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Girl Archers Held Saturday Practices, Tourneys From November to March, Catalina girls met each Saturday morning to master the art of archery. Besides Weekly practicing and hosting an all-Tuc- son high schools meet for fun shooting, Archery Club members participated in the U. of A. tournament on March 16. A week later Trojan archers attended the A.S.U. Archery Tournament in Tempe. Archery competition is divided into three classes. Class A shoots from the 30, 40 and 50 yard lines, Class B shoots from the 20, 30 and 40 yard lines and Class C shoots from the 20 and 30 yard lines. All entries in tournaments compete in a clout shoot-a replica of an enlarged target face that is marked on the ground 80 yards away. Then archers shoot into the sky so that their arrows land within the target area. The clout shoot is scored in the same manner as target archery. According to Miss Emma Cappelluzzo, Archery Club adviser, One of the values of archery is that it enables the individual to compete against himself, and therefore improvement becomes a personal achieve- ment. t If fi 5 :IN Ready, aim, firef' Catalina's girl Robin Hoods practice weekly to keep their aim straight and insure a winning number of bulls-eyes in competition with other Arizona schools. Weightlifters Make Use of Well-Equipped Room One of the largest and most informal clubs at Catalina is the Weightlifting Club. Members are all boys who wish to use one of the best equipped weight rooms in any high school in the United States after school under supervision of one of the advisers. There are three lifts used by the members, the first being the press. In this lift, the barbell is raised to the shoulders and then lifted over-head without bending the knees. The next is the snatch, a lift in which the barbell is raised over-head in one motion by means of a squat or split. The last lift is the clean and jerk, in which the barbell is first raised to the shoulders by a squat and then jerked over-head by using a split. WVeighlifters are classified at Catalina by the total poundage they accumulate in these three lifts and charts posted in the weight room list the totals of all club members. In May, members held an intramural Weightlift- ing meet and also a meet with the U. of A, weight- lifting team. Straining to complete a barbell clean and jerk lift, Bill Rishel works at weight-lifting after school while john Norris watches him.