Tecumseh High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Tecumseh, NE)

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A Hand In Spirit At THS Opposite page, clockwise from top: VBB cheerleaders, Tish Morrissey. Bonnie Davison, Kim Seeba. Marg Morrissey. Susanne Scott, and Jane Baird. JVB cheerleaders: Diane Sapp, and Shirley Laug. Not pictured: Lori Packett. The VFB cheerleaders discuss an upcoming pep rally. This page, clockwise from top: FVB cheer leaders, Dutchess Hinkle, Barb Ullman, Jean Stewart, Terri Mitchel. Bev Mason, and Pam Thompson. The VBB cheer leaders during a tense moment of a varsity game. The B team cheerleaders show their spirit. Jean takes the role of a T-town opponent in a skit. r rt r a a 5 a r 19

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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.

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Below: Terry Hinkle points accusing finger. Juniors And Seniors Finger the Killer This year the juniors and seniors combined their various dramatic skills and talents to present The Mousetrap, a mystery drama by Agatha Christie. Tryouts for the five male parts and three female parts were held in October, and the play was presented on November 19, which left approximately a month for rehearsal. Despite this, the cast performed quite well, and although an entire page of script was almost skipped and several lines adlibbed, the audience hardly even noticed. Many people don’t realize all the time, work and effort that goes into producing a play because not only a cast, but a stage crew, props, costumes, director and rehearsals must be lined up. The director this year was Sharon Parrish with Jennifer Brink-man as her student director and the stage crew was Teresa McCoy, Sally Cavis and Cindy Bartels. With their help and some from various art and shop classes, an appropriate stage scene was put together. Besides preparing a stage, Mrs. Parrish also had to locate a cast to fit the parts, and she did a good job. The cast was Kathi Kavanaugh playing Mollie Ralston, Don Bartels playing Giles Ralston, Steve Morrissey as Christo pher Wren, Dutchess Hinkle in the role of Mrs. Boyle, Alan Horn playing Metcalf, Jim Parrish as Mr. Paravicim and Terry Hinkle playing Detective Sgt. Trotter. From Kathi’s screams to Steve's simulated insanity to Terry’s brisk manner, every person fitted their part. The play was suspenseful and entertaining with cast and crew appearing to enjoy it as much as the audience. As Terry Hinkle put it, ”lt was a lot of fun, and the rest of the cast probably agrees. Far right: Duchess Hinkle relaxes as she studies script. Right: Sharon Parrish admires make-up job on Alan Horn.