Mexico High School - Mascot Yearbook (Mexico, MO)

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' 8.4, Organizations 139 FFA CHAPTER MEMBERS: IBOTTOM ROW! Bob Bertrand, joe Secrease, Warren Wilson, Kenny Welch, Ed Groves, Larry Frey, David Welch, Dennis Baker, adviser. IROW TWO? Bryan Cornett, Kenny Hake, Curt Mechlin, lay Reinerd, Chuck Cox, Charles Mar- quette, Warren Conklin, Sid Conklin, Walter Paden, Gilbert Black- burn. CROW THREE! Delbert Healy, Charles Newman, Tim Ber- trand, Tony jesse, Paul Marquette, joe Donaldson, Ray Secrease, Harry Damron, Bob Deimeke. KROW FOUR! Bruce Hodges, Ev- erett Trabue, Chuck Worstell, Mark Nordwald, Bud Ferrier. KLEFTJ FFA Members Ed Groves, Charles Newman, Harry Damron, and Larry Frey discover four hands are better than one as they make re- pairs on a wagon in Agricultural Occupations. Tony jesse proudly shows Adviser Dennis Baker his project in cattle raising.

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Building Projects Bring Fun, Profit With projects ranging from a safe corn harvest to building loading chutes, members of the Mexico Chapter of the Future Farmers of America were ener- getic and spirited. During the year, FFA members participated in a safe corn harvest project. Realizing the need for a safe corn harvest, members called on area farmers to point out the dangers involved in harvesting, and asked their cooperation in avoiding accidents which annually takesatollof1400lives from farm families. Along with the safe corn harvest, members partici- pated in raising 50 feeder pigs in cooperation with Hale and Hunter, a local feed supplier. The project netted over S150 for the club. Other business ventures through-out the year in- cluded building gates, loading chutes, and wagons and selling them at a profit. Some were used for the boys' farms, others were sold to Economy Lumber Company in Mexico for resale. ' The FFA varied its activities for each month in the year including basketball games with other chapters for january and a state convention in Columbia, Mis- souri,for April. During National FFA Week, February 15-22, the Mexico Chapter, along with other area chapters, in- formed the public of the organization's work through the local news media, the Mexico Evening Ledger and Radio Station KXEO. Tony jesse watches curiously as one of his prize hogs takes some independent action and rushes feeding time. His advisor Dennis Baker checks his project. Members receiving awards at the annual banquet are IBOTTOM ROWJ Walter Paden, electricity, Bob Bertrand, home improvement, Kenny Welch, star chapter farmer, Warren Wilson, cropfarming, Larry Frey, livestock farming, IROW TWO? joe Secrease, DeKalb award, David Welch, farm safety, joe Donaldson, soil and water management, Harry Damron, public speaking. Not pictured Mark Norwald, star Green Hand, Ed Groves, farm mechanics.

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GAA'ers Receive MHS Sport Pins '69 Letter Awards Beginning with the fall sport of softball, all team members in the Girls' Athletic Association were able to earn either athletic pins or letter awards for their participation in the club's activities. Sponsored by Mrs. Sue Priest, the girls elected as their officers Vickie Barnes, president, Doris Beamer, vice-president, Robin Neely, secretary, Becky Given, treasurer, Patty lensen, historian, Joyce Dean, social chairman, and Gail Marshall, points recorder. Continuing a schedule set up for enjoyment of participation in individual and group activities, the girls moved indoors in November and began basket- ball play ending with a round-robin tournament that saw the Boy Watchers of the Thursday league as winners. Members of the winning team were Doris Beamer, Mary Hake, Brenda Niekamp, Darby and Debbie Monsen, Lana Lees, Linda Young, and Pawnee Talley. After Christmas vacation, the group switched to volleyball with a total of 40 girls playing five games each week in a five-team league. The Sixty-Niners in both the Tuesday and Thursday leagues won in the final play. In the first series of Exchange Days , Community R46's girls taught the MHS club to play floor hockey, then in February, the Mexico girls hosted a return session which taught gymnastic skills necessary for vaulting, balance beam floor exercises, and the un- even parallel bars. During March, thirteen teams of girls bowled two games a day at Mexico Lanes as a GAA activity. Out- door recreation resumed for the girls in April when they concentrated on archery and croquet skills. Financed by the making and selling of hostess brooms during the winter, 30 members of the club and their chaperons, Mrs. Priest, Mrs. Maxine Put- nam, and student teachers Mrs. Ellen Wilson and Mrs. Sarah Goss ended their year with an overnight campout at Meremac Park. To start play in a volleyball game, junior Nancy Ollis serves the ball with great skill. 140 Organizations