Danforth Technical School - Tech Tatler Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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54 TECH THTLER TUMBLDN2 Every other Wednesday after 3.30 throughout the winter months the girls' gym was packed with athletically-minded girls tumbling or trying to. This year, for the first time in the school's history, the girls sported special costumes-red corduroy shorts and flashy white satin blouses-for the Annual Exhibition. With Miss White and the leaders constantly directing them the Danforth gals are developing nicely, stiff necks and sore backs are now in the past and graceful front and back rolls, nip-ups, handstands, headstands, dives and pyramids are no longer regarded as rare accidents but as quite the expected thing. Most proficient among our performers to date have been Joan Black, Lois Tinkham, Adele Barnctte, joan Griffan, Joan Watmough, Marg Atkins, Anne Bexpolock, Marian Dalton, Isa- belle Alexander, Joan Howes, Eila Aineskorpi, Bette Burford, Lillian Watmough, Marilyn Hambly, and Dolores Howard. SWWMNUNG Supervision of girls' swimming was taken over by Miss Day this year, and she had excellent turn-outs for all three divisions-the Royal Life-Saving Classg the junior, Intermediate, and Senior Canadian Red Cross groups, and the Ornamental Swimming team. Pat Oliver and Eleanor Terrell, both excellent swimmers themselves, took charge of the Ornamental Swimming and managed to produce a nearly perfect show for the Annual D.T.S. Exhibition. The mermaids were Pat Oliver, Mae Genno, Joan Lester, Lorraine Kronkeit, Sylvia Hawke, jackie Kershner, Gladys Hornby, Hilda Maguire, Betty Garrett, Eleanor Terrell, Mona McCarthy, Barbara Blackhall, Barbara Hazelton, Irene Lochead, Barbara Daniells, and Dorothy Eaken. BASKETBALL january-February's big interest in girls' sports was, as usual, basketball. This season saw a return to strict girls' rules instead of last year's combination of girls' and boys' regulations. Although the change was greeted with groans, it evidently did not interfere with the hoopsters' fun as they turned out in larger numbers than ever. The tournament took the form of a round-robin, duly appointed cura- tors saw to it that games did not lag, that points were properly allotted, and that equipment was looked after. Isabelle Alexander undertook the job for XI and XII, Frances Watt for X, and Bette Burford for IX. After many staff set-tos and a few bruised bodies-despite the girls' rules- V4C and VZA emerged as the two top teams. Members of the senior aggregation are june Myers, Eileen Black, Mable Venman, Isabelle Alexander, Bette Burford, Eila Aineskorpi, and Audrey Riceg junior title-holders are Fran Watt, Betty Ro- gers, Stella Morris, Dorothy Dafoe, Dorothy Fulcher, Adele Barnett and Shirley Comport. Special note: both teams won all games in their respective divisions.

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TECH THTLER 53 his heels. jim Locke topped the juniors with McRoberts and McVeigh placing second and third. In the T.S.S.A.A. do at High Park Mr. Soloman's coaching garnered a decisive first place for the junior team comprising Bill Hatton, jack McRoberts, Ross Wal- ton, Dave Calder, and Phillip McVeigh while Ledlie, Nicholson, Quance, Wood and White of the senior squad were nosed out of first spot by only a yard or two to cap- ture an easy second. A A BASKETBALL D.T.S. marched into the city semi-finals after a short schedule thrown together in the odd moments permitted by Bob Saunders' Hydro power black-out. The Red and White power plant for these regular games centred about the high-scoring trio of Abrams, Otto, and Petroff with Rickett turning in a basket-laden tally as the occasion arose. Central Commerce, however, managed to capture both chapters of the semi- finals despite the respectable two-game personal totals of 23 and 18 chalked up by Don Abrams and Don Otto respectively. Tl-IE GIRL HND TI-IE GHfTlE VOLLEYBALL The sports limelight for September and October focussed attention on the American G.I.'s favourite sport, volleyballg every Tuesday and Thursday enthu- siasts congregated in the girls' gym to show their stuff in the intra-mural tourna- ment. With Miss White as instructress and Guelda Goodyear as curator, winning teams finally emerged as V4C, MSG, VZA, and VIB. The season was topped off by a specially arranged inter-school match with Eastern Commerce. This ended quite happily as the two schools divided honours, with our neighbours taking the jun- ior set and the Red and White seniors capturing their end of proceedings. BADMINTON The Badminton Club also got under way early in the year. After a few weeks of practice and general limbering up the Sisters of the Shuttlecock met in a doubles tournament. Luella Leech and Geri Locke paired up to trim Dolores Howard and Guelda Goodyear for top honours. The success of the tandem tourney created a demand for the addition of singles championships and inter-school challenge matches for next year. . CHEER-LEADERS Following weeks of practice, strenuous competition before a packed auditor- ium, and a final seeding-out by the P.T. Staff, the survivors of a starting field of thirty-four in the annual cheer-leading tournament were Pauline Cumming, Bette Burford, Isabelle Alexander, Eila Aineskorpi, George Hatfield, Bob Fergus and Ross Brown. Climax to the season's tonsil-torturing activity came with the final T.S.S.A.A. rugby game and the award to the D.T.S. rabble-rousers of the Cheer-leaders' Tro- phy, presented annually for precision and originality in cheers, trimness of cos- tume, and the volume of response from the bleachers.

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