Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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SWIM TEAM The words of that famous rat (what a pun!), Horatio Water in the Face, ' Tis better to have loved and won than to have lost at all, ring beautiful music to our water- clogged ears. When we beat Parkway, Castle Frank and Northern we felt as if we were walking on air (or rather, water). But, when we lost, we felt as if we were walking barefoot on nails (ten nails to be exact). You might think we were pretty conceited and that we probably got into hot water with the teachers, but at least we were clean. We didn ' t even demand that the Oracle have our picture with all our names in it, hint! hint! (Editor ' s Note: Sorry fellows, there is not enough advertising to cover expenses, hint! hint!). We had so much fun splashing in the water chasing butterflies with our frogs that some of us even splashed to the finals. These swimmers were Stewart Campbell, Don Wilson. Don Carr, D. Lee, and Allan Weiman. — All in all we brought in a first, second and third. A special note of congratulations belongs to Allan Weiman. He not only came first in the Bantam 50-yard breast-stroke, but he also broke the T.S.S.A.A. record for the event. In other words, Allan Weiman is the fastest Bantam in the record of T.S.S.A.A. swim-meets in the 50-yard breast-stroke. Congratulations Allan Wei- man. The most valuable swimmer awards for Bantam, Junior and Senior were given to Allan Weiman, Stuart Campbell and Peter Petzold, respectively. The team would like to thank the coach, Mr. Gorman, for his kind assist- ance during the season. You see! we aren ' t such a bad lot after all. I admit we don ' t know all there is in swimming from A to Z but we do know what happens in H to O . The Champs: Ail those who wish to be in the front row, raise their right hands. Compliments of FRANK SIMMON ' S MEN ' S WEAR 958 ST. CLAIR AVE. W. Telephone 535-3314 PRIME RESTAURANTS 940 St. Clair Ave. W. and 1575 Eglinton GOOD FOOD — FAIR PRICE Always Welcome! - M.U Get his wallet! I got his watch. La Vogue Credit Jewellers Ltd. NORM ' S BILLIARDS 952 St. CLAIR AVE. W. (OPPOSITE GARWOOD COLLEGIATE) Where You Meet Your Friends QUALITY, SERVICE 2 Air-Conditioned Rooms 10% DISCOUNT TO OAKWOOD STUDENTS 1355 St. Clair Ave. W. SHOWING STUDENT CARDS at Lansdowne 92

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Kneeling: Jim Grant, Gus Falcioni, Sid Ackerman (captain), George Dubinsky. Standing: Mr. R. Q. McKinney, Greg Swaluk, Izzie Horowitz, Doug Richardson, Fred Gentili, Bruce McCully (Mgr.) Absent: Chip Harper, Ed Bobot. Although Seniors opened the season as defending T.S.S.A.A. title-holders, they were somewhat of an un- known commodity. With only three players, Sid Acker- man, Gus Falcioni, and Eddy Bobot returning from last year ' s squad. Blues chances of winning another league crown were rather debatable. In the first league encounter, Oakers started slowly but nevertheless managed to overpower Humberside 42-46, Ackerman was the leading scorer with 21 points, Izzie Horowitz adding 17. Continuing their slow starting procedure, Blues next met Western Tech, whom they beat 69-60. The outstanding player in the game was Doug Richardson, who scored 21 points as well as grabbing 22 rebounds. Parkdale was Blues next victim as Oakers triumphed by the score of 66-55 in a fast moving game. Richardson and Ackerman headed the scoring card with 16 points apiece. Battling for first place Seniors then met Harbord. After the first few minutes there was little doubt as to the outcome. With Gus Falcioni, doing a tremendous defensive job on the opposition ' s leading scorer, Oakers walloped Harbord 68-45. Edy Babot notched 24 points to lead Blues. Oakers ran into foul trouble in the following en- counter as 3 regulars fouled out. They still managed to top Bloor 71-62 due mainly owing to Falcioni ' s excel- lent playmaking. Babot scored 24 with Horowitz adding 11 points and controlling the backboards with 18 rebounds. Rolling along merrily Blues edged Central Commerce 94-57 in a strong team effort in which they hit on 54% of their field goal attempts. Babot hoped 22 points, with George Dubinsky and Ackerman adding 21 each. In the following two weeks, Oakers clinched first place as they crushed Central Tech 77-41, Humberside 61-44, Western 72-33, and Parkdale 72-56. For the Blue and Gold, it was their second consecutive undefeated regular season. Danforth Tech provided the opposition in the quarter- finals, a two game total points affair. Blues bombed Teachers both times by scores of 90-60 and 88-77. In the second game, Ackerman totalled 40 points, the highest individual output by an Oaker in many years. The semi-finals saw Oakwood slated to meet Jarvis. Seniors immediately built a huge lead by downing their opponents 67-38. For the second contest of the series, Blues seemed to be bothered by the huge Jarvis gym. At any rate, they emerged with a narrow 42-40 win, their 33rd victory in a r ow. By now the finals were upon us, Oakwood meeting Harbord. As the game progressed, it was apparent that Blues had suffered a letdown in playing a team they had previously beaten so easily. Oakwood could not get untracked while Harbord had a hot shooting hand. Thus Harbord beat the Blue and Gold 56-46. Oakers hit on 24% of their field goal attempts, their worst average all season, but made 20 out of 24 foul shots. The amaz- ing feature of the game was that Blues lost by only 10 points in a game Harbord dominated. Congratulations to coach, McKinney, all-stars Gus Falcioni, Sid Ackerman, and honourable mention Eddy Babot, and the rest of the squad for a fine season. From the players; our deepest thanks to the best coach in the city, Mr. McKinney, Oakwood! You have a coach to be proud of. 91

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ODDS AND ENDS SCOOP OF THE YEAR (AS SWEET AS ICE-CREAM) Way back in September running, in the shadows of our illustrious football teams, were those blue-clad early-bird, creatures that made up the Cross-Country Team (Sur- prised! aren ' t you?). Why, we even had three Bantams, four Juniors and no Seniors; furthermore we were one of the few Oakwood teams having the distinction of always having a consistent number of spectators. You could put all the spectators, we had into a telephone booth already filled with sixteen teenagers. But do you think we were discouraged? No, of course not, we can resist everything but temptation. In the finals, Joey Fukakusa beat all the others opposition from all the Bantam entries of the OcLkwood team Tim Martin was also the first Junior of Oakwood to finish. Other runners were, Pete Burritt, Steve Chromolok, Tony Casole, Frank Rai- modo and Rocco Grossi. We didn ' t expect much and we certainly weren ' t disappointed. Our thanks go to Mr. Whitney, the coach, for waking us up early, and encour- aging us during the preliminaries and finals. This year we didn ' t have a soccer team; we had two of them. Some people thought we lacked pep; but those people were wrong — that was patience we had. We were very patient, not hospitalized, just patient. We played well. We were footloose and fancy free. We could have used some of those football players as goalies (let us say about a goal-size, solid wall of football players). Don ' t get the impression that we, the seniors were scored upon very easily. We never gave up without a fight. The only trouble was, we couldn ' t put the ball in the basket, I mean through the uprights. Excuse me, what I mean is the net. But oh! those Juniors. Just imagine the nerve they had trying to show up, us, the Seniors. It was nearly as shocking as having a Junior Oakwood Basket- ball Team winning the championship. But our soccer Juniors did quite well, placing third in a round-robin tournament of about eight schools. But look at those Juniors, they only had to play much smaller and inferior competition. Thanks to Mr. Brown, our coach, we had a most enjoyable time even though he refused to help us with our math homework at half-times. Some mem- bers of the teams were: VITTO lOZZO; NAT SCARCELLI; ALEX PASUT; JACK ARBUS; GEORGE SERVONI; LUCIEN TAI TEN QUEE; BOB ANTHONY; SANDY GENTILI; CHRIS PASCUCCI; VINCE lOZZO; GEORGE PADOVINAC; CHIP MAPER; LEN PEZZELLI and ENZO MORELL. And then there was that stick swinging team, not hockey, but tennis team. You ' d think we were a baseball team the way we were swatting flies. You ' d also think we were playing mixed doubles in an affectionate way, love — 15, love — 30 etc. (P.S. only for tennis addicts). We weren ' t too good at losing because we didn ' t lose very often and therefore didn ' t get a chance to become ex- perienced in that art. Don ' t thiiLk we didn ' t practice jump- ing over the net in order to congratulate the loser. This exercise gave us good training and then we made the semi-finals and lost out to the team that went on to win the finals. The team consisted of Dave Whitson as first singles, George Dubinsky as second singles and the double team consisted of combinations of the following: Max Hecht, Fred Gentili, Luiggi Gabriele and Dave Plat- man. Coach, Mr. Whitewood felt that the quality of the tennis played was excellent and expects that next year ' s team will be in the finals. WHAT IVIE WORRY? DON ' T YOU WORRY EITHER BUY ALL YOUR CLOTHES AT EASSON ' S MEN ' S WEAR 954 ST. CLAIR AVE. W. LE 5-8554 93