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

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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..

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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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Tony Towers then appeared with his little drum to put a little bang into the acts. ,Then the boys did dives and necksprings off a human if pyramid which grew all the time. Lloyd Booth then did several dif- ficult front somersaults, Good work Lloyd! Lloyd and Tom Lockyer next dived through the inverted legs of Bill Leggett and Dave McCleary who were on the box hor se. Dave McCleary ended the display by per- forming a reverse straddle on the high horse. Very Good, Dave! The Grand Finale was a combination of two pyramids of boys and one of girls. With each drum beat another tier pf boys and girls ascended towards the ceiling. With the top man in place the lights dimmed and went out, and slowly like diamonds taken from a case, the brilliant letters O.,H.S. glittered and shone against their black velvet lining of darkness., This brought to an end the gym disf: plays. Many thanks to lan McMillan, Kurt Reinhardt, and Charlie Scott, who provided the very effective lighting arrangements during the displays. Next came two repeats from the Grade Thirteen Lit. Meeting: the boys quartet singing, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane , and a special version of, Enjoy Yourself , and the play, Cou1dn't I Kiss You Goodnight! After this the chairs we re cleared from the floor and a sock dance followed. Much fun was had by all and the first Gym Night , went down as an unforgettable memory in everyone's diary. ll H II Thxerkii aiyoungtlidy mfrrrefd JOQCQ . Who wants a great big rollo royce. When e'er she comes near The fellas all cheer :- Miss Goudie, oh boy, she is choice . ll li I0