Laney College - Oak Log Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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Tennis fcam. flironl, I-rj: Lonix lVriglal, Icrry Niculcl, EJ. Cruz, Gary Wfilliums fliuck Irj Wllfllll Mimv B011 Bur! L, , - 5 -f 1 , on, Kms W'iz'kwirc, Couch Bill Rorkwcll. Bmeball At this writing the Thunderbird baseball team is resting in second place in the Big Eight Conference, with a chance for Conference championship. Dave Regallie and .lesse Washington had been the team's big guns. Regallie had won eight games while losing only two and Washington was hitting well over the .300 mark W -h' '1 s ' as lIlgl0ll was an All-OAL player. Behind the plate the T-Birds had Phil Bouthillier and .lesse Murdock. Bouthil- lier played with Oakland last season and Murdock with Humboldt. A li ' f - - t rst base was veteran Bob Gayou who was hitting .300, and one of the team's leaders in runs batted in. Second base was manned by the reliable Percy Harris who was one of last yearis League standouts at shortstop. Percy was the leadoff batter and was largely re- sponsible for keeping the Thunderbirds in the running for the title. Don Louie filled the shortstop position very well. He came from Tech High where he was also an All-OAL selection. Rounding out the starting infield was veteran George Dunphy, a mainstay for the past two seasons. Dunphy was the team leader in bases on balls. The outfield was manned by Washington, Walt King, ex-star from McClymonds, and Harv Hanson from Castlemont. Golf foam. fFront, I-rj: Ralph Vince, Dave Maiibewr, Iim VC7urncr. fBac1z, I-rj: Coach Gil Callies, Henry Fogg, Dwight Lew, Bob Martin. Tbc 1958 Bnsclmll fcrzm. Tenmlr Keeping with the trend of strong spring sport teams, the OJC ' wk - ' ' ' ' rat etmen I,OIllp1l6d its most successful season, winning fifteen of the matches played this year. Under Coach Bill Rockwell. the net men also placed third in the Big Eight Conference race and qualified for h N t e orthern California JC championships at Modesto. The schedule included matches with East Contra Costa won by 8-1, 8-1, scoresg Sacramento, 5-2g Mo- desto, 6-1g Vallejo, 6-13 San Jose, 6-0g San Francisco State Ctwicej, 9-0, 6-35 Santa Rosa, 4-3 Hirst league lossbg Stockton, 7-03 West Contra Costa, 7-03 the last loss against City College of San Francisco, 6-lg and downing San Mateo, 4-2. Doubles team members were Warren Mines and Bob Burton, and Russ Wickwire and .lerry Nicolet. Goh! Swinging into the conference matches the clubmen romped through their best record season yet, even with the loss of tuo fine players. The golfing 'Birds took second place in the Big Eight with a 5-1-1 record. Tieing Stockton YM-7V2 during the rain encouraged the T-Birds as they copped wins over WCC, 13M-lk, Santa Rosa 112-ISM, Modesto, 3-7g San Francisco City College, ilk-65. and Sacramento, 10-5. But the golfers of San Mateo handed the upstart Oaklanders their only loss of the league play, HM!-Elk. Henry Fogg, Oakland's outstanding player all season long is given best chances for medalist, honors in the Big Eight Play-offs.

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Noles won the 100 in 9.7 and came back to break the school record in the 220 with a 21-flat clocking around the turn. Noles' time would have been good enough to win last year's National AAU meet. Perry was caught in the fast time of 14.9 in the high hurdles for a Bay Area best and won the 180 lows in 18.9, beating out San Fran- cisco's great Leroy Thomas who had taken fourth place in last year's State .lunior College championships. Oakland journeyed next to Palo Alto where they bested the Stanford Frosh and West Contra Costa. In this meet, the T-Birds' thinclads won every race including the relay. Noles won sprint duels over West's great Rudy Jackson. Noles had to come from behind in the last 10 yards to win the century in 9.8 hut he won the 220 a little easier in 21.6 over the shorter Jackson. Bill Webster and Don Lee produced the best Oakland marks of the day. Webster won the 440 in school record time of 50.3, and Lee the 880 in 1:58.6. Next came the San Francisco State Relays in which Oakland relay teams established three relays records. A quartet of Webster, Bob Grissom, Perry, and Noles won the 440 relay in 42.1, the fastest mark for JC's in the nation in the past two years, and the 880 relay in 1:28.7. In the distance medley relay the foursome of Bill Webster, Billy Minor, Lee and Rogers set a new mark of 10:42.3. Three days later against Santa Rosa, Don Lee finished a brilliant two-year Oakland career by breaking a bone in his foot while run- ning the mile. Rogers made up for it in the two, running a la uMax Truexn and winning by half a lap in the fine time of 9237.8 for a school best. Fred Bright pole vaulted 12-1 for another school mark. Probable winners and point makers in the Big Eight Conference meet were Noles, whose only competition would come from Jackson of the Comets, and Perry who was a cinch winner in the lows and favored in the highs over the Comet's Phil Clifton. Rogers, Oakland's distance machine,' could be a possible winner in both the mile and the two-mile over strong competition from Modesto. Oakland could figure highly in the California State Junior Col- lege Championships with Noles and Perry certain to qualify along with Rogers for the big affair. Lee, until his injury, was figured on as a possible surprise winner in the 380. Other men who may possibly qualify are DeDominico and Webster hut they will have to show marked improvement over past per- formances. All in all, Oakland has done remarkably well with the lack of team depth they have had and coach Hallstone is to be congratulated on a job well done. '-4 Q -4l .4ull Bill Webster, Dennis Johnson, and Ted Pontiflet turn the pole coming home to the tape. Len Noles, Bob Grissom, and Rich McKinney get set to take out of the hole on a dash. ... bl

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'William J. lilllUIl.lCl1ifOl' Assisting Editor William J. Hulon were Stuart Smith, Associate Editor, ,lames Hudson, Sports Hditorg Rich- ard Gazarian, Fraternity Editor: Paul Gazarian. So- rority Editor: Ronald Hcttus. Business llanager. aml the yearbook stall' memlicrs. In getting out the first edition. many significant hurdles had to he overcome. First. thc prolrlem of find- ing an adviser lwho licgan officially in the second se- mesterl: second, training stall menllmers in finances. layout, photography, etc.. as the project developed: and third, the prolnlem ol' getting the project set up in time. And so. ol' necessity-W there will he some mis- takes, some omissions, perhaps unliorgivalrle ones. Ex- perience has come as a result ol' diligence and hard work, the ominous shadow ol' ignorance has slowly disappeared and the relatively quiet emluryonic stages which evolved into the stress and strain of the adoles- cent period finally lmecame ol' age in this volume. An exhilerated erew, too weary now to shout . . . having had emotions purged all along the gamut hy unrelenting demands, lets forth long suspirations . . . of inward glee, of personal satisfaction, of achieve- Illfillt. T be ri ina! Oak Log If Rem It of erfevemnca Hard Work These are the Oak Loggers . . . those who are the victors and for whom the spoils consist solely of inward satisfaction olrtained from services willingly and well-performed. Assiduous in lalror and spurred lay fidelity to sell'-imposed duty, they have here re- produced and vicariously captured Uakland ,lunior College in concise narratives and lucid portraits of memoralnle days which otherwise might fade into ohlivion. Under the advisorship of Dr. ,lohn F. Summersette members ol' the stall' liecame social outcasts in order to devote most ol' their waking hours to the BIG BOOK which was in their lmlood . . . the lnook ahout which at the outset they had only ideas, hut the ideas eoalesced to supply a vision ol' the ultimate opus. Left to right: Stu Smith, Associate Editorg ,Iames Hudson, Sports Editorg Dr. John F. Summersette, A dviser. Merrill Staff. Seated fl-rl: lloreen Wtltt, Joyce Howard, Daniel Hart, K Doug Morra, Patricia Porep, Tom Bowie. Standing tl-rr: Kirk Rogers, Laney SMH. Seated tl-rl: Sharon Sessions. Norman Toly, Janet Ronald Rettus. Carol Taylor, Ross Anderson, Don Freitas, Richard Ga- Dejarrnett. Standing ll-rl: Mr. Edward Ahood, Laney Faculty zarian, l,yne l,yon. Paul Gazarian. Coordinatorg Audrey Staats, Larry McCaH'erey. 'i132Y fn 5--.4 ss! glial