St Josephs College and Military Academy - On Parade Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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SENICRS State Champions in Football The 1948 football campvaign will long be re- membered at St. Joseph's for it was the first time we had achieved the state championship. The team went through the season undefeated and then took Lawrence, the defending state champion, in the first annual Sunflower Bowl game on Thanksgiving day. Besides taking the mythical state championship, Marion Schmidt was chosen to the all-state team as co-captain, and Bob Fluker received an honarable mention. We also took the trophy as winners of the now- defunct Union Placific League. The basketball season was an anti-climax. After losing 18 out of 19 starts in the regular season, the Cadets went to the Regional finals where they were downed by Russell who went on to take the state crown. Three games to our credit that year, but we got a trophy! HAROLD JAMES ........... Carlsbad, N. Mex. Journal: Yearbook, Flag Detail: Decorating: Glee Club: Crack Platoon. RICHARD KLUGE .............. Topeka, Ks. Basketball: Football: Track: Crack Platoon: Decorating: Journal. LEROY KLAUS ....... . . . . . . . . . Hays, Ks. Glee Olub: Crack Platoon: Boxing. HAROLD JAMES RICHARD KLUGE Looks like Kluge made an A on his test. LEROY KLAUS

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-CLETUS W. KLAUS . S . 51 s' MELVIN LEIKER MELVIN KLAUS VVIM 55: If-'z 2 gg, e f n .ak aged? L Q , l SENIORS Drive Again for Honor School We all received a white star for our sleeves, the mark of an honor school. The annual strug- gle to pass the honor inspection was again upon us. We worked doubly hard because we want- ed to keep the rating by all means. When the inspecting officers came, they found us keyed for the inspection. We had to wait till gradua- tion to hear the final results: we made it! Choral Passion Play a. Hit The big project for the year was the pro- duction of the Choral Passion Play. A chorus of 75 voices, the combined glee clubs of St. J oseph's and the Girls' Catholic High of Hays, teamed with a group of actors from the two schools, presented a -beautiful and inspiring history of the Passion -and death of Christ. A narrator explained the action while the actors went through the story. Music was furnished by an organ especially installed for the occasion with Father Hyacinth presiding at the console. Father Timothy and Sister Milberga directed the production 5 Father Paulinus was in charge of the stage -and lighting effects. CLETUS W. KLAUS . . . . . . McCracken, Ks. MELVIN LEIKER ...... . . Hays, Ks. Journal: Yearbook: Track. MELVIN KLAUS ..... -. ........ . . Hays, Ks. Boxing : Track. Dinges tries out the tent for size while Bollig fastens the guy ropes

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JOHN LENSKI CHARLES McINTOSI-I S NIORS Improvements Made on the Grounds There were quite a few improvements around the place that year. New lights had been installed in the locker rooms, drinking foun- tains had sprung up on the drill field and tennis courts, the handball courts were finally com- pleted. At first, few were interested in hand- ball, for it was something new. The tennis team began to use the courts for pralcticeg then sev- eral of the faculty began to play and the inter- est of the 'Cadets wias finally aroused. Now it is one of the more popular sports. Tennis was organized as an intramural sport and 'an elim- ination contest was held just before the close of the second term. And we were looking forward to becoming juniors. JOHN LENSKI .... . . . . . . Iola, Ks. Journal: Yeambook: Glee Olulb. CHARLES McINTOSH . . ..... . . . Hays, Ks. Crack Platoon: Boxing: N R A. ALFRED MICEK ....... . . . Atwood, KS. Football: Track. , J - ALFRED MICEK R Lenski and Patzell lforegroundl and Robben and James lend a hand with the ditchdigging. 5. .n x 1' .33 .