Sidney High School - Cowboy Yearbook (Sidney, IA)

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1 SHIRLEY NICHOLS, A Highest Honor, State Speech Contest Winner It 18 not often that any hlgh school has enrolled 1n 1t's student body as talented a young woman as Shlrley Nichols Her forte has been speech, though she has been successful 1n two flelds of mus1c and 1n g1r1S basket ball Not many schools have students who w1ll work slncerely enough for three stralght years to valn the State flnals It takes good work through f1ve elem1nat1on contests to reach that goal In her sophomore year she won a D1v 'II' State Contest honor on her humorous declamatlon In her JUDIOT year she repeated with a D1v 'II' honor but w1th a dramatic selectlon In her senlor year, she changed to oratorlcal declamatlon and won a D1v 'I' rating at the Flnal State Contest at Oskaloosa Here she also won a 'II' place rating ln 1nterpret1ve readlng In music, she was a member of S1dney's State Champlon shlp Marchlng Band for two years as a solo flutist She also sang w1th the state finalists for a 'II' rat1ng in the mlxed quartette composed of Kelth Cowden, Thomas Johnson, and Margaret Mlncer Th1s young lady played both post guard and post forward 1n glrls basket ball for three years She also found time to take thlrd place in scholarshlp in her class Indeed have many fine honors come her way . . . . . . . . . . . ' 0 . . . . O 0 . . ,Y . e o . . . o 0 I I I D e 0 I V I D o . . f . . . . . , .- . . . . . . . - fr 0 . . . - . o o e

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44 A E f F 7. .2 nk. 51 ff' iisaafao saw SALLY HANING, Talented Valedlctorlan Class 1950 Thls Future Teacher who was graduated a couple of years ago has by her talents and charm brought a great deal of honor to her famlly, pralse for her school and many good words for her COmmUH1ty Her greatest success to the writer of these llnes has been 1n the speech fleld In 1950 she was an oratorlcal declamation finalist at State contest at Cresco, Here she recelved a hlgh ratlng, after wlnnlng f1PStS at the prellmlnary at S1dney, the pre d1str1ct at Malvern and the d1StPlCt at Osceola She won the S W Iowa Inter pretive readlng contest of the Iowa Forenslc League that year at Perry She won a hlgh ratlng at the flnals at Iowa C1ty in Aprll In 1950, and also 19119, she won superlor Chlghest ratlng givenl at the M I N K contest at Peru State Teachers Invitatlon contest and also at the Trl-State contest both years at Tarkio College, MISSOUP1 She also won at Tarklo in 19148 In 19148 and l9h9 she was g1ven an excellent ratlng CD1v IIJ at the S W Iowa H1gh School Speech Ass'n held at Clarlnda and Perry In muslc she spent four years 1n band as a barltone sololst and as a magorette She was a member of the mlxed chorus for four years How one could flnd t1me to do all of these thlngs when l1V1ng mlles and mlles from school and stlll play glrls basket ball for three years and be a member of a w1nn1ng glrls track team for two years, 1S almost an unbelleveable performance She was track captaln ln l9h9 'If you have the w1ll to work and a mlnd to do good and flne thlngs, lt can be done ' H .