El Paso High School - Cometeer Yearbook (El Paso, IL)

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First row: Gene Savoie. Everett Quiram. Glenn Sparks. Jim Corbitt, Jim Davis. Monte Lindsey. Don Gordon. Dill Xohren. Second row: Mr. Bowers. John Eastman. Jerry McWilliams, Lyle Miller. Bernard Oltman. Byron Donze. Leroy Weasel. Lloyd Raber. BASEBALL Baseball comes back to El Paso again this year and a highly successful team is expected. A tentative schedule has been planned which includes home games with University High. Eureka. Mctamora. Minonk, and Washburn; and the District Tournament which is held as a preliminary for the State Tournament in May. El Paso will take the field for their first game with six of the first nine back from last year. GYM CLASSES With heavy emphasis by the government on physical fitness, the Boys' P.E. program at E.T.H.8. during 1944-45 was planned along those lines. During the fall special emphasis was put on calisthenics, running, and touch football. The winter activities consisted of swimming, calisthenics, and basketball. Following a boxing tournament in the soring, outside activities were resumed with the main attraction being softball. The Girls’ P.E. classes started with baseball and deck tennis. During the winter months basketball, volleyball, and swimming w’ere the main activities. When spring arrived, baseball was resumed and swimming continued. Twenty-six

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