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

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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

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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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I6 Features and Highlights On Monday October 21, 1936, the DCHS Drum and Bugle Corps performed in the Pageant ot Progress Parade at East St. Louis led by drum majors Margaret Francis and Eugene Goley. Six students from DCHS were in Champaign during High School Conference Week in November, 1935. Raymond Arvin and Ruth Siel- ert played in the all-state orchestra, Dorothy Dashner and Tom Dulla- han attended the Illinois State High School Press Association, Mary Winterhott sang in the all-state chorus, and Virgil Gaines visited Ray- mond Fischer, graduate of DCHS. On April 4, 1940 DCHS won the sub-district speech meet. Carolyn Closser won a first place award in Extemporaneous Speaking, Harry Mossiman in Original Oratory, Marlyn Stanhope in Oratorical Decla- mation and our one-act play was ranked On December 1, 1944 the senior class held the Hickville Wiggle. During the party a cake walk, a Virginia Reel and a square dance were held. Jesse Skipper was crowned king and Donna May Koch was crowned queen. s X xx K. 1 ,'i , .A f tv It B. Scene from Rough and Ready During the later years of our history the freshman class sponsored a St. Patricks Day Partyf the sophomores a St. Valentine's Day Party, the seniors a party usually with a western or country theme and the juniors sponsored the prom. Many outstanding plays and operettas have been presented including Mrs, Miniver, Pickles, At the End of the Rainbow, 'lMother Was a Freshman, Dairy ot Anne Frank, So This is Paris, Rough and Ready, and Best Foot Forwa rd. Do you remember when DCHS held an annual picnic in Forest Park? Cn Feb. 9, 1949 three members ot the Echo Staff, Betty Ripplinger, Mildred Schmitt and Donna Adams had the privilege of interviewing Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, widow ot one ot America's most notable presidents. The inter- view took place in the Adelphi Room ot the Chase Hotel in St. Louis, Grand March at the 1968 Junior-Senior Prom .F . W