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

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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,

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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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