Isaac Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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SWIMMING For a second time Newton was represented at the Inter-High Swimming Meet at Sherbrook Pool in Dec¬ ember. This year the boys, under the coaching of Mr. Hrenchuk, brought home one championship and two second places — a total of eight points. This is quite remarkable considering that only six boys from Newton were at this meet. Our “Water Maids’’ were repre¬ sented by one entry, Sylvia Green. The champion ship won was the Inter-High Grade 10, 200 yards free style relay. The members of this team were Bert Rynyk, Gary Solar, Don Purpur and Roger Stashko. Nick Pid- murny, placed second in the Open 50 yard backstroke, and Don Purpur placed second in the Open 200 yard free style. Congratulations Champs! CURLING Two teams were sent to the Manitoba Inter - High Bonspiel during the Christ¬ mas holidays. The team of Komishon, Ingaldson, Ket- chen and Richardson won two games and lost two — one more win would have put them in the running for the Tribune Trophy. How¬ ever, these boys will be back at Newton next year and are counting on bring¬ ing back something from the next bonspiel. Our sec¬ ond team, composed of grade ten boys, had tough luck too, but since they have two or three years ahead of them we have great hopes for them. Our boys practiced for the bonspiel this year by taking part in the West Kildonan High School Lea¬ gue (thanks to Mr. Snyder) and by competing against a team from the Newto n staff. BOWLING Newton again entered the annual Inter-High Ten Pin Bowling League in March. Four teams represented our school in the league—teams composed of grade ten and (Continued on Page 88) 64 Isaac Newton High School

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JUNIOR BOYS ' BASKETBALL TEAM, 1949-50 BACK ROW (left to right)—Bob Ristock, Jim Komishon, Stan Bursztynski, Mr. Hren- ehuk (coach), Fred Ingaldson (captain), Bob Ketchen, Jack Schnoor. FRONT ROW—Johnny Station, Peter Pura, Ken Crossley, Ernie Dzamon, Bob Kostiuk, Walter Palisnuk. OUR JUNIOR CAGERS .... Gave Their All Under the patient and efficient reaching of Mr. Hrenchuk our Junior Basketballers developed into a power¬ ful Title Contender, only to flounder in the stretch and suffer the fate of their Senior brethren — second place. They opened their season with a rather unimpressive 32-27 victory over a battling Kelvin “five” and it was mainly due to the experience of the “KIK” line (Ketchen, Ingaldson and Komishon) that the Newton boys sal¬ vaged the victory. However, vast improvement was shown in the second outing when our young cagers shellacked the Gordon Bell squad 42-27. The scoring in this game was fairly evenly distributed with the top man, Ernie Dzamon gar¬ nering 9 points. A complete reversal of form was in evidence in the third game when the Juniors dropped their first contest of the season to Tech 27-32. Spotty play on the part of the whole squad was the main cause for an unwarranted loss. The second loss came from the hands of Daniel McIntyre. The game was a battle all the way with Daniel putting cn a last quarter spurt to edge out a dead-game Newton quintet 29-35. Along about this time Newton hit their mid-season form and under the inspired defensive play of such fellows as Palisnuk, Schnoor and Crossley. and the offensive work of Dzamon, Station and the old faithful “KIK” line a rejuvenated Newton squad “rapped in” three successive victories, 23-15 over Kelvin, 37-34 over Gorden Bell — then, sparked by Jim Komi- shon’s brilliant 16 point effort, they trounced an injury-riddled St. John’s team 39-21. The stage was now set for the last game of the season. This contest was a “do or die” effort for our cagers in view of the fact that they trailed a (Continued on Page 85) Newtonian 63

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GYM CLUB After a few years absence our Gymnastic Club was re¬ vived by our new physical instructor Mr. Hrenchuk. Classes were held twice a week in our auditorium and a dozen or more boys at¬ tended. Because of lack of apparatus, work was done on the mats, box, and horse only—free exercise also was done. Early in April this club was one of the fortunate few in the city chosen to perform at the Teachers’ Convention in the Winnipeg Auditorium. Judging from comments, the teachers dis¬ covered invaluable aid in teaching this type of work to beginners and advanced pupils. Early in May a small group of the club represent¬ ed our school at the Mani¬ toba Gymnastic Champion¬ ships at the Y.M.C.A. At this competition, which is open for any club or school, our team did very well in the Junior Mens’ Division. CHEERLEADERS At the rugby games last fall, the same old white sweaters were worn by the cheerleaders, and the same old support was given by our students to the cheer¬ leaders. The only novelty was created by the boys of the cheerleaders squad — Roger Stashko, Alec Hado- wanec and Don Mac. They entertained the Newton sec¬ tion with skilled acrobatics at the games. Their work, and that of the girls, de¬ serves much credit. The hopes of cheerleading enthusiasts like Janet Car¬ ter, are to get new songs, cheers, response from the students, and uniforms for next year. Good luck in your endeavor. OUR BASKETBALL COMICS . . . A team called The Gents, organized by John Foga just after Christmas and which performed in the best attire, namely hats, ties, vests and shorts, made it known that it could beat any challenging team in the school. The first to challenge (Continued on Page 88) Newtonian 65