Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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ADVANCED INTRAMURAL VOLLEYBALL WINNERS POSTURE CONTEST Any girl in Shortridge is eligible to enter this contest sponsored each year by the girls, physical education department The contestants, under- going the tests of walking, standing, and shoulder positions, are eliminated by rounds. The points earned toward a sweater are ranged from one hundred down, according to the round in which the girl fails. Forty girls entered the contest held on April twenty-sixth this year in the girls' gym. Marie Cruse won iirst place, Sue Mellett and Jean Wichser followed in second and third positions. The judges were Mrs. Clara Hester of the Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union, and Miss Marie Moran, school nurse, assisted by the teachers of the gym department. VOLLEYBALL At the close of the 1937 Advanced Volleyball Tournament, Team IV, captained by Margaret Howells was proclaimed the winner. The decisive game was played with Betty Richardson's Team I. The members of the winning team are as follows: Margaret Howells, captain, Jean Parcells, Norma Miller, Eleanor Cook, Patsy Jackson, Vera Stanley, Rita Jean Han- cock, Alice Murphy, Edna Judson, Audrey Watson, Essilee Hemphling, Evelyn Martin, Jean Sacks, Marcia Goldstein, and Betty Little. There were four advanced teams coached by Miss Eleanor Richwine and Miss Kathryn Thompson, gym teachers. The freshman volleyball season closed on April twenty-second with the Superamus team winning the series. Minerva Long was captain of the winning squad, and the other members were Connie Green, Dorothy Cox, Virginia Goss, Nadine Crosby, Janet Sorenson, Betty Beitman, Helen Rudesill, and Phyllis Heidendrich. Miss Thelma Simmons and Mrs. Florence Ferris coached the eight teams. The Jeeps won second place, with the Stooges and Comets and Flashers as runner-ups. The members of the iirst team receive seventy-tive points and a monogram, while the second team players get fifty points toward their sweaters.