Holy Trinity High School - Echo Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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The building of the gym seems to mark the start of an active Trinity in the field of sports. Almost from the beginning, the school has been able to boast of excellent basketball fives and of late years the girls, the Trini- dettes have entered into the competition with increasing success Football history was made in the early forties when Trinity played in Class C competition During these years the names of Dick Wills A3 Leo Flaherty 'h2 and John Bashara '42 were Trinity Jatchwords The championship team which finally brought home first honors in football in 1942 were Gus Russo Eddie Ether d g Randolph query, Joe Venuto, Charlie W h e a t S Casey Joe Grey B Versprille Bill Mayo, Wendell M111 e r, George Nood house Bobby Ellis Willie V1rg1l1 Arnold, Anthony harrell Joe Council, Jersey Yatterson, John Boogades, Bill A rphy, and Jerry Johnston In Class C basketball competition, Sammy Miller 'h2 and Martin Kehoe 'A3 were outstanding One of the first girls to receive praise on her basketball ability was Barbara Kaufman 'A3 The Class C basketball championship in the Tidewater area was won in 1945 with B Bullock, G Russo, S Casey, J Fitz Patrick, W Virgili, F Carrigan, W Jenkins, J Harrell C Hilmoth E Eth eridge, B Versprille L Sallacup in the line up The closing years of Trinity have seen the continuance of its outstand ing athletic reputation on the hardwood Trinity boys brought home the Cath s n Q u I ' 0 9 i e, . l Dick Wills, Jack Hickman, Rocco Russo, Louis Hiers, Jake Versprille, Eugene V ' 0 I ' T, . . . , . . . - .

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ol1c champlonshlp trophy 1n 19h8 and 19h9 as well as wlnnlng the G0ld Medal trophles for those years The Trlnldettes won the1r f1TSt Cathol1c award 1n l9N7 a feat not to be repeated unt1l thls present year when the last Trlnl dette team whlpped Portsmouth to brlng home a flnal trophy to the School In l9h8 the glT1S' team won a runner up award at the Cathollc tournament left to right Cfrontj Ozmon, A Venut Kehoe, Cmlddlej Mergel, P Wheeler Hayden, S Rumfelt, Mrs R Perklns Ccoachj Dudzlk M Clola Query D Vltlo, Cbackj Query. B Irwin, Mack, D Prlmm J Harrell J M e e k With the lncreased enrollment 1n the hlgh school from the or1g1nal th1r ty to almost two hundred there was an lncrease ln the faculty as well Suc ceedlng SlSt8r Mary Angels Slster Ann Ellzabeth took over the re1ns of the hlgh school untll l9h0 Durlng these years The Tr1n1dad the school news paper, was begun w1th Nancy Langhorn Haskett '36 as 1ts first ed1tor Also, the years of 1939 and 1940 marked the appearances of the only other year book 1n Tr1n1ty history For many years the Veterans of the Forelgn Wars have sP0DSOT6d an 6558! contest Bernard Smlth 'Al 13 the f1rst on record to w1n for Tr1n1ty with a flrst place entry 1n l9h0 he also won a state award for h1s entry in the I F C A contest June 19hl was a banner year 1n the VFW contest Francls Sulllvan 'Q3 non f1rSt honors Joseph Mele ky 'A2 second, and Leslle Powers 'A3 thlrd Lesl1e Powers brought further honor to Tr1n1ty by wlnnlng an Amerlcan Leglon essay contest 1D Aprll l9hl and a hundred dollar f1TSt pr1ze in a B P O E essay contest that same year Do 0 og P. ' A. . ' f B. . Fo . g 'KO . I Mo Q 0 . . A. X , MQ 1 0 . Q I 9 o so