Bishop Miege High School - Hart / Miegian Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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,fy 'ffjgl T E D 9 , , QYQ11 - fssfijg , s ,Ir x Q- rv 1 ix I, 1 THEORIES The scene is the Roosevelt Stadium in downtown Moscow. It is a cool, crisp day, perfect for football. Today is the champion- ship game in the Comrades of the Salt Mines League. It pits the Costaluski Cos- sacks against the Tasminiski Tartars. The Tartars are favored by 3 points. The Rus- sian peasants, in their flowing garments of traditional gunny sacks are beginning to arrive by foot and push carts. I have here a extra party card. Come on and join me. Here we are inside. Our seats are right over here. Boxes of course. Mine says, Real California Oranges - Made in Japan. Here is todays lineup. the field and played with a group of peas- ants. The cheerleader has whipped the crowd into a frenzy. His name is Rasputin. He constantly reminds the teams that the looser gets a paid vacation to Siberia and a daily trip through the Salt Mines. His cheers go: Win this game Hold that line Kill that kid Hit 'em Mac Cause if you don't lf you don't You'll wish you did. You won't be back. The score is tied with 1 minute left. As desperate, last minute strategy, the coaches offer their players a full-color picture of a porkchop if they win. It is to no avail, how- ever. The game ends in a tie and both teams are hauled off the field by the Red-caps and are never seen from again. Sports Shorts After the De La Salle game the football team started a new yell: What's the magic number? Seven! Miege is going to finish off the season with seven straight victories. A pleasant surprise has been the develop- ment of Dave Bussjaeger into the top run- ner in the backfield. He seems to be follow- ing in the footsteps of The Blond Bomb- shell, Jack Barnard. The passing attack this year has been notably weak, perhaps this is due to the ab- sence of J. Harlan Wheeler, that sticky- fingered end of wide acclaim. COSSACKS TARTARS Ht. Wt. Name Pos Name Ht. Wt. 5' 3 93 F.D. Roosevelt C A. Party Is Good 3' 7 416 5' 4 93 G. Mancoff G I. Yehparty 5' 3 312 5' 5 93 A. Patuski G G. Loveda Party 5' 2 400 5' 6 93 N. Onetuff T A. Collective Farm 6' 0 412 5' 7 93 H. Minski T G. Goodparty 5' 11 343 5' 8 93 G. Glob E Yuri HateUS 8' 3 64 5' 9 93 M. Smith E V. Talinski 7' 4 83 5' 10 93 F. Rotsoff QB N. Ballonski 2' 3 16 5' 11 93 I. Winsinski RH R. Falluski 5' 5 300 5' 12 93 G. Jones LH J. Kolenkof 5' 5 300 5' 13 93 A. Hevenski FB R. Zip 5' 5 300 The reterees of today's game are Boris Willnotcheat and Cythiafairplay. mln Rus- sian football, the referee is known as the Czar and is done away with in a public exe- cution immediately after the game.J The snow plow, pulled by 3 old horses and 16 equally old comrades, have just scraped off the top layer of snow, labout 12 feet! so we are about ready to start. There's the kick. Hevenski takes it on his own seven, starts up the field but slips on the thin ice at the twenty. The Cossacks batter the line three times but loose 16 yards and 23 teeth. They then drop back to punt. But the Czar can't find the ball. It seems that Gretchin lost control of herself and consumed it. She later, before her exe- cution, said it was the only pork she had had since the Allies left. The ball changes hands several times in the next two quarters. However, most of the action has taken place in the stands. A polar bear has escaped from the snow on Stags Halt Pem Day After two disheartening defeats in two well-played games, Miege finally racked up its first victory of the season against Pem Day 39-O on the Pem Day field. Explosive running characterized the Miege attack as our young backfield finally jelled. Once again Dave Bussjaeger was the standout in yards gained, but Gary Rollheiser chal- lenged him for the title while showing the form which earned him a starting job last year. Reeling touchdowns of 65, 58, and 5 yards, Rollheiser took a lead in the over- all scoring column. Buss scored his two TD's on runs of 42 and 5 yds. but by breaking loose for runs of 28, 30, 22, and 24 yards be- fore being stopped, he kept the lead in total offense. The Miege defense was stern hold- ing Pem Day 51 yards rushing, and most of this during the second half in which the reserves for the Stags played a key role. Meanwhile the explosive offense was setting a new school record ot 512 yards rushing, breaking the record set two years ago. Miege struck quickly two plays after the opening kick off. Buss broke loose for his first TD. After getting the ball, Pem Day gained 1 yard in three attempts and went into punt formation. A bad center gave Miege the ball on the 5 yard line and Roll- heiser took it over on the first attempt. After that Pem Day was through. A sur- prise weapon unveiled after the third and fourth touchdown was Pat Kelly who kick- ed two for two and stopped the Miege score from being divisible by six. John Wheeler Sports Shorts lContin. Coach Frazier when questioned on the subject of winning and losing said, I can never get used to defeat. It would be good if we all accepted a philosophy of this type. Perhaps you didn't notice but during the Pem Day game one of the referees kept his flag in his chest pocket rather than his hip pocket. All the easier to throw I suppose. Ed Younger struggles for a touchdown. -11Q-

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Girls Versus Pigskin by Ann Linton Recently, on one particularly rainy and beastly cold day, attempt- ing to be a loyal Stag, I attended one of our football games. Unfortun- ately, the weather appeared to be a big factor in determining the win- ner of this game, because it seemed that the winner would be the one who could manage to slide from one end of the field to the other. Some of the girls found this situation perturbing and I overheard one of them mutter, I think it's just terrible that those boys have to play in this weather and get their nice white uniforms all soiled! This re- mark should make boys eternally grateful that very few women parti- cipate in athletics. What if they did and Bishop Miege had a girl's football team, the Stagettes? Poor Mrs. Garrison fshe'd be the coach, of coursel would hardly ever have players, for all of the girls would have various rea- sons to excuse their absence at the games. These might be two typi- cal reasons: I can't play tonight, I've got a big date tomorrow and I just set my hair, the football helmet would simply ruin it. or, I won't be able to play tonightg the dew on the grass would make my mascara run. And what about the girls who did play? If a foul were called on their team, they'd probably cry and call the referee a mean old man. The Soviet girls may use their bulging biceps for athletics but I would rather be a puny spectator cheering the Stags on to victory. Late Score Stops Stags Miege suffered its second defeat of the season in as many games, as they bowed to a strong De La Salle team 13-7 at Ward Stadium. A muddy field and cold weather made ball handling treacherous and passing practically impossible. However, De La Salle quarterback, Joe Exposito used screen passes and tosses over the middle very effective- ly, completing six out of seven attempts. The Stag offense never did get started even though fullback Dave Bussjaeger picked up seventy yards rushing by himself. Unfortunately that was just about all Miege gained all afternoon and Bussjaeger could't carry the entire burden of the attack alone. The Stags struck quickly as tackle Tom Keehn snared a deflected De La Salle pass and rambled seventy-five yards for the touchdown. Bussjaeger ran for the extra point and gave the Stags a 7-0 lead mid- way through the first quarter. De La Salle evened things up in a hurry when they marched sixty yards in six plays to the end zone. The drive was sparked by halfback Bill Toler who carried four times for thirty-seven yards during the march and scored the touchdown on a one-yard plunge. Toler also scored the extra point and tied the score at 7-7. Neither team was able to move the ball during the second and third periods. Mike Murray kept De La Salle in their own territory most of the time with his fine punting, averaging 30 yards on seven kicks. The big break came for De La Salle in the fourth quarter when they recovered a Miege fumble on the Stags twenty-five yard line with three minutes remaining in the game. De La Salle moved to the one- yard line on the strength of Exposito's passing as he completed two passes to End Chuck Dobson and one to Toler. After the Stags tight- ened their defense to stop Toler short of the goal, Exposito plunged over with eleven seconds left in the game to provide De La Salle with the winning margin. Team defense was improved over that of the Rockhurst game as the Stags stopped the De La Salle offense almost completely during the second and third periods. Although the defense was largely a team effort, Mike D. Murray, Glenn Smith, and Felix Gotner were parti- cularly outstanding. Bill Agnew Roughing It Through New Mexico Mts. Philmont Scout Ranch is 127,000 acres of rugged mountain country near Cimarron, New Mexico. This ranch is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America and was a gift to the Boy Scouts by Waite Phillips, now owner of most of the Sunset Strip. Philmont is in some of the most beautiful country in the West. It includes some prairie, though most of the acreage covers the lower part of the Rocky Moun- tain Range. This summer, Fred Silady, Terry Alley, mfreshmenl and I, along with 17 other boys from this area, imany of whom were also counselors at Camp Naish this past summer! started on a trip to New Mexico and Philmont Ranch. After passing through Elkhart, Kansas, enroute to Philmont, we reached our destination and found that a fifty-six mile hike was on the agenda for the first days. Most of us realize how rough it is to cross a mountain by car, but we haven't lived until we have actually hiked up one side of a moun- tain and back down the other with a twenty-five pound pack. One of the highlights of the hike was that we cooked our own meals. After a little practice, the food was as good as Mom's?? ' During the course of our trek, we crossed the Rayado River num- erous times, but one problem always caused alarm- there were no bridges so we had to cross on fallen trees. In crossing, we more than once had a taste of the mountain river as we went over the bridge and into the drink. Many of our hikes led us to various points of interest. On one hike we climbed Waite Phillips Mountain felevation 11,700 ft.J which was the highest point on the ranch. On another hike we visited an old gold mine and we each had a chance to pan for gold. Yet on another hike, after we failed to get rich at the mine, we crossed the most prominent land mark in that area, the Tooth of Time. Each of the hikes ranged from four to eleven miles of beautiful ter- rain. While hiking we saw signs of deer, bear, eagle, bat, chipmunk and porcupine . When we had returned to headquarters we had hiked fifty-six miles. As we sat in the dining hall looking up in the mountains where we had spent the last ten days, we began to recall pleasant experiences and our feet began to recover from soreness from the rugged trek over ter- rain. Larry Alley . utlill' , i il' r l f G U I L F 0 I L SPORTING GOODS ,,.-Q. 1711 M' A M Qt I Kansabmglslakorizzllue l FAirfax 1-4066 NJ' 1 5 -111-

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y Th M' ' No, 3 Bishop Miege High School - Mission, Kansas Nov. 3, 1961 Granquist, Carole Pitnick, and Pat Ackman. Retreat Is Student School Publications Planned and Steered Campaign Launched For this year's retreat, Student Council members scheduled the agenda, drew up regulations for students to follow, and re- minded them of their responsibilities. The regulations allowed the students much more freedom than they have ever had at any previous retreats. After reporting to their homeroom, the upperclassmen were permitted the rest of the day to stroll the campus between con- ferences and to use this freedom for medi- tation on points stressed in conferences and on ideas stimulated by the spiritual read- ing. Besides private spiritual reading, Dave Fortin and Janean Harnden read aloud to the upper and lower classmen respectively during their dinnertime in the cafeteria. Lower classmen were also allowed to leave their homeroom with permission of the homeroom sponsor. Father Curt Lanzrath OFM, closed his first retreat for juniors and seniors with the awesome thought, Now, let us say an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the next one from this group to die. Father drove his point home in this conference on death as he showed its close proximity to all. This was typical of Father's talks- the use of a phrase or a sentence that summarized his point either subtly or obviously, but always completely. Old topics were treated in a persuasive and new light by the Reverend John Stitz, as he spoke to the freshmen and sophomores on death, sin, heaven, etc. birthdav lt's just 43 more days until Beethoven's Goal Set at 58,000 Miege will sponsor its annual ad cam- paign for the yearbook and newspaper from November 6 to 22. The goal has been set at 8,000, approxi- mately 10.00 per student. The members of the Miegian Ad Board stated that if the entire student body shows the spark and enthusiasm which it has displayed in so many other activities, this goal can easily be reached. This program will be operated complete- ly through the homerooms by members of the Board, representatives from each home- room. In this way all students can partici- pate in the campaign. On October 24, under the direction of the ad representatives, students in their home- rooms listed business firms, boosters, and ad possibilities. Board members collected the lists and from them tabulated a master copy to be posted in each homeroom so that there would be no overlapping as the many students brought in ads. The student who brings in the largest amount in ads at the close of the campaign will have his name engraved on his year- book and will be given a 1!4 page space for his picture in the yearbook. The class which turns in the largest amount in ads will be featured on a page in the yearbook. At a pep talk opening the campaign, board representatives informed the students that the student activity fee apportioned to the Miegian far from pays the expenses in- curred in its publication. 110 Gala and Colorful Homecoming Enthusiasm for the highlight of the foot- ball season mounted as the festivities for the homecoming weekend began. A Holy Hour offered for the success of the entire weekend was held at St. Ann's, Thursday evening, October 26. The Holy Hour featured a Bible Vigil with homilies presented by Father Henry Forge, St. Ann's. Friday afternoon, during the rally at the scene of the new bleachers, excitement reach- ed a peak. Each class presented a skit por- traying the obvious defeat of Rosedale, the opponent. Later Friday evening the focal point of the homecoming dance was the grand march and the crowning of Queen Jeannine Allen and her attendants: Joyce Granquist, Carole Pitnick, Mary Jeanne Bartolac, and Pat Ackman. The royalty was escorted by Cliff Seitter, Steve Murray, Gary Rollheiser, Phil Meitner, and Dave Fortin. Larry Philips provided the music as the couples glided across the dance floor. The queen followed by her attendants led the first dance after her crowning and the rest of the Stags joined in. At the half in the homecoming game, the queen was presented along with her royal court. They were led out on the field on the float decorated in the school colors: red, white, and blue, and shaped in the form of a football field. Escorts were: Bill Leins, Tom McNeill, Rodney Vickery, Dave Kier- st, and Mike Garner. In preparation for the homecoming events, committees were formed to be responsible for key planning. Seniors and freshmen de- corated the St. Agnes gym where the dance was held, juniors decorated and prepared the throne and crown, and sophomores took care of refreshments. Vicky Erickson DEBATE RECORD PROMISING Miege debaters attended two debate tournaments the weekend of October 13 and 14. At the one day tournament held in Fre- donia, of the two Miege teams attending, John Wheeler and Ted Dickey showed the better record. Although they were victor- ious in all their debates, their number of speaker points eliminated them from the finals. Rich McGill and Dan Furst achieved a record of three wins and one loss. The novice debaters, Mary Sue Scardello, Ann Winsky, Janet Rubin, Eileen Wycherly practice debated at Atchison Public High in Atchison, Kansas. Of the eighteen de- bates participated in, the beginners scored eleven wins,