Hastings High School - Tiger Yearbook (Hastings, NE)

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new E... Even before the start of the big basketball tournament in Lincoln the call went out for trackmen, golfers, and tennis players. Because of the weather, there is not much time for prac- tice before the first meets. While they're warm- ing up the debaters get busy on a crowded spring schedule . . . Committees get busy on the junior- senior prom . . . A lot of students take a national math test, which incidentally, was won by Hal Smith . . . The District NFL Tournament was held in Hastings again and Bud Kimball and Bob Koepke were first in debate, while ,Io Wunder- lich was first in original oratory . . . Seniors tried out for, and then got busy practicing on, their class play The Night is My Enemy. . . . The Flamingos put on a Water show UA Whale of a Tale. . . . The school came out with some pret- ty strict rules on how to drive and park around school . . . The Student Council voted to spon- sor, or adopt, a foreign child-the students raised the money . . . The first track meet finally comes, but my aching back, we got clobbered by G. I. 135-74. ,lack Giddings was hig'h point man for Hastings. Henry Dilly took second in the shot, and looked good for a sophomore ...R I un- iors can now order class rings-if they have the S5 down . . . Want to study the Russian langu- age? If enough do they'll teach it . . . Vicky Weidenkeller is new captain of Tigerettes. The tennis team opened by blasting Fair- bury 12-0 . . . Golfers lost to Kearney 9-5 . . . Hastings entertains G. I. at orchestra clinic . . . East patio is now open to students . . . The army took over the lounge for conferences . . . On the 13th there was track at Kearney, golf at North Platte, and a compact auto show in the auto shop by the FATA . . . Girls are practicing for cheer- leader tryouts . . . The juniors govern the county for a day While the student body hears of This Atomic World in a special convocation . . . On April 19, Hastings loses golf and tennis matches to Southeast and North Platte-on the 20th the track team runs a poor second to G. I. in the Cen- tral Nebraska meet . . . After an Easter convoca- tion school is dismissed from Thursday to next Tuesday . . . Not very long, but better than nothing.

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num, 700 fam maj' Juuqhton, pup Records tumbled and Hastings gained sweet revenge as they crushed Creighton Prep 80-57 in the ' ' Th first round of the State Tournament in Lincoln. e most points scored by the winning team, 80, the most points at the halftime, 44, and the most points ' d scored by both teams, 137, all went into the recor book. Hitting an impressive 50.8 of their shots the Tigers averaged 20 points per quarter and only . . . . . . d' E t missed getting 20 points in the final perio xcep in the early minutes the Tigers never trailed, lead- ' 23 14 at the end of the first period and 44-28 at ing - the half. The Bengals kept rolling the second half taking a commanding 65-41 lead at the end of the h' d uarter Most of the students returned to the t ir q . chartered train with one thought-COME BACK TOMORROW! JM ' taljrgnm, Hastings played a pretty good game against Omaha Tech, but it wasn't good enough to offset ' h O aha the fabulous playing of Fred Hare on t e m team. The Trojans defeated Hastings 63-53 and for the second straight year the Tigers were eliminated ' ' h othin to be in the semi-finals. But Hastings as n g ashamed of. Reaching the semi-finals of the State Tournament by winning from such teams as Grand Island and Creighton Prep is something to be proud of, and Hastings is proud of Earl Applebee and his 1962 Tigers. L..

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Circulating petitions for Student Body offi- cers is a reminder that the end is just around the corner. April 26, nominees were elected in home rooms. Lucky winners are shown at right. Stand- ing are: Bob Bauer, vice presidentg Terry Schaaf, treasurer, Rick Penney, secretary, Roger Doerr, president, Glen Pacheco, vice president. Seated are: Roberta Mankin, treasurer: Barb Portwood, secretary, Barsha Kay Drew, president. On the 27th the track squad was nosed out in the Mid- East Conference meet by Fairbury at Fairbury . . . the tennis team lost the M-E meet at South- east . . . golfers lost out at Beatrice . . . on Sat- urday Hastings was host to the District IV music contests . . . Hastings won several firsts-among them this string quartet CMary Lynn Miller, Steven Traut, Barbara Anderson, and Ronda Hunsicker.j . . . Monday Student Body nominees gave campaign speeches in convocation . .. Tues- day students voted in first floor lounge . . . sen- iors took turns at the ballot box and registering voters . . . the successful ones? all boys . . . Roger Doerr, president, Bob Bauer, vice presidentg Rick Penney, secretary, and Terry Schaaf, treasurer . . . also the same day the choirs of Hastings and Grand Island got together in Hastings for a clinic. More elections - cheerleader hopefuls tried out in convocation May 3, with the help of the Dance Band . . . at right is shown the band, and the sophomore candidates in their last group ef- fort . . . the winners were: Barbara Trupp, Ann Ellerbee, Judy Austin, Mari Robare, Sally Ochs- ner, Cindy Robare, and ,lean Bienkowski . . . Kear- ney was host to the Big Ten track meet which went to Scottsbluff with the Tigers fourth . . . Wfoolsey broke the broad jump record with a leap of 22-ft. UQ-in .... Weber won the 120 yard high hurdles and was high with 14 points . . . the sprint medley relay team tied Scottsbluff for first. Hastings hosted the Big Ten tennis meet and ran a close third CHQ behind N. P. USD and Kearney f14j . . . Ken Reiner and Glenn Swanson copped gold medal honors by winning all of their six doubles matches . . . after several years as king of H. S. golf, Hastings had to settle for fifth place in the Big Ten meet at Norfolk. Another kind of contest was held Friday at Kearney where the State Industrial Arts Crafts- men Fair took place . . . Dennis Engel was top man for Hastings with three outstanding awards in wood and leather . . . Donald Thomas had an outstanding and second award in wood . . . David Heckman and Ken Adler had firsts in mechanical drawing and machine shop. Friday and Saturday nights, May 4 and 5. proved not to be the enemy of the senior play cast as they very successfully produced the spring play The Night Is My Enemy. Next comes the class representative elections . . . Twirp Day . . . State track, tennis and golf meets . . . the Prom . . . Senior Night . . . Honors Convocation . Annuals . . . Baccalaureate . . . and Gradua- tion. To the graduates-congratulations! To the juniors and sophomores-be seeing you around next year.