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

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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

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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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GIRLS SPORTS SENIOR VOLLEYBALL JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL f % Judy Schwager, Cherry Cox, Joan Bourre, Tracy Ellis, Peggy Sault. Back, L. to R.: Dorrit Demeter, Sandra Simon, Baldine Williams, Roberta Pecoe, Rose Mary Hewitt, Marilyn Spanu, Bianca Falconi. JUNIOR SPEEDBALL Top Row, L. to R.: Gail Richardson, Anita Laveque, Marilyn Voden, Baldine Weems, Antonetta Tiberia. Bottom Row, L. to R.: Rita Harrison, Jean McArce, Lui- gine Pazzinato, Branca Talcori, Helen Mason. SPEEDBALL Df the After many hard fought games in the early he 10 BM emerged as the speedball champions of the lower school, upper school, no actual winner was declared, but all of the played with a great deal of exhuberance. Many thanks to the Cherry Cox. her assistant and Mrs. Earle, the sponsor. SENIOR AND JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL TEAMS The teams this year were comprised of enthusiastic girls who, under the watchful eyes of their coach Mrs. Meek, spent many a Thursday morning serving vol ley balls into the nets. The Junior team showed great possibilities, but as for the Senior team, I can only say that they had great spirit. We tried something new this year in respect to volleyball games. Instead of regularly scheduled games we initiated a tournament, in which nearly two hundred girls from different schools invaded Oakwood one Saturday morning. The tournament was a huge success and everyone enjoyed themselves immensely. The success was almost entirely due to the effort and time exerted by Mrs. Meek. We extend to her our thanks and admiration. BADMINTON The badminton season, although short this year, proved quite suc- cessful. In the senior school Christie Chalmers took singles and Gab- riele Haussmann and Ginny Vanstone took the doubles. Anne Wood took on all comers in grade 11 and emerged the victor while Inge Gregush and Shiela Robertson did the same in doubles. Ping Pong was enjoyed every noon hour basement. It proved very successful under tl- Harrison. this winter in the girls ' - watchful eye of Lynne 94