Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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ip % Three cheers for the Homecoming Queen! Stan Whetstine, senior guard of the football team, was the lucky fellow who crowned Lou Ann Hatter queen of the homecoming festivities. Janet Poore prepares a display for the trophy case to remind us all to be good sports during the annual G.A.A. Sportsmanship Week. MHS Offers Rounded Sports Program Page Seventeen from last year’s team, six of whom are letter- men. Coach John Mann should have a brilliant team for the next few years as only six of the returning players are seniors. Concurrent with interscholastic sports were many intra-school activities. Noon-hour recrea¬ tion was centered around noon league basket¬ ball and ping pong with checkers and chess rounding out the program. The physical education classes under the di¬ rection of Mrs. McDonald and Mr. Hill tutored their students in the fundamentals of basketball, softball, volleyball, and other sports. The Girls’ Athletic Association works along with the girls’ gym classes and proves that the weaker sex isn’t really so weak after all. As spring rolls around, many students are patiently awaiting the opening of the new swim¬ ming pool located at the foot of Nutter Hill in the City Park. Basketball coach Vincent Bisesi will serve as supervisor with Dave MacLeod and Carole Merideth, senior class members, as life¬ guards. The current baseball campaign got under way with a game against Bloomington, April 15. There were sixteen players returning “Stop him, Jim!” Jim Robinson guards third base in an exciting moment of the Franklin base¬ ball game.

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Teams Ride Victory Crest Competition in athletics this year began with the football opener against Greensburg. Under the tutelage of new head coach Max Shaw, the Artesian gridmen wound up the sea¬ son with three wins, one tie, and four losses, for the most successful gridiron season since the sport was reinstated in 1947. Coach Shaw introduced Dad’s Night and Homecoming. On Dad’s Night, the fathers of all players were honored. Homecoming was highlighted by the crowning of Lou Ann Hat¬ ter as queen. Two new sports were introduced in MHS during the fall. The tennis team held no matches but was entered in the South Central Conference meet. The cross-country team showed excellent promise for future years. The renowned Artesian golf team, despite an unimpressive record in dual and triangular matches, became the conference champions for the second consecutive year. Sam Car¬ michael became the first freshman ever to win the conference medalist title. After an ordinary basketball season cli¬ maxed by the sectional victory, the jerseys The night before their first game gave Mr. Shaw and his squad an opportunity to explain some football plays to their many fans at our first football rally. were placed in mothballs and track season got under way. Due to construction of a new junior high building, no home meets were held this year. There were two dual and one triangular meet plus the Hoosier, Linton, and Columbus Relays, South Central Conference meet, and the state meets. Jim Powell leads the pack as the cross-country team heads for the open country in their first meet of the season against Shelbyville. Other Artesians are Everett Croy, Bill Bishop, and Jack Guinn. The Gold¬ en Bears edged the Artesians by one point. Page Sixteen Donel Bisesi, Sam Carmichael, Tom Tackett, and Bill Edwards display the trophy that they won by cap¬ turing the South Central Conference golf champion¬ ship for the second straight year. All four boys return next fall for another championship trial.

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Supt. Glenn Curtis Prin. Royce Kurtz Principal Royce Kurtz and Su¬ perintendent Glenn Curtis talk over some new school policy in front of the superintendent’s office downtown. Mr. Kurtz, who became Delphi school superintendent, had been the guiding hand back of curricu¬ lum planning and faculty super¬ vision since becoming principal in 1946. Before then, he taught here for two years and was junior high principal three years. Mr. Curtis became superinten¬ dent of schools in 1949 after a long career in teaching and coach¬ ing at Martinsville and Indiana State Teachers College. Mr. Cur¬ tis, besides preparing the school budget and employing new teach¬ ers at MHS, also has charge of five elementary schools in our district. With the acceptance by Mr. Kurtz of the Delphi school superintendency in April, Mr. Ward Brown became principal of Martinsville High School. Mr. Max Shaw was appointed as¬ sistant principal and dean of boys. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College and has been assistant prin¬ cipal here for the past five years. Mr. Brown is president of the Martinsville Kiwanis Club this year. Miss Maxine Cohen Miss Mamie Messmer Mrs. Cnuise Williams Page Eighteen