Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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all around - Wildkats practice, play, and work Usually a peaceful place, the office gets wild when hun- dreds of kids line up to buy books and all the fixings for a new school year. Here J. Bailey waits on them. If you want to go into a tail spin, just try a visit to the band room before a football game. The horns toot and squeak, the twirlers twirl, the pom pon girls hop and skip, Mr. Santee’s whistle blows. Nobody could get through the day without the cafeteria and the lunch break. Here Handy Lunt scrapes out the bean kettle after the weekly pinto menu. Or you might try a bus full of girls after a good night’s sleep, all ready to beat some other team; they will either wake you up or put you into a coma. Then there are the working times, with office girls on the other side of the counter, and the cafeteria boys on the other side of the “sneeze board.” And just in case there’s a little extra time, a guitar will come in handy for some singing. Guitars are serious hobbies for some. Two enthusiastic future Carlos Montoyas, Sandy Pace and Ronny Daniel, play for Christmas party in English class. Just ask Topper what you can do to help him, and he has something saved up. Here Lewis Holliday installs a hitching post for the gym door. 7

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In the band room, on the bus, in the office -- There's a lot more to football than kicking the ball around. Pretty girls must practice, even at the last minute. 6 Curlers, and curler caps—even on their way to a volleyball game, some girls think they have to look just right,

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In classes, pep assemblies, and after school -- Far away from English and history classes is the shop, where students can choose their wood projects and work with tools. Here Ross Arrington sands a lamp base. Indoors and out of doors; during the day and at night; on school days and on week-ends, people had their work to do, their activities to follow; and plenty of fun to attend to. While some learned spelling words and dates, others learned crafts and farming wisdom. During football season, the Pep Club wrapped the goal posts and painted Wildkats. In basketball season, they continued pep assemblies and worked out yells and skits. Time-out from volleyball practice, and the coach was tied to the stake for stealing someone's slave: a fair exchange for all the hard practice sessions--but what would volleyball be, if not fun? A good clean-up in the building and around the school grounds was the result of the National Youth Corps project. When these students were not studying or busy with sports, they would be working at many kinds of jobs, from chopping weeds to typing catalog cards. 8