Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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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

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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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81 Outstanding M. J. C. women athletes and a new beginners' record when her team, Virginia Mae Porter, Marie Hart- ley, and Gertrude Edminister, totaled 601 counters, tops in team scoring. Four days later the sophomore arch- ery team outshot the freshman team by over 200 points to win the inter-class archery shoot. December 11 found forty-five co- eds piled into a school but journeying to playday at the College of Pacific. Just before Christmas vacation the freshman swimming team, captained by Jeanne Cool, outdid the sophomores under Shirley Reed at the Presbyterian Church pool with freshman Helen Wilming taking the limit of 175. She placed Hrst in every event she entered. Forty co-eds swarmed Fred Earle's skiing class to learn about christys and stem turns. The spring award assembly left white black M sweaters for outstand- ing performance in women's sport's with Miss Lopez, Miss Capps, Miss Mil- ler, Marguerite Manero, and Miss Chow. Frosh and sophs tied for the school Natural dancing by a student group basketball championship on March 1 with four teams each, but sharpshoot- ing Lucy Batt scored enough points to put the frosh into a11 early lead in the deciding game which they managed to hold to win the championship on March l 5' . Another playday troup sallied forth on April 10 to attend the annual tri- angle MJC-COP-SJC event held this year on the campus of the Sacramento college.