30-foot trebuchet (reaching an overall height of 61 feet), called Zephyrus, but takes two more years to complete her machine. May 10, 1975 The contest is once again held on the Stafford Road catapult field. Wayne H.S.’s Imperator sets two records, hurling a 20-pound rock 369 feet, and a 30-pound rock 280 ft. Wayne H.S. Latin students win the Forth National Catapult Contest. North Central’s Mary Hood continues to work on Zephyrus. The contest is featured in the magazine Seventeen (May 1975). May 15, 1976 This year 41 machines in seven states competed… 22 of them in Indianapolis. Mary Hyde completes Zephyrus on the Stafford Road catapult field and sets a record, hurling 75-[pimd rock 623 feet. North Central H.S. Latin students win the Fifth National Catapult Contest. The contest is covered in the New York Times (May 18, 1976, p. 31) and in Sports Illustrated (June 7, 1976, pp. 64 & 66). Mary Hyde is invited to appear on ABC’s To Tell the Truth. May 14, 1977 Sixth and final year of the Pompeiiana-sponsored National Catapult Competition on the Stafford Road catapult field. Mary Hyde’s Zephyrus sweeps the national competition, setting all the records for a heavy weight trebuchet, hurling a 10-pound rock 779 feet, and surpassing the goal set in 1966, by hurling Park-Tudor’s originally rejected "Flying Balls Mean Dying Gauls" 100-pound rock 579 feet. Unfortunately, there was no local or national coverage of this final competition. Only home movies taken by Mr. Hyde recorded Mary’s record-setting shots. So long as the Stafford Road field remains undeveloped by Washington Township Schools, catapult remnants will, no doubt, remain visible among the weeds. Although all of Zephyrus’ shots are world records, Guinness declined to publish them because they do not want to encourage such a dangerous activity. Partial List of all Schools & Catapults built from 1966–1977 in the National Catapult Contest Andrew Jackson HS, South Bend IN, Sebenalis Arvada Senior HS, Arvada CO, Argo I Battle Ground Academy, Franklin TN, Otus & Ephialtus Bay Senior HS, Bay St. Louis, MS, Hercules Ben Davis HS, Indianapolis IN, *Machina Gigantum, Vesuvius Black River Falls HS, Black River Falls WI, Numerare De Ad Voluptaria Bonnibar Private School, Houston TX, Stella Sola I, Stella Sola II Brookhaven HS, Brookhaven MS, Bellator, Nessus, Sanguinarius Brownsburg HS, Brownsburg IN, Curvum Lignum, Jactura, Pegasus Chardon HS, Chardon OH, Lapidum Jaculator Culver Military Academy, Culver IN, Cerberus