Yates Center High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Yates Center, KS)

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STANDING: Mr. Creitz, Dick Buck, Eva Lee Shotts, Beverly WVest, Bill Lamb, George Woodruff, Barbara Abbott, Clark Hollinger, Martha Ratts, Juanita Mentzer. OUTER CIRCLE: Frances Weide. Frances Conn, Alan Kee. Ethel Starkebaum, Law- rence Robinson, Gladys Kee, Laura Mae Simpson, Tommy VanHoozer, Nadine Stockebrand, Vear Leighton, Morris Mahon, Walter Steffen, Jesse Gillespie, Raymond Pingrey, Eugene McCormick. SECOND CIRCLE: Bob Wise, Kenneth Guenther, Ward Barnett, Dorothy Phillips, Arthur Bacon, Bob Pingrey, Calvin Brodman, Mary Ellen Gresham, Bob VVorth- ington, Tommy Fry, Lenore Reep, Carl Smith, Marvin Nickel, Shirley' Ann Stoll, Myron Stockebrand, Katherine Smith, Starl Driskill, Estil Barnes, Buddy Rcdfearn. Richard Scott. THIRD CIRCLE: Francis Campbell, Earl Brodman, Bill Greene, Ula Brown, Clarence Nigh, Junior Stockebrand, Marjorie XVest, Harvey Klick, Richard Leighton, Benjy Greene. Verna Mae Peters, Betty Schnell. CENTER CIRCLE: Cleo Mae Foote, Donna Hollingsworth, Lavonne Daniel, Frances Shaefer, Dick Plumb, Norma Kilby Ragland, Margaret Lancaster, Mary Buck, Helen Mahon. The band. composed of sixty-three members, is the most popular musical organ- ization in the school. It appears at all the home football games and many' assembly programs. A Pep Band, which was chosen from this group, plays for all the home basketball games. The concert band took part in the Iola Armistice Day Parade, and appeared in parades at Topeka and Lawrence. This group represented the high school at the Tri-Valley League Music Festival at Humboldt and at the Emporia Contest. Mr. Creitz, the capable and efficient director, has steadily improved this organi- zation. This makes his third year as director of the band and instrumental music in Yates Center. Officers of the band are as follows: President. Helen Mahon: Vice President, Norma Kilby Ragland, Secretary, Richard Scott, Librarian, Beverly West: Student Council representative, Harvey Klick. BAND

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DEBATE FRONT ROVV: Mary Dell Burnside, George Woodruff, Betty line Butler. BACK ROW: Jesse Gillespie, Mr. Townsend, Bill Lamb. The debate question this year was Resolved: That the ltailrouds Should be Govtrnmentally Owned and Operated. Yates Center participated in the following tournaments: Topeka, Fort Scott, Garnett, Chanute, and the state meet at Lawrence. They placed second in the Tri- Valley League and tied for first in the District. This was the third year for Mary Dell Burnside, lietty Rae Butler, and Bill Lamb and their second year to be entered in, the state meet. The team also attended a debate convention at Lawrence. The team was composed of Betty Rae Butler and George Woodruff on the al'- firmative and Mary Dell Burnside and Bill Lamb on the negative. Jesse Gillespie and Emerson Tadtman were alternates. A good debate team is an asset to any high school and debating is wonderful training for the students. We are proud of our team and their coach because of the good record that they made this year. All members of the squad except Mary- Dell and Jesse are seniors. Mr. Townsend was the debate coach. . K GX- I' tf-'pf 'fe , . i , I i Q X PAGE 25

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GIRLS SINFONIETTA The Girls' String Sinfonictta is a new organization formed in the full ol' 19249. lt is composcd entirely of high school students, und limitcd to u niembership ol' twenty'-four. This orchestra, undcr the direction of one ol' the high school's f'UlllIM'i4'lll music instructors, Dalc P. Creitz, made its first public appearance at Il ll. T.A. llllttll- iw: Dl1F?llllb9l' T. The girls made fl nuxnher of other creditalslo appearances during thc school yiiar. Among thc- most outstanding ol' these were ut thc lfzttlicr und Son llzimlut-I, sponsorod hy the Hi-Y, thc Faculty Banquet ut the Christiun Church, and tht- Illvtll' ing of thc VVOYIIGIIYS Clubs of Woodson County l'or the OU-fllIllZZ1llOll ol' an l'e-clvi'z1- tion. They also plnycd during Music Wieck. This organization will be continued next year and will probuhly lit-coiiic :x pcrmzxnvnt orgzulization in the high school music depztrtinent. FIRST liOVVg llotty Schnell, Geraldine Drain, Mr. Crcitz, Bcity Simpson, Iniojc-un Long, Rzirhnra Abbott, Madeline Strong, Emily Armstrong, Juanita Vicc, Lor- raine Awult, W':1nda Daniels. SECOND ROXV: Doris Weide, Donnn Hollingsworth, l'1I'llli.1lltlllll Long, llvlvn flun- ncls, Marjorie Mathis, Mcrtlia, Ezlslcy, l':iulinc lWO0l'llP2l4l. PAGI' 27