Waterloo West High School - Wahawk Yearbook (Waterloo, IA)

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Debaters Ponder Ll. S. Foreign Policy DEBATE-Firsl' row-Hank Edsill. Dennis Ferguson, Chuck McConkey, Mike Hoppe, Mark Dieckmann, Mr. Raymond Jorgensen. Second row-Eileen Cusher, Mary Gillam, Ari' Reynolds, Ted For-sbefg, Dave Barflen Shave Canakcs, Dennis Black, Barb BandTield. Third row-Kevin Parsons. Tom FlinT, Dan Power, L G Kyner, KeiTh Maiden, Doug CasTeel, Allen Thomas. The I966-l967 Debare season goT oTT To a good sTarT early in Se-pTember as Mr. Raymond Jor- gensen, The new debaTing coach, inTroduced new TacTics in aTTack, reTuTaTion, and rebuTTal To The ThirTy parTicipaTing members. lT was hard work, reTlecTed Dan Power. We worked every nighT Tor over a rnonTh. BuT on Jan- uary 28 and Z9 aT The Mohawk lnviTaTional in Mason CiTy, all The hard work paid oTT. WesT's Kevin Par- sons, Tom FlinT, Clark SheeTs, and Dan Power broughT home The TirsT place Trophy in VarsiTy De- baTe wiTh a record of seven wins and one loss. The TiTTeen schools aT The TournamenT presenTed some Tough compeTiTion and The boys TelT ThaT They learned a greaT deal abour debaTe, sTyle. and logical argumenT by debaTing Those schools. Kevin Parsons placed TirsT in OraTory and broughT home a gold Trophy. The Team Then Turned iTs aTTenTion To The sTaTe compeTiTion in The lowa High School Speech Asso- ciaTion and The lowa Forensic League. As Mr. Jorgensen puT iT, DebaTe is a learning experience. WhaT one learns in debaTe-logical Thinking, organizaTion, poise. and Thinking on one's TeeT-carries over in every TronT of daily liTe. The Team has come a long way and l Teel Thaf we'll have an even beTTer season nexT year. -' ,W DebaTer Kevin Parsons wriTes down a Tew poinTs To bring ouT in his opening speech.

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WR 1 INDEPENDENT STUDY-First row-Diane Jacobs, Janet INDEPENDENT STUDY--First row-Kathie Richardson, Linda Moore. Second row-Don Leistikow, Jean Foster, Chuck Black, DeMaris, Miss Faith Kurtzweil. Second row-Allen Thomas, Gary Matzner, David Shulman. Linda Weissman, Frank Garber, Sue Den Hartog, Dan Mc- Mahill. Not pictured-Bob Thorbrogger. Students Explore Independently Mr. William Gibson and Miss Faith Kurtzweil were instrumental in the tormation ot an independ- ent study group at West High. Fitteen seniors were selected to work in areas ot their own in- terests. Each student was assigned to one or two inde- pendent subjects and carried regular classes to com- plete his schedule. Chemistry, Senior World History, English lV, Art, and American History and Govern- ment were the subjects probed independently. Mr. Robert Johnson was chemistry adviser: Mr. William Blake guided Senior World History students: and Mr. William Quick worked in Ameri- can History. Mr. Norman Felland advised the English group. Junior Seminar, directed by Miss Kurtzweil, met its second year- with increased organization. The thirty members were chosen trom the junior class. The group met Mondays bi-weekly to hear speakers including Chuck Black, a senior, who spoke on relativity, and Mrs. Marjorie Fish, who presented insights into psychology. JUNIOR SEMINAR-First row-Miss Faith Kurtzweil, Janice Aasgaard, Paula Klein, Ann Allbaugh, Kay Kober, Carol Meyer. Janet Rohlt, Diane Kammerdiner, Kathy Lindquist, Vivian Ridenour. Jeri Prochaska. Second row-Karen Parker, Kris Schreiner, Diane Ruisch. Barb Bandtield, Liz Leistikow. Pam Singer, Carol Culver, Cathy Chambers, Linda Ridder, Linda Barker, Wanda Weber. Third row-Roger Krebs. Gus Olson, Gil Levine, Jett Grinnell, Sterling Benz, Alan Russell, Jim Jacobsen, Rick Corton.

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The Wesfeffes kick high for fheir firsf home performance, fhe Wesf-Columbus baskefball game. Westettes Ma rch a nd Kick in Step Drill Team, in new red uniforms frimmed wifh flashing whife braid, marched colorfully fhrough half- fime af fhe baskefball games. They also performed in fhe Variefy Show. Sixfeen girls and five alfernafes pracficed af 7:30 every morning in fhe girls' gym during fhe bas- kefball season. Their roufines were creafed by fheir faculfy advisers, Mr. Clarence lv1cConkey and Mrs. Pafricia Harper, wifh suggesfions from Sue Daven- porf, capfain of drill feam and from fhe girls fhem- selves. The girls were chosen in fryoufs by a group of judges from oufside fhe school on fhe basis of Drill feam members seem a liffle weary af one of fheir 7:30 a.m. pracfices. rhyfhm, poise. appearance, cooperafion. and a friendly smile. The girls earned money af a bake sale fo help pay for fheir new uniforms. Members of Drill Team were: Sue Davenporf, Sheri Edwards, Cindy Harmon, Rolene l-lafhaway, Linda l-loppenworfh, Dayle Karkosh, Lois Keilholfz, Kafhy Kenny, Fonda Lindaman, Marie ivlarfinod, Julie Paffison, Linda Pefersen, Becky Reese, Sue Runyan, Cindy Uhrig, and Teresa Wilharm. Alfer- nafes were: Linda Chrisfensen, Jean Cook, Becky Nielsen, Jeorgine Rooff, Bev Uze. Dayle Karkosh, Bev Uze, Sue Davenporf, and Linda Hoppenworfh appear fo be concenfrafing fo keep in sfepl