Union Township High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (West Chester, OH)

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JR HIGH It 4'-1 1 EIGHTH GRADE Top row Mr West Billy Dick Mary Jane Richards Sondra Smart Carl Maddox Eugene Johnson Kathleen Fischer Shirley Chance Kenneth Jloseph Second row Pearl Wood Mona James Hubert Patterson Oras Reece Billy Hmkle Gerald Ringeisen Billy Willsey Anna Lee Wynn Frances Reeves Thzrd row Norma Abrams Margie Farmer Anna Mae Prather Ann Carson Wanda Winsted Ruby Merry Armelda Farmer Saiah Jo White Janie Herrin Marietta Hughes Fzrst row Donald Carr Ellsworth Holley David Bradbury James Williams 0 'il -ky. wr X--N 'MSX SEVENTH GRADE Top row: Bobby Dick Dixie Scudder Linda Hughes Judy Ferrell Stanley Needham Wayne Lindsey Barbara Kimberlin Mary Ann Pu ka Dolores Haper Clayton Need- ham. Third row: Harry Miller Dale Braschear Everett Ballinger Frankie Williams Donald Van Skaik Jim Rose Melvin Summy Tommy Mercer Donnie Mansfield Mrs. Ona Senour. Second row: Norma Thomas Carol Wardwell Janet Heflin Marrietta Sheerwood Betty Jane Kline Phyilis Behan Betty Cole Clara Bolser Irene Abrams Nancy John- son. First Tow: Clyde Schmidt Charles Melampy Stanley Meighen Johnnie Rhodes Ken- neth Williams Paul Sharpshair Paul Allen Ronald Sickinger.

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The close of the football season paved the way for the openmg of the long and excxtmg basketball season rangxng from early November to early March Practically every hugh school throughout the entlre land has :ts team and :ts loyal and enthuxastxc fans Each game IS a topxc of major mterest wnth a large segment of the cxtxzens of every commumty the games are wxtnessed by crowded houses and are revxewed m countless stones on the sports pages and sports broadcasts Wxthm a sxngle generatwn high school basketball has won the mterest and support of mxllxons of cxtxzens both young and old and now ranks as Amerxcas most popular amateur sport There are undoubtedly a host of reasons for thas widespread mterest m mterscholastxc basketball It xs fast and thrnllmg nt requxres skxll on the part of the players and expert guidance on the part of coaches xt ns a provoker of stxrrmg emotxons A lnfetxme of elatnons and depressnons are experxenced 1n one hour of game tlme Cmzens place great emphasxs upon hxgh school contests great as the emphasxs ns, the opportumty for ut: llzmg these actlvxtles for deslrable responses I8 equally challenging In some states for Instance much good has resulted from the campaxgn emphasxzmg the following basketball tenets Basketball ns a game-not a fxght or a battle Basketball xs played for the fun and enjoyment nt produces and not to provoke bxtterness and sorrow Vxctory should develop a spmt of tempered elatlon mnxed wnth tolerance A study of the sportsmanshxp dnsplayed nn athletnc contests of all types wall reveal that the mterscholastnc affaxrs rank near rf not at the top of all HAROLD E HILL r , , . . Y . . .. .. ., 7 I l 'D , - ' 7 Q - : . . 3 9 ' .