Amana High School - Bugle Yearbook (Amana, IA)

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Basketball The Amana Elementary School and Gymnasium were officially opened February 1, and shortly thereafter the first basketball practice and physical education class took place in the gym. Tuesdays and Thursdays were the days chosen for the girls' practice sessions while the boys met Mon- days and Wednesdays. These hour-long periods took place after school and followed phye. ed. classes which were held in the last period of the day, Mr. Moon is coach and supervises these sessions. During practice the teams engaged in scrimmages and learned to handle the ball, dribble, and shoot baskets. The boys dun set up defenses and learned to determine which offensive type of playing is been Aside from this the fellows practiced the warm-up drill Wnivh 00nSiBtB of throwing the ball at theback- head over the basket., Basketball uniforms have already been purchased for use in the future. They are purple and white, the school colors, and the boys' shorts are adorned with the rocket emblem that represents the Amana teams. Sweat-jackets for the girls, and sweat-pants and warm-up jerseys for the boys were also purchased. A Fairplay scoreboard was also obtained and in- stalled in the gym, in addition to roll-away bleach- ers which are now in use. Freshmen students out for basketball were Pat Brown. Jo Ann Gideon, Dolores Hess, Carol Ann Zuber, Henry Allen Bendorf, Tommy Reihman, Alan Roemig, Fred Ruedy, and Roland Williams. Glenda Agnew, Rosalie Eichaoker, Joyce Fels, Elsie Hahn, Judy Hinzman, Rose Marie Parson, Rosalie Trumpold, Richard Hergert, Wayne Hopp, Larry Ochs, and Loren Neubauer were the sophomores who partici- pated in this sport. The juniors have the largest number of students out for basketball. They are Shirley Carville, Doris Diekel, Pat Gaddis, Janet Hollrah, Sandra Hollrah, Hazel Hoppe, Belen Sm1th,Helen Sontag,Judy Phillips, John Dickel, Dick roerstner, Harvey Jeck, Dale Metz, George Ruedy, Bill Van Haecke, and Levi Williams. Pauline Fink, Joan Stumpff, Delores Ramsey, and Roger Gaddis are the seniors interested in he spmrt. Students on the pictures are top row,l. to r.-- Roger Gaddis and Joan Stumpff. The center-right snapshot shows Bill Van Raecke and Dale letz: and the bottom-right, Roger Gaddis.