Essex District High School - Argus Yearbook (Essex, Ontario Canada)

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Uaomi Colenutt was Intermediate champion with nineteen points and the runner-up was lorna Joyce v ho had fifteen points. Three records were broken in this division. Bev Henstnan jumped 7 ft. 1 in. breaking the former record by 1 in. Lorna Joyce set a new record of 1M- ft. 1 in. in the running broad. The old basketball pass record of 30 passes was broken by Jean McHarg, Donna Hess and Ann Siefker. In the Senior Division, P t Fierce 1 ed with t’cntv- ne p ints end the runner-up Cl ra Bnchmeier had ten points. There were no records broken in this division. Leaders of the club who took part in the entertaining display were: SENIOR. Richard Gibb, Jim Milne, John Seabourne, Fred Earl, and Roger Lllis. JUNIORS: Gaye ueen, Art Brown, Hugh O ' Neil, and Steve Miller. DISTRICT TRACK AND FIELD BOYS The Southern Conference Track and Field m -et was held in Leamington on may 9 this year. Since it was held on their own grounds, Leamington naturally dominated the scoring of the events. However, Essex also had a great deal of talent, and made an excellent showing, garnering se eral first places. In the Junior Division, George Agocs captured a first prize in the Shot Put, Johnny Wilcox obtained a first in the Hop-Step Jump and Art Brown received a first prize in the High Jump. In the Intermediate Division, Jim Shewan was first in the Shot Put, Fred Earl was first in the discus throw and Richard Gibb, first in the 880 yard dash. The mile was also a rather clo e co test, but R Kettle displayed superior style a d uch stami a to wi. this event. Sybren Wassenaar also won a first by beating his opponents in the Pole Va u t. Since this is the first year that a Southern Conference ieet has been held, every mark set by the competitors is an established record, and we hope our athletes wild, make an even better showing next year. GIRLS The girls ' track and field represe. tatives made a very good showing by capturing 11 first place ribbons. In the Junior Division, Joyce Mortimore won first prize in the 75 yard dash, while Carolyn Milne was first in the High Jump and Elaine Lawhead won the softtal 1 throw.

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RED CROSS Left to Rirht BACK ROW: Phil Roberts, Robert Schogor, Paul Chsuvin, Melvin Reeb, John Seabourne, Wayne Greenwood, Bill Lozinski, Jim Milne, Robert Kennedy, Fred Zumach, Peter Bardo«l, James Douglas, Steve Makish. ' rd ROW: Miss Read, Dianne Shaw, Donna Hess, Barbara Buhler, Judy Horton, Emily Noble, Ruth Manning, Kathleen Srigley, Darlene Mills, Rita Bekolay, Harriet Dixon, Ruby Couture, Carolyn Jones. 2nd ROW: Jana Coutts, Gail Griffin, Stella Collins, Betty Mills, Mr. Haynes, Gayle Geddes, Susan Kubinec, Gloris Bart, Sandra Stewart, uorraine Corbett. FRONT ROW SEaTED: Larry Myers, Melvin Mills, Richard Barkowsky, Arnold Stiers. CHEERLEADERS Mary McLennan, Beverley Habkirk, Jo-Ann Gurbin, Barbara Wales, Stella Collins Ruth Ann Gerrard, Jean McHarg Pat Smith LOCAL TRACE aND FIELD The Local Track and Field Meet was held on Tuesday, May 7th this year, the fine weather contributing towards making it an outstanding success. The athletes were again divided into three colour divisions. Red, Yellow, and Black. For a change, the Gold Division overwhelmed their opponents and by virtue of total points captured the championship. In the track events, Paul huxworthy set a new record for the 440 yard dash with a noteworthy 55:5 clocking. Roger Ellies tied another record in the high jump with a jump of 5 ’5s also est)Lg record for the javelin threw which was the first oime this event has been held in Essex High School Competition. In the juvenile division, Stevie Miller set a new record with a pole vault of 7 j . The spectacular showing was topped by the champions of the indivi¬ dual divisions. Juvenile champion was Stevie Miller, Junior champion, Johnny Wilcox, and Intermediate champion, Dick Gibb.. The Senior -bsmp- ionshiD was hotly contended, Jim Milne finally emerging victorious Roger Ellis with ' 3? to 30. In the Girls 1 Division, black was the winning colour team. In the Junior Division, Janet Boyle was the.champion with eleven Doints and Carolvn Milne followed closely with nine points. Elaine Lsrtead et a new r“o?d of 163 ' 2 in the softball throw breakine the old record of 134 feet.

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Lorna Joyce won both the Intermediate 75 yard dash and the Hanning Broad Jump. Also in this division, Beverly Hensmsn won the Sort Ball Throw and Naomi Colenutt was first in the High Jump. The girls net only did well individually, but their relay teams were lso very effective as both the Junior team composed of Joyce Kortimore, Carol Ashford, Karen Baltzer, and Carolyn Milne, and the Intermediate team of Lorna Joyce, Naomi Colenutt, Darlene Hills, and Beverly Hensman won first prizes. Basketball toss teams comDosed of jem McHarg, Donna He3s and Ann Siefker in ' the first group and Helen McDermott, Delia Garrod, and Marg Carr in another group won the intermediate and senior first prize respectively. FINaL SCORE SHEET Corpus Chrlsti ES36X Leamington Senior Boys 10 M 75i Intermediate Boys 2 46 82 Junior Boys — 39 46 Senior Girls 13 19 43 Intermediate Girls 5s 37, 32| Junior Girls 9 3lf 32? The only championship gained by an Essex student was won by Naomi Colenutt, an intermediate girl, who garnered in a total of eleven points, HOWLERS Paul Muxworthy commenting on his accident My mother didn ' t know anything was wrong until I started packing my suitcase. Mr. Furgal was courageously trying to teach us the names of imple¬ ments used in every day Geometry. Mr. Furgal■ What do you use to see if the two-by-fours in a house are vertical? Hichard Oliver: Your eyes, Mr. Gillies talking quite seriously: Now if you have been looking at the stars lately . Some wise character looking on the romantic side said: Sir, who has time to look at the stars?