Orangeville High School - Red and Blue Yearbook (Orangeville, Ontario Canada)

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Intramural Sports by Nan Nicholson Xl-:A During the fall and winter months some 100 girls joined basketball and volleyball teams. The games were played at noon hour and in the 3.30 period., The volleyball season began during October and continued until the Christmas holidays, while the basket- ball season opened with the new year and continued until the end of March. The girls of all grades received a chance either to referee and umpire or score and time. A.fter many exciting games Shirley Thomp- son and Rosilyn Sullivan's teams fought for first place with Shirley's team triumphing to become the Senior Volleyball Champs. In the Junior Volleyball - Gail Cameronls team won and they became Junior Champs. Through cold winter days at noon:-hours the girls played many exci- ting games. Roisilyn Sulliv'an's team was tops in the Seniors, Lesia Durkalols in the Intermediate and Peggy Nute's in the Juniors. On Nov. Z4 a Volleyball Jamboree was held with Arthur, Fergus, Flesherton, Shelburne and Orangeville taking part. At the last of the evening Shelburne played Flesherton and won 15-9. Shelburne played Orangeville and Orangeville won. During the early part of the jyear several ' town games were played. with Shelburne , with Orangeville victorious. When we played Brampton we tied Une game 13-213 and lost the other game 14- 13. It was a different story with Vaughan Road Collegiate, where we lost 26 - 19, but We are hoping fto have a return game. After Easter, about 70 girls paired off to form cou- ples in badminton. Helen Fleetham and Edith de St. Aubyn won the Senior Championship and Le sia Durkalo and Shirley Menary won the Junior Charnpionship. - H Il ll A traffic court judge was being lenient with a first offender. l'll let you off with a fine this time, but another day l'll send you to jail , he Warned. f7Sort of a weather forecast, huh, your Honour? commented the cocky one. What do you mean ? ' asked the judge. Find today, cooler tomorrow! ' H ll H

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65 lntramural Sport s by Mervin Nodwell Xl,-B Another very eventful and keenly contested year of in- tramural sports was racked up at 0.D.H.S. ln the realm of football 6 teams competed for laurels. Paul Courtney's Flyers emerged champions, having won all league games and trimming Ron Strilive's Eskimos in the final. Junior Volleyball boasted 8 teams. Hugh Brackenns squad overpowered Barny Campbell 46 -5 39 in the deciding playoff game. All 7 senior volleyball teams played in tight competition but Paul McCleary's gang set the pace throughout the schedule and handed the Staff Members a 30 .- Z2 defeat. This was the initial year in volleyball for the Staff and they always drew a packed gallery for their games. ln basketball, there were 5 junior and 4 senior teams., The junior crown was won by Terry I-loltomus team which shellacked Earl Faginus team Z1 2- 8 in the final., Top point:-getters in the junior division were 2- Douwe Walinga and Jim Cockerill with 56 points, Glen Larson 38 points, Rod Gemmill with 32 points and Fred Lanktree Z9 points., There was little doubt in the senior division., Once again Paul McCleary's squad captured the championship, knocking off Mal Fraserls boys 14 Q 8. Top point-:getters in senior basketball were: Ted Curtis Z4 points, Paul McCleary 2.3 points, Bill Rohmer 22. points, Bob Fife 18 points, and John Patterson 18 points. lncreased intere st was evident up the badminton trail this year., Following very enthusiastic tournament play, all com- petitors had been eliminated with the exception of Hugh Bracken and Carl Rogers., ln a well:-played and well:-matched set, Bracken edged out his younger opponent to represent O.D.,H.S. for single tournament play. il VI ll There was an old man from the sea, Who always had doughnuts for tea, And then came a day, A wave washed them away, And he was as pleased as could be. by Murray Donaldson. ll ll ll

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67 Gym Night by Irwin Gillespie Xll On Friday, February 28, a large gathering packed our gymnasium to see the first, Gym Display , by the boys and girls of the school., The efficient Master of Ceremonies for the evening was John Patterson, who was in charge of the complete show, from prac- tices through dress reharsals to the grand finale., All the boys were in their regular gym outfitg white T- shirt, blue shorts, clean white socks and running shoes. Mr. McFarlane is to be congratulated for moulding the boys into such fine gymnists in a very short time. The grade nine boys lined up according to size. On the box horse they went through ther: jump on, jump offg jump to kneeling position, jump offg jump on, roll offg and jump on, dive off. They followed the necksprings and thief vaults with somersaults and rolling off on the long horse., On the mats each one performed a successive front roll, and back extension and some performed head stands and elementary dives. On the high bar, Rodney Gemmill, Jim Kalbfleisch and Maurice Gardiner performed back and front knee circles and crutch circles. Grade tenus display began with flips-sover on the mats with Terry Holtom flipping the other boys over., Then Bob Gemmill and Earl Speers did necksprings off the strong backs of Terry Holtom and Earl Fagin., A few dived through a pyramid on the box horse and then some larger pyramids were made., On the high bar -2- Bob Gemmill, Earl Fagin and Clarence Rutledge performed front knee circles and back knee circles to end Grade tencs display., Grade eleven began with a warm:-up period of exercises which is typical of the beginning of any P,T. class. The boys were led by Bob Fife and kept time perfectly. For the fir st time during the evening the high horse was used when ten of the class did the long roll, two very difficult movementso 'Flips off the high horse were then very gracefully performed. The entire class got into the act once more with several movable pyramids. Elgin Keeling and Bruce Mof- fit ended the display with a backward somersault. Grade twelve and thirteen started with a perfectly timed criss-:cross of a thief vault and long straddle, and a neckspring and long roll on the box horse., On the mats four boys performed: Ed Wallace, Bill Rohmer, and Lloyd Booth proficient at necksprings and handsprings, and Irwin Gillespie doing one -:handed cartwheels..