South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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l Upper left: Jim McClure, middleweight foul throwing champ, and Paul Dam- meier, heavyweight bowling victor. Up- per right: Intramural tennis winners, l Ward Gilbert, Jim McClure, and Arthur Garrison. Center: The champion vol- ley ball squad, the S-men, is pictured, front row: LeRoy Cook, Ralph Ham- ilton, Ralph Shimer: back row: Carl Braden, Dick Doermer, Don Hire, Lower left: Middleweight handball doubles kings, Robert Ludwig and Eu- gene Nahrwold. Lower middle: Bob Miller, lightweight bowling victor. Low- er right: Byron McCammon and Dick Shinn, heavyweight handball doubles winners. teams poured into the office in greater numbers than in previous campaigns. The individual squads each boasted of six men to carry their colors. The middleweight di- vision was non existent in this ac- tivity so that all action was listed under either light or heavy heads. Handball, as usual, proved very popular with the results in most cases leaning toward the pre-fa- vorites. Robert Baals was named the victor in the heavy singles, while Byron Mccammon and Dick Shinn retained their laurels in the doubles class of the same division. Ralph Ludwig was victorious in the singles, and the combination of Ludwig and Eugene Nahrwold proved to be too good for the middleweights. Ralph Meyers cop- ped first honors in the light singles, while Boese and Hershey looked too good for the held in the doubles. Of all sports, hand- ball seemed to be giving the com- petitors the most thrills. Along with the other sports, the new year brought in bowling and foul throwing, two sports which re- quire accuracy more than physical exertion. Paul Dammeier dropped the greatest number of the pins in the middleweight division, while Bob Miller and Austin Harrison were outrolling their mates in the other fields. Ralph Meyers proved to be the best foul shooter of the lighter boys, and Jim McClure paced the middies. Howard Bolyard and Don Stroebel hit the most charity flips for the heavyweight boys, so that to these lads went the dis- tinction of being outstanding intramural athletes. The most popular of all sports, that of basketball, produced its usual thrill-packed encounters. Three teams had the distinction of being victors over the fifty-squad held. The basketball season was very successful this year in that the finest teams did come through their grinds, and in addition the competi- tion and sportsmanship was of a high type. Several other sports have graced and shall con- tinue to move during the remainder of the term over the mural road, but having touched on the big business of the year, it seems that a final parting tribute is due the South Side physical education staff. Mr. Friddle and Mr. Briner have capably handled all activities and have taught good sports- manship to the youth of the school. 115

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THE TOTEM 1940 GAA GAA ABOUT ATHLETICS By PAULINE WERLING Come on, girls, let's win this game. This is one of the usual last-minute instructions given by the captain of a team just before a game. The Girls' Athletic Association has just closed its books on another successful season of activity under the able leadership of Miss Gretchen Smith, Miss Alice Dean. and the officers of G.A.A. Worthy of the distinction of being the largest club in the school is the Girls, Athletic Association, which boasts a membership of over 400 girls. Nearly every sport which anyone can hope for is featured in the G.A.A. sports calendar, starting with tennis at the beginning of the fall term and ending with a track meet in the spring. This year's ofiicers for G.A.A. were Jeanne Smith, president, Hertha Hoffman, vice-president, Geneva Martin, secretaryg,Lucile Scheumann, treasurer, Betty Hargan, manager of sports, Marian Faux, freshman representative, and Mary Alice Dunten, Inter-Club Congress representative. The season was started with a tennis tourney for all classes. The class winners were Agnes Seiler, senior, Jeanne Smith, junior, Kathleen Neith, sopho- more, and Marian Faux, freshman. Much credit is due Marian, since she took the championship of the school while only a freshman. All the uppcrclassmen enjoyed hockey and the senior team proved to be too experienced for the others and went through the season with an unde- feated championship. Members of the team were Dorothe Beyrau, Florence Dickmeyer, Ruth Doehla, Marian Feichter, Ruth Hoover, Maxine Hudson, l-Iertha Hoffman, Deloris Menefee, June Neith, Lu- cile Scheumann, Deloris Ulrich, Eileen Schelper, and Pauline Werling, captain. The speedball winners in the freshman tourna- ment were the members of jo Ann Spore's team composed of Phyllis Amstutz, Miriam Baumgartner, June Bebout, Marilyn Bullerman, Patty Dietrick, Gloria Gumpper, Phyllis Graue, Dorothy Lisius, Betty McKay, Marjorie Pressler, Kathleen Lucas, Joan Schwartz, Maxine Laup, Virginia Busse. Mir- iam Abbott, Eileen Ireland, and Donna Peel. Both championship teams should be given much credit for their good team work. On October 20, the annual Halloween Party, G.A.A.,s hrst social event of the year, was held with approximately 200 girls attending in original cos- tumes. A Grand Nlarch was held during which the most originally dressed girls were awarded prizes. Frances Nash and Eva Jean Wylie were awarded first and second prizes. Other winners were Reba Coppock, Delaine Rose, Jo Ann Spore, Kathleen Sanders, Ann Pontius, and Betty Clem. The next sport offered was basketball, which is the sport most enjoyed by all the girls. The winning upperclass team was the sophomore 1, captained by Rose Stemen. Other members of the team were Ruth Aldafifer, Betty Baker, Betty Bligh, Joan Dut- terer, Pat Ehle, Myrtle Ernst, Pauline Gregory, Kath- leen Neith, Bernice O,Brien, Eleanor Traycoff. Nlar- ylin Anweiler, and Joan Connell. The freshman basketball tournament resulted in a tie between Max- First Row: V. Simmons, E. Shearer, P. Jackson, H. Long, Pope, Kaser, Nl. Faux, B. Valentine, D. Peel. Nl, Bullerman, Fruth, M. Pressler, Miss Alice Dean. Second Row: N. Rabel, M. Abbott, N. Russell, H, Nlarschand, P. Baldwin, R. Clausen, P. Graue, Schultz, A. Martz, L Hege, A. Redding, Bebout, K. Sanders, P. Amstutz, Spore. Third Row: B. Renz, M. Black, L. Seacott, M. Cash, Preece. E. Yoder, D. Disler, B, Wlalden, I. Hirschman, D. Rison, D. Lisius, L. Bacon, C. McCarty, Schwartz. Fourth Row: H. Swager, Nl. Beck, M. Mock, R. Bennett, A. Grim, B. Cross, M. Cleland, G. Gumpper, H. Ander- son, M. Voltz, A. Pontius, D. Braun, S. Rogers, E. Reinking. 116