North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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THREE afternoons every week a group of eager boys and girls may be seen hastening from North as soon as school is over. YYhy are these lads and lassies in such a great hurry? wonders a passer- hy. Were he to follow them he would soon find the reason for their haste, for they only go as far as the Norfolk Bowl- ing Alleys. Here under the able direc- tion of llr. Sylvia, many a bowling champion of tomorrow gets his lowly start. Bowling has become one of the most popular sports during the past few years. No longer is it a man's game for now everyone howls. Bien and women, girls and boys, all take a try at knocking over a few pins. At first these novice howlers make very little work for the pin-boys, but by the end of the year Mr. Sylvia usually manages to turn them into fairly good howlers. The highlights of the howling teams season come with the Tournament in April when they may show how much im- provement they have made, and with the trip to Nantasket which the whole team enjoys. 4 19 BOWLING

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VVHEN the football season finally opens, what is the second thing that you think of? CNaturally our first thought must be for the broad shouldered he-men of the teamj. Of course, you think of the Cheerleaders. No game would be com- plete Without North's peppy group of Cheerleaders out there rooting for the team and making the field re-echo with cheers. These peppy girls seem to bc able to jump around like so many grass- hoppers for hours and still be just as fresh as most of us poor mortals feel early in the morning. CThis is a very good but rather diflicult way to keep the Waist-line down.D lVhen North makes a touch-down, these human barometers are likely to do almost anything imagin- able from handstands and cartwheels to backflips. 'XVC couldn't get along with- out this enthusiastic bunch of girlsg so let's give three cheers for our cheer- leaders. . ' .4 A 181

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BASKETBALL IN his fourth year as the able mentor at North, Coach Mullarkey, with little or no material with which to work, developed this year a threatening al- though not too powerful hoop machine which completed another hectic season with nine wins in sixteen attempts in interscholastic competition. In this home and home arrangement North failed to down but two schools in its program. These were Quincy High, North's arch-rivals and Tech Tourney- ists this year, and Rockland High, one of the most powerful quintets on the South Shore. The Raiders divided hon- ors with Braintree, VVeymouth, and Wlatcrtown and took double wins from Quincy Trade, Hingham, and Abington. All this season the fans in the cheering section have applauded the excellence of the spectacular exhibits of basketball ability furnished by the Raider sopho- mores, to whom lNIr. llullarkey looks for a Tech bid or two in the coming two years. 4I20l