George Wythe High School - Chancellor Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Gene Hopkins waits to congratulate Smiley after a homerun. Coach Kuhn discusses tactics with Co-captains Bobby Smith and Bill Smiley. in District Race GW Opponent Omer Highland Springs —————— - 4 Ue arte et onal Hermitares 2 eo a 5 A Peas, Hermitage ——— ae i Cee ere hormiass otrereOVi eee 9 select eter asc Douglas Freeman -----—--—----------------------------- 7 (Sheed Petersburg ———— —-- 6 (ratios Ried (WN SnY CDN ae ee 22 (Ceca sis Thomas Dale —2- = 22 Waive scale ad Douglas Freeman —.—-—---------—----—-----—------------- 3 oh ae John . Marshall ——————— — 4, 5 = eas AT aes Manchester Sep eS LS ae ET Pee 6 Smiley crosses the plate scoring a run for G.W. against Petes eal Thomas Jefferson —————— - - 2 Hermitage. [0 skied John Marshall = 3) (ee ed Hopewell — — -- -- —-- - --—-—— 5 9d illest Highland Springs ——————--—- --—----------— 13 157

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156 First Row: Gilly Bagent, Chile Reynolds, Jerry Reid, Andy Coffey, Bill Smiley, Bobby Smith, Donald Cole, John Evans, Gene Hopkins. Second Row: William Wilds, manager; Julian Sanderson, manager; Corky Crooks, Ronnie Martin, George Kerns, Jerry Hubbard, Wayne Robinson, Joe Sorrow, Coach Oscar Kuhn. Third Row: Randy Powell, Doug Gildner, Bobby Lee, Kenyon Liles, Hiram Hainley, Lenny Gar- rett, Joe Tuck, Joe Loterzo. Fourth Row: Maynard Totty, Marvin Bradshaw. Baseball Squad Gains Three Wins Ronnie Martin scores on a hit for G.W. against John Marshall. Under the leadership of Coach Oscar Kuhn, George Wythe’s first baseball team got off to a great start by winning their first three games. Almost dropping into the cellar, they went into a slump losing the next six consecutive games. This squad, showing Bulldog determination, fought back winning four out of the last six games and finishing with a 7-8 record. No one individual had a sensational record; Bill Smiley, Garland Smith, and Donald Cole were stand- outs. Every boy on the squad was proud of being a member of the first baseball team in George Wythe’s history.

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158 Cinderman Distinguished as First Row: Frank Hallstrom, manager; Marvin Polston, Henry Lan- thrip, Ronnie Burnett, Lowry Eads, Dave Griffith, Skippy Harris, Larry Savin, Harvey Margolis, Bob Hall, Ray Burton, Robert Paulette, manager. Second Row: Chuck MacFarlane, Bill Lyell, C. K. Soloman, Jimmy Reynolds, Pete Mowbray, Calvin Buchanan, Binky Bottoms, Lee Watson, Richard Woodlee, Jim Johnson, Coach Dick Ernsberger. Track team led by Co-captains Rick Hamlet and Dave Griffith and Coach Dick Ernsberger. Third Row: Curt Crews, Evan Westerman, Frank Gulyas, Ben Dyer, Walter Hendricks, Pete Grow, Jim Farlow, Steve Martin, Jack Kibler, John McCollister. Fourth Row: Nicky Morano, Mack Cramer, Jim Traylor, Richard Lee Rupe Winfree, Tony Zubrosky, Allen Hancock, Chipper Williamson, Hansford Wilson. The initial squad of the George Wythe Bulldog track team proved to be the “Cinderella team” of the school’s first year as an athletic prowess in the Central District. Full of determination and fight, Coach Dick Ernsberger’s “‘thinclads,” from early January to the latter days of May, without a track, ran through snow, sleet, mud, up hills and splashed through water. Un- deterred, this “team without stars” sped on to a 5-2 dual meet record, placing Wythe fourth among the Richmond Area high schools.