Durant High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Durant, IA)

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Autumn weather finally arrives in Durant in October. On October 6 the seniors leave DHS to go to Davenport to pose for their senior pictures. The Durant Marching Band with Donna Rekemeyer as their queen attends the Muscatine Band Festival on October 10. Donna is crowned as co-queen. Following the football game with West Branch on October 16, the Pep Club sponsors a Mr. Wildcat Dance. All football boys are honored as the can- didates for Mr. Wildcat with Mike Davis being crowned as Mr. Wildcat of 1964. The next day the band marches in a parade to honor American Legion Commander Don Johnson at West Branch. On October 24 the Student Council sponsors a I-Iayrack Ride to Wildcats Den. 5 Fall Created a 1964 was election year, with November 3 being the big day. To coincide with the national elections, the Biz holds a mock election. Presi- dent Johnson wins in a huge landslide. On the seventh fourteen members of the Forensic league attends the Iowa High School Speech Colloquy at Iowa City. Two students, Patsy Best and Judy Toft, compete in the championship round. The annual Open House is held on November 10. Play scenes by the speech class are given. The junior class play creates quite a stir on November 13. Basketball season opens as the Wildkittens beat West Liberty. A new sport, wrestling, begins on November 14.

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School Began on a Busy Note Freshmen entering new horizons of hope and promise, sophomores certain in the knowledge of a year behind them, juniors wondering of their future encounters, sen- iors dreaming of the future while treasuring their last year--these are students making up the year at Durant. Moods play a very important part in the school life of an individual. This year was no different. Although school is only nine months long, activities run all year. In the summer there is baseball and softball. Even before school begins, the football boys are practicing for the big games in the fall. On Monday, August 31, school be- gins for another term. New courses, speech, psychology, economics, and sociology, are added. A spark can be seen on the juniors' faces on September 3 when they receive their class rings. However, the mood changes to gloom on the ninth and tenth as the ITED tests are given. Eighteen students attend the FTA Convention on September 14 at which time Joyce Riessen is voted vice -president of the district. Perhaps one of the most memorable days of the school year is the twenty-fifth --Homecoming. Connie House is crowned queen with Janice Grunder as first runner-up, Janice Otto as second runner-up, and Carol Semsch and Lynne Wilson as the other two candidates. The football game ends in a O-O tie with Solon. A A ,lx 1

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Feeling of Closeness The second annual Durant Invitational Speech Contest is held on December 2. Seven schools participate in this event. The first assembly of the year is given by Lou Carta entitled Hunters with Wings. Announcements are ordered by the seniors on December 8. On December 15 the FHA goes to the Wilton Nursing Home to carol for the people. The senior high Christmas program, held on December 22, shows the talent of the band and the chorus. A play, The Christmas Carol is given by the chorus. On December 23 classes are let out for the Christmas vacation. Happy vacation days are over as the students once again strol down the halls of DHS on January 4. The end of the first semester comes on January 15. For thirty students it is great joy as they make the honor roll. Bundle days, held from January 25 to 29, becomes a great success at it nets over 2000 pounds. The one act plays, Ile and Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn, and the play reading Antigone are held on January 26. Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn was chosen to go to District Speech Contest. Q' X5 7