Morenci High School - Copper Cat Yearbook (Morenci, AZ)

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11 EFFECTS OF THE FIRST SNOW DAY ARE VISIBLE as students and commuting motorists conflict with the dreary winter weather of December.

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GETTING INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT Student Council members decorale the tree. Winter Brings Snow for the Holiday Season TIME OUT! Coach talks with players as enthusiastic crowd cheer the team on for a victory. December began with the annual charity food drive, sponsored by the Student Council for class competition, and Seniors won with 700 pounds. Many rehearsals were held and practice began for spring play, Jane Eyre. The Christmas program was cancelled. The winter sports season opened with a victory over Clifton. The wrestling season also began with a first match with Clifton. It was a time for tests . .. the juniors struggled through the IOWA test; seniors took the Betty Crocker test; and the results arrived for A.C.T. TRAGYC sponsored a bicycle safety program at the Fairbanks school. As holidays approached the Student Council decorated a tree for the lobby, and many organizations held Christmas parties. By the 20th everyone was ready for the holiday break. 10

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January Brings Inauguration, Examinations, More Basketball CONCENTRATING ON WRITING a research paper during exam week. Donna Marsh. As the holidays were ending a blanket of snow covered the town on New Year's morning. The next day the basketball team and boosters were off to Dcming, New Mexico to back the Cats in their first entry in an out-of-state tournament. On Saturday they lost in the finals to Deming. As school resumed the new- student lounge was opened; and politically minded students marked the inauguration of Arizona's first Mexican- American governor. Ladders were again frequent hall baricades as janitors coped with the obsolete heating system. Art students gleefully hauled boxes to the Humbolt Building where they would have class rooms and gallery space. Suddenly it was the end of the semester and students lost sleep cramming for exams. 12 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF Cliflon Trojan. I.Baldcrrama. STUDENT COUNCIL members cat lunch and discuss school business.