Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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their activities focus on Duncan High LEFT: Diane Johnson helps put picture of Wildkat on goal post for players to jump through. ABOVE: “Thatcher Eagle ’ is caged at pep rally by varsity basketball team. Youth Corps girls D. Nichols, S. Lancaster, M. Quinones rearrange magazines, mop floor in library. Mr. Clothier takes his punishment from the volleyball teams for out-bidding several of the girls for their boy friends at the Lettermen’s Slave Sale.

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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

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Gila creeps toward school, runs around track Just before Christmas, heavy rains sent the Gila River out of its banks and clouds filled Arizona’s “sunny” skies. Someone new in rooters’ section is LuCinda 10 Coach and Mrs. Hill began training daughter early to support the team. Here they watch volleyball practice.