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S i u e p F y
Students snake their way
Junior Rob Bruening
through Homecoming
By Shellie Conley
Curving and winding up Park Drive
they went. Some were rowdy and
enjoyed this event. Some were out of
breath and dropped behind, but these
people got pepped up once they saw
the high school ahead. These spirited
Ralston High Students had participated
in the traditional Snake Dance on
Wednesday night during Homecoming
Week.
Starting from the Orville Smith
baseball field, these couple of hundred
students joined hands and made their
way to the high school football field in a
snake-like fashion. The band led the
way at first, but was soon passed by the
long line of "snakers". The varsity
football players had a leisurely ride on a
Ralston fire truck which made a few
"gasping for breath" runners wish they
played football.
When all the "snakers", plus a few
more people who had waited up by the
school, finally reached the football field,
there was a pep rally in celebration of
Homecoming. Victory cries for the
upcoming Homecoming game against
Papillion were given by some of the
varsity football players. There also was
a performance by the drill team with a
peppy dance to the Beach Boys'
"Surfin'* and pom pon routines by the seniors’ usual win.
“Nice catch”, thinks Junior Rick Gray as he watches
his fellow teammate, Amy Nuss. try desperately to
hang on to the ball during Blind Man’s Football.
A group of “snakers” begin their long journey down
Park Drive to the high school from Orville Smith
Field during the Snake Dance.
cheerleaders. A contest for class spirit
proved the juniors were the rowdiest.
Dana Sorenson, a junior, says her
favorite part of the entire event was "
the feeling of school spirit everywhere
and everybody getting rowdy."
Another traditional Homecoming
activity was Mock Olympics. This
activity took place during 7th and 8th
periods on Friday during Homecoming
Week and involved almost three- .
fourths of the school including the f
spectators and participants in the
events.
There were five events which the
students and faculty could sign up for.1
These included the cookie toss, blind
man's football, an egg toss, an orange
pass and a surprise event. This
surprise event was a contest to see
which class could have a blindfolded
girl feed her guy partner two whole
bananas the quickest. The cookie
toss, a newer version of the people
pass, was enjoyed by the participants,
as well as the spectators.
Mary Keearns, junior, says of this
new event, ”1 liked it the best. It was
funny the way people went flying into
the air."
At the end the points were tallied up .
for all the events and resulted with the
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