Tecumseh High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Tecumseh, NE)

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Attendants were Juniors Vince Kerner and Jean Stewart. Sophomores Mike Davison and Shirley Laug and Freshmen John Kava naugh and Robbie Stephens. Homecoming week started on Wednesday October 5 at THS with a work day with students and faculty on hand to provide spirit by wearing clothes of many occupations. Scores of housew ives, farmers and carpenters with an occasional lawyer, male nurse or a policeman in full uniform were on hand. Thursday was declared 50's day with the crowning of a king and queen at noon. Sharon Baum and Mike Morrow reigned as royalty for the day. Leather jackets, bobby socks, saddle shoes and long shirts were seen everywhere throughout the day. Thursday night a special banquet was held honoring the 50 year veterans of the 1927 undefeated football team. After the banquet, the annual bonfire was held. Friday eveyone showed their school spirit by wearing the school colors gold and black. Pep Club members wore their uni forms, players wore their jerseys and most eveyone else wore some article of gold or black clothing. The day ended with a spir ited pep rally with each class presenting a skit. 17

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Good Vibrations Touch Homecoming Misunderstanding and near disasters threatened this year’s Homecoming night, but bad vibrations were averted as the Indians won their straight Homecoming game and Gail Calam Ramsey and Christopher Mac Hutt reigned as popular king and queen at the dance. The game with Johnson-Brock was nearly postponed because of the muddy codition of the field after two days of continuous drizzle. Hopes were renewed as the skies cleared off a few hours before game time.The Indians started slowly as the Eagles scored their first touchdown of the season and T Town remained scoreless. As the Johnson-Brock crowd rejoiced Coach Martin threw his hat to the ground in a motion that had become familiar to the crowd. This touchdown must have jarred the Indians as the defense stopped the Eagles cold, and the offense rolled down the field for 25 unanswered points. The fans were thrilled and pandemonium spread as the second ticked down on a 25-6 victory. A misunderstanding related to the procedure for coronation nearly caused mass confusion at the outset of the ceremony. Three pairs of class attendants had all been announced before anyone had set foot down the aisles. The announcer soon realized the difficulty and handled the situation gracefully to save another near disaster. Finally, King Chris Hutt and Queen Gail Ramsey were crowned by last year’s royalty Tracy Memts and Lynn Woltemath. The other senior candidates were Terry Hinkle and Tish Morrissey, Don Bartels and Kim Seeba, Randy Miller and Rhonda Miesbach. and Alan Horn and Kim Helm. 16

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CheerleadersHCheerleaders Fifteen Cheerleaders Lend This year something new was tried at THS. Instead of the traditional eleven cheerleaders, six varsity and five reserve, six were added to varsity and two sub tracted from reserve to make a grand total of fifteen. These fifteen were divided into three groups, six varsity football and wrestling, six varsity basketball and three reserve basketball. Members of the football and wrestling squad included: Dutchess Hinkle — head, Jean Stewart, Bev Mason, Terne Mitchel. Pam Thomp son and Barb Ullman, alternate — Virginia Mason. Varsity basketball: Tish Morrissey — head, Kim Seeba, Bonnie Davison, Marg Morrissey, Jane Baird, and Sus anne Scott, alternate — Cindy Bartels. Reserve bas ketball: Shirley Laug — head, Lori Packett, and Diane Sapp. Many people, along with the cheerleaders at times, felt that fifteen was too many. There were advantages as well as disadvantages to the large group. One advantage was that there were more girls to share the responsibilities of being a cheerleader. A disadvantage was that the three groups often disagreed amongst themselves which led to some rather heated 'discus sions'. Throughout the course of the year all three cheer leading squads proved that they were only human as the football squad left the teepee out in the rain for three weeks, the varsity basketball squad messed up their first skit and the reserve basketball squad had trouble getting all three members of the squad to all of the games.