Admiral Farragut Academy - Buccaneer Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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Q5 6 HISTURU Ui THE ULHSS Ui i955 This is The sTory of The Class of '.55 , The finesT senior class ever To graduaTe from FarraguT. The Class was born in SepTember, l948, wiTh The arrival of Mike Gaynor and Harry PeTricek, soon followed by Bill Soenksen and Marshall Simon in January, T949 The opening of The nexT school year broughT in FriTz Fleming, and Derwin SmiTh, The Class day sTudenT. Don Laughner and woman-hafer Ken Headley followed in l94O, making a ToTal of eighT in Their lasT year in The Junior School. These eighT Thus formed The nucleus for The young Class of '55 which was To sTarT iTs four year career The following SepTember. When The Class enTered iTs Freshman year aT FarraguT, iT was enlarged by The addiTion of eighT new cadeTs, namely: Felix Blanco, Ivan Cavaliere, Lee Harrison, Maurice Heilbron, Dave John, Don Keenan, PresTon Murphy, and Ray Warner. The Class made iTs firsT impacT on FarraguT affairs This Freshman year when Don Keenan made firsT sTring on The varsiTy fooTball Team, and Derwin SmiTh made varsiTy baseball. Joe Carinhas, Dan Wieskopf, and Fred Lambach were The only new members To come in during The Sophomore year. They enTered when The Class was really begin- ning To make iTself known, wiTh Don Laughner on The firsT sTring varsiTy fooTball Team alongside of Keenan, who also made our presence TelT by making The varsiTy baskeTball Team. The Class really sTarTed making an ouTsTanding name for iTself in iTs Junior year when Ten new sTudenTs enTered FarraguT in The persons of Ed Bomar, who joined The Class in January, while Chuck Buell, Guy Bryon, Richard CarTer, Barry Durgin, Dave PeaTTie, Mike Remick, George SchifTer, STeve Thompson, and Hurley Zook all began The Junior year in SepTember. This was The year when Keenan and Laughner were ioined by Dave PeaTTie on The varsiTy 'fooTball Team, and when Keenan began his second Term on The varsiTy baskeTball Team. OThers puT The Class' name in headlines in iunior varsiTy sporTs-Fred Lambach and Felix Blanco in fooTball, and Ken Headley on The Rifle Team. WiTh These leTTermen in varsiTy sporTs, we now had Three members of The Monogram Club. We also claimed four members in The FarraguT MaTes-Bomar, John, Murphy, and Cavaliere. ln This, iTs Senior year, The Class has esTablished iTself as The finesT of FarraguT's graduaTing classes. Eleven new cadeTs broughf our ToTal membership up To forTy. These new cadeTs were John Amos, Cal Canfield, Barney Cooper, George Fuller, Don King, Bill OuTTen, Bill Phillips, Dennis Reeser, Bob Sorensen, and PeTe McLean. Bruce Nevins enTered iusT afTer cadeTs PeTricek, SchifTer, and Weiskopf graduaTed aT The end of The firsT semesTer. The Class boasTed eleven leTTermen on The varsiTy fooTball squad of TwenTy-six This year. These cadeTs-Bomar, Fleming, Gaynor, Heilbron, John, Keenan, Lambach, Laugh- ner, Murphy, PeaTTie, and Smifh made up The nucleus of '54's Team wiTh Don Laughner as Team capTain. Buell, John, Keenan, Nevins, and SmiTh, wiTh Keenan as capTain, leTTered in varsiTy baskeTball-five ouT of a squad of nine, Ivan Cavaliere was capTain of The soccer Team, wiTh eighT oTher senior TeammaTes who were: Blanco, Bryon, Durgin, Flem- ing, Gaynor, Heilbron, King, and OuTTen. This was The firsT year ThaT a varsiTy soccer Team represenTed FarraguT, and The Team Took second place in The ST. PeTersburg Soccer League. Six seniors, Buell, Durgin, Fleming, Gaynor, King, and SmiTh, wiTh The laTTer as capTain, leTTered in baseball. Our membership in The Monogram Club reached iTs peak aT fifTeen, and we claimed members in all organizaiions, clubs, and sporTs. On lviay 28, The Class will graduaTe and iTs members will disband To follow Their desTinies in whaTever The fufure may hold for Them. Behind, They leave an enviable and permanenT record of Their achievemenTs and honors for The fuTure classes of FarraguT To sTrive To maTch and surpass. QQ bra