Moberly Area Community College - Mojuco Yearbook (Moberly, MO)

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CLASS TOURNAMENT The annual class tour11an1ent be- gan the year's sporting progra111 at M. C. this year. It was l1eld ear- lier than l1Sl12ll, i11 November, i11 order that tl1e basketball season it- self might be gotte11 u11der way with a flyi11g start as compared to past years whe11 football interfered. As usual the ga111es were hotly con- tested as all teams sought to pre- serve their class's l1onor. The first round saw tl1e seniors, witl1 only five available players, go down before a fi11e freshman tea111. The second game saw tl1e Juniors taking tl1e measure of the sopho- mores. Thus, in the fi11als tl1e jun- iors and Freshmen met to decide the scl1ool chan1ps. The Juniors, with. a star studded aggregation, were easy victors. The Seniors lost third place honors to the Sopho- mores. One of tl1e best characteristics of this annual tourney is tl1at it pro- vides a glimpse of tl1e future stars of tl1e coming year's team. This year was no exception to this rule. Cf tl1e winning junior team, three boys, Clickner, Truesdell, a11d Ridgeway, grabbed starting berths as Greyhounds. Other standouts in tl1e tournament, such as Henry a11d Vtfinscott. Sophoniores, and Fresh- man llobby Eldridge also fig11red strongly in the makeup of the 1942- '43 cagers. Tl1is last fact, in itself, can be poi11ted to as a reason for the poor showing of tl1e Greyhounds i11 tl1eir gan1es this year, for these high school boys were forced to play against scl1ools wl1o 11ad o11ly col- lege students. The age and expe- rience figured importantly in most of the games. It was unfortunate for tl1e Greyhounds tl1at they could muster o11ly four upper division players. FIFTY-TWO

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BoYs' GYM CLASS This year, for the first time, Physical Education was made a required subject for all 13th and 14th year boys. This was the out-growth of our very irregular VVar-timesn conditions. Because many of our students are being drafted into the army and volun- tary enlisting in the Navy and Marines, the Government wants us to begin at least part of the toughening process at home. For this reason our Gym classes have been well filled all yeari and with the boys getting into the spirit of the occasion. We have seen rough and tumble action at times. The program that was carried out consisted of: football, soft- ball, basketball, calisthenics, and some forms of track, with Coach McCormick directing all activities. Fl FT Y- ONE

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A TOAST TO F. L. MCCORMICK CQQQYW 1 Local boy makes good. That can very Well be applied to F. L. McCormick, for from be- ing a student in 1929, he has now risen to Dean of M. I. C. Coach, as most students know him, has long been head of the athletic departments of the Junior high school and the college. This spring he was appointed to take the place of Dean Spohrer, who entered the navy. .lt is agreed that assuming the lead- ership of a school as badly hit by war condi- tions as M. J. C. has been is no easy job. However, We are sure that Mr. McCormick will become the successful successor of Dean Spohrer, who has headed the school so suc- cessfully for the past fourteen years. FIFTY-THREE