Archbishop Mitty High School - Excalibur Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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The Concert Band is one of these large aggregations of sixty people where the director probably has to spend half his time standing like a traffic cop. But they ut it together well enough to get to a tour P of Southern California. Practicing three days a week, Mr. Oddo's beautiful people were certainly the best Concert Band Mitty has had to date. Great at the Football Games, the Portugues arade they even P marched for George Murphy. The muscianship of this group is a good indicator of great things in the future. Y' KVI, Mgr: QA --L The quiet, unsung heroes of the Mitty operation have got to be the Library TAS. Under the direction of Mrs. Clorinda Lennon, the patient methodical people make an excellent school library possible. Sometimes they got a little wild with the school stamp on the covers of the latest magazinesg but mostly, good people in an unknown job. tx . 5 ,c f w Q The Frosh A basketball team started well under Coach Peterson as they picked up ten wins against one defeat in pre-league, but then came acropper as they fell before other WCAL frosh Luiits. Coach Peterson identified his number two scorer, jim Blamey as his most consistent performer5 took spec ial note of the play of number one scorer, Terry Vane, reed-thin Sean O'Kane and quick, young Mark Messier. Basketball at Mitty is definitely looking up because of the excellent coaching and continued commitment seen at the Frosh level. If 1 had The cross cotuitry program has come many miles under Coach Bob Buoncristiani. Many many many miles. Hills. Creeks. Miles. Most surprising new- comer was Chris Griggs. Mike Haniger, essentially a middle distance runner, was superb again as a senior.

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ORGANIZATIONS One of the most pleasant new traditions at Mitty are the always laughing song girls lead by Patrice O'Connell. Staring during Football season they per- formed throughout basketball season. Spirit Chair- man Tony Bozini coordinated the election and de- velopment of the group which included Karen O'Connell, Linda Soto, Carol lngebratsen, Theresa Struss, Debbie Burns, and Diane Smith. if r 5 K 5 Here, imaginatively lined up before the illustrious front entrance of Mitty High School, protecting any further possibility of theft, the noble senators of our illustrious republic. These are the students whose responsibility was the representation and legislation of student body needs. They ate lunch together several drnes a week and gave student body Presi- dent Dennis Navarra something to think about. You've heard of Duffy Daugherty, Ara and Pete Petrinovich? That's right, old under-the-jersey, reverse reverse, statue -- who needs to worry about won-loss record-- to Mitty with a pretty mediocre bunch of freshmen footballers , brought them from grammar school flag flingers to a fairly game, hard-hitting crew. Willing to play they were kind of frosh who 1 er quit and, according to their young, well-liked coach, had their greatest game against Sacred Heart, 25-O. Coach Pete labelled Pat Haniger his most consistent performer, also citing Ferrara, Castagani, Owens, Laine, Malinski, and Blair. High scorer was Swartz with six touchdowns. The freshmen B basketball team, led by methoc Brother Mike Chu, S.M. , played excellent deff developed extraordinary patience for freshmen 1 ers. Their leading scorer was big Lou Howe, most consistent were Terry Murray and Mark Havstad, WCAL Champs.

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'Xi The Monarch Varsity Soccer Team had a difficult task defending the WCAL title won the previous year. Starting slow, then dogged by injuries in the first round of play, the Monarchs were anchored by one of the finest players in the state, Pat Higgins. Higgins set a league record of four goals one match, only to have it broken the next match by a fellow senior, Tom Fleischli, five against Sacred Heart. For awhile a freshman was starting, but to every- one's surprise, sophomore Mike Benton came on rapidly to complement the forward play of Gene Mim Mack. In '71-'72 Dave Chapli.k's booters are in for a rough go as fine defensive players like Dan Stringari, Chris Baggott, and jeff Schwertly are lost to graduation. The Pep Band, lead by Russ Hughes and Art Greco, consisted of ten to fifteen people Qdepending on the weatherj most of whom were also in the stage band. They played at all basketball games and some rallies. When the song girls needed late practices, they were always ready to oblige fwho could refusej racticin before ames whenever whatever Dave if S I P 8 S , 1 - Azevedo played drums some. Kolegraff pumped the Sousaphone. Mr. Oddo helped keep it all together. The band leans to brass though occassionally one could lean down close and hear a tootle from Brad Chames, piccolo and flute. English TA's were student teachers. This kind of things has never been done before, especially with such success. Working under the direction of Mr. Michael Slack, a graduate Ph.D. candidate at Stanford, these seniors Qand some outstanding jun- iorsj worked with the new freshmen program, study- ing film, media types, grammar, short stories, and composition. A - sr!! WA - .,...-- fx' -.,.., M .f'Ax 'r'M ' ., . W 1 K K K 4 I, ,r ,. D1 The Senate does the talking, but the Executive Board provides the leadership to get the job done. Outstanding certainly was Tony Bozini, Spirit Chair man. Led by S. B. President Navarra, this crew did the things some schools put faculty in charge of. B ia,,xr