Mitchell High School - Warbler Yearbook (Mitchell, SD)

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Mar if ' - 1.-.1 Cl5l6l'lCl6l' continued Regional Tournament at Woon- socket. The Kernels win again. We start making plans for the Mar. 23 District Declam contest at Kim- ball. Donna Warfield and Jeanne Gwapp win iirsts. Paul Noble State. takes second. Mar Local Declam Contest. Paul Mar. 26 B. B. boys guests of the Para- Noble, Donna Warfield and mount theatre. Mrs. Quintal Jeanne Gapp win firsts. On to feeds the fellows at Joe's. the Dlstnct' i Mar. 31 School is dismissed because of Mar Home Room meeting on How to Good Friday. Behave when mother 1sn't there . to tell you. Please note the un- Aprll 3 Orchestra Concert- usual courtesy extended to the AApri120 The thing we have been waiting Mar. Mar Mar. fair sex since that meeting! School dismissed in afternoon because of State Tournament. Extra! Extra! Mitchell comes out of Tournament as runners- up. Best of all, we def-eat Hu- ron! Pep assembly! Are we proud of you fellows! Awarding of uM!S U May 4 for! What? Why, the Prom, of course. We never realized before what social shots we would really like to be until we see everyone dressed up like the so called plush horse. We have all sorts of talent CID, We discover, when the Seniors produce It Never Rains. Mar The. yeards drawing to 'a close' May 27 Baccalaureate! It won't be long Seniors sign for announcements. now, Mar Final Senior play try-outs. B. B. ' boys guests of Kiwanis Club. May 31 It's all over! And are we sorry Mar G. R. party at home of Miss Weston. B. B. boys guests of Rotary Club. to leave! We hope those behind us were sorry to see us go! Good luck! BASKETBALL REVIEW CContinued from page 389 to Woonsocket and were glad to see the basketball boys bring home the bacon, It was at least one more prize for the trophy-case. They were happier yet because the team had another chance at the state champion- ship at Sioux Falls. Tired Kernels Bow to Warriors in State Finals On March 10 and 11, the Kernel basketball squad and a large group of rooters made a quiet trip to Sioux Falls. Mitchell hoped that they had a chance. ,Subconsciously they knew that they would be in the finals of the state tournament. But they 'kept the-se hofpes locked up in their hearts. Huron was doped to take the tournament. There was no use of arguing. Only time could tell. The Kernels played their first game against Ipswich. This team was one of the two entered in the tournament which were not members of the Eastern South Dakota conference. The Kernels easily obtained an early lead in the game and maintained it throughout. There was a great deal of substituting in the game. Lindquist and Ellwein both played in a large portion of the game. The game ended with the Kernels leading by a count of 37-15. ,it I .1 v-fg . 5... ,J -- .-X3 f-. if X-L S rf

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Dec. 15 Dec. 19 Dec. 21 Dec. 22 Jan. 5 Jan. 12 Jan. 18 Jan. 19 Jan. 25 Jan. 26 Jan. 30 Jan. 31 Calendar continued E'ast High of Sioux City re- peats victory there, 22-29. Dr. Culver spoke to the G. R.. on the origin of Christmas Day observance. The entire Junior -Class goes stage as final try outs for Junior Play are held. All the song birds of the school sing for us, as Miss Preston puts on her annual Christmas concert in the assembly. Mitchell and East High clash there and we come out on the bottom. Yankton 17, Mitchell 20. Little Brown Jug comes back to roost in our trophy case. Madison 19, Mitchell 37. . We discover that Cottontop Stoddard can speak, when he gives his 30-minute announce- ment of the Junior Play. Two skits from the play are given. Dramatics class brings forth Budding young talent CH and presents Florist Shop. All the proud papas and mamas come forth and see their young hopefuls perform in the Junior Play. Even the Seniors had to admit the play was all right. Watertown 25, Mitchell 28. Lombardo has competition in the Middle West. The Para- mount Rythem Kings with Phyl- lis Higgins in song and dance prove that We Like Music. Frantic cramming from books never .before opened. Reason? What else would it be but sem- ester tests waiting around the corner, with prosperity. We wish that it would do what pros- perity is doing and not show up. Mitchell 28, Aberdeen 25. Good boy, Harkness! Oh me, this is Worse than the morning after-report cards! College Y. W. C. A. gives inter- esting program for G. R. meet- ing. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar Mar Mar. 2 9 13 16 20 21 22 23 27 2 3 5-6 We do it again. Mitchell 30, Yankton 20. We go intellectual and have a round table discussion of cur- rent world affairs in the assem- bly. Mr. Ronald leads the dis- cussion. Another band! Duke Erler and His Aces entertain us. Mary Jean Herman and Mary Liver- nash tell us to put a Tax on Love and end depression. Madison game. Another victory for us. Some of the students prove that they belong in the grades when they cause an up- roar during the Brookings State College music program. Will this go on forever? We hope so! Mitchell 29, Brook- ings 20. G. R. hears Mrs. Ramon Douse tell about the all-important question of What to wear, and when to wear it. Mitchell defeats the Sioux Falls Warriors again. Wie pay tribute to the Father of Our Country, and school is dis- missed at 2:30. We go in a body to Huron. Woe is us! We all wish that we had stayed home. We are out for revenge! We are much wiser. At least we are supposed to be. We have a long Home Room meeting and find out How To Study. Who is this Ethel Waters? Shirley Anderson will show us yet. Zona Erion tells us all about My Old Man. The Ap- ple Sisters, Dorothy Stone and Thresa Flynn, do a song and dance act. We're in there tough! The Ker- nels keep the District Basket- ball trophy in the school. Nice going, lads! Willie's crowd wins the District Debate Tournament.

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.HA .E- '- - . ., , . .A . ' A .J v The next game played by the Kernels was one of the best, if not the best, games played during the entire tournament. It was this game which rated the Kernels, in the opinion of many people, the best team entered in the tournament. According to Mr. Daly, one of the referees, the Mitchell boys showed the best ball handling, the best passing, and the best defensive work, in this game, of any of the teams at Sioux Falls. This game will be remembered for a long time by the Mitchell fans. The Huron Tigers had been doped to take the state championship. They had defeated Mitchell in the last game of the conference season and were confident that they could do the same thing again. The Ker- nels, however, were undaunted. They knew that Huron had never seen them playing their best, and were quite confident they could drop the fast Tiger team. This game with Huron was almost a championship game. The Ker- nel defense held the Tiger team to a low score during the first half which ended giving the Tigers a 10-7 lead. This was typical of the score throughout the game. Neither team could score a greater margin until near the end of the game. The Kernel cagers would have led in the first half if they could have tallied with their free tosses. But that was a matter of small importance as far as the Kernels were concerned. Within thc first few minutes of play in the second half Gardner tallied with two field goals, putting Mitchell in the lead. The Tigers did not regain their lead at any time during the second half. In the last quarter Harkness was taken out of the game on personals, for the first time in his playing career. Even this loss could not discourage the in- spired Kernels. They whipped the conference champions by a 22-17 margin. The afternoon's game won the Kernel quintet the right to enter the finals of the state tournament. This historic Huron battle left the Ker- nels in a somewhat weakened condition for the night game. On the other hand, the Sioux Falls cagers had taken an easy game from Aberdeen in the afternoon and were still fresh for the finals that night. Draisey made the first point of the game. Neither team held a substantial lead during the first half. The teams seemed to be very evenly matched. But at the beginning of the third quarter the Kernels piled up an eight-point lead. Then Gardner was injured and was taken out of the game. Draisey and Barnes were both so tired that they had to leave the game for a short time. It was during this general period, while the Kernel regulars were recuperating, that the Washington High Warriors began their scoring spree. With only two and a half minutes of playing time left the Kernels were eight points behind. In approximately a minute the score was 34-32. The Warriors were still in the lead, but only by a two-point mar- gin. The Kernel cagers had staged a comeback unequaled by any team in the tournament. But the last few shots just wouldn't seem to go through the basket. The game ended with the score still at 34-32 in favor of the Sioux Falls team. Although the Sioux Falls team received the state championship, the Kernels had scored a greater victory in defeating Huron. The run- ner-up trophy was awarded to the Kernels and signified a satisfactory ending of one of the most successful basketball seasons in the history of Mitchell High School.