Durant High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Durant, IA)

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Activities Semester 41 The student council sponsored another successful KSTT Good Guy game in February, For the second year the Durant faculty fought for and received the victory, Both the male teachers' athletic skill and the female teachers' cheering ability contributed to the victory. The FIM sponsored the King of llearts dance, lfrom the five senior candidates, Ron llopphan was chosen King, At the one-act play contest two plays, The Honor Be Mine and The Stolen Prince, and a play reading, A Thurber Carnival, were presented The play reading and the play, The Stolen Prince, were selected for district speech contest competition, In March If,T,A, members traveled to the State Convention in Des lvloines, where Linda Collier became the new state publicity chairman, Forensic members participated in the year's last speech contest-- the Iowa City state contest-immediately following five days of ljaster vacation, The Girls' D-Club sponsored' a Sadie Hawkins Dance on April 1, 3 t t l ' 5 K 1 , ak' gif I A ' life D K R X ' F' ' 'E' E 1336 f s , iii? , 5 . 2 - i: 1 .t..' ii? The girls' basketball team went .ez into district competition but were beaten by Delwood during the second game of the district tournament, The boys' team was defeated in a heart- breaker during the second round of sectional competition by Lone Tree, In March the girls' and boys' basketball teams enjoyed their weekends at the state basketball tournaments in Des Moines, Joyce Riessen was elected to the Iowa Daily Press Association First Team during the tournaments, The annual Science Fair was held on March 23, Carl and Matt Anderson, the Biological Division winnersg and Phillip Young, the Physical Division winner, received the EOD priye as First Place Over- all Winners,

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l'he new semester hegan with WOW tlliltlcats Over Wiltonj Week, Activities of this school spirit week were: Clash Day, Poster Day, Blue and Gold Day, antl tlays honoring the various athletic teams when students carried the players hooks for them, Sara lilienthal won the Clash Day COSILIINC contest, and Luclalle Weih won the poster contest, Varied coup Second 'lhe second semester hrotight a Continuation of many of the first semester's activities. lt hrottght howe for the athletic teams as the sectional antl tlis- werience to sttitlents competing in the one-act p t trict competition nearetl, httrtl work and acting ex- lty contest, the thrill ol' ortlerint: class rings to the memhers of the sophomore class, and the aware- ' . at W is at 3 N, LG' in 1, fi.-. .E if The girls' basketball team played tt hreathtaking gamewith Qlarence in lfehrtiary. Diane l Qhrec Isc tlest royed Clarence's one point lead and assttretl the Wildkittens of 3 Vic- tory with a shot during the final second of the game, llaskethall letters were presented at the Durant athletes, 'E Pwfiffii I ,M I Qfinvgg 43' IV' '4 .UEHWUQRSVIWQIH -o-aouqpfnt it t -1, :. ' KSMSSQ N. W whilst-t smokin W 1 the Basketball llanqtiet given in honor of ness of fewer clays of school left for the seniors, ,tt .. .- i were f ,ME f ct i - - 31322 l 7 .5 ie? 'e'.:'t!39- , - MW A ,. , ' Qin' tv , t . Ref 'ff M. W V V if ' - 5-rf Q D t 1 --v y Qfmsj : , 'Q 15 - i I ' .- H .t wat . :fiflft:2t!g5f:!375fi sq Q ,. - A owls-tttf. t Q ttt,, t V. ,t,. ,N Q53 fl Mug' sf Q. 5,-is t am-J' -- -L i V55

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I-Iapp Times Reviewed During Final Days The Durant and Wilton bands gave exchange concertsg the Wilton band played at DHS in April, and the Durant hand traveled to Wilton in May, Prom week, April 25-April 150, found the juniors working hard, but having fun, building decorations for the ,Iunior-Senior Proni, lfor their efforts the juniors were able to present the seniors with Che7 Paree, The House of Paris, gt., ' C'-'O X 's S T V .- 55 ? T 3 Q l E E Rita Schlapkohl, Judy Toft, and Renae Best advanced from district competition at Pleasant Valley to the state con- test at Grinnell, a Student council elections and cheer- leading tryouts were held on May 5, North Scott student council members came to visit on that day also, as it was set aside as Student Council Exchange Day. School was dismissed early on May 3 and students attended the Wildcat Relays, The first all-school three-act play, The Miracle Worker, was presented, with Jane Stoffer portraying Helen Keller, on May 9. Nine new members were inducted into the National Honor Society at a ban- quet given in their honor by the PTO on May lO. The baseball and softball teams opened their summer seasons with many hours of hard practice, The remainder of the year was spent as last days for the seniors, They counted carefully: five, four, three, two, oneg a shout of joyg and they were gone, They traveled to Chicago on the last class trip ever to be taken from Durant, and made their last appearance as a senior class at Baccalaureate and Graduation in bur- gundy and white robes, At Commence- ment, May 23, Carol Koppenhaven was awarded the BPW Scholarship and Patsy Best received the Kolmerer Scholarship, Year-end semester tests were given to the remainder of the high school students on May 25 and 26, The last event of the year was Award Night, May 27, Then summer had come, the halls were quiet again, and--at least for ashort time-you could rest, DHS,