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THE RIMROCK ECHO Page Four Friday, December 15, 1939 Cage Season Opens Spearfish Wins Over Yellowjackets In Non-Conference Game K M. S. N. S. Yellowjackets were defeated by the Spearfish (S. D.) normal cagers in a rough season opener. This win gave the Spearfish squad a clean sweep in their inva- sion of Montana. Both teams missed numerous shots, and the inexperience of the E. M. S. N. S. squad was noticeable. Fiske and Ostby of E. M. S. N. S. and Hanson of Spearfish were ejected from the game via the personal foul route. Adel of Spearfish led the attack by scoring 14 points, followed by Aberle, his teammate, who chalked up 11 points. Smith led the local squad with 11 points. E. M. S. N. S. led early in the game, but were soon overtaken and lagged 22-9 at the half. A rally in the last half put them back in the game, but several successive shots by the Spearfish quintet put the game on ice for them. TP 2 4 11 2 6 0 14 4 4 - 47 TP 4 2 2 3 1 0 2 11 0 0 2 2 4 Team Shows Promise The Yellowjackets will have six of last year's letter men squad this season: Phil Fiske of Ryegate, Dwight Mason and Jack Lewis of Lavina, Emery Ostby of Froid, Oscar Smith of Dolly, and Dale Bryson of Rose- bud. Practice got under way November 16, according to Coach Bjorgum, when 28 men reported to try out for the varsity squad, but the number was cut down to about 20 men after a few practices. Schedule of Games The Yellowjackets schedule lists the following games: December- 9-Spearfish, here. 20-Dickinson, here. January- 3-Miles City Junior college, here. 6-Poly, there. 11-Montana Normal college, here. 18-Northern Montana, here. 25-Montana Mines, there. 26-Montana Normal college, there. 27-Montana Normal college, there. February- 2-Carroll, here. 3-Carroll, here. 8-Northern Montana, there. 9-Northern Montana, there. 10-Carroll, there. 16-Montana Mines, here. 17-Montana Mines, here. 20-Poly, here. There are 10 home games; so plan to attend them and boost our team. DO YOU KNOW NICKNAMES? In order that all new students may understand the accounts of the basketball games, the following ex- planation of team nicknames is given: Yellowjackets-E. M. S. N. S., Bil- lings. Orediggers-School of Mines, Butte. Crusaders-Poly, Billings. Northern Lights-Northern Mon- tana college, Havre. Bulldogs-Montana State Normal college, Dillon. Panthers-Carroll college, Helena. Six=Man Football Ends In 3=Way Tie A three-way tie for the school championship in six-man football, between the seniors, the A division and the B division teams was the result of the intramural tourney held during the fall. This tie was brought about when the A division team, undefeated until the final game, fell before the B division by a score of 26-12. Each team had two wins and 1 loss. Three freshman teams, according to their respective groups in school, and a senior team met in the intra- mural tourney for the school cham- pionship. The B division downed the C di- vision by a score of 32-6 to start the tourney. The second game, between the seniors and the B division, ended in a score of 19-6 in favor of the seniors. The C division received its second defeat in the third game, when they were drubbed 43-0 by the seniors. In the fourth game the C division lost their chance to place in the tourney, when they were walloped 43-0 by the A division. Seniors Lost to A's When the seniors were defeated 24-12 in the fifth game by the A division, they lost their chance for full control of championship. At this point the A division was the only undefeated squad. In the championship game the B division came through to defeat the A division, by a score of 26-12, thus making a three-way tie for the school championship. The standing of the four teams after the intramural tourney is: Seniors 2 won 1 lost A division 2 won 1 lost B division 2 won 1 lost C division 0 won 3 lost The seniors scored 74 points against their opponents' 30 points. The A division made 79 points to their opponents' 38 points. The B division scored 64 points to their opponents' 37 points. The C division scored 6 points to their opponents' 118 points. According to the points scored the A division had the best offensive team for the tourney, while the sen- iors had the best defensive team. This is the first time there has ever been a three-way tie for the school championship. In previous years, since six-man football has been played at F. M. S. N. S., the seniors have controlled the cham- pionship. Squads and Captains The personnel of the squads is as follows: Seniors - captain, Orland Jordahl, Bob Polston, Don Nave, Bob Deckert, David Hill, Cecil Nave, Oscar Smith, Jim Walpole, Dale West, Bud Humiston, Ernest Rhea; A division - captain Clint Tracy, Eoklam, Dave Jones, Charles Rec- tor, George King, Jim Scovel, Art Minnie, Bill Vitt, Charles Plummer, La Vern Ward; B division-captain Harold Sprattler, John King, Gilbert Easton, Perry Rastus, James Mar- low, Ted Garnett, Scott Cooper, Al- vin Patterson, Herbert Dalke; C di- vision-captain Dale Bryson, Frank Mickus, Emmanuel Fuchs, John Skorupa, Martin Tucker, Joe Thomp- son, Robert McGuire, Hjalmer Lee, Stanley Grayson, Roy Wise. Seniors Wallop Frosh In Swift Practice Tilt On Wednesday evening, December 6, the senior cage squad defeated a less experienced freshman team in an inter-class game. This was the first game of the season. Both teams showed good passing and ball han- dling. In a close first half the fresh- men held the seniors to a 24-20 lead at the half period. However, in the last period the senior squad forged ahead to hang up an additional 25 points and hold the freshies to 4 points. The game ended 45 to 28 in favor of the seniors. Smith was high-point man for the seniors with 18 points followed by Fiske who scored 10 points and Lewis with 8 points. Scovel held the honors for the freshies with 9 points, followed by Tracy with 7 points. This game was held to get the cheering section organized and to get the boys on the floor before the Spearfish game, played Saturday evening, December 9. Variety of Tournaments Sponsored by W. A. A. Tournaments in a variety of games, which have been continuing through out the quarter, are being played off by the W. A. A. girls. Points will be given to the girls participating and also to the managers of the tourna- ments. The girls play off their tour- naments after the regular meetings and at the recreation hours held on Monday nights. They will be com- pleted next Monday night. Nearly all of the W. A. A. mem- bers participate in one or another of the activities, enumerated below with their managers and the num- ber of girls participating: badmin- ton: Rosemary Speckeen, 20 girls; archery: Ada Duell, 17 girls; bowl- ing: Ruth Nelson, 40 girls; table tennis: Helen Kennedy, 32 girls; horseshoe: Lu c i 11 e Mars, 8 girls; shuffleboard: Betty June Worst, 8 girls; baseball: Letha Saunders, 12 girls; basketball: Dorothy Davis, 17 girls. Normal Is a Job Factory The slogan of the Eastern Mon- tana State Normal School might well be \Graduate from E. M. S. N. S. and cinch a job,\ for of the 132 stu- dents who have graduated from the local institution in the last year, 90 per cent are now employed as teachers. In addition to the 120 teaching, five graduates are continuing their schooling, three are engaged in work other than teaching and four are married and not teaching. Thus none are listed among the unemployed. (From Tales of the Town-Billings Gazette.) Nursery School Is Busy; Will Give Christmas Party Many of our students are little aware of the importance of our nursery school. Supervised by Miss Shirley Platt, it is a growing organ- ization and one which deserves more attention. There are 15 children between the ages of four and six who attend reg- ularly from 9 to 11:30 each morning. The kindergarten school day is opened with the conversation period. At this time the children converse freely, talking over any news, ques- tions or comments of interest to them. Out of these discussions fre- quently come the suggestions for many projects and unit activities. A typical project is the grocery store. Suggested and entirely car- ried out by the children themselves, it encourages originality and effi- ciency. After all the necessary ma- terials were contributed, the children cooperated in assembling them into a grocery store. Each day a new grocer was chosen, while the others, as customers, shopped or delivered groceries to the doll house. The children sit on the floor dur- ing singing class, with the good sing- ers helping the poor ones. Their songs, in general, are inspired by their unit activity or the season of the year. During the rest period, they exer- cise for a few minutes and then relax on the floor. The best resters are given special recognition. After this brief respite they are ready for the free activity period, when they are allowed to work on whatever they choose. This gives them an excellent opportunity to display their talents in creative art. Before going home, the children must put away all their working materials and clean up the room. Thus is developed a sense of pride and responsibility. At present a Christmas party is being planned. The children are decorating the room and sending out invitations to their parents. They making gifts, soup-can ilcwer pots, which they will present at that time. A newly organized rhythm band will present two numbers as a part of the entertainment. Jean C. Hickok, class of 1937, who is teaching in Sidney, Montana, spent nine weeks as councillor at Camp Goodspeed in Cape Henry, Virginia this summer. A singles tournament has been played by the six students the badminton class. Tom Madsel is the winner and Bud Humiston is the runner-up. Attends Scout Meet As Montana Leader Dr. McMullen, president of the Yellowstone Valley Scouters' Coun- cil, attended the Twentieth Annual Regional Convention of Scouters at Minneapolis, November 3 and 4. Region 10 is composed of councils from the states of Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Each council is com- posed of a number of counties. The older men, who are active in organ- izing, financing, and promoting the Boy Scouts in their council area, are called \scouters.\ Yellowstone Valley council, composed of 19 coun- ties, is the only council in Montana which belongs to region 10. The convention met to discuss the functions of each council, including the organization and extension of Boy Scout troops, leadership and training, camping and activities, health and safety, the advancement program and financing the scout and scouter's activities in each local council. Dr. McMullen left Billings No- vember 1 and returned November 6. While in Minneapolis he attended the football game between Minne- sota and Northwestern university. Re-elected President Of Region 10 Scouters At the annual dinner meeting of the Yellowstone Valley Scouter's Council held at the Commercial club, November 6, Dr. McMullen was reelected president. The Yel- lowstone Valley Council includes 19 counties in eastern Montana with approximately 60 scout units and about 1300 scouts. George Roskie, who for years years offered courses in scouting to East- ern Montana. State Normal School boys, retired as scout executive of the council, a post which he held for 11 years. Mr. Roskie was the first man in the United States to retire under the new Boy Scout pension plan. Royal C. Hayden, who served as a field executive in a St. Paul scouting district and was active in scout work in North Dakota, replaced Mr. Ros- kie. KATOYA SCHEDULE FILLED WITH VARIED ACTIVITIES The program committee of the Katoya Players has made out an interesting and diversified program for the succeeding weeks. On last Tuesday night an original skit, \Mer- chants of Munich,\ written and di- rected by Martin Tucker, was pre- sented. Those in the cast included Barbara Johnson, Dorothy Albrecht, Lael Snellbacher, Marvin Tilden, Thornton Fuson, Martin Tucker, and Alvin Patterson. Next Tuesday night the players will have a Christmas party, at which they will not only enjoy themselves, but will also be doing a Christmas-spirited deed by bringing food and clothing for the family which Katoya Players are helping this Christmas. The committee in charge of the Christmas program is Roberta Rhoads, Geraldine Neu- mann, Ada Duell, Lloyd Gering, and Thornton Fuson. On January 9, another original skit will be presented under Juanita Huppert's direction. The playing and singing of some of Gilbert & Sulli- van's music will be the main attrac- tion at the meeting of January 16, when the program will be in charge of Vivian Hall. At a recent meeting of Katoya, it was decided to change the meeting time from 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The constitution was thus amended. Try- outs were also held for Selma Lee of Froid, Elaine Bull of Tensleep, Wyoming; Marvin Tilden of Sheri- dan, Wyoming, and Bill Ricketts of Billings. These students, together with others who tried out before, were initiated December 6. At that time cake, ice cream and cocoa were served as refreshments. APOLOGY In the last issue of the Rimrock Echo, Wayne Marcus was listed as teaching a rural school near Wi- baux, Montana. We wish to correct our error with apologies. Mr. Marcus is teaching the grammar grades and athletics in Wibaux. Alumni Give Reports Activities In Schools Cover Various Extra-Curricular Fields Many interesting letters have been received from alumni telling of va- rious worth-while projects which they are using in their classrooms. Activities they enjoyed while at- tending E. M. S. N. S. are evidently being carried over into their new positions. Audrey Edmonds, '37, teaching in the Broadwater school in Helena, is using a unit on Mexico as her spe- cial work this year. Learning Span- ish words, making Mexican pottery, and studying and gathering recipes for Mexican foods are some of the activities included. Audrey says it is easy to correlate this study with all the other subjects. Mary Ellen Hunter, '36, is teaching folk dancing in the Paxson school in Missoula. She states, \Here is one teacher who enjoys dancing right along with her youngsters.\ William Ross, '33, teaching seventh and eighth grade social science in Central school in Kalispell, is also the football, basketball, and baseball coach for his grades. Myra Mitchell, '36, has a museum in her school at Shanley creek. Her pupils get much pleasure and ben- efit from publishing a school news- paper. Evelyn Kelnhofer, '39, teaching in Knowlton school, has interested her pupils in starting a rock collection. A month's work on this project has proved worthwhile and interesting to both pupils and visitors. Marybeth Shreve, '38, is teaching in a German community near Wat- kins. She enjoys learning the dif- ferent customs and says she will be a \regular Madchen\ soon. Ardith Palmerlee, '32, has organ- ized a band in grades 5 to 11 in the Klein school. She also gives private help to all band members before and after school and has a large class in twirling and drum majoring. James Minnie, '39, is making mats in order to have tumbling classes in his junior high and high school groups at Richey. Yvonne Halsey, '39, finds a \thrill in handling her own school at West Rosebud, and her little school paper was of interest to the Echo class. Nora Brownfield, '38, has organ- ized a harmonica band in her school at Climax. Isadore Fah, '38, has only three boys in her school in Last Chance school near Windham. Get-togeth- ers are held with four other schools in the neighborhood, and the pupils correspond with schools of 13 other states. Wayne Marcus, '39, who is teach- ing the seventh and eighth grades in Wibaux public schools, handles the junior high physical education. Dorothy Kottas, '38, and the pupils of Kalen school received a very in- teresting collection of curios for their muse um from a retired pioneer teacher of the community. They feel that many of the pieces are quite valuable. Dorothy Stewart, '30, is superin- tendent of schools in Wheatland county. Hilton Utterback, '36, is coaching high school athletics, and Phil Nel- son is conducting the band in La- vina. Evelyn Tendeland, '38, has seven pupils, seven grades, and every grade but the seventh. Her school is near Wilsall. Evelyn Stacey, '39, has helped or- ganize a Tonette band, and is pre- paring an operetta, the first to be given in Norris. Faye Easton, '36, teaching near Oswego, says that her school is on the point of a hill and she certainly gets an open point of view. +- Graduate Writes of Echo As Link With Alma Mater A disappointingly small number of alumni subscribed for the Rim- rock Echo. However, the following excerpt from a letter of Mrs. Lillian Morgan shows that some of the alumni do appreciate its worth. \I missed seeing a copy of the Rimrock Echo at Miles City. I am sending my fifty cents for subscrip- tion, and I hope you can send a copy of any back numbers. I should hate to lose touch with my friends, and that little sheet is truly a mission- ary, keeping those 'out in the field' in touch with 'those in the battle- line' at the home base.\ Spearfish (47) FG FT PF Kennedy, f 1 0 1 Thorn, f 1 2 1 Aberle, c 2 7 3 Young, g 1 0 1 Hanson, g 3 0 4 McDanials, f 0 0 0 Adel, f 7 0 0 Vopat, c 1 2 1 Sherman, g 2 0 1 - - - 18 11 13 E. M. S. N. S. (32) FG Fr PF Scovel, f 2 0 0 Fiske, f 1 0 4 Lee, c 1 0 2 McGuire, g 0 3 2 Ostby, g 0 1 4 Tracy, f 0 0 1 King, f 1 0 0 Smith, f 5 1 0 Easton, c ........ 0 0 2 Jones, f 0 0 0 Garnett, g 1 0 0 Mason, f 1 0 0 Lewis, g 2 0 1 13 6 16 32 Score at half- Sper-'igh 22, E. M. S. N. S. 9. Officii arson (Bradley) awl- Ecjorgum (Montana Mines).
