Middletown High School North - Odranoel Yearbook (Middletown, NJ)

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STAGE BA D This year the Middletown High School North Stage Band, under the direction of Art Martin, completed a very successful year. They were the hosts of the 1978 Stage Band Festival held at Middletown North. They competed at the Glassboro State Band Festival held at Glassboro State College and the Mon- mouth Stage Band Festival held at Monmouth College, where they placed first out of eleven of the most highly noted high school bands in the state. They also performed at the Middletown Stage Band jazz spectacular, that was held in june. This festival, as in previous years signified the last performance of the band and a laurel wreath of precious memories to the graduating seniors of this jazz Band. Among the musicians there were eight seniors, all of whom were the former members of the Thorne junior High Stage Band conducted by Bernie Ward , an excellent instructor of jazz. With his guidance he helped bring these people to the high school with a confident and well rounded background in jazz. From there these senior players were elevated to the level of performing music under the careful tutelage of another excellent performer and teacher, Art Martin. It has been a long and winding road with many disappointments and happy times. It is with great sorrow that we part, and great joy to know that we might meet again to play the jazz we love. i Thanks goes to the music educators, performers, competitors, and audiences of jazz who supported us for so many years FRONT: Charlie Plungis, Dave Guest, Scott Arminas. MIDDLE: Butch Kliem, Mike Auleta, George Behn Trent jennings BACK Mike Feury Bill Podell, Marc Dworkin, john Doyle, Dave Crone, Dave Bisgrove, Clint Heath. MISSING: Kathy Colson john Roberts Russ lngle Kevin Terry Al Heath.

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BASEB LL The 1977 Middletown Varsity Baseball team, although relatively inexperienced, reflected the attitude and ambition of a 41 team. The most valuable player was Mike Bradley with a batting average of 377, followed by Tim McBride with a 338. The leading pitchers were Dennis jacques with a record of 6-1 and joe Yatsko with 3-1. The Lions finished the season with a record of 11-12 and ranked fourth in the Shore Conference A divi- sion. This year there will be 14 lettermen returning, with promise for an outstanding season. - -.,'.:iQg Q . . ess. si,. A 21, N,-we LL7.. srryi . . , f 'L ' H g in---.ff -an . -i i K J First base ' .Fr fl- llfifllg was V iii fre: rf. I .f N12 1 'TQ s .. 5 fi, coach Sean McCauley giving the signals. 1 r ...ie H N A i X v V, V Q- ' 4' . Q 0 Q ., ,Q f g V, f t ...ff U7, 1 Q ,Lap 5 . K -,'if y 'x ' is X. 1 2' ' ' 1 ., if Q L it V if X . 63 K , I W l ' FRONT ROW L-R: Coach Henderson, Tim McBride, Mike Enny, Sean McCauley, Billy Schultz, Doug Erbig, Mike Bradley. BACK ROW L-R: Dennis Iaques, joe Yatsko, Bill Balbach, Dennis Forbes, Doug Wilson, Brian Venerus, jimmy Fallon.