Great Bend High School - Rhorea Yearbook (Great Bend, KS)

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Creative students feel immediate involvement Immediate involvement is experienced by the students taking part in Journalism and Music Departments at Great Bend Senior High School. A true dedication by stu- dents must be present to ensure that a finished product is ready on time. For the Great Bend High School Band, this means early morning practices, blowing hair, and cold hands in the preparation for football half-time entertain- ment. Under the direction of Mr. Joe Boley, the band prac- tices to produce an outstanding sound, accompanied by a marching presentation. As the year progresses, the Jour- nalism Department swings ahead full force to keep the students informed on events taking place in and around the high school. p E f Stew Brann, feature editor of Panther Tales, looks at Edi- tor Jill Hewitt as she helps edit his story. Rhorea Editor John Martin browses through the 1971 year book, thinking over some ofhis past experiences.

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The sound-power emerging from stadium during a half-time show at a Brad McPherson's sousaphone home game. heartily echoes throughout Memorial hrough long season ut panthers still try The Black Panther's season opener Liberal was almost over-shad- by a misunderstanding be- en the two schools caused by local papers claiming the Liberal band was prohibited from performing at the game. The Liberal band was nev- er invited and all matters were soon solved by both school's administra- tions as the press was playing up the feud. Liberal was rated in the state 4A top ten throughout the year and the Panthers found the going rough as they were defeated 28-14. Great Bend was able to score with difficulty while Liberal easily scored all their points in the first half. The Panther defense stiffened during the second half and stopped the Redskins cold but the Panthers could not sustain successful offensive drives . , Against Hays, then rated 6th in 4A, a question of a closely called play entered into the picture and though many people feel that Great Bend actually scored a touchdown, the Panthers wre defeated 7 to 0. Ranked 3rd in 3A, a strong Pratt eleven defeated Great Bend 12 to 0, even though the Panthers amassed more first downs than their opposing rivals. Although Great Bend had lost the first three games of the season the school spirit remained intact as the Panthers prepared for Thomas More Prep. eam spirit is questioneo

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7 . Drum Major Larry Branch helps Mr. Dan Mason, Carla Klepper, Kevin Gary Basgall, strive for perfection as Joe Boley add soul in directing. Wiles, Scott Herren, Stew Brann, and they march and play at once. u 4- pls A ' Q 'I +401 Uilhs Mr John Mohn helps Junior Gwen To produce the sights and sounds ofa many hours of hard daily practice to ' . - - great marching band, members spend learn all their music. Frazier wnte a Joumahsm Istory' 27