Ord High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Ord, NE)

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79 LOU! H61 Ru 'minutiae Ord High School auditorium, March 18th, 10:45 P. M.-a tense audience, expectant, fearful--a provokingly deliberate judge. At the close of a long day of readings, orations, and plays the schools entered in the Sub-District Declamatory Contest await the decision concerning the humorous and dramatic readings. Placings had been announced at the close of the morning and afternoon sessions, and now, the winner of sweepstakes is to be proclaimed. Taylor and Sargent tie for thirdg Bur- well, second, Ord, first. Applause, exclamations, congratulations! Who won that honor for Ord? Credit goes to: Evelyne Loft, who took first in the dramatic section with a cutting from 'fSmilin Through , Richard Burrows, who placed first in the extemporaneous divisiong Bar- bara Dale, who took a second with her original orationg and Mae Klein, who claimed another second with her humorous reading, Little Red Rid- ing Hood . Two more trophies for our case-for Ord not only took sweepstakes but also placed first in the one-act play contest with the drama Cloey in which Ruth Koupal plays the part of a domineering aunt, Barbara Dale, the niece whom she domineersg Kenneth Eglehoff, a would-be poet who loves the niece but must marry the auntg and Evelyne Loft, a lively young neighbor girl. This cast's successful presentation in the Sub-District entitled it to go to the District contest at Ansley where it placed second. Miss Servine then entered the play in the State contest at Lincoln where it failed to place, but made a creditable showing. Besides her successful work with plays and dramatics, Miss Servine has revived the school's interest in debate. Not for many years has Ord had a debate team, but this year several of the students in the speech classes became inteested in the question of State Medicine . Their first public appearance as debaters was before a small local audience and their next at a debate tournament in St. Paul. At this tourney Ord teams engaged in six debates and won favorable decisions in four At another time they spent an afternoon at Arcadia in a fiendly bout with Arcadia debaters. Considering the fact that none of them had ever taken part in, or even heard a debate, Barbara Dale, Lillian Kusek, Richard Burrows, Erwin Dodge, Dorothy Auble, and Norma Mae Snell made a fair beginning in one of the most useful of the speech arts. th Koulml Km-ullullx Eglelwff Barbara Dale XI S e livelvnv Loft

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' a cganficfasz 36 contents The week-end preceding March 18 finds faculty wives busily sewing yards of red material while Mr. Duncan and Mr. Bell tie threads and press garments. Why all the activity? New choir robes for the glee clubs and they must be ready for the Loup Valley Music Festival. The Annual Music Festival has become one of the most popular events in the Valley, and Ord feels honored to play host. The affair brings some five hundred visitors to town and gives the students training in public appear- ance. As soon as the Festival is over plans get under way for the District Music Contest. This year Ord entered at Albion and earned a total of fifty-five points out of a possible sixty-two. Five of Ordis thirteen entries were classified excellent, and eight, superior. The groups contesting were band, orchestra, glee clubs, and a reed quartet composed of Eugene Puncochar, Opal Miller, Leonard Sobon, and Dorothy Auble. Instrumental soloists were Jeannette Clements, Ruth Auble, Wilma Severns, Eugene Puncochar, Ed- warg Puncochar, and Dick Koupalg vocal soloists were Dorothy Auble and Reuben Coo . Ord's success in the District stimulated interest in the State Contest and instead of taking a vacation from their practicing our young musicians continued to work over-time, first, to prepare for a benefit recital, and second, to make a favorable ap- pearance at the State Contest where the band, orchestra, girl's glee club, and several soloists were entered. To the tooting of horns and scraping of violins is added the clatter of typewriters as the commercial students devote hours to working up the speed necessary to win a first place in the approaching commercial contest. March and April are busy months in our school for contest is in the air, music, dramatic, commercial, and agriculture. This year the District Commercial contest was held at Kearney. Ord entered teams in bookkeeping, novice typewriting, championship typewriting, novice short- hand, and spelling. The contestants earned four awards out of a possible seven by placing three individual firsts, three team firsts, and several seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths in the six contest events. The people who won the commercial honors for the school were Lorraine Kusek, Lillian Kusek, Lillian Nevrivy, Erma Novotny, Maxine Jones, Louise Petska, Kenneth Eglehoff, Virginia DeHart, Ruth Haught, and Eva Umstead. Individual firsts were taken by Lorraine Kusek in bookkeeping, Kenneth Eglehoff in championship typing, and Lillian Kusek in spelling. Teams placed first in bookkeeping, championship type- writing, and spelling. On April 24 a team of seven contestants made a second trip to Kearney to enter the State Commercial contest where they placed fourth among forty-eight qualify- ing schools. An impressive number of victories has been chalked up by the Ord Vocational Agriculture Department during the past several years. A summary published by the North Platte Station shows that Ord has won thirty-two first places since the contests were begun in 1929. This is twice the number received by the nearest competitor. Our trophy case was made the richer this spring by two cups brought back from North Platte by Ord for the third and last time. The crop judging team composed of Kenneth Koelling, Wilbur Fuss, and Harlan Wyrick took the crop judging event for the third time, entitling us to keep the trophy. Another trio composed of Koell- ing, Fuss, and Robert Jacobs won the dairy products cup for the third time. In stock judging Ord boys took two thirds, a fourth, and a fifth. Dodge and Koelling did outstanding work in this division. Koelling also placed first in dairy products. Wyrick took a first in poultry judging, and Dale Melia placed second in the speech contest. The success of these boys in contest speaks well for the Vocational Agriculture De- partment, and if Valley County does not have her share of efficient young farmers it will not be the fault of Mr. Kovanda. To supplement the regular work of the course a local F.F.A. club has been organiz- ed and affiliated with the National Organization of Future Farmers of America. I35

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Uganfiafssi Axfliillg 572015 May Day, a raw, windy spring day, but the spectators forget chills and shivers as they watch the Ord relay team sprinting in to a winning finish which decides the meet in Ord's favor. Spring sports this year center almost entirely around track work. The first warming up event of the season is a triangular meet at Bur- well in which Taylor forces Ord to second place. The next is a quad- rangular meet at St. Paul where Ord places first with many points to spare. These two contests help prepare the boys for the big Loup Valley Championship meet at Burwell, but here again Taylor proves a little too good for Ord. The really big event of the 1936 track season is the first annual Mid- Six Conference meet held at Ord May lst. Hal J. Bowers is imported from Lincoln to serve as starterg an amplifying system is set upg and arrangements made for all spectators to occupy the grandstand seats from which all parts of the track and field can be easily seen, while an- nouncer Granby keeps all informed as to placings and points. It is a close and exciting meet with Arcadia pushing Ord, much of the time there being only one point's difference in the standing of the two schools, with Broken Bow coming in as a strong third party. The half-mile relay finishes the meet giving Ord a final total of 41 to Ar- cadia's 38 points, thus entitling Ord to the two handsome trophies which have been on display for weeks. The standings of the competing schools are: QI-d 'VVY.wV,,Y,,, ,,YY,,,,,, ,.,,, , 4 1 Broken Bow .,,,,, .,.. 2 7 Loup City ,,,,,,, ,,,,,, 8 Arcadia -,VVV.,.VVY,,,V,,,,,,,,,,, 38 St. Paul ,r,,,,,,, ,,,..,,,, , ,, 9 Ravenna ...,,,,,,,,,.. ,,,,,,, , , 3 Ord men set the following records to go down in Mid-Six history: Gerald Clark, .,,, , , Y, mile 5:00.23 Charles Cetak. , . ,,,,. 100 yard dash 11.00 Charles Cetak.. , ,. 1220 yard dash 24.7 Gerald Clark., ,, ,,,,,,,. 880 yard run 2213.8 Clay Nelson., ,.,l. Y, ,high jump 5'6?f2 Nelson, Cetak, Koelling, Jones ..,...,,,,..... half-mile relay 1:38.8 Other men, besides those mentioned above, who have been making track history for Ord are: Harold Haskell, Dale Hughes, Paul Blessing, Harold Stone, and Dean Marks. Back row-Covvel, track unacli, Vetuk, Koellinz, Clark. Goff. Nelson, Blessing. Front rnvvfS1rme, Hughes, Jones, Haskell, Melia. Alzirlcs. Coach Iirockman. 36 i371