Troy High School - Trojan Yearbook (Troy, IN)

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-vi P r OUR CHEER LEADERS During the 1950-1951 basketball season we had three cheer leaders. They were Mary Cravens, Willie Mae Blake, and Dolores Fortwendel. These girls have been very faithful in leading the fans in cheering whether our team was winning or June Bolin and resigned, making it carry on the job of There were six a Freshmen, Dolores losing. Frieda Aldridge, two of our cheer leaders of last year, necessary to elect two new cheer leaders to help Mary leading the cheers for our team. candidates for this position. They were Carolyn Tuggle, Fortwendel, a Sophomore, Virginia Malone and Erma Ham- mack, Juniors, and Willie Mae Blake, a Senior. The two girls chosen by the student body were Willie Mae Blake, and Dolores Fortwendel. Mary Cravens, a Junior, is 17 years of age, has brown hair, blue eyes, and is 5 feet h inches tall. This is her second year as cheer leader. Willie Mae Blake, a Senior, is 18 years of age. has brown hair, blue eyes, and is 5 feet L inches tall. , Dolores Fortwendel, a Sophomore, is 15 years of age, has brown hair, blue eyes, and is 5 feet 2 inches tall. The cheer leaders wore green skirts with gold lining, green sweaters, white blouses, tights, and green and white shoes this year. They also had gold sweaters that they wore some of the time. These girls did a basketball record for our cheer leaders this carry on the good work very good job of cheering this year, even though our this year was not very good. We were very proud of year and hope that Dolores and Mary will continue to in the years to come.