Bloomington High School - Aepix Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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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

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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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field was overflowing wifh en- fhusiasfic BHS roofers. Mighfy Springfield was our foe. We losl' fo fhem I9-I2, buf everyone agreed if was a wonderful game and fhe feam never quif fighf- ing. The band performed al' halffime and fhe queen and her courf were again infroduced. No homecoming would be complefe wifhouf fhe fradifional homecoming dance and if was held in fhe gym on Safurday nighl' from 9- I2. Dick Ray- mond and his orchesfra fur- nished music. Since Halloween was so near, we used a Hallow- een fheme. All had a wonderful iime and were already looking forward fo anofher year's home- coming. We all agreed if was one of 'lhe finesf ever. Friday. a foofball game was played wifh Normal Communify af fheir field. Almosf sure of an infercify championship. fhe Raiders losl by one fouchdown I4-6. With fhis loss fhe Saar- men share fhe infercify flag wifh fhe U High Pioneers, who were beafen by fhe Raidermen earlier in fhe season. Blooming- 'lon didn'f score unfil fhe fourfh quarfer-fhe lronmen racking up fwo fouchdowns in fhe firsf and fhird quarfer. I9