Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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New Method Tigerama Popular i This year, instead of having the annual Tiger- ama to which the senior students of surrounding towns were invited, the Junior College welcome to the new students was called The Prom . Guests to this affair were the senior students of the Arkansas City high school only. The social committee, to whom the credit goes for the success of the event, consisted of Bette Hamilton, chairman, Junior Shea, Danny Bot- tero, Ted Miller, Elaine Vanskike, Marjorie Crill, Kathleen Pfisterer, and Miss Thelma Hall, spon- sor. Card tables lined the room. Here those who did not dance or did not care to dance could play cards or many games provided by the commit- tees. Dancing was the main entertainment of the evening. From the jitterbugs to the waltzers, every one seemed to be feeling fine and having a good time. Gerald Brown and his orchestra were up to par and really swung out , much to the delight of those on the dance floor. An added attraction was the singing of Bonnie Jean Smith, high school senior, who was the featured soloist of the occasion. The program which was short, snappy, and very good, was announcd by the master of cere- monies, Keith Curfman. Supt. C. E. St. John welcomed the seniors and explained the purpose of the occasion. Bill Post sang two songs, Zellene Blair gave a tap dance, Kenneth Boggs gaving imitations of farm animals, the college chorus sang Deep Purple , as arranged by Marjorie Crillg Gerald Brown's swing quartet concluded the pro- gram with two numbers. x a A NN Mfr N0 mover xx C , TRASH N W cr 1 uipsll s J 'KL . -if x- 1 1-4?--2 - .- All good things must come to an end is the popular phrase these days, and so it is with school. It won't be long now! It is sometimes a great deal of fun to look back and think of the many events of the school year and then wonder what effect they have had on you. Remember those early days of this year when you could hardly wait for class? My what a change! Then the first football win of the year. Soon after came Thanksgiving and El Dorado. We did treat Thanksgiving much better than we did El Dorado, but that is the way it goes. In there some place came the days of the bushy faces after the Dodge City tie. Soon we had a juco masquerade, and were those costumes ever classy? Well Yes. Then re- member how Stark's car looked a few week later ?' A private mask party, no doubt. Later came Christmas with all of its fun and good times. Re- member Santa? We do. After that vacation the basketball boys went to work to try to win us a Western Division title, but they were a little late, as Hutch had the same idea and the referees- pardon us-material, to back it up. They wound up in second place, just as the grid team did. Those semester exams. Wow! Soon there was en- rollment for the second semester and later a swell Debate Institute with lots of pretty girls and stuff. Then a swell Easter program with all the trimmings. It didn't take Winter long to break after this, and Spring brought track, golf, tennis, and spring fever. Aw, them's the daze. It seems just yester- day that we had the play and the Tigerama social and we recall that it has been a swell year. Now soon it will all be over and the Sophs will have a diploma, memories, and a lot of hopes, and the Frosh will have just a lot of hopes and plans for a sucessful next year. That year, we hope, will be spent in a building all our own. So to say fare- well, we will wish the best of luck to the Sopho- 1. mores, and say to us freshmen: Carry On . I vs Q T N --W A Q? ? , ,1,..'T..-f I gm .i- i-f'- ' s is 3 lllll lik! il 1 X xl if Q Fijv ':-f V W Ill!! J f y p Page 15

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Raclceteers Second ln State The local dopsters predicted a powerful juco dn uuczn O1 ueseq spel eqo, eiogeq Buol uieea, siuuea, The boys did not wait long to prove that the sup- port was well placed. They opened their tennis season against Southwestern, and as was pre- dicted, lost, but there was some good tennis played by both teams, and the tenniseers gained some valuabie experience from their older rivals. They next invaded Coffeyville, home of last year's state champions. It was a triangular meet with Joplin the third party, and the Tigers tied for iirst place. It was at this meet that Bill How- ard first showed the making of a singles champion. He easily defeated the highly regarded Singleton, of Codeyville. Playing host to Tonkawa, the squad enter- tained them to the tune of ive matches won and one lost. It was now time to welcome the visiting Coffeyville champs again. It was a warm reception, the Arks winning six matches and losing none. This meet definitely ranked the local team as number one contender for the state championship. The boys journeyed to Hutchinson where they were to meet the strong Blue Dragon team, headed by Sollenburger, and ElDorado. Again the Tigers came on top, tying Hutchinson for first. Bill Howard defeated Solienburger for first place in the singles, and the doubles team placed second. Independence next was the host to the local team, for the last dual match of the season. The boys re- garded it as a good warm-up for the state and proceeded to win seven matches without a single lose. The number one ranking doubles team de- feated the Independence pair in a hard fought match. They there-by also became strong con- tenders for state honors. And now as this is being written tennis sea- son for a strong Juco team is over, as for as dual meets are concerned. They are practicing and looking forward to the state with hopes. In Bill Howard and Wayne Howard it may well have the strongest singles competiters in the state. Keith Curfman and Henry Lau head up a doubles team that should be good for a first or second place. It will therefore be no great suprise if the team from Ark City walks off with a good part of the state honors. Four of the boys are sophomores and will not be back. Three have been the backbone of the J uco team for the past two years. They are, Bill How- ard, Keith Curfman and Junior Shea. Henry Lau, who was a addition of this year, will also be grad- uated. Henry came from Hawaii and did much to strengthen the team. The other member is Wayne Howard, a freshman, who is expected to place high among the singles players at Pittsburg this year. If he attends school here next year he will be a choice contender for state honors. ' Page 14 Debaters Are Successful C An unusually successful Juco debate season was opened by the Debate Institute fOctober 11- 125, a speech conference of debate coaches and students throughout the South-West, sponsored by 'former H. S. speech coach, J. D. Davis and J uco coach M. K. Snyder, and climaxed by the National Phi Rho Pi speech tournament at Virginia City, Minn. April 2-6. With veterans Doug More and Glen Montague and four neophytes: Milton Livingston, Joe Nor- man, Glen Aupperle, and Norman Boehner, Coach Snyder made the first debate trip of the year to Southwestern during the Thanksgiving vacation. More and Montague debated a mixed team from Ada, Oklahoma, in the finals, but found the gal's good looks and Southern accent too much for them --decided that chivalry was the better part of val- or. Two weeks later two teams went to Pittsburg, where More and Montague again succumbed to feminine charms Cthis time it was those Coffey- ville girlsj and came home with the second place cup. The next week the rookie teams went to a tournament at Independence, where they won six of a total of ten debates. After an interlude of a few practice debates. M. K. divided his resources: accompanied More and Montague to Norman, Okla. and sent two teams to the tournament at St. J ohn's Academy in Winfield. These meets put the boys in excellent condition for the State tourney to be held a week later. On February 23, 24 Arkansas City was host to Junior College debate teams of the entire State. This event was not lacking in honor for the local boys: Milton Livingston placed second in after- dinner speaking, and Harry McKerracher, .a speech student, placed first in men's dramatic reading. In debate More and Montague defeated Coffeyville boy's in the final round to become champs in the men's division for the second con- secutive year, thus setting something of a record. At the National meet, at Virginia, Minn., af- ter-dinner speakers Montague and Livingston reached the semi-final roundg More participated in extempore and oratoryg and Boehner entered the discussion-debate event. In formal debate More and Montague won four out of six rounds and Boehner and Livingston won three. Finding.the Minnesota atmosphere too cold, the boys decided not to stay for the final rounds. After checking in some tons of debate mater- ial, on the assumption that the season was over, the forensics men settled down to catching up on schoolwork. But this tranquility was rudely shattered by a news item announcing that North- western Teacher's College, Alvah, Okla, was send- some Freshmen debaters A. C.-way for a practice tournament on May 5. All of which goes to proye the truth of the old saying, something about debater's work is never donef' .. .5

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