Flushing High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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Track The track team participated in ten meets, five indoor and the rest cross-country. Grady Crumply proved again to be the team's star and one of the city's finest track stars. He placed first in two cross- country races, won medals in the Bishop Loughlin and Cardinal Hayes meets, and came in first in the P.S.A.L. Cross-Country meet, covering himself and his school with glory. Bowling Mr. Larsen's bowling team, unfortunately, did not have too favorable a season this semester. This was not due to a lack of good material, for all the team members had fine averages and Peter Priore managed to attain an overall average of 155. Al- though the team won a few preliminary games, it didn't win any matches. 28 Left to Right: First Row: J. Rosenthal, J. Anderson, Mr Harras, G. Scalone, R. Bruning Second Row: D. Winston, J. Holub, M. Siegell, C. Mintz, B. Hopkins, I. Radziminsky, V. Pollina, B. O'Connor, A Phipps Left to Right, First Row: A. Rocker, R. Lander, R. Steg- maier, Mr. Harras, J. Gentile, W. Wilson, H. Sanford. Second Row: J. Dilorenzo, L. Grant, M. Nevfeld, J. Raymond, L. Mack, A. Clavas, E. Rizzott, G. Crumpley Baseball The baseball team of last season was able to make a good showing at the end of last term. With Mr. Levitz as coach and Eddie Pilone as captain, the team won all of its practice games and managed to finish with a .500 average of games won, thus finishing third in Queens. Handball Handball has become one of Flushing High Schoolis popular non-spectator sports despite its re- cent inception in the Spring of 1953. Under the guidance of Dr. Kirsch, the team played ten matches, each consisting of three singles and two doubles, against Forest Hills, Bayside, Newtown and L.I.C., triumphing over L.I.C. With experienced seniors, Dr. Kirsch hopes for a good season this year.

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In Bayside, with the return of Don Albrecht, the only senior on the first team, into the lineup, Flushing won its first league game by the score of 61-48. Pete Baron, Larry Spellins and Bill Croene proved to be able substitutes for the five starters. After another overtime defeat to Long lsland City, Flushing triumphed over Newtown and Bryant High Schools, 55-50 and 69-42, respectively. By the latter part of the first half, Edelman had distinguished himself on ball handling and control, Molfetta had shown a remarkable ability to play a very fast and aggressive game, Rudy Serrett led the team with T0 points, McCarthy had shown some outstanding rebounding, and late starter Don Albrecht had proven himself to be the solid, dependable ball player that he was last year. After we had beaten Bryant, largely due, incidentally, to Rudy Serrettis compiling 19 points, there were whispers of P.S.A.L. playoff games at the Garden in March. Flushing had by this time jelled into a fine offensive and defensive team. The whispers grew to shouts when Flushing defeated Forest Hills, then the leading contender in our division. 46-42. Serrett led the way with 19 points. Flushing ended the first half of the season with a 65-42 win over Edison in which Tony Skinner scored 12 points. We entered the second half of the season with very high hopes. ln the first game, the 'flied Devils defeated Cleveland 49-46 and then four days later played a thriller with Bayside at our home court. We trailed throughout most of the game, and the final winning score in our favor, 42-40, was hard-earned by us. Flushing next played Long Island City, unbeaten in regular competition against us. The game closely paralleled the previous Bayside game in that we trailed for most of the game and in the late stages tried to surge ahead. However L.l.'C. won by a one point margin, 42-41. We crushed Newtown for the second time and played Bryant in a night game. Bryant won, and we knew that our last chance would be against Forest Hills. Our team, lacking Rudy Serrett, was defeated. ln the closing game of the season against an improved Edison squad, all the seniors played their last game which we won 60-59. John Prudenti, a senior, gave a fine performance that netted 15 points. Thus Flushing ended the 1955- 1956 season tied for fourth place in the league with a 9-5 record. Also this season, Flushing played in the new school gym for the first time, the talented junior, Bob Molfetta, made an amazing 18 out of 19 foul shots in the first halfg a Junior Varsity team was again formed. It was indeed a most exciting season and we can surely hope for the very best in the years to come. INDIVIDUAL SCORING RECORDS Rudy Serrott 160 Bob Molfetta 152 Andy Edleman 149 Don Albrecht 125 Ken McCarthy 44 ,lohn Prudenti 34 Tony Skinner 25 Bill Groene 14 Pete Barron 8 Bob Cook 3

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Class History f Continued from page 11 I In our sophomore year we were still going home when the sun went down. Some of us had just come from junior high school, and although we felt strange at first, we soon joined the happy Brotherhood of students of Flushing High School. We had more of a choice in subjects, we began harassing our grade advisers. Many of us had classes or service during the morning session but we had no lunch period. We managed to wolf a complete lunch during the hectic twelve minutes between sessions, though. If you can remember the old lunchroom, you recall how crowded it was with a regular lunch class, besides people like us who sneaked in to avoid starvation. We joined many activities that we had only heard about as freshmen. Since we were still on afternoon session, and most of the activities met in the afternoon, our participation was curtailed a bit. Junior Green and White and the afternoon branch of the Silver-Blue Party received our enthusiastic support. Many sophomore girls joined Boosters, a newly organized cheering section to boost school spirit and spur our teams on to victory. Although we had a disappointing football season, we had an exceptional basketball team again. By now workmen were a common sight around the campus, but the progress of the new wing was carefully hidden from our curious eyes by the high walls and strictly forbidden signs around the construction work. Once in a while we managed to be around when a workman opened one of the secret doors, and we got a peek at the interior of our soon-to-be completed annex. Towards the end of our sophomore year we began preparing to take that inevi- table plunge-our first regents examinations. We had heard so many rumors concern- ing these mysterious three hour exams that we didn't know what to expect. After cramming all night, we finally dragged our weary bodies into class on the fateful day and we became acquainted with really hard tests. In our junior year Flushing High's fondest dream finally came true. We returned to find a new wing making Flushing twice as big as it previously had been, and the whole school on a single session from nine to three. Now the freshmen could not be told apart from the rest of us, because nobody knew where anything was. To add to the general confusion, equipment was missing, stairs and floors had not yet been built, and workmen were running around the building with precariously situated ladders, tools and cans of paint. Since there were so many students, one-way traffic in halls and on stairways was inaugurated, which really mixed everybody up, because everyone was determined to go the shortest way, regardless of what the sign said. Our new lunchroom resembled a vast buffet. Tables and chairs had not yet arrived. There we sat, balancing a container of milk and a sandwich in one hand, and doing homework with the other. Books, clothing, food and milk were sprawled all over the floor. Latecomers finding all the chairs taken, either borrowed one from some careless person, or shared the floor. There was at least one good fight a day over a chair. With the arrivals of tables and hot lunches the lunchroom once more regained some semblance of order. Our new public address system was put into use, and we found a big, beautiful library where the old gym used to be. To the girls' dismay, lockers were finally installed in the girls' gym and once again we had to change into our gym suits. We quickly became settled in our new routine, however, and soon the new wing became just as much a part of Flushing to us as our old building. fC,,,,,i,,,,e,1 gn page 571 H 29