La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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The Girls’ Athletic Association is organized for all girls interested in sports. It offers a complete and varied list of activities during the year. Outdoor sports of archery, hiking, and soccer are played during the fall. In the winter bowling, basketball, vol- leyball, and’ badminton are enjoyed. Softball and tennis arc saved for the springtime. Points toward sweaters are earned by participating in the above sports. If six different sports arc entered, a sweater bearing the G. A. A. maple leaf is earned. Each year the final event in the cur- riculum is the customary finale, a slumber party or over-night.” In this way G. A. A. provides sports for girls, too. Png© Eighteen

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CROSS COUNTRY Coach Van Wagner. Dave Kcisling, Ken Kramer. Bill Feiket, Bob Garnet, Keith Zook, Art McCauley. Paul Krentz, Dick Martin, Roman S .ymula, Tom Fara, Max I.audit, Jim Freese The 1947 Cross Country team proved to be one of the best L.P.H.S. ever had, in spite of the fact that it had only one man returning from the 1946 squad. It placed second only to Mishawaka in the newly in- augurated conference while winning nine regular season meets and los- ing one to Conference Champs, Mishawaka, who went through their season undefeated. The harriers did not fare so well in larger meets placing ninth in the Hobart Invitational and fourteenth in the Eastern-Western Division Conference meet. However, they ran their best in the State Finals at Indianapolis. There they ran tenth in a field of the fifteen best teams in the state. Lettermen were: Keith Zook, Bob Games, Ken Harayda. Bill Feikes, Dick Martin, Tom Fara, Paul Krentz, and Roman S .mula. Zook was elected most valuable and Harayda captain. Paso Seventeen

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JUNIORS Arlene Ahlgrim Clyde Alban Helen Alexander Yvonne Anderton Shirley Aih Harold Bachman Robert Barker Charles Barnthouie l.arry Beam Joanne Bigham Leonard Blake Mimi Boardman Marilyn Bonce Clarence Burkhart JoAnn Burnt Prank Carton Joe Chlcbowtki Hd Chmielowiec Bob Coddington Martha Conley Guyia Cook Jack Day Marilyn Denholm Gloria De Witt Betty Dwyer Peggy Earl Mary Elzbicciak Don Allen Albert Amet Dick Anderton Dolores Baity Joanne Baity Eugene Barker Lambert Bear Barbara Bell Richard Bergen Viola Brown Patty Buckley Margaret Buerger Eugene Both Irene Bym Jack Cdkint Irene Cichon Gordon Clark June Clark Robert Croy Gertrude Cummings Ronald Davit Patricia Dolohery Joyce Downs Danny Duckwall Sally Estlinger Pat Evenburg Bill Fcikes Bill Either Steve Flint Betty Fox Thcreta Frankinburger Elaine Gade