Kalona High School - Centerika Yearbook (Kalona, IA)

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Boys Athletics BOYS’ BASKETBALL f. BO FRONT ROW-—Bernard Hershberger, Arthur Yoder, David Brenneman, Cleo Dickel, captain, Billy Swartzendruber, Howard Gosnell. STANDING—Lester Moore, John Miller, equipment boy, Lester Kempf, Junior John- son, Daniel Brenneman, Clifford Grout, Raymond Moore, Mr. Swartzendruber, coach, Edwin Moore. : REGULARS Center Sharon 31 Center 21 ; Cosgrove 22 Center Shueyville 26 Center 13 Oxford 37 Center Shueyville 18 Center 8 Sharon 42 Center Tiffin 54 @enters (iia este es ...Cosgrove 23 Center -. Center 15 ...Solon 38 Won 2—-Lost 10—Percentage .167 COUNTY TOURNAMENT Center 16—Cosgrove 31 SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT Center: 17—Conesville 26 SECOND TEAM Center 1% Shueyville 9 Center Oxford 15 Center Shueyville 13 Center “haren 22 Center Oxford 13 Center Tiffin 39 Center ' Center Cosero-e 17 Center Cosgrove 14 Center Won 5—Lost 5—Percentage .500 Although being handicapped by the loss of four regulars fror ‘ast vear’s “tvorgs team some interesting games were played this year. Had the one Cosgrove same I-s'ed a seccnd longer and had the weather not been so co’d at Shueyville we probably would have had two more wins than the records now show. Injuries and sickness also weak- ened the team at times. High point man for the year was B'll with 95 points in nine games. Bernard was second with 68 points followed by Cleo with 43, David with 15, Arthur 14, Daniel 12, Lester Kempf 11, and Howard 7. David was elected captain for next. year, and maicr Je‘ters were awarded to: C'eo, David, Bill, Bernard, Lester K.; Arthur, Howard and Daniel. Minor letters went to Raymond, “ifford, and Junior. John was awarded a-minor letter as student mana- ger. —Page 17—

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Sacrificing For Others It was a warm, dry day in September, and, as usual, the happy groups of school children came tripping down the street and turned in at the large cement walk which led to the school house. The school building was sheltered from the sun by the large overhanging branches of the surrounding maples. Many times the citizens of the small town would stop to watch the happy children play. The new teacher just fitted in this picture of happy contentment. She was a beautiful young lady who always had the interest of her pupils at heart. She was known to everyone as “Miss Jane’’, Today was Monday and a new school week was just beginning. Little did the school children and the people of the town know that this was to be a fatal day for them. The bell rang for recess and the boys all hurried out to play, that is, all except one. Jimmy could hear the shouts of the other boys as they were playing ball, and his little body almost shook with sobs, for he could not play. He was acripple! You see, he had been born with a deformed body and it had been impossible for him to be cured. Of course, at first the boys had been more patient with him, but now it was growing tiresome and they seldom had time for a ‘‘poor crippled boy’”’. Always Jimmy would sit and watch the other boys and when the game would reach a climax, he could hardly keep from jumping up and playing too. When the bell rang for school time, all the pupils ran in, tock their seats and started studying as usual. Possibly an hour had passed when the children heard a noise and confusion on the street below. Shouting! Police sirens! Fire trucks! When the children saw the red fire trucks stop in front of the school house they guessed immediately what had happened. On the other side of the school building a terrible fire had brcken out and was spreading rapidly. Panic spread through the room and a wild scramble was made for the flight of stairs which led to the main floor, and the door below. Miss Jane was frantically shouting orders for the boys and girls to get in line and march down stairs because there were so many of them. Nevertheless, the children hurried on in a wild fury, shutting out the sound of her voice. It seemed no one thought of Jimmy but Miss Jane. Although she tried to help him she made little progress in the moving mass of children. They moved on, some falling, but quickly recovering and continuing their ways again amid the screams and shouts of the rest. Smoke had now become quite thick around the school and the haziness of the air seemed to add to the terror caused by the fire. The children were nearly all out of the building by now, and while the policemen were shouting for everyone to stand back, the children were being counted and identi- fied. Suddenly the chief ordered everyone away, for the structure would soon collapse. Everyone watched the door for signs of life, for they were afraid they mizht have over- looked someone in their hurry. It was soon discovered that Jimmy and Miss Jane were not to be found. It was impossible for anyone to enter the blazing building, and all anyone could do was to hope and pray. The crowd was tense! Suddenly two black and marred figures feil from the doorway. An officer rushed forward and got the bodies and at the same time a thunderous crash was heard and the building was no longer a school house but a heap of smoking ruins. The bodies were taken to a clearing across the street. They were immediately identified as those of Miss Jane and Jimmy. Although she was badly burned, yet she lived, but Jimmy, at whom everyone had just glanced as they passed by, had already gone on. After Miss Jane was very efficiently taken care of by a nurse and placed on a cool sheet in the hospital, she sobbed her story to the officer. “Of course I waited until ‘Continued on Page Twenty) —Page 19—