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I sincerely thought
I was so complete-
Look how wrong you can be.

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And if it was worth it,
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To help you on your way down the road.

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Make the best out of the bad-don't laugh it off.
You didn't have to call me anyway.

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So remember, every picture tells a story,

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German Club

did a lot of things together this year,
some of them were: having a dinner of
German food with the Spanish Club ;a
Classical Music night at the sponsor,
Mr. Clemons' house; and a car wash to
make money to do other things.

Being enrolled in a German class or
having had at least one yea r of Ger-
man are the requiremen ts of being a
member of the German Club.

Mr. Clemons and his classes deco-
rated Room 425 with German phrases
and posters and sign in German so his
classes could get a better idea of what
Germany is like.

Pic tured above is the record player
a nd a sign in Room 425 that says
" llardy Welco me 13ack"! l l1is is the
incorrec t version wh ich was lat er
cha nged to co rrect grammar by Mr.
Clemons. It was drawn by a German
student. So me of the other posters
in h is room are of Pea nuts cha racters
with Germ an phrases.
This was Mr. Scott O cmo ns' seco nd year a t South. He
taught fou; classes o f Ge rman th is year.

Pictured front row, left to right: Karen Joh nsto n, Lilo Feiste, Cindy Sefranek and Toni Vais-
kunas, President. Second row: Phil Luczinski , Mr. Scot t Clemo ns, Cindy Hall , Roberta Noah,
Nancy Shrives, Treasurer , Gloria Knuth , Secre tary. Not pic tured arc : Betty Neuma n, Do n
Phillips, Peggy Neuman and Mike Iwa nsk i, Vice-President.

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After schoo l, the girls could be seen often running around 3rd Ooor, and up
and down t he stairs.

Jogging Club

is new to South this year. One interest-
ing thing about this club is the fact
that two of the members were teach-
ers; Mrs. R osalie Sheperd and Mrs.
Dia na Howell, both of the S ocial Stud-
ies Departme nt. They worked o ut
each night a fter school w it h the girls,
doing exercises and ru nning around
the school. Miss Susa n Peters, the
club's sponsor, devoted her time after
school timing a nd he lping th e girls im-
prove their speed s.

When t he weather was warm, t he
girls jogged t o Spring Lake Park.

So me of the girls j oined t he club to
get ready to try o ut fo r t he girls' track

team in t he spring.

Joggers were, Front row, left to right: Kathie G ulizia, Mary Baleters, Debbie Davis and linda Du-
bas. Second row: Susan DeWitt, Bridgett Vandervort and linda Labanowski.

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R. 0 •T. C. is a class consisting of

boys and girls. The class can be taken as half
a credit in the place of gym. There are ap-
proximately 136 participants. There are sev-
eral different areas where they can partici-
pate. The students volunteer for the certain
area and if they are proficient enough are ac-
cepted. Some of these areas are the ordi-
nance group, who take care of cleaning the
guns, the cadette police, who perform duties
at games, the color guard, who present the
flag at various functions and the color detail
who raise and lower the flag in front of
school. There is also a drill team and a rifle
team. The rifle team competes with other
schools in the Omaha area.

Sergeant George Gill and Troy Woody
are the teachers and sponsors.

The girls involved in R.O.T.C. are standing from left to right, Donna Kucirek, Cindy Groves, Lynette
Whetstone, Patty Jones, Pam Valverde, Susan Snodgrass, Sue Duff, Shelia Kraft , Martita Athkins, Deb-
bie Gosch and Mary Jenkins.

The rifle and drill team members are kneeling from left, Gunther The color guard who present the flag are from left to right, Dave LJ1wson,
Fiestie, Bill Swinarski and Joe Zabrowski. Standing are Jim Baily, John Fergenson, George Limo nes and Mark F luharty.
Pam Valverde and Mark Cullinane.

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English Club ' in its fourth l C<TI.' I)~

year at South , has tried to be invo lved in BlitlleSpit{
more school activities. The club . consisting
of twelve members and two sponsors. sold From fund s mad e by se lling po m po ns, the En-
red and white porn pons as a money-making glish club was able to see the play , " Blithe
project. Proceeds from the porn pons en- Spirit" .
abled the members to see the play, " Blithe
Spirit" . which was showing at the Fireside
Dinner Theater. Participation in the home-
coming parade with a decorated car wa s
among their list of activities also.

They had also planned on selling garters
as another mo ney-making project which
would enable them to see more plays.

English Club members are, standing from left to right: Cheryl Hamblen , Wilma
La Brayere, Kit Carlson , Vi cki Rosenthal, Angie Sh upu t , Jud y Ruck i. Sitting are :
Ja ne Carrie r, vice-president Caroline Barrio, secre tary-treasurer Lorraine Valla and
presid ent Sand y Gardner. Kneeling are : Sue Gardner, Margaret Vaca and Karen
Gibbs.

English Club mee tings are held on Sponsors are from left , Mrs. Deanna Ludwin and Mrs. Janet
Mo ndays, after school. Here they dis- Mod y . Mrs. Ludw in started the English Club four years ago
cuss m o ney-making projects. and has been the head spo nsor since then. Mrs. Mody is in
her first year in helping with the club.
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By the time t he parade began around 3:20, stude nts. parents, and local
businessmen lined 24th street to watch the parade .

Preparing fo r the parade was a task, especially for the band. They h ad
to get the ir instrume nts tuned up, and dress in their uniforms.

The band had a few fin-
ish ing touches o n the ir

fl oat. Their theme was
"Do n' t shoot the bull,
go with the pack".

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The stage preparations took about three Satur- There were so me people w ho deco rated
days to decorate as Gina Whitehead and Donna cars. Miss Seifert's small Volkswagen was
Hienz paint the stage. being converted into a packer b ull.

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'.\! any students had their eyes se t o n th.: colorful parade coming
d ow n the strc.:t. There w;is a lo t to sci: and no one wanted to
miss a t hing.

All G.A.A.'s hard work paid off when they we re given an award for t he best fl oat.
Their theme: "Track'em down , Choo 'cm up." They called the float " The South
High Express."

Homecoming Parade was

the best part of th is years Homecoming. It took place
und er sunny skies a nd a 70° temperature. The parade
stretched through South Omaha before the amused
looks o f hund reds of people on a perfect Indian sum-
mer day. Highlights of the parade, which was called
by many the b est in 10 years, included the winning
G.A.A. float entitled "The Packer Express". the sec-
ond place to Student Council float called " Boot
Hill", and the shiny green corvette carrying the soon
to be crow ned King and Queen, John Babic and
Therese McGuire. An untold amount of work went
into the parade to make it the success it was. A rec-
ord twenty-eight groups o r clubs participated and to
thank o r recognize them all would indeed be a long
job. Also, there were many peo ple who were indirect-
ly involved in ma king the parade a success a nd a tradi-
tion that we hope will continue for many years.

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This year's theme was "You are the Sunshine of Pictured above is Debbie Slezak and Rick All the cand idates' pic tures were put in the
my Life." Tickets for couples were o nly $4.00. Spencer. They put great effort, but also e n- main hall , enabling everyone t o sec who was
Singles were $2.25. joyment into their campaign. running.

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Mike Venditte and Kellie Fahey are John Babic and Therese McGuire
both very active on Student Council. staged a very enthusiastic campaign.
Mike is President of the council and Therese is captain of the varsity
Kellie is on pomperets. squad and John is active in sports.

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Pat Krigbaum, who was voted out- Candidates for Homecoming this year Ed Shoning and Denise Kerwin spent
standing sophomore of the year, ran many hours making signs and leaflets.
with Joy Barnes who hopes to be a put a great amount of work and effort into their They felt it was well worth their
nurse. campaign for King and Queen. Another award trouble .
they could be given was that of Miss Congeniality
Pictured above is Steve Otero and and Mr. Congenial. These awards were voted BiU Kingston was active on trac k his
Mona Escobar. Mona enjoys Spanish among the candidates themselves. All around freshman a nd junior yea rs. Bill's o ut-
and Steve plans to join the armed school were signs saying vote for - - - - -. All the going personality has earned him
forces after graduation. candidates said that their time and money was ma ny friends.
well spent. The campaign began Monday, October
30 I, 1973, and students voted Wednesday, October
3, 1973.

The winners were announced Saturday , Octo-
ber 6 at the ceremony. Those candidates who
didn't win and all guests enjoyed a dance held in
the gym after the ceremony. Music was provided
by Dr. Feelgood, formerly Poppin J.

Not pictured were candidates Debbie Savatovic
and Lou Sloger.

Last year's King, Je rry Opitz, atte nded the Coronation festivities Marilyn Kroeger, last year's queen, returneo
ceremo ny to crown this year's King. John J . to crown and congra tulate the new Queen .
Ba b ic. we re a nigh t to remember. Student s and Therese McG uire .
parent s anxiously watched the cere-
mony. They viewed the court being in-

trod uced on a yellow and brown stage.
The /\ mbassadors. featuring Jerry Rel-
ford. entertained the aud ie nce by sing-
ing " You Arc the Sunshine of My
Life '". the 1973 theme. The hushed
auditori um began to fill with excite-
ment as the Mas ter o f Ceremon ies.
Terry Franks. anno un ced the 1973
king. John Babic. and Quee nTherese
McG uire. They each received a SS gift
certificate for Phili ps Sto re from Mr.
Sam Greenberg, this year's King of
Ak-Sar-13cn. Queen Therese was
awarded a bouquet o f roses wh ile King
John accepted a trophy. A dance fo l-
lowed in the Gym. room 3 10. Music
was provided by Dr. Fcclgood.

The ca ndidates vo te among the mselves for the After the hard campaign fo r King and Q ueen , John and Therese relax . Just running toge ther in
h onor of Miss Con gen iali ty and Mr. Co ngenial. an o pen field helps them to put all the ir prob lems behind them . Both John and The-rese-plan to
Cho sen were Denise Ke rwin and Bill Kingston. go to college. J ohn isn't sure o f his major, and Therese plans to be a Math teacher.

Left to rig ht: 171e presid en t of the co urt , Jerry Left to right: Do n na Heinz. Carrie Ylassakis and
Relfor d and his lady , Carol Riha , Bo b Faulk - Sue Koenig . Back row: Rory Cobbs. Terry
S tcph Malo ney, Do n Bo yles- Bobbi Bloemer, Franks, Do n Bless and Angelo Fili.
Calvin McDonald- Nancy Linso n .

First row : Lad and Craig Nemecek. Second row: The court's pages were Coach Lad Nemecek's Couples. from left to right : Chuck Feser- Deb-
Dia ne Conatella , Sue Po pek and Gina White- two youngest sons, Lad. J r. and Craig. The bie Lautenbaugh . Do n Skrad is- Debbie Den-
head. Back : Sa m Wilcoxin , Dan Feser and Bob two boys said they had fun cl uring Lhe nell, and John Mickeliunas - Karcn Kilgarin.
Cameron. who le thing. especially rehearsa ls.

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Student Council consists of thirt y-two Pi ctured ab o ve is '.\Ir. Joh n Sm ith. He is the co-spo nso r of Stud ent
Co un cil. 13csid cs being busy w ith rnum:il , he also te aches classes o f Se-
members: ten seniors, ten j uniors, ten sophomores and two nio r English.
freshmen. Council responsibilities requires a lot of hard work,
but also adds enjoyment to its members. Several of the fun
activities that take place during the yea r, such as th e Home-
coming Parade, decorating and constructing a stage fo r Home-
coming, the canned food drive, the Polka Dance, tricycle races
and spirit week were sponsored by Student Council.

Student Council also has the job of running many elec-

tions that take place during the year. The elections they were
involved in were Teacher of the Year and Homecoming King
and Queen.

Council is not only concerned with the students. but
they also try to give assistance and pleasure to the teaching
staff. During Teacher Appreciation Week, they provided the
teachers with an early morning snack of coffee and donuts. On
Open House night the Council gave teachers a carnation to
wear.

They also work for new privileges. Not all their under-
takings are a complete success, but they lay the gro und work
for the incoming Council.

Above are me mbers from other sch ools.
Omaha Student Council memb ers go to d if-
ferent sch oo ls for a day to see what the
o ther schools arc like . This is known as "Ex·
change Day".

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From le ft to right arc the o ffi cers : parliamentarian Angelo Fili, treasure r Rick Spencer, vice-
preside nt Sue Koe nig . correspo nding secretary Steph Maloney , secretary Diane Co natclla

and president Mike Vcndctt i.

fhe Student Council put s on a canned food drive
cvcry year. This year they co llected I I 00 cans. A

couple hund red o f them arc pictured above.

Miss Sally Fellows is very involved with running Student
Council , teaching Core and Far Eastern History. Miss Fe llows
was also made head of the Social Studies Depart ment.

First row, from left to right: Bob Cameron, Dan Feser and Don Bless. Second row: Bob In front or the Christmas tree fro m lt:ft to right
Fa ulk, Calvin McDonald and Chuck Feser. Back row: Do n Skradis, Gerry Relford and Sam are; first row: Carrie Vlassakis and Dt!bbie Lauten-
baugh. Back row: Kart!n Kilgarin and Patty Rass-
Wil coxin . No t pictured is Brian Skradis. mussen .

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Taurus Staff: "Every picture tells a Standing, left to right are: Susan Nath, Marilyn Dasovich , Linda Brand,
Selina Hembertt, Lydia Navarrette and Sue Sheffield .
what? This was a great question throughout staff class.
With 25 students and a 216-page yea rbook to get out ,
there's a lot of work to be done. The advisor, James
Faiman is serving his sixth year as TAURUS teacher. The
first step for each student is to draw up a miniature lay-
out of the pages and have Mr. Faiman approve them.
The second step is to enlarge the miniature and have it
approved again . Concluding steps involve writing copy
for each page, scheduling and ta king pictures and seein g
that each picture fits. The last step is to do a triplicate
which is sent down to the company in bunches fo ur
times during the year. Seniors Al Lavigne and Doug
Cushing volunteered to help staff class wit h photog-
raphy. Renee Niedbalski comments, "working on the
TAURUS STAFF was a new experience this year with
the reward being the completed book. "

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Sitting around the table are: Chris Jarecki, Randy Berscheid,
John Babic, Al Martinez, Leeann Hurd and Ken Kaluza.

Gabby Chavez is selling Yearbooks to John Babic is show n writing a m essage

two students. t o another student on the "scribbler ."

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Mary Kopiasz, Renee Niedbalsk i, Anita farab o ni, Sharo n Duhacck, Sharon Gallegos, Nancy Andrlik,
Debb ie Dworak, and Gabrial Chavez arc taking a day off in the sun t h.row ing pennies in the w ishing
w e ll.

On the wall behind two yearbook stu-
den ts is the year's plan for t he "74"
Taurus.

Taurus Staff did activities together o utsid e of school like having a Mr. Faiman is sh own ad vising a student o n how to stamp and
snowb al l fight. mar k a picture .

Lydia Navarre tte is Busi ness manager this year.

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Tooter consists of two different types T ooter Staff, Botto m row, le ft to right: Caroline Ba rrio, Co nnie Lande rs, Lo rra ine Valla,
Kathy Hanus, Dave Smith and Ida Adams. Second row: Margaret Vaca, Chris Bowd en ,
of classes, a beginning and an advanced class. Peggy Serefko, Sally Minino, Kim Simpson, Steve J ewell , Rolland McCormic k a nd J o hn
There are twenty-one people in the begin- Pijewski. Th ird row: Rita Micek , Amy Hagustien, Kathy Jimerson, Ann Picrnicky, Theresa
ning class and nine in the advanced. Both Whiteing, Debbie Groves, Dave McDowell , Denice Costello, Steve Allen , So nya Al uko nis and
the beginning and advanced class have to Phil Ratajski.
learn the meaning of journalism: recognizing
news, collecting news, writing news, and
copyreading the written story. The class also
learns different techniques in layout. The
advanced class has the main responsibility of
preparing the paper for publication.

Mr. Michael Rice commented, "It's nice
to see these people on the staff learning to
efficiently handle all aspects of putting out a
newspaper. The advanced class in particular
has done the bulk of the work and made the
"Tooter" a good school newspaper, I feel."

Dave McDowell became editor-in-chief in
December. He had been the sports editor.
_.Rita Micek, editor-in-chief for the past year,
organized a photography department.

Mr. Michael Rice is teaching journalism and English

at South for the second year. Besides being the

newspaper advisor, Mr. Rice is the assistant base-
ball coach. He plans to take a motorcycle trip with
Mr. Tony Dusatko in June.

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Pictured above from left to right, arc Carol Riha, Linda Dubas, Darrell Senior Class Officers put together
Jourdan and Therese McGuire. These are the special designated of-
ficers who do additional work besides just vote and make plans fo r one of the greatest memories a senior can have-Prom night.
prom. T he Presid ent, Darrell Jourdan calls the meetings and sees to it Ten seniors are elected to t his job each year and spe nd two
that everyone knows about it in advance. weeks making signs and posters to announce the office they
choose to run for.

After the election they begin to think of ways to col-
lect money. This year they sold bumper stickers and held a
Roller Skating party on February 11 , eight to ten p.m. They
pick the place where it is to be held, the band, the theme and
the date and hope it is to everyone's satisfaction.

"The Way We Were" was this years theme and prom

was held on April 10 in the Peony Park Ballroom. Travis
provided the music.

President of the senior class this year was Darrell
Jourdan; Vice-President, Therese McGuire; Secretary, Linda
Dubas and Treasurer, Carol Riha. Girls Representatives are
Denise Kerwin, Mary Balters and Mary Ann Lenczowski.
Boys Representatives are Gary Barfield, Dan Feser and Mike
Ferraguti.

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ci_ding for prepara~ion of Prom. They are basi~ally ess~ntial to the majority vote of the group.

Fust row, left to n ght: Mary Balters and Demse Kerwm. Second row: Mary Ann Lenczowski
and Mike Ferraguti.

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Packers dre

Mrs. Beth Anderson, sponsor, said "This is
a special group since I've sponsored them
for three years. They are a good group to
work with; they always work to keep the
group spirit high."

Varsity Cheerleading this year has

proved to be active once more. Baker University, Baldwin
City, Kansas was the site for th.is year's NCAA camp. These
gi rls took all superiors, got nominated fo r the Coke Award
and came home with the Spirit Stick. This is the result of
many summer practices, and of course, South High Spirit.

An Information Night was provided for Basketball,
Wrestling and Swimming athletes and their parents. T-shirts
were sold after school in the book store and ribbons were
sold every Friday. Annual competition at Southroads against
different schools was held again, and many of South's sup-
porters showed up to help these girls out.

Pep Rallies livened up regular school activity and these
girls worked hard to make these pep rallies enjoyable fo r all.
Skits, cheers and different competitions were held, and
everyone joined in to help promote spirit.

Therese McGuire commented " I have learned a lot
from this year, and I hope the girls on the squad feel the
same." South is proud of their cheerleaders and we know
these girls aren't kidding when they shout "We got spirit, yes
we do, we got spirit, how 'bout yo u?"

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Being captain of a squad is not an easy job,
but Steph makes it look very simple. This is
her second year on the squad , a nd she works

very hard to keep up a good squad. We can
see she works very hard by the way her
squad performs.

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Despite surgery last fall, Mrs. Anderson kept J. V. Cheerleading
in almost daily contact with the cheerlead-
ers. She has sponsored these girls for two have one word in mind- "support."
years and has been married for two years. These girls support the J.V. and Re-
She says "It is a good thing my husband is serve teams as well as the Varsity
teams. They also help the Varsity
understanding." cheerleaders as much as they can, with
all that they do.

J unior Varsity Cheerleaders have a
busy schedule and are seldom seen not
working and smiling. They start out in
the summer with practices early in the
morning, and keep on practicing and
smiling the whole year long. They at-
tended camp at Baldwin City, Kansas
and won three superior ribbons and
also a nomination of the Coke award.

Helping sell T-shirts and ribbons,
with the Varsity and planning Infor-
mation Night and Dad's Night were
some of the many activities they par-
ticipated in. Carrie Vlassakis new on
the squad this year commented,
"Cheerleading in Junior high doesn't
seem half as important as it is at
South."

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PO mperetS can be found dancing in the halls by the Auditorium Linda Brn nd ,Cap tain . tu cks away the ye lling when p ic-
tun.: time arrives. When asked if she eve r thinks of
four days a week. These girls give up a portion of their free time to display quii ing, Linda replied, " I wo uldn 't quit for anything."
a three minute half time performance. An estimation of two weeks is spen t
perfecting one routine. This years performances consisted of fo ur foo tball
and eight basketball half time shows. Songs they performed to were:
"Duelling Banjos", "Mr. Touchdown U.S.A." , " Overture from To mmy",

just to name a few. Many of the routines were put together by girls on the
squad.

Tryouts are held every year in April. To try out a girl must be a
member of Packer Backers and have accumulated a certain number of
points received by attending sports. Judges consist of the out-going Cap-
tain, former sponsors, and teachers. Girls trying out are judged on neat-
ness, how well they can present a dance routine, kick routine, and march.
Out-going Seniors rate juniors on leadership, personality, and attendance.
The girl with best ratings becomes next years Captain. The girl with sec-
ond rating becomes next years Co-Captain.

Twelve of this years squad attended Missouri Valley Porn Pon Camp.
Many of them came home bearing all blue ribbons. As a squad they re-
ceived Grand Cham pion for their division , the spirit stick for one night,
and an Outstanding for a routine they displayed. All of the girls seem to
agree that camp plays a major role in teaching a new girl the skills of a

Pomperet.

Miss Schneider, spon sor, co mmen ts,
" Wi t h ten rook ies t his yea r, the squad
has worked ove rtime on a ll rou tines."

Sopho more Pomperets posing in Mo unt Vernon Gardens are, fron t row, le ft to right: G ina
Whitehead and Deo nne Naticchio n i. Back row: Pauline Aran za, R ocky Davis, Nancy Linson,
Nan cy Pistello, Billy Kerwin and Caro le Safe ly. Sopho mo res are often called " The Rookies."

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Pic tured above are sen iors, Ke llie Fahey and Kim Harder.
They arc displaying a major qualification for a Po mpe re t.
smiling. Kim is Co-Captain.

Relaxing in Mount Vernon Gardens are Juniors, front row, left to right: Carol Barnes, Susie
Nath, Karen Kilgarin and Grace Akiens. Back row: Pam Schamp, Debbie Carlson and Ruth
Baez.

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Majorettes begin their training as early as

eight and nine years old. One of their requirements is
that you have a few years of private lessons. Anot her
requirement is that you play an instrument because
after football and basketball season you are just an-
other part of the Band. There is no definite number
of Majorettes each year. Un iforms are picked by the
Captain. An added at tractio n to this years uniform is
white fringe.

Practice is the key word for being a good twirler.
This year practices were held every morning at 7:30.
On the night of a home game they practic~d from
6:30 to 8 :30. When asked to <.:omment o n this yea rs
squad, Diane Pesek replied, " l think we worked very
hard and everyo ne cooperated. This was the best of
my four years as a Majorette."

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Diane Pesek, head twi rler, has bee n a Pic tured in Hanscom Park arc Seniors, le ft to right:
Majore tte during he r four years a t Kathy Da ll , Am i C urtis , D iane Pesek and Karen
South. Dall. Mo st of the ro utines were wmposed by these
girls .

Pictured above are so pho mores Julie Pesek and
Marybe th Hazuka. They w ill be the only girls re-
turning lo the sq uad nex t year.

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