Bloomington High School - Aepix Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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Dave Eddy hiT paydirf Twice in The second half, and Then Dick Doner bulldozed Through Tor The Tinal six poinTs. This win gave The Raiders a I-I record in The Big l2, Their loss coming from DecaTur. The rapidly improving Purple Raiders invaded The Champaign Maroons in a Big I2 baTTle, The Saarmen coming ouT on The shorT end of a I3-6 score. IT was a hard-foughT conTesT all The way wiTh Fred Maior's boys pushing across a Tally in The dy- ing minuTes of The lasT sTanza To eke ouT a win over The Raid- ermen. Mike Karon. The iunior scaT- back, played excepTionally well, as did Jake Grossman and Gary Francis in The line. lT was such a TighT game ThaT The score could have varied eiTher way, buT penalTies sTopped The Pur- plemen's oTTensive several Times ThroughouT The evening. On OcTober 22, Miss RoberTa Bobbe presenTed for The sTu- denTs aT BHS, songs from The sTage play SouTh Pacific and also Told us The sTory of The play. Homecoming! This year Homecoming occurred during The week of OcTober 22-27. On I7 A Dixon Randoff Look at the score' The Gfapler Where's the ball?

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-' Ng X 1 w Close in boy Don't fall on him Run Dixon 1 Ray Bush? That's the way Taking it easy Gunning for fheir second sfraighf win, Coach Saar's foof- ballers encounfered fhe Trinify Sainfs af Fred Carlfon Field wifh fhe Purple and Gold com- ing ouf on fop, I9-7. lf was a sweef vicfory for fhe Raiders, mafching fhe win and loss rec- ord for fhe season and also puf- fing fhem ahead in fhe infercify conference. Dick Doner and Dave Eddy were mainsfays fhroughouf fhe enfire confesf and fhe whole Bloomingfon line looked excep- fionally good, bofh on offense and defense. On Thursday fhe enfire school enfered fhe audiforium fo hear an assembly concerning fhe Communify Chesf. Speeches were made fo inferesf fhe sfu- denf body in fhe campaign. Confribufions were made in homerooms and fhe more gen- erous homerooms were enfifled fo puf up signs which desig- nafed fhem as l00'Z confrib- ufors. Wifh an even record, fhe Purplemen made if fhree in a row when fhey invaded Lincoln for fheir annual encounfer wifh fhe Railspliffers. The final score read l8-0, Bloomingfon being on fhe long end of fhe score. I6

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Monday morning, OcTober 22, a kick-off assembly was pre- senTed To inTroduce The home- coming acTiviTies. Bill BreiT- weiser, presidenT of STudenT Council, gave a preview of The week. The Ten candidaTes Tor queen, elecTed in homerooms The previous Friday, were inTro- duced and on Wednesday, Oc- Tober 24, The Tinal elecTion of The homecoming queen from The Ten candidaTes was con- ducTed. The queen and her courT were TirsT inTroduced aT The home- coming assembly, Thursday, OcTober 25. Lee Huber was crowned queen, wiTh Virginia Cain, Carol Don Louie, Donna Malinowski, and PaT Pace as her courT. The cheerleaders opened The assembly by leading The sTudenT body in cheers. The queen was crowned and The resT of The assembly was given in honor of her maiesTy and The courT. Caroline Koch gave a reading, The A Cappella choir sang, and Coach Saar, The aTh- leTic direcTor, presenTed The TooTball Team. Again we were favored wiTh good weaTher for our parade and game. Many beauTiTul and original floaTs compeTed for prizes. Friday nighT, CarlTon I8