Grand Rapids Community College - Olympian Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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3 '- 'rvl 4 J 'Wi' l l Y Front Row: YVard Derks, Marion Golembiewski, Robert 0'Brien, Tom Rosema, Gerald Ritzema, Percy Middleton, Carson Cosgrove. Back Row: Manager Ray Kuzniak, Jim Levandoskl, Floyd Barber, Bob Hoff- man, Chuck Leliaron, Bob Gherinyz, Coach Dwight Packard. this year enjoyed a banner season. Coach Dwight Packard's acquisition of many outstanding prep standouts coupled with a quintet of returning lettermen which included 1941 cofeaptains, i'Whiteyi' Golembiewf ski and jimmy Levandoski, Percy Middleton, Bob C'Brien, and Gerald Ritzema, prompted Junior College club folf lowers of the preseason training grind to look forward to a rosy year in the diamond sport. And that is just what they got. A brilliant infield combination was paced by captainsfelect Bob Hoffman at first and Chuck LeBaron at short, balanced by Levandoski at second and Ward Derks at the hot corner. Behind this first line of defense roamed a crop of outerfgardeners who could hold their own against the best. O'Brien held down left field, in addition to carryf ing some of the backstopping burden toward the latter part of the season. Ritzema was the regular centerfielder. A wide variety of players, including Bodghering, alternated in right field with Golembiewski and Tom Rosema holding down the position when they were not pitching. A well balanced and versatile mound corps with Golembiewski at the helm followed by Rosema and Cosgrove shared the hurling assignments for the baseball campaign. Middleton was the regular catcher. Rosema, Hoffman, Levandoski, C'Brien, Ritzema, Middleton, Golembiewski and Derks got their share of base hits during the season to give the team a dreaded offensive punch. Every Blue Raider bat connected in a lofhit bombardment off the hurling of Westveer and Hekman in the season opener with Calvin. Rosema stymied the forces of Coach Stob with a lone hit in Junior's 20 to O triumph. Rusty DeVette bested Cfolembiewski in a pitching duel at Holland where JC lost a close one to Hope, 3 to O. With better support Cfolly could just as easily have won. ,IC got another crack at the Dutchmen and won 6 to 3. Rosema was the winning pitcher. Golembiewskfs fourfhit twirling submerged a strong Muskegon Jayhawk nine at Marsh Field and the Raiders scored an easy 8 to 2 victory. A IU to 2 defeat absorbed by Aquinas tarnished a Tommy Homecoming Day celebration at Johnson Park as the Raiders triumphed behind the one hit hurling of Cosgrove. V P X I 1 'HSM-f 1942 JC BASEBALL RECORD c They Calvin . Away 20 0 llopt- . . Away 0 3 llopc . . . ll ome 6 3 Muskegon . Away 8 2 Aquinas . . Away 10 2 Calwin . . Home 8 4. Muskegon . Home 6 1 Aquinas . Home 5 4 -,4 A I rf? it 9 if if, 41 fri! eff Cal F! 5,5 . at YV :QQ V ' 5 t ,i-YL tis 9' H' . . fri, LW' ff. ti , , 100 de l bas HK :LE cp iliif Im an hi . ll the

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LTP? Li- ,C RQ Front Row: Coach Harold O Steele Howard Face Bill Wood Frank Lee Bill Price Dan - , ' v . , . . , ll k , Ed g3WlilIlgS.b Slelcond Rovvz Alvm K3hh0Slil, Ed Sodestrom, Robert Read, Rus Worohec, Chuck Badgerrxv.el:I'hird T0Wh 0. aynes, Jim Chapman, Dick Boes, Dale Bowen, Harlow Marlatt, Ed Benjamins, Roger Reed. 09 OW- Manager John Friedrich, Jack Casey, Dave Loeks, Don Bender, John Moore. I during the past season at Junior College enjoyed only a mediocre year on the basis of team results over the last decade in the cinder sport at JC. Having a dearth of veteran material in only a meager quintet of returning lettermen, Coach Harold Steele was confronted with an inevitable rebuilding task which left the Jaysee mentor in an unenviable position to tackle a rocky season schedule. Although some of the thinclads were Well above the average collegiate trackmen in various speeialf ties, the squad on the whole had a decided lack of team balance. Sophomore Captain Roger Reed, a brilliant performer in the half mile and javeling Bill Price, an ace pole vaulterg Dave Loeks, a steady performer in the pole vaults and high jump, Dale Bowen, a runner in the mile and two mile events, and Russell Worbec, a dash man, comprised the five veterans. Ted Walker, a Frosh distance star, battled it out with Reed for the high point man of the season. Frank Lee, another freshman, made a name for himself in the century. Ed Hawkins developed rapidly as a hurdler during the latter part of the season. Freshman Read proved to be a valuable asset in the shot and discus. Bill Wtiod garnered numerous points during the season as a quarter and half miler. Prior to the start of the regular track season, the Frosh thinclads battled the Soph trackmen to a 74'all deadlock in the fourth annual JC interfclass meet. Junior suffered an 89M to 41M defeat in their inaugural dual meet of the season with Dale Sprankle's 1941 indoor MIAA crownfbearers as the Raiders were definitely outclassed in the field events. A 2Ofman JC squad of thinclads traveled to Kalamazoo for their second dual encounter and by virtue of scoring 11 out of a possible 14 hrsts, annexed their initial triumph of the year at the expense of a strong Bronco Yearling team. Chet Barnard's mighty Hornet squad, undefeated in three dual starts, came to Grand Rapids and inflicted juniors second reverse 88 to 43. Walker's fourth place in the finals of the mile run in the intercollegiate meet at East Lansing enabled Junior to place seventh in the state. ....,,,. . - . ' 7-24i'3 f'Z5'fjf 3'.'Q5 ',fi7'-'T , . hr r '., JgE't' ' .I U I ' Q ' ' ' ' f ' Iv .J U 'Y 'W Inter-Class Meet Sophs-74 Frosh-74' M3w 'lf7W 'lf nl!!-fbi 'gill . am 8914 . 66113 55 A Albion College - - Westerli Mich. Frosh . Kalamazoo College . State Intercollegiates Central Mich. College . Seventh v., v 1 hav W, 'sfluin 'ill '- U , ' ,, l . v . ' f'5f ar5 '-'..: 4'5i K ' ' --.a' i 1 Wal I - ' A- ,iv N -v, ' x, ' ,- f ':f 7 w-U '-u 'wi..l - 'N' 'W ' Hua v ' . -Q.,-M -' ...1 '- I- 5' ,J Q., J' 'wwf 5' ...U ' 'i'-.. '- J '11, ' Y V, ,V ., - , 11 J , N 1 5 J wi? - Q ' .I - Vv, iii' vga.. -L -.. J. W ,p-3 n 'Bunn ' I..,, Q, -v ,, . 1,1 . ' , ..,, 't -.- 1,0 J . , J, J ,sl 'Mvnvfm 2-1:---f--M - fr-Q ...G-' I ' .q'.'? --..,,,..s:xN - ol 1942 JC TRACK RECORD mmny,.,,,,.,,,w y , -33. ...,..,,-, W g....... ' wg . ' nf 'Q rf, 7' ' if M 1'

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'g,.zfv-V Ir'-f 1 V KU - , i . ,zum i, V ' , is Leff fo right: Rex Bigllall, Coach J. Henry Geurkink, John MacNaugl1ton, Willis Montgomery, and William VanderMass. back through many years at Junior College, has produced a galaxy of links luminaries among whom were such stars as Ed Flowers, erstwhile Michigan state amateur titleholder, Harold Brink, Hermie Miller and many others too numerous to mention. This year Coach Heinie Creurkink was fortunate in having two returning lettermen from last year's array of talent. These two, Johnny MacNaughton, who won medalist honors in last year's State Junior College tourney, and Sherm Massingham, who was hfth low man, combined to form the nucleus of the current crop of mashiefwielders. Bill Montgomery, by his consistent brand of steady play over the fairways, earned the right to hold down the number two slot behind MacNaughton. Rex Bignall, another newcomer in Hilltop goling ranks, exhibited a polished game in early season matches to establish himself in the number three slot. Bill VanderMass by demonstrating a deft aptitude in socking the little white pellet rightfully earned an opportunity to alternate with Massingham in the number four position to furnish team balance. Arlo DeWinter has established himself as an available alternate for any vacancy in the lineup. Under thelcompetent tutelage of Geurkink, the 1942 Blue Raider golf team, after emergf ing on the long end of an 8 to 7 score against the Kalamazoo Hornets in a successful season debut, annexed convincf ing triumphs in seven of the last eight starts with the last six victories in succession. The Raiders defeated Calvin in their second start of the year but dropped a 7M to 4M verdict to Kalamazoo in the return match, for the only mar on their slate to date. Calvin's Knights, Michigan State Normal, Highland Park, Hope, and Bay City were the most recent victims of -laysee golfing assaults with the Dutchmen suffering a pair of thorough shellackings. As this edition of the Olympian goes to press Geurkink's golfers are scheduled to face 'only one more foe in Michigan State Normal before defending their 1941 Michigan Junior College golf championship at Jackson, May 23. 194-2 JC GOLF RECORD We They Kalamazoo . . Away 3 7 Calvin . . . Away 'YW fly: Kalamazoo . . Home 4V2 7M Hope I , . Away 12 0 Calvin ...... Away 3 41 Mich. State Normal . . Away 9Vz SA Highland Park - - Away 13 5 Hope . , , , . Home 11Mz W Bay City , , , . . Home 10 2 Mich. State Normal . . Home 14 4 Second State JC Tourney . . Jackson 1 ll ? , if 1 - Ii9f'f1-3.2 Hi