Unity High School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Mendon, IL)

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BASEBALL Coach Jones, Worman. Parrack, Haistings, Taylor, Mealiff, Hendrickson. Reckers, Graff, Cramm, Sellars, Cantrell Baecker, Beverly, Cornwell. McClelland, Porter. Beverly, Conover, Koontz, Rand. The Unity High baseball squad had one of its most successful seasons with a record of six wins and four losses. This is the first time that a Unity baseball squad has fin- ished above .500 since 1950. We won; Augusta 4-3, Hamilton 6-2, Dallas City 2-0, Warsaw 11-1, LaHarpe 7-2, and Plymouth 10-8. We lost: Colchester 17-3, Western 3-1, Northwestern 8-0, Augusta 8-3.

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TRACK TEAM Brown, Muegge, Myers, Taylor, Goehl, Powell, Gooding, Meyers, Ellerman, Parrack, Sellars Mr. Stump, Agard, Morley, Frese, Beeler. Stockhecke, Stone. Baecker. Nineteen fifty marked the most successful season within recent years in track and field at Unity. The Mustang thinlyclads set and established several new records and brought about respectable recog- nition in both the Lamoine Valley and Wenois conferences. Of approximately twenty-five boys partici- pating at one time or another during the season, twelve won points in either individual events or the relays. The outstanding boys listed in the order of their total points for the season without relay scores are Fred Stockhecke, 34 1 2 points from shot, discus, broadjump and pole vault; John Frese, 31 points mile and 880; Larry Beeler, 21 1 2 points high jump and pole vault; Grant Baecker, 16 points high and low hurdles and broad jump; Fred Meyers, 13 1 2 points low hurdles and pole vault; Ray Morley, 8 points 880, 440 and mile; John Hendrickson, 7 points 100 and 220; Dick Agard 1 1 2 points high hurdles and 440. Stock- hecke, Frese, Baecker, Hendrickson, Morley and Meyers also picked up additional points in the relays. Also freshmen Mike Myers, Ray Muegge, Farrel Brown and Hillary Parrack garnered points in relays. The letter winners for the season were Stockhecke, Frese, Beeler, Baecker, Fred Meyers, Morley, and Hendrickson. The highlights of the season were Fred Stockhecke’s heave of the shot put in the quadrangular at Payson of 45 feet 6 1 2 inches which won first and established a new Unity record. John Frese, already the Wenois conference mile record holder from 1957 in the time of 4:56 ran a faster 4:54’.5 to break his own mark, set a new record and win the event again this year. Larry Beeler high jumped 5 ft. 8 in. in the tough Quincy Relays to take 4th place but in so doing tied the old Adams County record and Mendon and Unity record of Charles Starr set in 1929. Grant Baecker’s time of 18.9 will go down as an established record in the 120 yard high hurdles as no other records were available for this event. Fred Meyers’ time of 22.9 in the 180 yard low hurdles is established on the same principle. 26

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AGRICULTURE The Unity chapter of the Future Farmers of America was made up of 74 members carrying about 120 productive projects. Officers of the organization were: President George Evans, Vice-President Ronald Cramm; Treasurer Lavern Shaffer; Secretary Dean Woodruff; Reporter Bob Porter; Sentinel Bub Lubker, SS Representative John Hendrickson. Much work and many activities claimed the boys’ time. Some of the more important accomplish- ments were as follows: 13 boys exhibited 60 head of livestock at the Sec. 13 Livestock show, 22 boys exhibited grain from their projects, the livestock judging team was a blue ribbon team in the state con- test, five boys attended the American Royal Livestock show at Kansas City. Our chapter was host to the Sec. 13 livestock judging contest and the Junior and Senior boys participated in the Adams County Farm Bureau-FFA Get-Acquainted Program. Activities sponsored included the concessions at the Adams County Junior Livestock sale, a donkey baseball game, FFA-FHA dance, and this year, for the first time, the mothers, as well as the dads were invited to the annual banquet. As in years past the farm shop was well utilized. Many boys constructed individual shop projects as well as projects for farmers of the area. Our shop classes constructed seven picnic tables for the Ursa Lions Club to be placed in the new park at Meyer. The highlight of the year was Lavern Shaffer being a successful candidate for the State Farmer FFA Degree which will be awarded at Springfield on the night of June 12.