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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