Steamboat Rock High School - Old Gold Yearbook (Steamboat Rock, IA)

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FRONT ROW Left to Rxght Beverly Smith Faye Kennedy Left to Rxght Langen Sarah Tempel Manage BACK ROW Welllsburg Jewell Stanhope Bla1rsburg Lohrv111e Wellsburg Steamboat Rock Randall Blalrsburg Steamboat Rock Jewell Stanhope Valley Hlgh Ellsworth Hansell Randall W1ll1ams W11118mS Vera Cormaney chaperone Lila lechaelsen Dorothy Welp Linda Fonken Aletha Van Langen larilyn Gerber Coach Dxck Brauer Verona Nissen lary Van H dtloft Thora Greenfleld Norma Anderson Naomi Lost Won Won Won Won Won Lost Won Won Lost Wknn VYCH1 WOD WCHG WCM! Lost Wcun Ivcan COUNTY TOURNAMENT lat Randalll Stratford Won W11l1ams Lost SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT Kat Boonel Jewell Won Ogden Won Gllbert Won DISTRICT TOURNAMENT Cat Harcourtl Vernon Consol1dated Won Churdan Lost 19 47-52 66-40 68-37 ' ' 65-23 ' 73-66 ' 70-62 ' 64-72 58-56 ' 50-18 68-74 W.C.J.C. Won 56-30 47-33 84-70 ' 77-51 73-43 79-71 ' 70-78 ' ' 77-75 ' ' J 50-42 61-40 ' ' 29-65 51-49 56-43 ' 56-49 ' 73-68 45-71

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Kamrar s Great Cage Star Ends Career When the members of the hot stove league gather to discuss outstandlng women basketball players 1D the town of Kamrar and there have been many 1n that l1ttle communlty lt 1S certaln that a name whlch w111 be placed hlgh on the 11st of those who have worn Kamrar's gold and black w1ll be that of Dorothy Welp For the comely m1ss, who cl1maxed a br1ll1ant fxve year cage career at the close of the 1950 51 season, has won practically every honor that could be g1ven to a woman athlete 1D an Iowa hlgh school Named to all state squads as a member of the f1rst team, f1ve t1mes dur1ng her f1ve years of cage play, Dorothy holds the un1que d1St1DCt1OD of be1ng honored three t1mes as an all state guard and tw1ce as an all state forward In fact, durlng the past season, sports offlclals, coaches and wr1ters were so 1mpressed by her ab111ty that they named her to one all state team as a forward and to another as a guard although she has not played a game at guard for over two years The Kamrar ace began her basketball career as an elghth grade guard at the beg1nn1ng of the 1946 47 season Even then, Kamrar coaches recogn1zed that her bhO0t1Dg sklll would make her a tremendous threat at the forward p1vot posltlon, but the team was well supplled w th capable forwards at that t1me and so lt was guard duty for Dorothy for the next two years Statewlde recogn1t1on flrst came to her, when as a Freshman, she was a v1tal sparkplug on the Kamrar team wh1ch gllded through 34 stralght games to the state champlonshlp a team whlch many cage followers have termed the greatest aggregat1on of h1gh school women basketball players 1D Iowa hlstory Stat1st1cs prove that placlng the Kamrar star on the f1rSt all state team fxve d1fferent t1mes has not been a h1t or m1ss propos1t1on For dur1ng the tlve years that she has been a member of the Kamrar squad, the team has won 124 games wh11e loslng only AU Playlng 77 games as a forward dnrlnv the past three years, she has scored 2 191 polnts average of nearly 29 pO1DtS a game Her scorlng feats can be c0ns1dered even more m kable when 1nsp1re thelr squads at the beglnnlng of games wlth the powerful has been Hstop Welp lt was not an unusual slght l lany of the all three of the r1val guards surxoundlng her aga1n, the clever Yamrar forward would plvot the basket Basketball 19 not the only extracurr1cular games 1n wh1ch she for an lt IS remem Kamrar squads played to ee completely Yet, t1me ann tlme break 1Ut0 the clear and shoot xnterest for the tall brunette In the summer she can be seen on the softball dlamond, as a member of the town women s softball team She 1s also a leader 1n H2m11tOD county 4 H work belng presldent of her home club the Independence Frlenoly Farmerettes, and holds the offlce of v1ce presldent 1D the countv 4 H g1rl's organ1zat1on Havlng recently returned from Texas, where she partlcipated as a member of an AAU squad, she was asked to compare the olfferences between AAU and Iowa hlgh school g1rl's basketball rules KAAU rules permlt a floatlng forward and guard contact dlrectly under the basket, and also allows the players to drloble the ball twlce ln contrast to the one bounce Iowa h1gh school rulesl She smlled and replled that ple 1ng under the AAU rules was 'more fun w1th the actlon much faster, but she bo1nted out that there was also more contact maklng the game rougher What are her plans for the future? Her answer should brlng gleams of de l1ght to the eyes of the coaches of college g1rls' basketball teams of Iowa For she stated that she def1n1tely wants to go to college, but doesn't know as yet whlch college she w111 attend If that college, wherever lt may be has a women s basketball team, the cage career of MISS Welp has not ended I fact, her future cage r1va1s w111 probably testlfy that lt has Just begun iwe repr1nt th1s artlcle through the courtesy of The Dally Freeman Journal, of Webster C1ty Iowa J Z1 ! n Q . . . , - ' H I! -. . D . ui s 'L w P . . , . . Q , C' . 1 9 l ' vw ' 1 .QA vi' I I l ,,. bered that the battle cry which many harassed rival coaches have used to YI ' ' 'Q . ' ' Q , s . X T . 7 . , . , . . . ' C . , , . . . . , I 'O , Q 1 . , ' ' f ' 1 , II ' . v , l 7 1 I 1 ' ' . n , .