Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Two Pros Are Faculty Members; (One Male - The Other Female) For three easy lessons on how to “bag” a homecoming queen just ask Mr. Ron Mellen, teacher and coach at Assumption. A native of Chicago, Mr. Mellen settled in Davenport after mar- rying Miss Jackie Alger, the home- coming queen at St. Ambrose Academy in 1954.. Mr. Mellen is sophomore baseball and basketball coach and assistant foot- ball coach for the varsity. He received experience in these sports by playing football at St. Ignatius high school in Chicago, and two years of basketball for St. Ambrose College. Mr. Mellen also played pro baseball for the New York Yankee farm club in Peoria, Illinois, until he was side- lined with an injury. Besides his coaching duties, Mr. Mel- len teaches two classes of sophomore English and one class of junior Ameri- can literature. He plans to start work on a Masters degree in English at the University of Iowa next summer. Mr. and Mrs. Mellen and their four- month-old son live at Lilly and Lo- cust streets. At present the youthful-looking coach is recuperating from a cut over the eye, incurred in a tussel with Fr. Mann in the gym. Four stitches closed the wound. Frosh Gridders Open at Muny Fr. Charles Mann, Fr. William Daw- son, Tony Navarro, and Jerry Brook- hart are busily running their fresh- man charges through their paces in preparation for the opening game with North Scott at Municipal Stadium Tuesday. “Good desire and lots of hustle are helping to make up for inexperience,” Father Mann com- mented. Fifty candidates reported for the start of practices when school com- menced but the squad was trimmed to 35 after the annual jamboree last week. In the jamboree three Frosh squads scrimmaged each other under game- like conditions before the watchful eyes of the four coaches. John Burke, Steve Sulles, and Joe Kehoe quarterbacked the three squads with Jim Kellenberger, Dick Braun, and Dave Schlitter scoring the three touchdowns of the evening. Heavy- weights Steve Miclot and Bill Dono- hoo will add beef to the team. Look- ing over the prospects Fr. Mann called the spirit “excellent with close competition for the starting slots.” Are you Assumptionites all aware that we have among our faculty a com- bination former track star, baseball pitcher, hockey star, and Iowa Univer- sity physical education major? Then it’s about time we revealed her. She is Miss Marian Thornton, who is now using this past training to teach gym in the girls’ division. After graduating from Evanston high school, Miss Thornton attended the University of Iowa, where she majored in physical education and minored in science. Preceeding her college gradu- ation, she taught physical education in Freeport, 111. Miss Thornton, who has always liked sports, took an active part in the sports prorgam all during her school years. In high school she played for the North Shore Hockey Association and for a summer softball team which placed first in the all-city tournament two years in a row. As a student at Iowa University, she made a record by run- ning the 75-yard dash in 8-1 seconds. The All American Girls’ Baseball Lea- gue in Chicago claimed Miss Thorn- ton in the years after her college grad- uation. Now residing at 1625 20th St., Rock Island, Miss Thornton finds time for her interests outside teaching at As- sumption. Her favorite sport, tennis, ranks high on her list. She also does a notable amount of ceramics work, leather handicraft, and work in her 60 ’by 20’ garden. How does she manage to work all these things in her tight schedule? “The things you like, you can always somehow find time to do,” Miss Thorn- ton explains. GRA Ratify Plans Officers and prospective members of Assumption’s new Girls’ Recreation Association met for the first time Sept. 22, in the school gym. They ratified the club’s constitution and agreed on a point system for sport participation. G.R.A. officers elected last spring include Janice Stolmeier ’60, vice-pres- ident and acting president, Mary Bo- hrer ’61, secretary and treasurer, and Louise DeZorzi ’62, program chairman. Awads, determined by the point sys- tem, will be presented at the spring sports’ assembly. A special trophy will be given to the senior girl who has ac- cumulated the most points in four years. Other awards will include G.R.A. pins, numerals, felt monograms, and red chenille “A’s.” In order to receive any award a girl must earn at least 75 points. cf)00l Jlctus continental suit Here it Is! Designed strictly for young men. shaplicr cut. slimmer trousers. You’ve got to come in and try one on! $3995 Gym Leaders Girate Assisting Miss Thornton in phy-ed classes is the main purpose of the new- ly organized gym leaders of Assump- tion. Senior leader Barb Snell ’60, ex- plains that “The main purpose of a senior leader is to help take attend- ance, keep order in the class, help referee games, and keep score after school and class activities.” The func- tion of a junior leader is to become acquainted with and be trained for the duty of a senior leader. 13

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Sister s Father Pitched For The Chi White Sox “My dad never talked much about his playing days, but I wish he were still alive so he could go to the World Series,” recalled Sister Mary Borgia, Assumption teacher, in a reminescent mood recently. Her dad, known to the baseball world as “Butcher Boy” Joe Benz, was a member of the last White Sox pen- nant winners in 1919. Benz pitched only one game that year for the team that later became famous as the Black Sox because eight players accepted bribes to “throw” the World Series that fall. Upon his release early in the 1919 season Benz was presented with a life time pass to all the Sox home games. When he died two years ago this pass was given to his son and because of this Sister Borgia’s brother secured four tickets for this week’s Series games. “My mother has been bom- barding the Sox front office for sev- eral weeks now asking for tickets,” Sister Borgia added, “but with no suc- cess so far.” The publicity and photography di- rector of Assumption remembered that her dad was especially proud of his no-hitter against Cleveland in 1914. The hitless gem put the former Chi- cago meat market helper in baseball’s mythical Hall of Fame of no-hit hur- lers. Only two balls w’ere hit out of the infield but two walks and three errors marred his bid for a perfect per- formance. The no-hitter against Cleveland was the 26th of the 76 victories he won in nine years of major league pitch- ing but he also lost 76 despite a ster- ling 2.43 earned run average. His best year was 1915 when he won 15 and lost 11 and the following two years he won 15 and lost only eight. In 1917 he won six of nine decisions as he helped the Sox in their second flag in American League history. Heading his baseball memories af- ter his retirement was the testimonial dinner given in his honor in October 1954 by many of his former team- mates. A paragraph from the program of that dinner called Joe Benz “. . . a great player, a gentleman on and off the field, a fine neighbor, a friend of all who knew him — a pal of a guy.” “I wish I could get tickets,” Sister was heard murmuring as she took off down the hall on another of her busy days around Assumption. “You and a million other people,” I mumbled as I resigned myself to a seat in front of the television for the remaining Series games. Netmen Finish Fall Training The last of two fall tennis matches, both with D.H.S., was played Wed- nesday afternoon to complete the first fall tennis schedule in the history of Assumption or St. Ambrose Academy. Fr. Gerald Kraus coached the net- sters in the absence of spring coach Fr. Arthur Perry who is assistant sophomore football coach. Why the sudden decision to have fall tennis? “Several players were in- terested and we figured it would help develop better players for the coming spring,” Father Kraus stated. He con- tinued, “We kept it short because of the late start and the desire of a cou- ple of players to play sophomore foot- ball.” The fall matches will be figured in with the spring maches to determine letter-winners. Fifteen aspirants re- ported for opening practice with John Jayne and John Lammers fighting for top spot and Ron Rehmann and Bob Young battling for the third position. According to Father Kraus, Young, a junior transfer student from Decatur, has looked good in early practice ses- sions. The Assumption netmen won their first match with Davenport 6-3 as the four top players won fairly easily. Father Kraus was pleased with the performance and praised the enthus- iasm of the players. “You’ve had your chance!” challenged Coach Walton in his calm but effective talk addressing the student body at the pep rally preceding the DUS game. K worked! Sophs Romp in Opening Games Hard work and 100% co-operation have helped mold this team into an eager outfit that will win its share of games,” sophomore football coach “Babe” Derouin said in a recent in- terview. Derouin is assisted by Fr. Arthur Perry, former Notre Dame gridder. Thirty seven reported for practice August 24 and all 37 were still out with a month of the season elasped. “The front line on defense of John Fiese, Mike Abbott, Don Miller, Bob Deluhery, Mike McGee, Barney Pur- cell, and Mike Quigley has looked good at times,” commented Coach De- rouin. Karl Noonan has sparked the offensive end of the attack augmented by A1 Rashid, Clarence Mason, and Dave Aldape. Another outstanding prospect, fullback Stan Maliszewski, was forced to sit out this year because of a broken leg suffered in baseball last spring. The sophomores rolled to a 19-0 vic- tory over the North Scott reserves and 28-14 rout of Bettendorf’s sopho- mores in their two starts before be- ing humbled 20-7 in the Davenport game. 12

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