St Xavier High School - Xaverian Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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Pep Club, Driving Force Behind “Ram Power Pep Club officers: Karen Beavers, treasurer, Dorothy Root, vice-president, Mary Lou Devane, president, and Mary Beavers, secretary. Backing their team with undivided spirit, the SXHS Pep Club enthusiastically cheered the Rams through a year of victories and losses. Cheering along with them was their sponsor of three years, MRS. FRANCIS DANKO. As a team themselves, these girls can long remember such events as sign-making parties, pep rallies, blue and gold clappers, baby showers, battle cries, tournaments, singing on the bus, learning new cheers, forgetting new cheers, homecoming week, forming an X to the music of a band at homecoming halftime, victory dances, Sadie Hawkins, Stop, Look, and Listen, Ram heads, chevrons, hanging signs in the hallway, singing the National Anthem, Clap Your Hands, Pep Club meetings, Two Bits, cramming homework before Tuesday night games, looking forward to Friday night games, cheering in the cold and rain during football season, competing with the thunder of other pep clubs, touchdowns, baskets, and victories. But most of all these girls can share that feeling of sportsmanship and the privilege of contributing to the Ram Power of 68-69 with great loyalty and pride. f f MRS. DANKO relaxes a few minutes from her many duties as Pep Club sponsor. 21

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Pep Club members BOTTOM ROW: C. Fiffe, M. Beavers, J. Rombeck, M. Mathey, S. Nicholson, L. Jones, L. Grant, C. Perilla, J. Veltman, M. Meseke, S. Tighe, P. Engstrom, P. Mudd, M. Devane. ROW 2: J. Peters, E. Lichtenhan, M. Pound, J. Beavers, N. Danko, M. Di Persio, E. Ericksen, D. Fiffe, P. Field, C. Irvine, M. Nenow, J. Nelson, C. Tully, S. Larkin, C. Mudd. ROW 3: B. Stanesic, D. Roberts, S. McGuire, K. Beavers, N. Meyers, C. Herron, L. Jones, M. Gustafson, L. Dixon, L. Fiffe, J. Veltman, B. Boiler, C. Teply, S. Devane. TOP ROW: N. Proudfoot, N. Sanders, B. Roberts, D. Root, L. Monteith, D. Leone, A. Leone, N. Weber, L. Schoendaller, L. Burke, C. Ehm, E. Willet, V. Levett. Anger Disappointment Disbelief Being a school mascot requires a special kind of spirit and enthusiasm. A mascot represents the entire student body and projects an image of her school through her actions. She must also keep confidence and pride within the Pep Club when spirits seem to fall. These vital qualities can be found in Collette Fiffe, the 1968-69 mascot. Donned in a new Ram uniform, Col- lette added zeal to the Pep Club as she fulfilled her duties as mascot at the football and basketball games. Collete Fiffe, mascot, holds her new Ram head made by the Art class. 20

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Cheerleaders Exhibit Spirit and Loyalty Varsity Cheerleaders Being all Seniors, the varsity cheerleaders were united not only in a special friendship but also in an undying loyalty to their team and SXHS. Their unquenchable spirits succeeded in leading the en- thusiasm of the Pep Club. Soaring from deep despair to exhausted hap- piness, the five varsity cheerleaders practiced long hours to master their many new cheers. Along with new cheers, the varsity cheerleaders opened the 68-69 season proudly wearing their new blue and gold uniforms. A-team cheerleaders: Sheila Nicholson, Sylvia Tighe, Linda Grant (head), Janice Rombeck, and Janet Velt- man. B-Team Cheerleaders Helping the varsity cheerleaders rouse spirit and zest in the students of SXHS are the B-team cheer- leaders. Many hours of practice went into prepara- tion for cheering during the football and basketball games and at pep rallies. Wearing their new uni- forms, the B-team succeeded in showing loyalty to their team and school. B-team cheerleaders: Pippy Engstrom, Mary Meseke, Connie Perilla (head), Leslie Jones, and Margot Mathey. Both cheerleading squads lead the Pep Club in Stop, Look, and Listen . 22