Estes Park High School - Whispering Pine Yearbook (Estes Park, CO)

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Swinging Throne Seats Royalty at Homecoming King and Queen, Gary Gilliland and Bonnie Petrocine, reign over the Homecoming dance. Their attendants sit at their feet, happy and proud to be members of the royal court. Action surged in festivities of the Homecoming game and dance. Considered special by students and spectators it tops the season’s sport with further excitement. To start, each class competed in building victory scenes. In the traditional snake dance enthusiastic participants zigzagged up Elk-horn before cheering with spirit around a gigantic bonfire. Excited feelings captured Homecoming fans as they watched Estes Bobcats defeat their Lyons’ opponents. During halftime ceremonies candidates for royalty were introduced and girls enjoyed wearing white mums while they rooted from the stands. To climax the action weekend “Reflections , theme of the dance, flashed recollections of students’ work, fun and hopes. On a swinging throne Bonnie Petrocine and Gary Gilliland were crowned queen and king. Candidates for the 1967-68 Homecoming royalty were Jeff Rogers, Gayle CJifton, Gary Gilliland, Bonnie Petrocine, Ernie Petrocine and Suzie Freyer. Candidates are chosen from seniors by the junior class and traditionally presented to the crowd at game halftime. Morden-Steffens, Realtors Larson Studio and Art Gallery Macdonald Book Shop Lake Terroce Cottages Motel 9

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Climaxing the snake dance up Elkhorn Avenue the huge bonfire blazed the night before Homecoming. Queen candidates were chauffeured by Chuck Stotham as the band played. Junior Homecoming captains Bart Dannels and John Miller await the toss of the coin. The game thrilled hundreds of spectators with a final score of Estes 9, Lyons 8. With their ingenuity and skill the sophomores won the Home coming decoration contest, a new and fun idea. Bursting through the traditional hoop and onto the field the Bobcats ready themselves for the second half of play. 8

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Enthusiastic Spirit Sparks Friendships Enthusiasm, friendship and organization generated Pep Club spirit to carry members through another year of chants and cheers. Victories meant joy while tears were shed when Bobcats met defeat but extreme loyalty to Estes players was evident wherever pep girls traveled. A sock-it-to-me skit, a portrayal of a Bonnie and Clyde type of sportsmanship, new cheerleader routines and confident talks by coaches made pep assemblies rousing. A small “slam ’em” poster inside lockers, crepe paper wound around staircase rails or framing the bobcat in the trophy case and the excitement of spirit week expressed the drive of Bobcat boosters. Under the glow of a Homecoming bonfire, amid the confusion of pom-poms and megaphones or curled up on a bus to an away-game, pepsters expressed the unity of caring. Townspeople, including many parents of players and younger students looking forward to their own high school years, share in the excitement and anxieties of Bobcat triumphs and defeats. Halftime is only a few seconds from being over, enough time for Pep Club girls to finish the clap chant led by Eva Booth-royd and Bonnie Petrocine. Pep assemblies sparked enthusiasm and spirit in Linda Reeder as they did in all: faculty, players and members of the student body. During a game the concern of Marlene Gibson and Laura Walter is intense as the basketball sails for the hoop. 10