Brookings High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Brookings, SD)

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Uuning Our executive board consists of fourteen members who manage our athletic activities, and also our social and financial ones. As a resourceful organiza- tion, we finance all of our activities by the sale of the various kinds of sweets in the basketball and football seasons. We sponsor seven major activities during the year. Our first, to get you in the mood for sports, is speed- ball. Since it is on the order of one of our favorite sports, football, many participate in it. We play such games as ping pong, badminton i2l, shuffle- board and various other sports which are all placed under the classification of Recreational Games. With thelcoming of winter, we begin our basketball season. An exceptionally popular sport, basketball il l spurs up much interest in GAA members. Later we have volleyball, which is almost as popular as basket- ball. Tumbling C9 and lOl calls for more skill than does any other sport. Our tumblers are divided into the advanced group and a beginner group. The advanced group performed in between halves of the regional basketball tournament and at a Physical Education program as a climax of the season. In the spring we have softball ill and l5l and track K3, l2, l3 and l4l, alternating them every other night after school. Though we are an athletic association, our interests are also social. Three major social events take place every year. The first of these, our picnic, takes place in the fall and serves as a means of getting ac- quainted. One of the highlights of our banquet, the next event, is the counselor who gives advice on our teen-

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lv GAA Board Dorothy Oleson ..............,. President Marilyn Leonhardt ............ Softball Yvonne Knudsen ....... ---Basketball Dorothy Olson--- ....... Art, Publicity Mardella Smith ..,..... Soc. Chairman Yvonne Karnes ...... Asst. Treasurer Barbara Baker ..............., Speedball Betty O'Leary ..,.,..... Vice-president Teresa Serie .................... Tumbling Donna Adamson ............ -----------.Recreational Games Jean Peters ...................... Secretary Janice Peters ..... - ..... ----VolIeyball Delores Pease .......... ........... T rack Glorice Hill .......... ........ T reasurer mtl , Q. fe' Q , my W 5 P' 3 , x ' iff .- 4 . ,am - 'A I fffw , - ,, ,fugf Q fsfr f s S - A T X T H c . I An? 1 , A is Under the direction ot Geraldine Crabbs the officers, sports lead- ers, and other girls participating had a successful year.

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Un 90404 age problems. This year Miss Volstorff, Dean of Women at State College, was our speaker. ln addition to the speaker at our banquet, this year we had a Conference Day for we girls. Miss Barbara Wright l5l of Minneapolis was our counselor and we discussed the problems we had as compared to the ones of the Minneapolis girls. The big event of the GAA calendar year is the Gentless Jive C6l. This is the dance that no boys are allowed to attend and the one time when girls will be boys. Everyone attending is required to come in costume. This year we saw indians, butter- flies, and Dutch costumes. Our king and queen were Marleen Minier and Janet Sauer who dressed as elephants. ' U-RAI-l-RAI-l-Yes, it's the old locomotive getting well under way in the assembly. Our chief engineer gives the signals and another pep assembly is in full swing. Come on, go right in there and fire! But all kidding aside, the Pep Club really is the backbone of the fighting spirit. lt has endeavored to keep Brook- ings High School on the right track as far as pep and school spirit are concerned. Several times each year we scream our heads off tor Ye Old Pep Jug and that is not counting the snake dance, and all the football and basketball games. We owe all this to our cheerleaders l4J. There are three awards given for participation in GAA. The first, the GAA monogram, is presented to those who have earned one thousand points. A gold medal is awarded to those who've earned two thousand points, and a bracelet is given to those earning three thousand points, Points are given on the basis of one hundred points for each sport participated in and extra points are given for outstanding ability. To earn a letter it takes about two years of active partici- pationg a medal can be attained in three or four yearsg and a bracelet represents four years of very hard work and active par- ticipation. There is a bigger award gained from GAA than those men- tioned. lt is an award that will prove to be more important to us in the future-the meaning of true sportsmanship. ff -if Wit S I-5, fwwfe