Leamington District Secondary School - Phoebus Yearbook (Leamington, Ontario Canada)

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PUBLIC SPEAKING Our predecessors found that it was not only necessary to know whai to say but that it was just as important to be able to say it. Because of tins, Public SpeaHna has become one of the most important activities of the Leamington High School. Every student of our school has the opportunity to stand in front of an audience and express what he or she might have to say. Our annual Public Speaking Contest was held in January of this vear. with Alpha. Beta, G=mma, and Delta each entering eight contestants. Alpha a first-time winner of this cove ' ed trophv came forth with a smashing victory’ The winners and runners up of this year ' s contest are as follows: Senior Girls Ann Br-dlev, Martha M dlik; Sentors Boys. Robert Mitten Kyle Graham; Junior Gris, j ane Anderson, Barbara Ann Poore; Junior Boys, Gordon Fisher. Robert Collens. All contestan ' s and directors of Public Speaking deserve a great deal of praise for the amount of work which was necessary to produce such out¬ standing achievements. 13 ROW: Gordon Fisher. Jane Anderson, Bob Mitton. Ann Bradley. SEoOND ROW: Margaret Shottcn, Robert Collens. Martha Mirilik. Kyle Graham

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PHOEBUS Nineteen Forty-Eight C ' - 5 -tr- o JUNIOR COMPOSITION — Firs! Priie SUSPENSE The night was dark and stormy. The wind howled around the corners of the old. dark house, beating at the window, as if demanding to be let in. The trees in the yard were whipped by torrents of swishing rain, seeming to come alive, grasping and catching with their outstretched, tortured limbs any living thing daring to venture out on this evil night. This picture was impressed on the mind of the young man as he lay in his bed. He lay there, being tortured by evil, frightening thoughts pounding at his brain. He could not sleep. He lay rigid, willing himself to relax and to slumber, and failing. He kept remembering the story he had read only the night before. A story of cold-blooded, gruesome murderl He could picture the murder setting as the wind shrieked and blasted at his window. He could see a tall, bleak figure shrouded in black, creeping beneath the trees. The moon, shining for a frightened moment through billowing, racing groups of black war chariots roaring across the sky, shone on the advancing menace, showing in the gray, ghostly light, a long, sinister dagger, clutched in a scrawny, witch-like hand. Unexpectedly, the figure sneaked behind a tree, and was lost from sight of the voung man. Suddenlv, a Diercing scream rang out! A shattering, nerve-wracking scream, which chilled the blood of the young man. He froze in his bed! Again came a scream, this time more urgent, more chilling than the first! And then quick relief and sanity, and more than a little self-disgust, ran through the young man as he heard the impatient voice of his wife saying, John, won ' t you please get up and give Junior his bottle? —Faye Hillier, 10A. THE LIBRARY CLUB FRONT ROW: Miss Lowing, Shirley Hyatt. Eleanor Tomuick, Ann Bradley (President), Dorothy Hillier (Secretary Treasurer), Joanne Mills, Elfroeda Unrau. SECOND ROW: Irene MacDonnell. Irene Krueger, Doris Moss, Sylvia Willms, Gloria Hope, Erna L. Klassen, Bob Mitlon, Colleen Siddall, Shirley Snell. Gladys Upcolt. Mary Kay, Mary Grace Jackson, Eileen [ones

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PHOEBUS Nineteen Forty-Eight p -3--6 0 I take the true definition of exercise to he labour without wea rin ess . ' ' —J ohnson. COUNTY MEET The annual Essex County Secondary School Association Track and Field Meet was again held in Harrow on October 3rd and for the second consecutive year the L.H.S. track teams carried away the coveted trophy. The Leamington athletes spent several weeks training for the meet and were in top form for the day. The Senior Boys, led by Cec Gow, who won the Senior Championship, were the big point winners in the Leaminaton victorv. The Senior lads scored seven firsts, five seconds, three thirds and a fourth for a total of 57 of the 154 Leamington points. The closest contender was Amherstburg High School with 114’ 2 points. Kingsville placed third. Essex fourth, Harrow fifth, and St. Rose sixth. It was the first year that St. Rose of Amherstburg entered the meet and a lthough their showing was not too impressive, they showed a fine competitive spirit. BASKETBALL With the return of winter weather, the athletic spotlight once again turned to basketball, the number one sport in Leamington High School. The 1947-48 season was one of keen and colourful competition, which proved interesting to spectators as well as the players. In the Senior division of the boys ' league, the powerful Gamma team was on top when the schedule ended and continued its victories by defeating Alpha in the playoffs. In the Junior and Juvenile divisions, however, the Beta teams emerged victorious. The Juniors won out over Alpha, while the Juveniles had little trouble in defeating the Gamma team. The Beta girls were not to be outdone by the boys, and copped two championships, the Senior and Juvenile, in their league. The Beta Seniors defeated the Gamma team, while the Juveniles overcame the stubborn opposition of the Della live. The Junior championship went to the Gamma girls, who defeated Delta in a close series. PING PONG The students of L.H.S. showed great enthusiasm in the sport of ping pong last year. There was keen competition held among the four house teams, with the Delta team emerging on the top. The players on this winning team were as follows: M. Bakes, D. Moss, B. Barnard, E. Reach A. Bradley (Captain). J. Metcalfe. B. Rose, B. Davidson, D. Poore, G. Gutteridge. Delta won 20 games out of a possible 30. Alpha and Beta tied for second place, each winning 14 games, and Gama came close behind with 12 wins. In the singles competition the entries were very heavy and preliminary rounds had to be played among the Grade Nine and Ten contestants, the winners of these playing in the final tournament. The semi-finals in the girls ' tournament left Marilyn Bakes vs. Joan Bradley, and Laura Hutchins vs. Ann Bradley. In the finals Ann defeated Marilyn in very close competition. In the boys ' semi-finals, Ralph Moran defeated Bill Bateman, and Bill Bakes defeated Max Moran. In the finals Bakes won out over Ralph Moran, winning two games out of three. 14