Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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BUCCANEER - 1937 79 -nn1ml....,,,,..,,,,1,,u1,.n.-nn-,.,,..,m1ml-.HH1mi.-ml-.HH1 .-. ..,- 1 1 .- 1m,1,,.,1n.- 11.11.-,,,l1 1 .- 1 .-un-,,,,..n, Q3-3.-ifvif' Q-H QWFUVF MY Modesto Junior College Rally Committee new peak when the Kurtz coached groaners won several matches from teams of other schools and organiza- tions. This was the Hrst year that wrestling matches had been held out- side of school. A tournament resulted in Clayton Shane winning the heavy- weight championship, Rufus Norton taking the light heavyweight, Elton Owens, middleweightg Hugo Pink, welterweight, and Keith Hughes, light- weight. A rifle tournament, with a formid- able array of the school,s deadeyes com- peting, brought Gwynne Vanciel a coveted championship. Other of the year's intra-mural activities included baseball, volleyball, horseshoes, track, and ping-pong with the facilities for these sports furnished by the intra-mural department. Forcing school enthusiasm to its highest pitch, the Rally Committee, headed in the fall semester by Saverio Cimino and in the spring by Carl Ahee, Yell Leaders Ralph Knapp and Jennings Lee prepared rallies, ushered at athletic events and worked up between-halves skits. The group also had charge of the noise parade and bonfire preceeding the Sacramento football game, and con- ducted the spring frolic activities: pa- rade, contests, waterpull and dance.

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78 1937 - BUCCANEER --l.--l.n.1- ... 1 :1 1 .1 1 1 1 1 1 .1 1. .1 ...1 - ,.,.-...1i1 11... 1 1m.....,..1un...vw-HH1..,.,....w,.1nu.-.,,.,...m WM Four ace Pirate golfers :V , ri, X T gh, . ZJWJJ? .J K A 13,1 , i nh -.lf fr' ,...,,f- tl I . J J 1 ju ,siiiii 1. J' 'JY , ILL.. i .5 L,?ffF5'5 . all 'QW B Q., W i H, mi i , , . 5 .QW : ,,..., -C H -. , ma-E.n.Q?. INTRA-MURAL SPORTS, directed by Paul R. Kurtz, furnished a program of varied recreational activities for many men students this year with competi- tion in all sports from ping-pong to baseball. The purpose of the intra-mural program, according to Kurtz was to give all students Who were interested in sports an opportunity to compete in organized recreational activities. The program was enlarged considerably over last year and included competition in seven sports. The fall semester saw a lively race for the basketball championship with twenty-nine teams, most of them from gym classes, competing for the top- notch position. The Winning team Was captained by Charles Boynes with Wil- bur Antonellfs hoopsters bringing up a close second. During the spring, Wrestling, al- though a non-letter sport, reached a Pirate varsity swimming team . V.: W... -ft Nl? 1 ' . vm :M 294

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so ' 1937 - BUCCANEER -1m1.m1.,,,,1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1lm1,,,,..nn1uu1m,1ml.1,m.1ul1....,, AV' 09 in Miss Catherine Finlayson and Miss Fay Quisenberry co-eds' coaches RIFLES, Aimows, tennis racquets and baseball bats among other imple- ments of sports warfare mingled gayly in the small space of this past semester to make the women's athletes' season a busy one for the young ladies and their coaches, Miss Fay Quisenberry and Miss Catherine Finlayson. Glancing over the accomplishments of that period we hnd: Septembefs most noteable events- the capacity sign-up for the new class in rifling, coached by Miss Quisenberry, and the seventeen entrants in the new Lfw singles tennis tournament introduced by WAA president, Betty Chow. Early in November, Louise Cowen's volleyball team played a five-game series undefeated to win the sports class championship, Alice Lopez's team fol- lowing closely with four wins, and Grace Dinsdale's team with three. Georgia Capp's sophomore hockey team claimed the hockey championship series in the last of November. Two new highs were set in archery on December 4 when Muriel Miller shot 201 points including five bullseyes, -up M is ii if 1 ' M ,W 'ini' fvzff' semi 'v -- 1 A ,A um gage ligase w,f1'e,wQ.! , we we me - F.: .ai i Muriel Miller, Georgia lpps, Betty Chow, Alice woez, Marguerite Manero