Spearfish High School - Spartan Yearbook (Spearfish, SD)

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■■• ' --TTr i ' MMit SHS Sends Group to Student Congress The Black Hills Student Congress is held annually at Lead, South Dakota. It is a mock legislative body patterned after the United States Congress. The senators and representatives are high school students selected from Northern Black Hills towns. Those attending from SHS in 1956, shovm above, were, seated: Karen Crowner, Lynn McCain LaVon Cundy, and Gay McVey; standing: Ronnie Riggs, John Kinyon, Tom Campbell, Morris Mikkelsen, and Wayne Wendel. Campbell was elected vice-president of the Senate. Local Declamation Winners Compete At District Gay McVey, in the dramatic division, Harriet Far- rell in humorous, Ruth Zitting, poetry, and Morris Mik- kelsen, oratory, were members of the declamation squad who competed at the district meet. They won the right to attend the district by winning the local meet. —21—

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The A debate squad, shown above with debate coach Clarence Brammer, consists of Jim McCleave and Karen Crowner, affirmative, seated; and Bill McGuigan and John Kinyon, negative, standing. This year ' s A debate squad captured first place at the Black Hills Teachers College Invitational Tournament, and ended third in over-all stand- ings for the year in the Northern Hills Speech Conference. Debate Squad Wins Trophy in BHTC Invitational The C debate squad is made up of debaters in the ninth and tenth grades. Like the B debaters their wins do not count for points in most NHC tournaments. They are Roberta McGregor and Sarah Roberts, affirmative, seated; and Wayne Jeffery and Jack Betis, negative, stand- ing. The B debate squad is composed of those high school debaters who are not on the A squad. They are Mary Kinyon and Morris Mikkelsen, affirmative, seated; and Wayne Wendel and Ronny Riggs, negative, standing.

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Playing at the Christmas concert, at football games, and the music festival highlighted the year for 63 members of A band. Members of A band are Michael Abraham, Lynn Anthony, Verla Anthony, Bonnie Baker, Jack Betts, Jay Betts, Don Bridges, Donna Burckhard, Marjory Bumham, Sharon Buttemeier, Jane Clark, Mary Craig, LaVon Cundy, David Dingeraan, Roger Dlngeman, Patsy DeVries, Douglas Erickson, Gene Farrell, Mary Hanson, Dan Harrington, Carolyn Harrington, Lonnie Johnson, Barbara Keene, Bonnie Kelley, Mary Kin yon, Carol Knutson, Karen Kyllonen, Lynn McCain, David McClure, Bill McGuigan, Shirley Mannel, Clinton Matson, Jim Matson, Ronnie Matson, Myra Marr, Morris Mikkelsen, Bee Mitchell, Loma Oltmans, Louise Orr, Wesley Orr, Tom Parker, Judy Petersen, Mary Repass, Sherry Schaub, Mary Seeley, Stephen Sisk, Barbara Soliday, Kathryn Thompson, Jerry Trier, Dennis Van Voctor, Marilyn Vigna, Leonard Walters, David Wickstrom, Judie Wilcox, David Whitlock, Joan Wolf, Nancy Wyne, and Lorrie Zopf, NOT PICTURED: Richard Good, Cheryl Ice, Steve Jones, Duane McClure, and Bill Brodsky. Spearfish High School Band Shown below ore the band officers who led the band throughout the year. Roger Dingeman, president; Wesley Orr, vice-president; Jay Betts, secretary and Marjorie Burnhara, treasurer. Lowell Krambeck, shown at lower right, directs the band. ' f J -22—