Holy Redeemer High School - Campanile Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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SENTINEL February 28, 1966 No. 5 Holy Redeemer High School, Detroit 9, Michigan, V01 XI Jay Veeis Capture AA Championship- League Trophy Marks First in School History by Chris Scagnetti '66 Not since the humble beginning of the Junior Varsity at Redeemer, at a used basketball court in the back of the grade school, has a JV team won first place in the AA League. But in 1966, the year of change, the JV's took the trophy, hands down with a 10-2 record. On the road the playing was hard as the team suffered its defeats t0 Servite and to Bishop Gallagher. This had little effect on the team, for between the losses they piled up a nine-game winning streak. Winning wasn't always easy but effort produced some 1, 000 points enabling the team to gain ten victories, averaging 70 points per game. High marksman, Jack Coto, led the team with a 17-point average. The team's defensive strength depends on a well-organized zone press and a x W Frank Borg, James wawrzyniec; Ben Yurkunas, Richl Krisciunas, and Coach Don Ziemba admire the Division Trophy won by the Jay Vee's for the first time in the sports history of Redeemer High School. sharply responsive man-to-man press. Used most effectively against its com- petitors was the teams' fast break which highlighted their already fast-moving of- fense. Not to be forgotten, and probably greatly responsible for the team's suc- cess is Coach Ziemba, who usually works with the team u ntil five o'clock every night. Next year, many of the JV's will move to the Varsity Squad. When Coach was askedhow thiswill affect the Varsity, he said, There's lots of good material here. Theywillhelp beef up the Varsity. Polemics Debut on TV 'Quiz iEmi by Thomas Lisicki '67 Holy Redeemer's Polemics Society is scheduled to be on Quiz 'Em on the Air, sponsored by WJ and the Detroit News, on Sunday, March 25 at 12:30 p. m. Participants will be Leonard Nosal and Mary Abela, who are members of the Polemics Society; and Ramona Misiunas and Daniel Arreola who were chosen at large. Their com- petitor will be Saint Ladislaus. Quiz 'Em isaseries 5f programs on television, designed to encourage students to read the news. Each Sunday two high schools compete, answ ering questions on news published in the Detroit News of the preceeding week. The questions asked on the program range in point value from 20 to 50 points. The Polemics Society under the leadership of Mr. Shirkey, Moderator, and Bob King, President, is responsible for all arrangements concerning the program. Mr. Shirkey will work with the panelists, advising them, and encouraging them but the actual preparation must be the responsibility of each of the members of the panel. This is the third time that Redeemer will participate in the program. In 1959 and again in1962 Redeemer quiz 'em's out- scored their opponents. Miss Jean Maday and Sister M. Georglyn relax after the first per- formance of My Fair Lady and congratulate each other, and the entire cast and stage crew. See picture story on pages 3-4-5.l

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8 SENTINE L 1966- Senior GerryDurocher, President of the Varsity Club and the Sports Editor of the Sentinel, records and reports the team's achievements. He has also been for two years Redeemer's reporter to the Sports page of the Michigan Catholic. By Gerry Durocher '66 A successful team is not the result of an individual effort. It takes a conglom- eration of team, coach, cheerleaders, and an enthusiastic student body. The past basketball season has had this conglomeration. Students, athletes, the coach, and the cheerleaders worked to make this season successful, if not win- wise, at least spirit-wise. As the basketballseason got under way skepticismwas apparent. Two possible reasons might have been: a new coach, and the lack of an experienced starting five. It didn't take long for the skepticism to be resolved. In the opening game of the year against arch-rival Servite, no better view of the upcoming season could have presented itself. As far as win- lose was concerned, we took the left foot but itwas a victory because there on the Panther's Court, ateam slowly began to jell itself into a typical Lions' team. Redeemer made the winners' column in its next encounter but falt ered in its third attempt. Then the Lions lunged into a six-game victory row. Seven is supposed to be a lucky number but someone forgot to re- mind the team. It was one of those days when the chicken yelled, The sky is fal- ling, only to find it true. The Lions started the cycle again more surely moving towards a playoff berth, when holy red herring the chicken hit again, and the big house went too. With a three-week layoff till the State tournament time, Redeemer kept its eye sharp by tuning up against Central Divi- sion teams. March 31, 1966 With the opening of the District titles on March 2, the tournament was under way. The Lions drew a bye for the open- ing round and stayed out of tournament action until March 4. On Thursday, March 4, the Lions went after St. Ladislaus only to get its toes burned, 65 -6 2, and put an end to the 65-66 basketball season. Coach's Comment Basketball Coach Bill McCartney has these things to say about the outgoing senior members of the Varsity. Chuck Callendar, Captain: Proved to be a game ball player, always performing better in a ball game than in practice. nnntinuous Ioul trouble hurt points per game average. Played almost perfect game in important win against Bishop Gallagher. Despite sitting out the first quarter, Chuck totalled 23 points and played a fine floor game. Terry Cupples: Led the team in both of- fensive and defensive rebounds. Good student of the game. Averaged twelve points per game. With normal develop- ment should be excellent college prospect. Jim Phillips: Probably the most gifted senior. Never reached his potential as scorer. Lacked the drive to become ex- ceptional. Challenged Cupples and Cal - lendar for rebounding leadership all year. The Year Team Spirit Ruled King Lion Dan l3rooks and Lou Peltola get some of Coach McCartney's strategic advice. Danny Brooks: Probably had most drive and endurance of all seniors in practice sessions and ball games. Definitely our most improved player through the year. Averaged in double figures last five ball games. Lou Peltola: Led team in scoring early in year as sixth man. Holds high indivi- dual one game point total of 29 against Class B Semi-finalist Shrine. Lou and MartySheedy paired as probably the best offensive guards in conference. JohnHernandez, BobSeal, Bart Ventura: These boys didn't log much playing time but they represent the type of individual that it is a pleasure to coach and to work with. They earned the respect of their team-mates and each will be a success spiritually, socially, and economically. The JV cheerleaders played an important role in encouraging the team to their final victory. Standing, left to right: Cheryl Foucher, Noreen Madigan, Pat Turner, Vir- ginia Bosch, Barbara Linskens, Sharon Plonka, and Bev Broniak. Susan Cefai was ab- sent when the picture was taken.

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2 SENTINEL Are We like Batman? Zoom! Out of the batcave races our nation's newest hero--Batman. Seeking to foil dastardly criminals, he uses his inexhaustible arsenal of real weapons. Fortunatelyfor Batman, there will al- ways be mobsters, crooks, and madmen to fight. And he will always win. But unfortunately for us our weapons are often ineffective and at times seem to be unreal. Time, our greatest one is limited and is often used improperly. Our life is limited,we have a definite end, a definite stopping place. There'll be a time when we will not return in the next episode to continue on our crusade. Batman's life is too fantastic to be real but our life is only too real to allow fan- tasy to take over. Sometimes we prefer to be like Batman, to live in a world of make-believe and fantasy, unwilling to face the reality about ourselves and our future. We try to solve these problems with the unreal weapons of escape and conformity. We try to escape present demands of life by jumping to the future. Already presuming in our great minds that we have already made Wall Street, that we have been highly promoted at GM, or are the big man with two Cadillacs, we, living in a sophisticated society, 'shun the work that is necessary it we are to achieve even limited success. Also escapingour conscience and our sense of morals we say, Everyone's doing it, or Itwillgo away. Forget it. We can't retreat into our bat cave be- cause the job world and college are all too-present realities. We can't forget our low grades or our unhappy lives. Lucky for Batman he always wins and is always ready to fight. But we mortals are not always ready to fight. Often, af- ter a defeat we are not prepared to fight for quite a while. All this leads up to the fact that we are not Batmen--we cannot escape life and reality. But wait, there is hope! Hope is preparing for the future by the simple process of thinking and working in the present. Hope lies in doing things now, not putting them off until a later day which may never come. EDITORIAL PAGE Sentinel Vol. XI Publis hed Monthly Co-Editors Lester Goodchild Ramona Misiunas John Emig Barbara Brombach Jane Camilleri Susan Parker Gerry Durocher Duane Pennebaker Lynn Neeley Sister Alphonsus Lay-Out Editor Page Editors Sp orts Editor Business Mgr Typing Editor Adviser T HE CHRIS T IAN MESSAGE: By Rev. Thomas Baker, C.S. C. Reprinted from the Notre Dame Bulletin In a culture where we fluff and buff everything toacashmere softness before we wear, eat, or use it, the gray pow- deryashes tricklingfrom our foreheads on Ash Wednesdayfit like a harp solo in a Beatles' routine. Mortification, self-denial, and pen- ance are naughty words in the current Christian Love Syndrome. For many the Christian life is being caught, cap- tivated by a strange euphoric experience in which they blissfully bask until the par'ousia. The wonderful movement in the Church today towards emphasizing the positive in an attempt to avoid empty formalism and meaningless negativism is not an at- tempt to create a painless Christianity; Lent and its penitential spirit is right at the heart of the positive approach to the true Christian life. Lent, too, is for love. But no one loves in a vacuum. We don't just press a button and love auto- matically. Love is a struggle, aharsh struggle. LOVE THROUGH GIVING Love is not without obstacles. There is one giant obstacle to our love of God. It's our selfishness. Within our human frame we have big chunks of selfishness which like large boulders hinder our full response to God's love-strings. These boulders must be chipped away; they must be axed out of our lives. We would like to handle our selfishness gently, tenderly, and painlessly. But it would be to condemn ourselves to the hopeless task of trying to chisel a block of granite with a feather. No amount of mental gymnastics or of labyrinthine rationalizations can dilute the Christian message. It's very simple: life through death, love through giving. If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me. For he who would save his life will lose it but he who loses his life for My sake will find it. A soft and undemanding Lent is as con- tradictory as a painless Christian life. Ifwe refuse to hack away at our selfish- ness no matter how big we are on love we will never really be immersed in the mystery of Christ. Bending Tradition - a Good T hing Changes are usually made for convenience, and they are often breaks in tradition. A change may beasuccess or afailure depending upon the old or new plans. Redeemer has seen many changes this year: new scheduling, new exchanges, and new retreats. Of these changes it is scarcely appropriate to say that tradition has been broken, though we can maintain that the new plans have been successful. This month the Seniors and Juniors took partin another successful change. On Feb- ruary 9, both classes participated in a Bible Vigil which emphasized the symbolism of the rings, the blessing and presentation of rings, and a special 11:30 Mass. The fact that both classes were in attendance, said one Senior, lent an air of upper-class unity to the ceremony. This participation of both classes was new this year, but no one felt that tradition had been shattered. Immediately following Mass, the Seniors were feted with a luncheon, by the junior , class. The juniors hadworked hardfor days to make the arrangements and to decorate the cafeteria in the senior's class colors--navy blue and powder blue. It was the first time that Ring Day and the Junior-Senior luncheon were scheduled for the same day. Whatwas the effect of the combined activities? A junior commented that it seemed appropriate that we give the seniors something special on Ring Day, and a senior added, It made Ring Day seem somehow much more important. It has been traditional for the juniors to give a luncheon or banquet for the seniors, so there was no break in tradition, only a change. Next year the juniors may not find it possible to arrange a luncheon on Ring Day because the Class of '67 will receive their rings.early in the year. This situation should not discourage, but rather encourage the Class of i68 to begin thinking of something that would be appropriate, yet different, while maintaining the basic tradition that the juniors would treat the seniors. No one wants to upset, discourage, or discard tradition, but to make it flexible and meaningful so that it may be effectively carried on.