Montgomery County sentinel., 1949-03-31
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HIGH SCHOOL
Inter- High Class Tournament


The Boys Physical Education
Department under the direction OF
Fred Sacco, physical Ed. instruc-
tor, sponsored an inter-class bas-
ketball tournament from March II
through %, with two games each
day. The Junior High which in.
cluded the three sections from the
7th, 9th and 9th grades, was won
by 81, who played 9-3 in the finals
The Senior High championship
was claimed by Ill, who defeated
10-1 in the finals.
Swing Yore Pardners!
The Future Farmers of America
are sponsoring a big barn dance
this Friday night in the G. H. S.
gym. Johnny Glaze and the Barn
Dance Gang from Bernie's Arena
in Frederick will supply the music.
The boys are planning cake walk
and plenty of rural. decorations.
Everyone is invited to come to the
G. H. S. Barn on April FOOLS
Night for Barn Dancers good
time.
Visitors at CHS.
Gaithersburg High has had
many visitors during the past
week. On Tuesday, March 20,
fifteen teachers from schools in
and around Montgomery County
talked with the elementary teach
ers and viewed the classrooms.
This is being done all over the
county so that the teachers can
see what other schools are doing.
Friday, March 25, M. E. Bur-
dette, Supervisor of High Schools
in Montgomery county held meet
ing with the supervisors at
G. H. S.
Yesterday, March 80, Miss Clau-
dine Morgan entertained the
Human Nutrition and Lunch Study
Committee from the State Depart
ment of Health.
Shop Boys Tour Iron Works
On Tuesday, March %, Upton
Sheets, G. H. S. Shop teacher, took
"a of his students on a trip to
Washington.
The boys visited the Fred
Gichner. Iron Works at oath and
M Streets where they were taken
on a tour of the plant and ex-
planned the different departments
and prefabrications of different
ornamental iron pieces which the
factory makes. They also watched
some forging Of iron and steel, and
viewed machinery in operation.
Next, the boys toured the body
shop, where machines are made,
after which they visited the draft
ing engineering department and
heard an engineer give an inter-
esting talk on blue prints.
Teams Begin Practice
Last week the boys baseball and
the girls softball and volley ball
teams began practicing for the
1949 season.
The three teams will play their
first games on April % with Sher-
wood; the girls at home and the
boys away.
Faculty Plays Basketball
Last Friday, March %, the stu
dent body saw that the faculty is
not made up entirely of STUFFED
shirts" and "old maids" The
occasion was a free-for-all basket
ball game when the mems faculty
played the women. Teams were in
troduced by Mrs. Wilma Ulmer,
who was dressed in a dress popular
in the early 1900's.
The cheerleaders of the game,
who were dressed in girls gym
suits, were Bud Harper, Pete Beall,
Gil Thompson and Robert Wilson.
Mary Gallaher, Frances Perry,
Nancy Demory and Marjorie Bur-
dette were the cheering section for
the men.
Both teams used names from
comic strips for the players who
dressed as the character they rep
resented.
Those who played were DR..
George L. Osterwise, William w.
Gallbreath, T. V. Bilek, Fred
Sacco, w. B. Earl, Upton Sheets,
Mrs. Louisa Riggs, Mrs. Marion
Griffith, Mrs. Anne Wilson, Mrs.
nellie DiZerega, Miss Kay Kaprow-
ski, Miss Jean Tully and Mrs.
Betty Cissel.
The referees for the game were
Ivan Fitzwater and Clayton Aurn-
del, who, in the mad scramble,
made some baskets themselves.
They were also fiittingly dressed,
wearing costumes cast off by some
Tennessee Mountaineer and his
wife.
DR.. 0sterwise was the first play
er to appear, as "Georgeous
George" He wore a curly yellow
wig and preceded on the basket
ball court by Robert Henley, gui-
dance instructor, who sprayed the
air and laid a rug before George
appeared waving lace hankie.
The game was a no-rule, free
for-all that made II impossible for
the score keepers to keep score as
the women used the mems baskets
and vice versa.