Golden Valley High School - Viking Yearbook (Golden Valley, MN)

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expressions of competition DEBATE TAKES CONCENTRATION. Argumentators Mary Giebenhain, Marnie Mallbarg. and Judy Koch listen attentively while Lailia Mitchell explains a new point of their current subject. ONE DOWN. TWO TO GO? Paul Enghauser seems to be out of the running in this test of typing spoed. Still going strong are Jeff Ericson and Jeff McLeod. 9

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STRAINING EVERY MUSCLE, baiketoor Marvin Sochar ovades Sbakopae players and tries his luck on a lay up. Small Valley High was a boon for the sports enthusiast. No cliques made students strangers to each other. Players, too. were more than just passing acquaintances. Whatever the outcome of the game, students usually departed in an amiable mood, perhaps attributed to a plurality of pals. The male population participated in competition ranging from debate to track, from football to speed typing. A program was initiated to give youngsters as low as the fourth grade a supervised program of athletic competition. With GAA, music, speech activities, and cheerleading, the feminine population often spent one or two hours on a special project before treading the asphalt homeward. A true competitor must have the desire, a willingness to work hard and to do a job at the height of his ability. In basketball, for instance, the team practiced ten hours a week just to spend an hour and a half on Friday evening looking sharp, capable, and elated—or perhaps disorganized, incapable, and dishearted. But competition wasn't always against a fellow man. In writing articles for the paper or a research theme for English, students competed with themselves to do the best possible job. Competition was expressed at school in many ways. Miss Mary Netzinger coached an eight-man debate squad. Although the first string debaters were mostly blatant upperclassmen, the team also included four freshmen who were learning the rules of ranting and raving from the ground up. To the conference music contests Valley sent 90 choir members, 44 band members, and 25 soloists and ensembles. They competed in the regionals among groups from nine schools, the entrants totaling a whopping 1,325. In summary, however, the most competitive, the most challenging battle of them all, was the struggle to convince the teaching staff of the student's superiority in all details of all phases of everything. 8

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expressions of artistry PENNY PLASS AND JOY ANDERSEN, gourmet for science in the Advanced Home Economics class, put the finishing touches bn an edible project, a chocolate cake. TROMBONISTS John Bockman and Steve Sahly are reaching for seventh position while practicing the climax of Moussorgsky's Great Gate of Kiev. 10