Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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Hobart ties for first place; Mills ranks in state top 12 Reporting to school as early as 4:30 a.m. on Saturday morning was a sacrifice speech and debate mem- bers had to make in order to partici- pate in away speech meets. Debaters passed the December 12 weekend at Lafayette, opposing other high schools ' orators at the Purdue Annual Debaters’ Conference. Senior Dawn Mills advanced as far as the semi-finalist phase at state finals in Indianapolis on Saturday, February 27. Dawn emerged from the competition in poetry reading, ranked seventh in the state. Hobart shared first place honors with Munster at the Brickies home speech meet on February 20. Senior Ted Nordquist placed first after the competition in discussion. Above — President Ted Nordquist presents a ribbon to Debbie Schwuchow at the Hob- art Invitational Speech meet. Above Left — Junior speech team member Bill Padish presents his speech at the Hobart Invitational Tourney. Left — Debate officers: Debbie Ryals, re- cording sec.; Bob Patterson, treas. and Chris Kozub, corresponding sec. Debate 29

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Madrigals rank first place in West Side competition Curiosity abounded when a group of boys arrived at school on Friday, December 18 wearing black butterfly bow ties atop raspberry shirts with ruffled fronts. The boys were part of Madrigals, a select group derived from Acappella, and performed in the annual Christmas convocation. Aside from appearing at numer- ous organizations, Madrigals com- peted in a Solo and Ensemble Con- test at West Side High School, Febru- ary 6. Areas of competition included Barbershop Quartet and Girls Octet. Above — Mr. Stalbaum, choral director, joins Madrigals in singing Aquarius” at the Christmas convocation. Above right — Junior Madrigal member Pam Rose makes last minute adjustments to her tie before the convocation. Right — Girls Octet provides listening enjoy- ment for the student body as they sing Winter Wonderland”. 28 Madrigals

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Above — Mixed Chorus officers (top to bot- tom): Teresa Poztol, treas.; Sheila Schwo- chow, sec.; Cindy Gibson, vice-pres. and Ginni Winston, pres. Above right — Sheila Schwuchow provides accompaniment for Mixed Chorus at the annual Christmas convocation. Right — Mixed Chorus, directed by Mr. Stal- baum, spends many hours practicing for their upcoming concert. Mixed Chorus acquires new director. Threatened to become an all-girl chorus, Hobart vocalists, along with their new director Mr. Stalbaum, ad- vertised for male singers at the year’s beginning. Successful in this attempt, mixed chorus performed at the December 17 choral concert and at various school convos. male singers In company with the Madrigals and Acappela, mixed choir journeyed the short distance to the junior high on February 3 during second hour. They performed for the freshman class and the eighth grade chorus in an appeal for more students to enroll in choir at the high school. 30 Mixed Chorus