Haaren High School - Quill and Hammer Yearbook (New York, NY)

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the Boston National. He also placed as number one contender for the Welter- weight Championship. He was one of the Olympic champions. At the time he was only sixteen years of age and a member of the C.Y.O. of New York City. ' As we approached the fall term, we had been at Haaren one year. We were no longer freshmen or lower termers. The swimming team with Coach King has a great squad of men. Fernandez, Creamo, Climo, Brocki, and many others showed Mr. King promise of becoming very good swimmers. The close of the swimming season proved Coach King was not wrong. His team placed third in the city. This was a great showing. The Blue and Gold Cross Country Team had D'Ocazio and Seymour Bunyan. In the Manhattan Championship the team placed second with Bun- yan and Robinson running away with the Meet. The team itself was good with men like Morton Thompson, Seymour Bunyan, Ed Gardner, and Ed Pabon. These boys had been scoring consistently during all that season. The team came home with six medals from one Meet. In all shows the Blue and Gold showed life. Haaren had the whole town aware of them. The Basketball Team was working with Coach Wertheim. Haaren hoopsters found themselves in a very good fourth place in the city standing. Haaren,s Soccer Team was com- ing along great. Mr. Chanin has a very young team, but it became one of the best in the City with men like Lozano, Spinosa. Perez, Archilla, Labrado and Chung. Up till now the Blue and Gold Track Team had its problems with the loss of men like Gender, West, and Bunyan. Bunyan won the indoor and out- door mile at the City Champs and there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the Track Team would come out on top with runners like Showell and Bunyan. This was the first time in the history of Haaren that it had a man to win both Indoor and Outdoor Championships. The men of the Blue and Gold had Haaren's great relay of Habersham, Burchett, Waterman, Showell, Fitzgerald, Jones and Robinson. This was the relay team that brought honor and glory to Haaren through the great coaching of Mr. Greenspan. Without him the team could not have been so successful in taking first place at the Seton Hall Relays and then going on to the Penn. Relays. At the close of the track season, most TRACK TEAM Last Row: Armstrong, Polena, Edwards, Pinckney, Brooks, Hawkins. Center Ro Lopez, Russell, Walker, Dixon, Ayala, Hunter, Kirby, Fischetti, Perez. Firsf Row Johniken, Layne. Rivers, Jones, Fitzgerald, Moffel, Maftes, Bishop.

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SOCCER TEAM a w an Spinoza, fouris, Creglia, Arauz Mezlch Rameza, Spilios, Coach Chanin. Flsf Row Mohandle, Lozano, Glanchoway, Lobrado Perez Gilbert. . . f ...Tm It has been said that if you want to meet a grand lot of sportsmen, you can always rely on the men from the Blue and Gold. As we flash back to our freshman year, the fall of ,51, the old colors were having their ups and downs in the athletic Held. At the close of the basketball year the team came to life with a five man varsity team working. With their new coach, Mr. Wertheim, they were bound to come through. Within less than two months, he had his team on the way. At the close of the season he had made four men stars: Henry Williams, Radcliff Davis, Harold Johnson, and Edwin Keusey. As the freshmen came into the school, there came with them a lot of outstanding athletes. Two of them made history in the track world, for no one can ever forget Seymour Bunyan and Ed Gardner. It was the Hrst time in the history of Haaren that it had two city champs, As we entered the spring season, the Blue and Gold relay came to life with the basketball and track teams showing great progress with the soccer team having such an outstanding player as Willy Schaller. He brought honor and glory to both himself and his school. He was chosen as a participant player of soccer and was sent to the Olympics at Helsinki in the sumer of 552. Also in the limelight was Tony Anthony. a boxing hero. Anthony had fought from Kansas City to Boston. He was a winner of the Golden Gloves Tournament held in New York and a winner of ww x SWIMMING TEAM CDelgado, Labenski, Nikolofl, Carbiaj Last Row: Rumph, Harwell, Berlinguette, Henry Watson Hushin. Center Row: Wiody, Whalen, Wong Cl ro First Row: Coach Duzant, Davidson, Sunzone, Fe nandez

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lst Row: Coach Brown, Kvcutev, Nikisheld, Maison , C nie Row: Ford, Randazzo, Spagnoli, De Stephano. F sf Row: Perez, Tauss. BASEBALL TEAM Morales, Murphy, Moretti, Guerra, Farley. of the track fvarsityj was on its way out. Other relay teams came to life with Abe Mottel, Melvin Jonathan, Ed Fitzroy and Bill Jones, who at the Boro and City Championships, became champions. Don Showell equalled the record of the 220 yard dash. He came out with the crown of the City Champs. Milton Roberson successfully came in first, running the 1,000 yards in very good time. He too was crowned a City Champ. The Blue and Gold is well on its way as one of the top schools in the world of sports. Mr. Laster, Coach ofthe Rifle Team, has done very well in the past sea- son with his team. This team has joined the National Rifle Association. With the fine coaching of Coach Chanin the soccer team placed among the top three in Manhattan. The swimming team, with the coaching of Mr. King, placed third in the City. Mr. Wertheim's team had a little difficulty this year with the loss of his stars. This year the team has a better height aver- age with Bert Ferguson at 6 ft. 3 in. and Tommy Giles at 6 ft. 4M in. The other men showing talent are John Gibson, Dan Ford, Harry Howard, Ginger Francis and Art Reddick. It seems too that Coach Greenspan has another combination of medal winners with Bill Jones, A. Meachem, Bob Egstrom, Bob Fitzgerald and Abe Mottel. Now as we prepare to leave Haaren, we carry away one thought. Win, lose, or draw, if you are not a sport, you are starting in life at a loss! HANDBALL TEAM .Ni ale 1 Last Row: Peterson, Martin, Ablamsky, Howard, Urban Aversano, Garcia, Coach King. Center Row: Weir, Mar cono, Bardini, Vofa, Comas, Siganos. Firsf Row: Canlcath