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

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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

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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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ill' r Features Show Social Aspect of School Life The social activity involved in high school life is equally as im- portant as education in its own way. Homecoming, sock-hops, plays, concerts, and athletic contests all offer opportunities for so- cial pleasure. But the most important social event of the year is the Junior-Senior Prom, which involves long hours of anticipation, preparation, and enjoyment. During the early history of DCHS students enioyed class parties, picnics, hay-rides, concerts, banquets, trips to the American Thea- ter in St. Louis, and dances. ,,,,,,4 Annabel Mayhew was crowned athletic queen in 1932 and Anna Francis Duncan in 1933. The first annual football dance was given by the High School Athletic Association in honor of the ' DCHS football team in the high school auditorium November 11, 1932. Music was furnished by Mr. Smoot's Blue and Gold Orches- tra. Faculty members playing in the orchestra were Mr. J. J. Keys, Mr. C. Kipfer, and Mr. P. L. Smoot. Scene from a paid assembly. On December 14, 1934 the Latin class directed by Miss Hartman presented a Christmas program in Latin. Dupo's first Prom Queen, Betty Lou Boules was crowned in 1943. The first DCHS Homecoming Queen, Miss Joy Levin, was crowned on Saturday, November 4, 1944 by Ralph Hotto representing the football team. One of our outstanding features was Youth Speaks, a radioprogram of DCHS which won national recogni- tion by placing first in class 6 at a nation-wide contest sponsored by the Ohio State University. The group was sponsored by Miss Henrietta Smith. On March 20, 1934 the DCHS speech team won second place in the speech tournament conducted by the National Forensic League. Five schools were represented including Webster Groves, winner of first place, Mas- coutah, East St. Louis, Carlyle, and New Athens. DCHS Band presents formal spring con cert. I 3 V .r V A - - - . . . . . 0 'K 4, f J 1' V! I it ' 1 ' ...L 1 L l i iff: 1 I L V 'i Q 'I A ,mmm '- imfmir ' 9