Union City Community High School - Successus Yearbook (Union City, IN)

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Wildcats Front row, left to right—James Wickersham, Richard Flory, John Jacobs, Paul Leatherman, Emerson Porter. Second row—Bob Chattin, Ralph Buckingham, Bob Ely, Bob Hilderbrand, Harry Porter, Bill Sweeney. Alan Ortlip was absent. The 1935-36 varsity basketball team had a very successful season. Out of one of the most difficult schedules the school had ever faced, it was able to win twelve of the seventeen games played for a percentage of .706. The Morton game which was lost early in the season was forfeited to the Wildcats because of ineligibility of one of the Richmond players. In the country tournament, held at Winchester, Union City defeated Farmland, 38 to 17, in its first tilt, but lost to Winchester, winne of the tournament, 14 to 31. The second team played on even terms last f'v.son by winning eight and losing eight. The squad was made up of thirty-two players. Those on the first team were: James Wickersham, Richard Flory, Alan Ortlip, forwards; Ralph Buckingham, Robert Hilderbrand, centers; Jonn Jacobs, Harry Porter, Paul Leatherman, William Sweeney, guards. The players on the second team were: Emerson Porter, Robert Kaucher, Paul Price, John Minnich, Harold Buckingham, Harvey Weimer, Kenneth Worland, Eugene Bruss, Robert Ely, Robert Chattin, Glen Dillon, John Fisher, Lacy Scott, Robert Brierly, Phil Tibbetts, Paul Wigger, Jim Cotter, Elden Lindley, Glenn Strait, Dick Hilderbrand, Walter Lynch, Paul Shafer, and Dick Whitesel. Those lost by graduation are: John Jacobs, Harry Porter, Richard Flory, Ralph Buckingham, William Sweeney, and Eugene Bruss. The lettermen this year are the following: Harry Porter, John Jacobs, Richard Flory, William Sweeney, and Ralph Buckingham, seniors; Paul Leatherman, Alan Ortlip, and James Wickersham, juniors; Bob Hilderbrand, sophomore. 23

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BAND Betty Jean Shierling, David Kaucher, Robert Ely, Winifred Barth, Marcile Tritt, Shirley Garver, John Sutton, Rosemary Harrison, Victoria Barth, Ivan Keever, Anna Ruth Romeiser, George Hill, Joan Veit, Robert Chattin, Arthur Beachler, Jane Jellison, Lois Veit, Wendell Riffle, Harvey Weimer, Raymond Fox, Evelyn Manning, Martha Jane Mangas, Leland Anderson, Robert Ungericht, Leatrice Barr, Jack Caron, Donald Bartholomew, Joe Sutton, Bill Romeiser, David Dean, Richard Weimer, Bob Guernsey, Billy Seibert, Charles Gray, William Chattin', Junior Fraze, Billy Shreeve, Gerald Boyer, Paul Barth, Fernando Chenault, Richard Lollar, Harriette Robertson, Gail Weimer, Stanley Riffle, Gordon Glunt. The officers of the band are: Bob Chattin, president; George Hill Jr., vice-president; and Harvey Weimer, secretary. Joan Veit is the music librarian and Robert Stebleton, custodian of the uniforms. ART Art is given as part of the regular course in the elementary grades and junior high school, but it is an elective course in high school. The elementary art work is of various types such as: water color, pencil, crayon, cut-paper work, and picture study. The junior high school works in perspective and with pencil and water colors, does crafts such as bead work, needle-point, weaving, basketry, burned wood designs, tooling and lacing, and soap carving. The high school art consists of pencil sketching and study of perspective; some poster work, sign painting and lettering; crafts such as: basketry, weaving, home arts of various kinds, metal etching, leather tooling and lacing, block-printing and modeling in plaster-of-paris. The Successus is indebted to the art department for the splendid drawings which have been used as division pages between the various sections of this book. 22

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BASKETBALL RECORD, 1935-36 Union City, 28; Fountain City, 6 Union City, 20; Hagerstown, 25 Union City, 22; Yorktown, 21 Union City, 15; Morton of Richmond, 27 (Forfeited to U. C., 2 to 0) Union City, 20; Winchester, 34 Union City, 24; Lynn, 18 Union City, 32; Portland, 24 Union City, 29; Liberty,.27 Union City, 52; Spartanburg, 15 Union City, 21; Eaton, O., 32 Union City, 48; Saratoga, 19 Union City, 24; Winchester, 21 Union City, 24; Portland, 15 Union City, 33; Centerville, 23 Union City, 25; Lynn, 15 Union City, 32; Madison Township, 21 Union City, 25; Berne, 39 Under a new plan which was worked out .for the first time last year, it has been possible for a greater number of boys to take part in basketball. This plan provides for thirty-two players on both the first and second teams instead of the twenty which made up the teams in previous years. The plan gives more boys an opportunity to participate in athletics and permits additional instruction for underclassmen. Only twenty-two members of the teams were taken to the out-of-town games; however, the entire squad was in uniform at home tilts. Robert Stebleton, a senior, and Wendell Riffle, a sophomore, chosen by popular vote of the student body of the high school, proved very efficient cheer leaders during the entire basketball season. BASKETBALL SCHEDULE, 1936-37 November 6, 1936 November 13...... November 20...... November 25...... December 4....... December I I..... December 18...... December 23...... January I, 1937.. January 2........ January 8........ January 15....... January 22....... January 29....... February 5....... February 6....... February 12...... February 19...... February 26...... Hagerstown.........................Here Yorktown..........................There Winchester........................There Morton of Richmond................There .Lynn..............................Here .Portland.........................There .Liberty...........................Here .Redkey...........................There Spartanburg.......................There Portland..........................Here Eaton, O..........................There Saratoga..........................There Winchester.........................Here Redkey............................Here Centerville........................Here Lynn..............................There Burris of Muncie..................There Berne.............................Here Madison Township..................Here Last fall the baseball team engaged in five games and emerged the victor in three of the tilts. James Wickersham, second baseman, was lost to the team for the remainder of the season after breaking an ankle in the second game with Wayne. The following players composed the team: John Jacobs, Harry Porter, Richard Flory, Paul Leatherman, Alan Ortlip, Robert Stebleton, Glen Dillon, Fred Snooks, Robert Ely, William Sweeney, Ralph Buckingham, Paul Wigger, Lacy Scott, Emerson Porter, Bob Hilderbrand, John Fisher, and Leonard MacAbee. FALL BASEBALL RECORD, 1935 Union City, 3; Jackson, Ind., 9 Union City, 8; Jackson, O., I Union City, 21; Wayne, I Union City, 9; Wayne, 2 Union City, 7; Jackson, Ind., 2 Soft ball was the first activity undertaken last fall by the girls in the physical education classes. This was followed by Indian kickball,' which, in turn, gave way to volley ball. At the beginning of the new term, stunts took the spotlight. Volley ball, the technique being conquered, was followed by folk dancing and out-of-door sports. 24