William A Wirt High School - Sandscript Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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RANGERS As we were leaving the school, with diplomas in hand, the heel of my sling pump accidentally touched a blade of grass and we were suddenly surrounded by—guess who? The Rangers! “All right, five hours!!!!” I had met them before: One sunny lunch hour, weary from strolling, I yawned and my hand chanced to touch a leaf of one of the trees in our wild-life preserve. A limb reached out and grabbed my neck and what would it be—guess who? A camouflaged Ranger. With a sharp finger in my eye and a high-pit hed voice, he was screaming, “All right, that’s 17 hours.” One dark night coming home from a late show, we swerved ACT H. SCENE I to miss three camels resting in front of the school. Our luck, a tread of our tire slightly rolled over a beloved cinder and right again—A troop of Rangers and their leader yelling. “We’ve just been waiting for some victim to make up time.” They gave us life imprisonment! Of course, in our better moments, we know that the Rangers have a job to do and they carry it out well. They have a fine organization and help to keep our school grounds beautiful. They are organized as follows: JUDGES: Allen Miller, Charles Overbeck. FILE TENDERS: Ellen Riise. Caroline Cristine. RANGER CAPTAINS: Rosemary Kolvek, Allen Miller, Jerry O'Neill, Patsy Lustgarten. This year’s track squad did not win many meets, but the experience gained, coupled with the added maturity of a year’s growth, should prove enough to make Wirt look forward to one of its finest seasons in track in 194H. Our new track is a large improvement over what the teams of the past have trained on. If we can keep the seniors of next year interested in track, it will impove our chances of winning our share of meets 'This year’s schedule was high-lighted by the fact that we placed in every major meet we entered. R. Ballard, running a 23.5-second 220-yard dash, and John Manor, throwing the shotput 44 feet, 2x i in hes, were the record breakers this year. R. Ballard also managed to tie the school record for the pole vault. Out of the foliowign boys the major and minor letter winners will be selected: R. Ballard. T. Ballard, Eichhorn, Sollors. Brownawell, Weaver, Scheck, Beres, McGrew, Collier, Pinkerton, R. Whited, Manor, Hargis. Hady. Newton, Teegarden, and Rebeck. These boys were augmented by a promising group of freshmen. (Mention should be made here, also, of the fact that Jim Whited, eighth grader, will be one to watch in future years—he broke the school record for the 660-yard dash, doing it in 2 minutes, 4 seconds.) Page Twenty-one