West Point High School - Cadet Yearbook (West Point, NE)

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Page Twenty five Back Row — Roland Oelschlaeger, Herbert Kollmorgen, Elmer Groene, Robert Heilman, Marshall Cook, Coach Cline, Kenneth Paul, Vein Hagedorn, Alfred Schmidt, George Galster, John Benne. Front Row — Leonard Zobel, Charles Beckenbauer, Elmer Pahl, Willard Paul, Paul Baumann, Orville Seip. Prksidknt ............................ Kenneth Paul 1 nr vsi;uj;r ................... Roland Oelschlaeger -w-oxhou v.................................. Mr. Cline In every day life, the world demands a keen, clean thinking mind, a virile body all governed by kindness, saneness and courage. These are the principles and aims which the W. P. Club is endeavoring to carry The W. P. Club represents the only honorary society in the West Point High School. The club was organized in order to stimulate and promote athletics in our school. It is also the purpose of the organization to instill a true spirit of sportsmanship and fair play in the student body and the community at large. All high school students are urged to take part in some form of athletics during the school t-» It is oui desire to make athletic participation universal, rather than lt '• • , b iy is the best foundation for a well developed and active Il’: ; W' To£, both in training and competition, build moral fibre, garnet quickly in jet ror authority. They teach us to think clearly and act ss, or in contest, and they make us more companionable and considerate of the other fellow

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 r» . THE BASKETBALL TEAM The West Point High School Basketball Team has gone through another basketball season with honor, having a total score of 345 points to their opponents 207. We participated in the Wayne tournament at WTayne. Although we didn’t win the tournament at Wayne this year we put up a hard battle but the inability to put ti e ball through the hoop cost us the tournament. Sportsmanship was carried out to its fullest extent, and we are proud of our boys. The loss of four Seniors will be keenly felt, but the five other letter men including Schmidt, Galster, Heilman, Cook and Zobel ought to hold up the prestige of the West Point High School in Basketball Schmidt, captain elect for next year, and high point man, proved to be the nucleus of the team. It was Schmidt’s uncanny ability to put the ball through the hoop when it was needed that won for us many games. Paul at guard was the mainstay on the defense and opponents found his wide range of guarding and his superior height an obstacle to put the ball through the hoop. It was also through the smooth team work and co-operation of the players with one another, that we managed to win a

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Senior Class Play “Alabama Bound was the play presented by the Senior Class, 1930. It was a dramatic comedy, full of unexpected complications and emotional scenes. An Alabama belle mistakes the hero for a condemned criminal and insists on saving him from the electric chair, naturally, of course, much to his embarrassment. Fortune, material and romantic, knocks at our hero's door and in spite of the opposition of a scheming old professor and a designing widow, he proves his inherited ability in landing on top of the heap, sewing up a conditional legacy and walking off with the matrimonial prize. Cast of Characters Bkmis Bennington............................................. Roland Oelschlaegei IIon. Jeremy Wise................................................ Willard Schwinck James Patrick Burns, “Stubby.” ..................................... .! ■ (‘‘••Pit:. Professor Noah Jabb................................................ It; i» S'hrindi Beverly Lomax................................................ Herbert Roll morgen Squire Piper............................................. ...Charles Eoc,von’,: 'i'» Fay Fairbanks.................................................... Margaret Graunkc Mrs. Clarice Courteny.............................................. Nellie Miller Genevieve McGully ...........................................Katharine Anderson Sammie Bell Porter................................................... Opal L ledke Mrs. Lutie Porter.................................................. Evelyn Gas ter Pink ............................................................. Mildred Fenske Director ............................Miss Hurduni Stage Managers.........Kenneth Paul. Vein Hagedo»n Page Twenty-six