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In 1963, I finally made the cheerleading squad (I was an alternate) due to one of the girls braking her leg snow skiing. I was thrilled. We had a game in Lapeer, Michigan. It was one of those foul raining almost cold enough to snow days. There was no one in the stands. Only the players and cheerleaders were insane enough to be out in that nasty weather. But this was my moment of glory, I had the cute uniform, sassy hairdo, I was a cheerleader!The tradition was that during half time the cheerleading teams did welcome cheers to the opponet team. There I was front and center. I went to do my split eagle jump, my saddle shoe got stuck and came off in the mud and I landed on my glory. Red faced and mortified, my teammates pulled me out of the mud bath and I spent the rest of the game wraped in a blanket with tears running down my face. I changed to student council after that.LOL One of the reason's that I will never forget Lapeer!!!!!
__________________  Dannie The Silver Queen |