Dupo Community High School - El Tigre Yearbook (Dupo, IL)

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From Oilers Through The years the Tigers have come to be a formidable opponent for all the teams in The area. In each of The maior sports in which our Teams have participated They have won the conference championship aT least once, and earned numerous other awards. The first Dupo basketball team started playing in T924 at Hall's Hall, The second floor of a theater. The coach was R. K. Purl, the principal. The team at that time was called the Oilers In T933 our team won its third consecu- tive Cahokia Conference championship. Dupo continued to dominate the Cahokia Conference throughout the succeeding years until the Midwestern Conference was formed. The T950 teams 26 and 2 record was the best in the schools history. It won the District and Regional tourna- ments and advanced to the Sectional before losing. ln T956 Glenn Graff set a conference scoring record for a sin- gle game with a 75 point effort. He also set 3 records and tied another at the E. St. Louis Holiday Tournament. The highest season scoring record goes to the T966 team for netting T969 points. Llp tothe present the Tigers have won almost twice as many games as their opponents. Our first football team took the field in T932. Although it lost all but one game, that victory was over Belleville, a local power. Since then we have won several championships. The most notable was in T958 when we won eight games and lost only one. In T957 Bill White broke a school record by gaining T66 yards in one game. The some year he was elected to the All-Southern Illinois team and the District All-Star team. This is the first Dupo basketball team, named the Oilers They are: Harold Fischer, George Drury, Felix Ship, Joerda Melton, Erwin Dyroff, Donald Bucklin, James Hukshold, Russell Petitte, and the coach, Mr. R. K. Purl.

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T932 was a big year for our school. Minds and typewriters started clicking to put together our first El Tigre. In the spring, a tradition was started that will be hard to stop - football. The first Honor Society, under the supervi- sion of Mr, Faulkner and Mr. Frank Kipfer, was begun. Its first officers were: Edward Rose, President, Myrtle Kott- kamp, Vice President, and Riley Smith, Secretary-Treasurer. Our news staff started writing a section for the Dupo Herald Tribune concerning the high school newspaper, the D.C,H.S. Echo. T933 brought the election of our first Student Council. In those days, each member was elected for one semester only. By T958 the members were elect- ed from second hour class and had a term of one semester and stayed in office until seniors. Activities in Penmanship Club, Stage Craft, National Forensic League, Discussion Club, Readers Club, Drama Club, Speech and Debate Clubs, Art Club, Expression Club, Public speaking club, spelling club, and the classics club kept those busy who were interested in literature, writing, and the arts. The 6O's brought many of the present clubs into our roster. Mu Alpha Theta accepted the Dupo Math Club as a charter member. Today Mu Alpha Theta is composed of juniors and seniors who have had one year of algebra and one year of geometry and are enrolled in either advanced algebra or trigonometry. F.N.C. formed in T963 has received the Youth Group Achievement Award from the Parents' Magazine for the past three years. Composed of girls interested in nursing, F.N.C. members do a lot of hospital work and many are candy stripers. French Club, Future Teachers, and Biology Club were also organized then and are active today. F.T.A. members tutor younger children and teach classes at local grade schools and in the iunior high. Biology Club was recently reorganized in T968 under the supervision of Mrs. Hoepfinger. This group is a modern-day version of the former clubs like Nature Study, Science, and Crystal Clubs. Looking back over the past fifty years and all the activities Dupo has seen, it is obvious that the students graduat- ing back in T9T 9 are basically the some as those who will be graduating in T 969. Their interests and achievements were brought to the surface through the activities made available to them. Those fun-filled hours and days will soon melt into pleasant memories when in fifty more years, we the fiftieth graduating class of D.C.H.S., look back. f N NS? -2 FHA officers work on prize-winning yearbook under the sponsorship of Mrs. Frazier and Mrs. Best.

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to Tigers Nineteen thirty-one produced two championship teams: one in baseball and one in track. Nineteen thirty-three also turned out two champion teams, this time one in basketball and one in tennis. In I957 the Cross Country team won the Troy Invitational and the Dupo Invitational meets and won the Mid- western Conference title. In I958 Allen Williams ran a 2-mile cross-country course in a time of lO:O2.9, breaking school and Dupo Invitational records. But in l966 Chuck Rice set a conference record of 9:45. In I967 Chuck bet- tered his time to 9:l7 and went to the state meet where he finished 35th in a field of 350. Our first conference championship in track came in l93I. In I958 the track squad won 6 out of 7 meets. In I959 Allen Williams broke school and conference records in the half mile and qualified for the state track meet. In I967 Chuck Rice set a record in the 880 by running it in 21OO.7. Bill DePriest set a record in the low hurdles with a time of 20.7 seconds. That year the mile relay team of I-Iurt, I-lunsacker, Rice, and DePriest set a conference record of 3136.6 In l968 Chuck Rice competed in the state track meet. But part of the credit for our success should go to the fans, who have backed their teams with a tremendous show of school spirit no matter how successful they might be. This is the I 950 team, which finished with a 26 and 2 record. KNEELING: L. LaCroix, S. Vickers, W. Reynolds, K. Weller, and L. Rainey. STANDING: B. Pennock, G. Wittenbrink, C. Lynch, J. Carey, D. Gericke, and Coach Baker. I4