Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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Fall is the season that marks the beginning of a two mile run called Cross Country. Starting the 1963 season with Harold Mack as new head coach, the boys did a pretty fair job as they garnered third in the Calumet Conference featuring talent from every- where. Leading the distance runners this year were sophomore John Collet and senior Mark Render. Collet and Render were the one two punch all year as the team finished with nine wins and six losses. They made a fine performance in the sectional com- ing in 5th out of 25 schools giving them the best per- formance in school history in this event. Collet, who ran practically all of his meets under the ten minute mark, broke his own school record of 9:33 by running 9:26 in one of his scheduled meets and then going on to set a new sectional record of 9:38 at the Cressmore Country Club. Avenging his only regular season loss in the sectional, John went down state where he placed seventh out of a hundred and some runners. Next year coach Mack is looking forward to an even better year as he suffers from only two gradua- tion losses while finding seven returning lettermen who will try and help him better the fine mark he set in his first year of cross country coaching. HARRIERS CAPTURE THIRD BOTTOM ROW: Tom Johnsen, Mark Render, Lenny Zarndt, John Collet, Sam Duke, Bob Kennedy, SECOND ROW: Larry Charters, Chuck Sanger, Charles Hudson, Pete Karnisky, Jim Zeller, Zane Giant, Jerry Cook, Claude Wampler. TOP ROW: Terry Crowe, Gary Riggs, John Martz, Don Emery, Cleo Keen, Chuck Butler, Dan Tom. 29

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BOTTOM ROW: Jay Black, Dave Welch, John Pierce, Doug Wirth, Brian Nagy, Dave Harder, Dave Butler, Wayne Vitkus, Dick Smith, Ron Bell, Chester Patterson. TOP ROW: Coach A1 Bochnowski, Larry Thrall, Chuck Stuhl- macher, Carl Sanders, Pat Pellochoud, Dave Sykes, Dick Taylor, Mark Voges, Dennis Welzien, Rich Schulp, Arty Duncan, Wally Church, Rich Arney. J.V. - FRESHMEN HAVE GOOD YEAR This year’s junior varsity nearly capped an unde- feated season, but dropped a squeaker to Merrill- ville 13-12. Under the leadership of Coach Boch- nowski the boys turned in a fine 7-1 record. Now that these boys have the necessary experience, many of them will vie for starting positions on next year’s varsity. Despite the loss to Merrillville the boys later defeated teams that had beaten the Merrillville crew. Coach Leslie’s freshmen crew came through the 1963 grid season with a respectable 4 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie record. Due to the large number of seniors on this year’s varsity many of these boys may be asked to fill in important positions on next year’s first team. This team has turned in one of the best records for the last four years. BOTTOM ROW: Mike Trueblood, Dave DeReamer, Jim Marren, Mike Karr, Craig Hoot, Dave Roberts, Dwight Murdock, Jim Davis, Steve Plowman. TOP ROW: Robert Wilson, Tim Rochford, Allen Harris, Dough Bailey, Marty Lehman, Mike LaNoue, Dave Young, Ted Kane, Linden Eley. ' mSKBrnt- yss.. ' sc -.-If

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Left to Right: Milija Jovanovich, Bill Fritz, Rich Beach, Bill Wilier, Chuck DeNeal, Mark GRIFFITH CAGERS ENDURE With the return of only six lettermen and a lack of much needed height, Coach Harold Mack was certainly unsure as to just how the “64” cage season would develop. With only two of his six returning lettermen having had extensive varsity experience, basketball fortunes at G.H.S. certainly weren’t rosy. As the season opened, the Panthers fell in defeat to a balanced Whiting squad, but then they picked up with three consecutive victories. This was short- lived as the Panthers were only able to garner one victory in their next eleven outings while dropping to a low rank on the ladder in the Calumet Confer- ence standings. Inability to hit the bucket consistently often plagued the Panther five, although Dan Ger- rity and Bill Fritz kept their shooting averages at thirteen and ten points respectively. Rich Beach and Mark Render also shot accurately each averaging nine points a game. Gerrity led the team in about everything as he compiled a shooting percentage of .405 while grabbing 154 rebounds. Fritz also had a fairly good year as he hit at a .358 clip and pulled down 126 off the mark shots. Other than this along with a .379 shooting percentage by Mark Render, little could be said of the poor year that occasionally will hit any ball club. 30