Highlands High School - Highlander Yearbook (Fort Thomas, KY)

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Firsf Row: B. McMahan, J. Pence, B. Adams, D. Becker, J. Miller, H. Richler, T. Hall, S. Wood, J. SmiTh, J. Blesch. Second Row: Mr. Sa- dosky, Coach, B. Rafh, B. Wagner, C. Harf, B. lfryer, T. Mueller, B. Albersharf, S. Wadsworlh, B. Finch. Third Row: T. Sadosky, D. Mc- Cracken, P. Sarakalsannis, B. Stevens, L. Bryson, W. Manchess, D. Eefhge, B. Mclnfyre. Coach Bernie Sadoskyis Highlands Bluebirds swepT Through Their l955 season wiTh only one loss. ln Taking Their sixTh sTraiqhT Conference viclory and sevenTh sTraighT Re- gional vicTory, The Birds perTormed in Their yearly Tine Tashion. On April I5 Highlands overpowered NewporT Sl-26. The Treshmen also won 56-38. BerT Adams paced The High- landers wiTh viclory in The cenlury and 220-yard dash. One week laTer Highlands beaT Ludlow 82-42, as BerT Adams again paced The Birds. Two days laTer Highlands ran over Dixie 89-29, The freshmen beaT Holmes The same day 5l-39 lor Their second vii Tory OT The year. The nexT meel' saw Highlands' only deTeaT oT The year, as They wenT down in deTeaT bl-57. BrillianT Bob WhiTe of Holmes worr Tive Tield evenls, while Highlands Took mosT oT The running eve-nTs, Highliczhl of The aTTernoon was The Treshman vicTory over Holmes 59-32. TRACK CAPTAINS Jerry Miller, Mr. Law, Coach, and Tommy Hall Highlands goT back on The winning Track in The nexT meeT by ouT-poinfing Bellevue 83-35, Dave Becker and BerT Adams led The Birds, ln The Regional MeeT aT NewporT, Highlands managed To edge NewporT Tor The Regional Crown 64-62, This en- TiTled eleven boys To go To sTaTe. ln The sTaTe rneeT High- lands placed ThirTeenTh oT sixTy-Three Teams. The 880-relay Team and The mile relay Team placed Third and lourTl' re- specfively, while Spence Wood and Howard RichTer were placing TourTh and TiTTh in The mile run. In The lasT rneeT of The year Highlands ouTclassed all N. K. A. C. rivals for The sixTh consecuTive Year. The run- ning score was Highlands 59, Holmes 49, Bellevue 36, and NewporT 32. ConTerence champs were spearheaded by BerT Adams, Dave Becker, Bruce RaTh, and co-capTain Tom Hall. Highlands Treshrnen wound up The Track seasor by winning The Junior High Track Crown Tor The second con- secufive year, The Blueloirds greaTly appreciaTed Their Tine coaching sTaTT which consisTed oT Mr. Law, Mr. Hauselman, and Bernie Sadoskv. FRESHMAN TRACK TEAM I'-irsl' row: K. Glass, D. Sprouse, F. Huxley, G. Cochran, R. Em mons, J. McAfee. Second row: Mr. Hauselman, A, Mosley, J Jueff, J. Gosney, R. Wallace, C. Hoffman. Third row: H. Groves R. Cooley, B. Goes, M. Mudge, R. Fosfer.

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Serl oufruns Newporf Cafholic WILL BE BAE rroinfw. The highhqhT OT The qorne was Penny SorwilmTuarwr1i',i Tnrefilcinq The wchool individuai amor, inq record Tor one qarne. The Tormer rnfark was 34 poinT',, f.eT by PuuT Br-:sham Two years doo. Pannyk ToT.il uquinST Erlfanqer wus 37. TT is doubTTul Though, ThaT This rerord wiTI sTand very long since Pnnny ii, only fa iunior. The Birds' nexT Toeu were Two of The :.Tronqef,T Tenrni, in The NKAC, nunnely, Dixie T-TeiqhT5 and Newport We pulied fa deep Treezew in an aTf Tr-nip? To 'Tow down Dixie Toed breoh. This was To no .rvf1iT. however, rv, The Coloneh, wuhoped ua 44 ll, NewporT nimpiy overpowered us The Toi iowlnq Tueuduy uf, They roITed To fm 77-46 vicTory. Vic Tory number Tour Come new we deTenTed ST. ihorrmu nqoin Tor The r iTy Championship. The Tinol ww, 64 42. Ser? -,pnrked The Bird: wiTh fa Taily oT 32 poinTu. Hiqhirindu phiyed homT QT The 35Th DisTririT Tour nnrnenT. BoTh Tiiqhhmnds und ST. Thermus drew iibyeu' in The openlnq round. Being in The some br.irlceT They rneT in The uennihnnlw ond The Biue Tqirdu Triurrvphed To n Tune oT 77-58. Newport r,,onTerenfe rhfrrnpion, woe our nexT Toe ui we played Tor The DisTriCT Championship. iiif:WiiCiCrlfTii1r!C,i13 rough TirneoT iTfi1,fa Tired-up i'TiqhTfindnTe.nrn PepTiioc'1on',fonTTy in The conTeST unTiT The Tf1f,TrruurTer. QuT+3Tondinq in The eonTesT won The Tine uhfiiround rnhay oT Bih Shnub rand Pan ny SuroTmTmnnii3. Unfor-TunuTeiy, our drfiw in The reqionoi Tournu rnenT wiv, uonin NewporT, The WiTdC,1Tl,, deTer rnined To QCD To The 5TnTe iOLlVVWrlVTWQUi' in LexinqTon, Trounred The Bird: 73 44. K NEXT YEAH When The wen-,on Tinfiiiy ended, The Te HW Ti rd won Two Troruhiei, and co-4 apffiin Penny 9 if :Tc iT 'wQn74T'1 hdd PDCCU Ufldn'fT1CJU':iy liWO'rGH NKAC All STM Team. BASKETBALL COACHES Leif to right Mr. Owen K, Hauck. Mr. A. J, Hu I a

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First Row: Coach Mr Rice, J, Miller, T. Crane, N, Schwerfman, D. Nagel, B, McDanieIs. Second Row: D. Sewers, D. Norari, D. Hudepohl, D. Borches, T, Condron, B. Sfraub, B, Richardson, B. Wall. Third Row: P. Finnesefh, D. Smoof, B. Sieqeman, B. Albersharl, E, Dickerson, Tse s B F ulk e BASEBABLTT. laf.T spring Highlands had iTs mosT successTul baseball season since T951 A new baseball pro- gram was zTarTed as Mr. Homer Rice Tool: over The coaching chores. The Teams record did noT indicale The arTual irnprovemenT iT had made over pa-,T years. llncluded in The new sysTem was en- Tering a summer league. This should prove To be very valuable in TuTure years.l A very young Team including only Tour seniors, held vicTori-ev over Ludlow, Bellevue, Silver Qrove, and CovingTon. Ludlow, T954 ConTerence Champion, was beaT- en o-4 by Dave Hudepohlls sTeady piTching, and lem Condroni cluTch hiTTing. AnoTher vicTory was over CovingTon Holmes. The underdog Blue-birds emerged vicTorious be Co-CapTains Bob Walz and Bob Sfegeman nni, . a nr. hind The pilfhing ol Panny Saralcalsannis, and Barry Richardson's hiTTing. lhe linal score was 8-6, iusT The reverse oT The opening game oT The season, when CovingTon beaT The FT. Thomas crew aT Moyer Field. AnoTher highlighT oT The horsehide season was a 3-2 vicTory over The Bellevue ligerf.. SaralcaT- sannis hurled Tor The 'Birds and allowed only Two runs on Tour hiTs. He also sTruclv ouT eleven. Bob STegeman, Third baseman, hiT a home run wiTh a man on second in The TirsT inning To give The 'Birds a Two run lead. Bellevue Tied iT up in The TiTTh in ning, buT in The sixTh Serlc won his own game by driving home Bob Faullcner on a squeeze play. Bob STegeman led in The baTTing deparTmenT wiTh a .387 marlc. Close on his heels were Bob Faulkner and Barry Richardson wiTh .363 and .333 respecTively. An early spring pracfice