West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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iackin Their Team to Victor groups, the cheerleaders were supervised by Miss Evelyn Ogren while Diane Simons had the honor of acting as Varsity Cheer- leading Captain. School spirit was further enhanced by the formation of a new group, the Pom- Pom Girls. Practicing long hours, these girls composed clever dance routines which lent diversion to spectators during half-time. Their routines included, Charleston, jingle Bell Rockf, and Gonna Knock On Your Doorfi Divided VARSITY CHEERLEADERS Kathleen Petermann, Sandie Krieger, Diane Simons, Pat Oelhafen, Mary VValter. Kathy Spaeth. into two groups, seniors and juniors, these girls displayed ability and talent. Miss Barbara Henrickson ably advised these girls and was assisted by the two team captains, Laurie Schowalter and Cheryl Fischer. All of these groups, acting together, pro- vided, without doubt, an incentive to the VVest Bend players to strive for victory. The teams' gratitude was best seen as they accumulated victory after victory in almost every event. l Bn TEAM CHEERLEADERS Left to right --- Eileen Yvicdineyer Joanne Schmidt Kathy Rowe Karla Kuss Judi Schmidt Kathy Kauth

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Cheerleaders and tudents The performance of any athletic team is influenced greatly by the degree of school spirit shown by the fans. Vital to the action of a team is an audience which supports it with optimism and enthusiasm. The XVest Bend High School student body demonstrated both of these qualities as attendance at all games was record-high and everyone cheered loudly. This held true at wrestling and swimming meets as well as at the regular football and basket- ball games. POM-POM GIRLS Kneeling --- Barb Kircher, Indie Eichenseer, Barb Stehlik, Mary Ann Lange, Ioan Knoebel, Laurie Schowalter. Standing --- Barb Nicholas, Lois Sclnnahl, Kris Lar- son, Laurie Steiner, Cheryl Fischer, Pat Behrends. N? .-6 An outlet for the crowd's enthusiasm was provided for by our cheerleaders who led snappy cheers with pep and vigor, not only during moments of victory, but also during those of defeat. Pre-game spirit was kindled at the pep-assemblies where the vars ity cheerleaders introduced new cheers, held intra-class cheering contests, and acted out skits. Some of their best skits were these: 'i'Twas The Night Before Cl11'lStlDtlS,,, Three Plus Twof and A Mock Weddingf, Divided into three

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Basketball . . . Players Place VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Front row --- Mike Engelbrecht, Tom Eickelberg, Duane En- Standing --- Coach Taylor, Pete Bartelt, Bob Koehler, Phil Roos, derle, Butch Buddenhagen, Rick Cinocchio, Dave Hammer, Tom King, Manager Lon Piper. The basketball team, under the guidance of Coach Rollo. Taylor, compiled an equal record of seven wins and seven losses in conference play and nine wins and nine losses overall. Bruce Caldwell, Ken Erickson, Tom Potter, Rick Parker, Ron Spaeth, Manager Bruce Busch. Contrary to basketball teams in the past, there were no outstanding players but a well-rounded nu- cleus of seven or eight players, all of whom played a great deal. Butch Buddenhagen, Ken Erickson, and Players silently watch their fellow team-mates as tension mounts during a game. Right --- Bruce Caldwell scores a basket in the WVest Bencl-Watertown contest. 100.. .BASKETBALL