East Fairmont High School - Orion Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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track front row-left to right-alberico, manager, Cain, killian, helm, pileggi, poe, rosenberger, stalnaker, lewis, coach. second row-greco, hufl, bosley, weiss, antolick, anselene, jaynes, foley. third rowgparrella, burner, ruthford, Clem, mccune, williams, greco, graziani, wilfong, greco, assistant manager. last row'-harris, Vukovich, willis, barnes, Curtis, foley. hanimack, yoho, marks. Coffman, janes. track activities at this time of the season it is hard to tell what kind ol' a track team will represent the school, but from all indications it will be a fast one. several ol' the best men of last year's team are not back, but their places will be ably filled by the new material that has come into the school since then. we are going to take part in the big state meet at Clarksburg, and we are going to take part in a manner that will make some of our opponents sit up and take notice as well as get up and stretch their muscles. the team is under the proficient management oi' coach lewis. seventy-three

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ty-t I 938 cross country front row-left to right-rudolph williams, captain henry helm ,jack rosenberger. back row-left to righteellsworth cain, gloy stalnaker, coach lewis, denver holcomb, clarence lynn. names according to picture. cross country I 938 the 1938 cross country team has had one of the most successful seasons that the runners have enjoyed since the sport was initiated as a competitive sport. wheeling territory was invaded to the tune of 18 to 37, only to run a close score at cannonsburg to take second place. traveling to newark, new jersey, to compete in the twelfth annual national cross country race on thanksgiving day, the bees crossed the finish line to retain the mason-dixon trophy. acting captain, henry clay helm, covered the two and one-half miles in 13:44 for seventeenth place at the newark meet. the other bees came in at positions to total 621 points. other members of the cross country team were clarence lynn, junior carpenter, gloy stalnaker, rudolph williams, ellsworth cain, jack rosenberger, denver holcomb, and glenn tallman. in the last tri-state meet at bethany the harriers took second place to capture new laurels and proved to be a most powerful unit in the athletic career of east fairmont. hopes for winning 1939 teams are darkened somewhat by the fact that henry helm, clarence lynn, ellsworth cain, denver holcomb and jack rosen- berger all are to graduate this spring.

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intra-mural athletics intramural sports began at the east fairmont high school in 1932. through the excellent leadership of mary wilson and earl sprouse, the intramural sports have been a great success this year. the class tournament opened this year with the freshman boys playing the sophomore boys and the junior girls vs. the senior girls. both of these games were thrilling and were witnessed by a large crowd. the sophomore boys and the junior girls emerged victorious in the opening round. the sophomore lads eliminated the freshman 2'r to 21 and the junior lassies defeated the seniors 24 to 15. both games were interesting, hard fought affairs. the second night of the class tournament found the junior boys vs. the senior bays playing a hard fighting battle and the freshman girls vs. the sophomore girls giving all they had to their teams. the winners of these two games namely: sophomore girls and the sophomore boys, met the junior girls and the senior boys in the finals, which were played the following night. the senior boys tackled the sophomore boys while the sophomore girls tried to halt the junior girls, but the senior boys and the junior girls crashed through with victories over the sophomore lads and lassies to cop the annual east fairmont class basketball tournament before a large crowd at the east high gym. a last rally enabled the senior boys to trim the sophomore boys to the tune of 28 to 21 and the junior girls who have never been defeated since entering high school and have taken the tournament for three straight years easily trounced the sophomore cuties 41 to 16 in the finals. many players were outstanding in the climax to the east fairmont basketball season, the an- nual class tournament. earl sprouse and mary wilson, east fairmont's physical education instructors, directed the meet and mary wilson refereed the girls' division while joe talerico handled the whistle for the boys. martha gibbs of fairmont state college was umpire for the girls' games. many valuable prizes donated by local merchants were awarded to outstanding players in both divisions, which were as follows: girls awards all tournament team-forwards: evelyn muto, anna mutog center: virginia morris: guards: esther anne morris, virginia mitchell, martha jean rinehart. most valuable: genevieve mitchell. most valuable substitute: rosie talerico. best sport: doris price. best senior: mary vuckovich most attractive: louise cain. best junior: virginia morris. best foul shot: gwendolyn hostutler. best sophomore: anna muto. high point single game: virginia morris. best freshman: genevieve mitchell. high point in tourney: virginia morris. best cheerleader: elizabeth miller. contributed most for tourney success: jerry horner. coach of winning team: jimmy mazza and denzil brown. boys awards all tourney team: forwards: jack carpenter and john talerico: center: edward hughes: guards: joe grazlani and .Asc mm... most valuable substitute: goff rollins. most valuable: arthur cassell. best senior: arthur graziani. best sport: carl nuzum. best junior: joe graziani. best foul shot: vester kerns. best cheerleader: loris gaskins. high point in single game: jack carpenter. coach of winning team: clarence lynn. high point in tourney: john talerico. contributed most for tourney success: ralph huggins. the sophomores had the best cheering section and were awarded a silver loving cup. unoonhour basketball league the, noon hour basketball league under the supervision of mr. earl sprouse has grown into an interesting past-time for students who lunch at school. kingmont, the last year's champions, are still going strong this year with an undefeated and untied basketball team. piney run is running second with only one defeat to their schedule. kingmont is a strong and rugged, sharpshooting team with such experienced players as jack carpenter, don richards and henry martelli. norwood, the last year's runner up for first place honors, lost most of their players and consequently they have been defeated twice, once by the kingmont champions and once by piney run. eventy-four