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t honors Indian grapplers
250 people attended the
Donegal Wrestling Banquet
last Thursday, held to
. honor the team, who were
Section II Champs this
- year. Master of ceremonies
was Coach Gene Funk.
Following a dinner of
baked ham and potatoes,
Coach Funk spoke briefly
"about and introduced each
member of the wrestling
team.
The Indianettes and the
' cheerleaders were intro-
duced, and also the Junior
High team.
Senior team members
each spoke to the guests.
Three of them read poems
they had composed for the
occasion.
Jerry Ruhl, a team cap-
tain, received the Out-
standing Senior trophy.
Jerry Garner, another cap-
tain, won a trophy for Most
Pins and also the Dean
Chapin Memorial Award.
The Most Improvement
trophy went to senior Mark
Adams.
The Outstanding Junior
: High Wrestler trophy went
to Ken White. Ken, who
moved to Salt Lake City the
morning after the banquet,
said an emotional goodbye
to his coach and team-
mates. It is unfortunate
that Donegal has lost this
promising wrestler.
Ken's award was pre-
sented by Coach Charles
Leader.
Mr. Donald Drenner,
Principal of DHS, received
a trophy representing the
entire team.
After remarks by Mrs.
Jack Garner, Coach Funk
was given a pair of new
jogging shoes by the team.
The team also gave Assis-
tant Coach Konas a poster
of Farrah Fawcett. A card
of thanks for Sunday after-
noon practices was given
Coach Funk by Steve Ney.
The following poem was composed by Mark Adams
for the occasion of the Donegal Wrestling Banquet.
This is a poem, about the great coach Funk,
He's one of the best, and that ain’t no bunk.
I'll always remember, at the beginning of the season,
He yelled and yelled no logical reason.
It started in the locker room, when when we weighed in,
we were so overweight, it was like committing a sin.
When we were ready for practice, we ran over to DIG,
Waiting to get bawled out, for eating like a pig.
After our practice, we were practically dead,
We went straight home and directly to bed.
Then one day, his face full of gleam,
He turned to us and said, ‘“We’ve got a championship team.”’
So we tried all the harder to get in good shape,
Because we wanted to look good on the video-tape.
But the work paid off, as you can plainly see-
We went undefeated and took the Sectional Trophy.
This poem could go on, there’s a lot more to say,
He made us work hard, but we like him anyway.
Kelly Hoover
wins spelling bee
There was a spelling bee thered for the event. schools, the bee went
at Beahm Jr. High last Sarting with 26 top through eight rounds and
Thursday. The entire facul- spellers from Beahm and ran over one period.
Shown with their trophies are, left to right, Jerry Ruhl, Jerry Garner, and Mark
Adams. Not shown is Ken White, who moved to Salt Lake City on Fritlay morning.
ty and student body ga- the Donegal Elementary
: Miss Kate Zeller of the
DHS English Department
pronounced the words to be
spelled, while Beahm tea-
chers Jean Phiel, Tony
Ritrovato, and Connie
Ligenza judged.
Finally, there were only
two contestants left. The
tension was mounting as
Jessica Eidemiller and her
opponent, Kelly Hoover,
battled orthographically.
Jessica missed ‘‘fero-
cious’’ and, by the rules of
the National Spelling Bee
Society, Kelly had a chance
at the same word, which
she spelled correctly. Kelly
then got, immediately, the
next word, ‘‘flimsiness.”” If
she could spell it, she had
the title.
You could have heard a
silent E as Kelly went
through the letters. She did
it.
Both girls received a
copy of Webster's New
Collegiate Dictionary. The
losers each got a pen.
Everyone else received a Photo shows Katherine Zeller of the DHS English Dept. congratulating Kelly
Jessica Eidemiller misspelled “‘ferocious’ and lost the , .r..
title, but she did get the dictionary she is posing with. 2 : Hoover after Kelly won the Beahm spelling bee.