Laurel High School - Laurels Yearbook (Laurel, MT)

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Front row—Left to right: Eddie Burke, K nold Frank, Fred Rooley, Bob Phythian, Oli' Durham, Clifford Phillips, Gene DeFrance, Burt Kucera, Leonard Foley. Second row—Jackson Parker, Lawrence DeFrance, Frank Devine, Edward Russell, P Horning, Paul Shively, Jiggs DeNittis. Back row—J. D. Fellows, assistant coach; Edward Butler, Clarence Rooley, Donald Mo ko, and Coach T. H. Bennett. Laurel’s football team of 1936 set the best record of any football team in the history of the school. Out of seven games played, they lost only one. That game was with a tough Harlowton eleven for the Yellowstone division championship. Laurel rolled up 119 points to their opponents 26. Season’s scores were: Laurel 20, Billings B 0: Laurel 27, Worden 6; Laurel 14, Cavbon 0; Laurel 13, Columbus 6; Laurel 19-19, Big Timber 0-7; Laurel 0, Harlowton 6. The seniors on the team that will not be back next year are: Fred Rooley, a four-year man and captain; Rynold Frank, a three-year man and tackle; Bob Phythian, a three-year man and quarter-back; Clifford Phillips, a two-year man and guard; and Gene DeFrance, a two-year man and guard. The Lettermen’s Club has been an inactive organization for the past two years. It is composed of all the boys who earned letters in any sport. Front row—Left to right: Jackson Parker, Rynold Frank, Clifford Phillips, Bob Phythian, Oliver Durham, Fred Rooley, Gene DeFrance, Leonard Foley. Back row—Lawrence DeFrance, Howard Pewitt, Burt Kucera, Roy Horning, Coach T. VI. Bennett, Eddie Burke, Paul Shively, Oscar Gunter.

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First row—Mary Price, Helene Roberts, Marguerite Palmer, Florence Ranger, Irene Russell, Irma Shay, Kleanora Stenerson, Cozette Thayer, Audrey Wilson, Phyllis Wise, Helen Winters, Bertha Zier, Helene Zier. Second row—Viola Harper, Eileen Harrison, Kathleen Heebner, Ruth Heebner, Alice Haagenson, Helen Kircheis, Leona Murdock, Betty Jo McCracken, Marie Martin, Louise Motzko, Anita Omdorff, Amelia Ostwald, Helen Ostwald. Third row—-Geraldine Cook. Freda Coulter, Betty Evert, Sue Fu.iio, Ruth Frank, Margaret Frank, Gertrude Gilles, Margie Goldsmith, Iola Gowen, Lela Gowwen, Dorothy Graff, Clara Graves. Fourth row—Evangeline Budge, Margaret Adams, Faie Bailey, Edna Borg, Alta Boylan, Dorothy Boylan, Inez Branstetter, Irma Branstetter, Peggy Branstetter, Madeline Cla.vborne, Irma Colova. Girls’ Athletic Association G. A. A. has been inactive since 1934, when Mrs. Stella Knaack was sponsor, until Miss Virginia Rigney started it again in 1936. This enabled the senior girls of 1936 to get their three-striped sweaters. If G. A. A. had been earned on all four years they would have been four-year girls this year and had a choice of rewards. G. A. A. was started for the year 1936-37 with hikes every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons after school. During the time in which the gymnasium was being refloored the group met in the study hall and points of etiquette were stressed. After this was completed gymnasium work began. During the year the G. A. A. helped sponsor the sale of Tuberculosis seals and decorated two show windows down town dining the Red Cross diive. A pageant, “The Doll Shop,” written by Helen Winters was presented in April with forty-eight members of the athletic group taking part. The proceeds from the pageant went toward the purchasing of the letters, caps and sweaters for the girls rewards.

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Front row—Jack Parker, Eddie Fiurke, Fred Rooley, Coach T. H. Bennett, Bob Phythian, lliver Durham, and Captain Leonard Foley. Second row-—-Homer Wheeler, Lawrence DeFrance, Burt Kucera, Cliff Phillips, Clarence ooley, Gene DeFrance, Bob Freund. The Laurel Basketball squad of '37 hung up a record for the future teams to hold as their goal. They won the tri-county league with seven wins and no loses. In the district tournament held in Laurel, the Locomotives took second, being defeated by Red Lodge in the championship game 32-17. The Laurel team, probably the smallest and fastest we have ever had, scored 581 points to their opponents 420. Men who will not be back next year are Fred Rooley, Bob Phythian. Gene DeFrance, and Cliff Phillips. Coach T. H. Bennett reports that the ’37 track squad of seventeen boys is the largest squad in the history of the school. In the dual meet between Carbon County High School and Laurel High School, Laurel won by 99 2-3 to 52 1-3 points. In the tri-county meet held April 24 in Columbus, Laurel won first with 65A points. Other meets were: A night meet at the Billings high school stadium, the Polytechnic meet, the state meet in Missoula at which laurel’s half-mile relay team set a new Class B record of 1:37.2. Back row—Donald Shay, Lester Burke, Kenneth Shay, Roy Horning, Clifford Phillips Archie Deryckere, Irvin McGinley. . Front row—Lawrence DeFrance, Leonard Foley, Clarence Rooley. Donald Motzko, Charle Shay, Oliver Durham, Eddie Burke, Fred Rooley, Oscar Gunter, Gene DeFrance, and Coacl T. H. Bennett.