Holton Arms School - Scribe Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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yelled King Lear to signal a trick play. Miss Lurton found out that she can't escape Shakespeare even while playing basketball. This year Jewel was elected captain of the Blue team and Jean Taylor captain of the White. As they were strutting in their glory, Miss Feiker informed them that along with their titles went the dubious honor of closing the windows, picking up the pinnies, and putting away the balls after each practice. This season our games are scheduled to be played with Gunston Hall, Mt. Vernon, and BASKETBALL SQUAD 1947. BLUES Jewel Davis, Captain Maryalice Brattain Katharine Colvin Daphne Fay Barbara Greene Mary Johnston Margaret Mechlin Alice O'Keefe Elizabeth Steuart Marie Vallance BASKETBALL SQUAD 1942. WHITES Jean Taylor, Captain Pat Baker Lucy Brown Dorothy Campbell Ann DeKay Margaret Hambley Jean Holloway Peggy Unzicker Marianne Williamson Betty Kessel Georgetown Visitation Convent. A highlight of our season came on Friday, the thirteenth of February, when the faculty met the girls in a fight-to-the-finish game. As our teachers marched in, equipped with first-aid kits and artificial respirators, we chuckled to ourselves and turned pitying smiles upon them. But Pride goeth before a fall -that old adage was impressed upon our minds by a score we dare not mention! Yes, it's a great game-this basketball!

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fresh air merely by walking to and from the gym. This year jumping rope was added to all the other exercises which pave the road to a good basketball team, and if anyone dares to doubt the strenuousness of this ac- tivity, just come to us! On the first day, husky athletes though we are, we all fell to the floor exhausted. After this workout we separate into two groups, the guards going to one end of the gym to engage in intercepting passes and jumping up to catch the ball off the back- board, While the forwards at the other end shoot baskets and construct baffling plays. Then we get together and put into practice all that we have learned. The guards, as soon as they have caught onto the forwards' sig- nals, give them a run for their baskets. Then the forwards change their signals, and the guards proceed to figure them out all over again. Don't talk to us about vicious circles! Signals can be really funny, as we discovered in the Alumnae Reunion game. Jewel Davis, a Holton forward, sent Miss Lurton, an Alumnae guard, into hysterics when she The game 'J begun. Mary Johnston, Daphne Fay, Elizabeth Steuart, Peggy Unzicker, Marie Vallance, Katharine Colvin, and Barbara Menninger. As everyone expected, the blazer was awarded to fleet-footed Mary Johnston, To Wind up in style we made a grand show- ing on the All-Private School Team with Mary Johnston and Jean Taylor on the first team and Jewel Davis on the second. Then when sunny fall was over and winter Winds began to blow, we turned our attention to . . . Bncsketbtzrl ,THOUGH OUR WINTER activity is an indoor Sport, We gm: Uuf quota Cafld then SOIHCD of The camera mtcbrr lb: winning buriut. 72

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