Flora High School - Falcon Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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- X. .. K, f. ' 1 AV' David Dunlap rounds third base to come home . Catcher, Ray Murphy, digs low to grab the ball. Flora Is Represented by a Large Team Art Fusco gets a little closer to home base with each hit. Shortstop moves fast to tag Number 6 out. Ace pitcher prepares to strike out a Columbia High Cap. l23

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2 We VVith the coaching ability of jim Pinkerton, Flora always has a Hne baseball team. Manager Michael NVatson, stops his work during an ex- citing moment in the Columbia High game. Batting ability and form is demonstrated by this falcon. Baseball Team Baseball comes at that time of the year when heads and hearts are light and gay. The cracking of bats and hum-drum of baseball heckling be- come familiar sounds from F lora,s field. The hot sun draws drops of perspiration to the faces of a hard-Working, hard-playing, team-one of great strength and ability. Proud mothers, along with many students, gather to Watch the games in the afternoons. This support plus success adds up to make a Worthwhile sum of achievement. Energetic afternoons of fun and training are practiced by Iimmy Pinkerton, Sammy Pruett, Larry Cunningham, David Dunlap, Bobby Giles, Gerald Black, Buddy Iones, Sam Yates, Larry Wise, Ray Murphy, Larry Llttle, David Stallworth, Chuck White, Stanley Robinson, Robin Brinkley, Jack Barwick, Art Fusco, Dan Kuykendall, Gene King, Billy Gunn, and Mike Riley. f . . , .. M .'m.D . ' 2mdI 'Bef-fiiikiifh +6- K

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The track team proves to be a well-balanced squad. They are Wesley Harrell, Ioe Williams, Frank Fusco, Iack Whitten Frank Little, Ronnie Asbill, Greg Layman, Robert Cely, Dan Ellis, Billy DuPre, and Cary McDaniel, Francis Burriss Clinch Heyxvard, Ken Daetwyler, Tom Sturdivant, john Barr, Larry Griner, Paul Derrick, George Fairey, Fred Crowe, Marion Stafford, Charles Davis, and John Brantley, Ricky Praete, Iay Pearson, Pete Holland, Dana Mitchell, Iohn Lown, Johnny WValther, Luke Lentz, Pope Lawson, Carter Weston, lack Edgerton, Bill johnson, W. D. Morris, Hoppy Hanson, Barry Moore, Carl Elmgren, Benny Moore, and Norman Williams. This year the track team is composed of almost seventy-five per cent underclassmen, and it en- joys a great deal of depth. Each boy is a specialist in his field and conditions every day to keep in shapev for a good season. Every afternoon as most Falcons leave school, they can see these boys jogging around this area of Columbia doing this nworkv, the question of why they spend their afternoons like this is answered as a vaulter vaults a little higher, a runner breaks the tape a little faster, or the weight man puts the shot a little farther. Managers, Clyde Fraser and Tex Brennison, and trainer, Mike Mclntosh, are always ready to lend a help- ing hand to reach the goals of the team. in iaLf1i ..7Z'..'L .., '!9'wWmPn,vfaf3A222f'4iHi1L2-L-' - Track Team Track Coaches, Mr. Bill Carson and Mr. Jerry Redman give instructions to an anxious runner. 3 5