Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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FREQUENT DANCES LEND GAIETY TO SCHOOL YEAR Hi-Y sweetheart candidates await decision during Bill Kelly, Sandra Robbins, Barb Boyer, Karen dance. Mullin, Jim Joslin, Phil Hummel, Dick Mans relax at country club dance. Edina students found social recreation in many school-sponsored dances. Outstanding among these were the Stardust , the Homecoming Dance, the Christmas Formal, and the Toy Dance. The beautiful Automobile Club was the setting of the Junior-Senior Prom, the Stardust . Flowers and ferns made a garden, complete with arbor, where two hundred and fifty couples danced to the music of Dick Finch's orchestra. As a climax of the 1953 annual Homecoming, the Student Council sponsored the annual Homecoming Dance. It was held in the school lunchroom, following the Hornet's victory over Minnetonka. Jerry Mallaney's band provided the music for the one hundred and fifty couples celebrating the triumph which made the Hornets Lake Conference Champions. Numerous Edina alumni returned from college to attend. The Student Council planned and directed the affair in order to raise more funds for its treasury. As the Christmas holidays approached, preparations were made for the Christmas Formal, traditionally sponsored by the Hi-Y chapters. Decorations of evergreens and holly transformed the cafeteria, and the melodies of Jerry Dibble's Band lent additional atmosphere. Many graduates mixed among the three hundred high school dancers who met happy former classmates. Following a precedent successfully established in 1952, the Student Council sponsored a Toy Dance. Its purpose was to obtain toys for underprivileged children. Everything, including the band, was donated free of charge. Each couple brought a toy for admission; then the toys were collected and distributed to settlement houses. Freshman Jim Parker and helpers check coats for Lindgren, Rankin, and Pirsch sneak look at dec Bob McCrea and date. orations before the festivities begin.

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NEW BUILDINGS ENHANCE SCHOOL SPIRIT Students were thrilled with the modern gymnasium and auditorium. Their completion of these new additions and the winning of the Lake Conference Football Championship combined to give unsurpassed enthusiasm and interest to school activities. Spacious, gleaming floors at last took the place of the temporary gymnasium. The eagerness of sports fans was intensified as the basketball team played its first game on the permanent home floor. Throughout the many games that followed, the fervor of the spectators was kept high as basketballs swished through the nets, and the Hornets defended the green and the white. Edina enthusiasm reaches peak. Edina's impressive auditorium was the scene of the culmination of the 1952 football seoson after the Hornets had a total of eight games played and won, six of them conference games. The Minneapolis Star and Tribune rated the team fifth in the state, so it was only fitting that Edina have a program to honor this outstanding record. Coach Beson distributed forty-one gold footballs to players who hod proved themselves on the gridiron. This outstanding team raised the level of Edina's athletic standards and gained for the school a new prominence in the Lake Conference. Conference champs receive awards. School spirit at games is very important to both the team and the spectators. The players are encouraged and receive new determination to win when the audience thunders its support. The fans participate in the rivalry by cheering wildly, trying to outdo the supporters of the other team. The cheerleaders are essential in organizing school cheers and leading in yells and songs. They unify and direct the tension of the crowd into backing up the team and keep the fans stirred up, both during pep fests and at games. Cheerleaders rally student pep. Page one hundred twenty

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 OUR MISS BROOKS GOES INFORMAL Principal Purdy advises Our Miss Brooks during Lighting crew learns intricacies of new lighting rehearsal of junior class play. board from director, Mr. Delmar Fredrickson. Fitting costumes is only one of the many necessqry Clean-up crew, Ted Furber, Tom Nelson and chores of the hard-working backstage crew. Gary Kitley, star between acts. Cast receives helpful hints from student director Artise Egulf and Faculty adviser Mr. Delmar Fredrickson. Gary Kitely tries- out new lighting system on opening night, f A |o on© hundred twenty-two