Palmerton High School - Mirror Yearbook (Palmerton, PA)

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SENIOR IHSU1-1 THE MIRROR 24 Morning Call Il OW 'ourtesy Allent

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Tau 1VIImton Si-:Nlon Issue . e:sf:.:'fJ:'1i so I .0 s. Q ' Q ' 'i' 9 Kayfx- ' we 0: cb' . f ' ' X V' HM s. I 4-ef ' I? ,, If' tj 11,47 ti, 41215, ,4 Y , ' V, If 1 v, ? I 125 , ,V , ff I., V, . 451: Z X Q ' ix! If I X 2327 ' ' Aa if A 4 . W fq,f , f ' I M f f ' f '74 I ff 52 M QW5? f. ti a l.. 5, f f '!f 1 I V!! A I 'i' , 1 I I ,fri ' if 4 My ff iff f 94 f A 4 VW f The Class of '32 has in its midst many of its Alma Mater's letter men and girls, who fill the ranks not alone in one sport either. In the Basketball squads--among the track sprinters, with the Baseball brigade, and even in the Tennis racketeers' uniform, we find them-these athletic graduates of 1932. Elizabeth Derkocz. captain of this season's girls' basketball teant, has just completed four years of splendid playing. Elizabeth played a snappy game as a forward last year, and this season again played in the shooting position. In spite of the majority of good shots still re- maining, this plueky girl will be a loss hard to replace. Julia Ilaytman has also seen four years of sporting service in the court, playing substitute guard last year and regular on the past winter's sextette. There is a saying to the effect that a team is as strongas its scrubs. This can be applied here for we must not forget the boys who drilled with to bring two Green, Gear- Polash, Reh- all played on Steve Tergo, player of the first ten two years ago and this season helped the quintette reach the state semi-finals by his fine playing at forward. I.evan Linton, Senior the basketball teams and helped of the four championship teams. hart, Ketchmore, Kocher, Kurtz, rig, Shipkovsky, Walk and Webb the squad for a season or two. once a member of the class, was a Class President, played a nice game at center as substitute for Jonas in many hard battles to keep the Palmerton slate clean. Four years ago this coming Autumn, this high school enjoyed its last football season. Foul Freshmen were then seen on the gridiron: Mur- ray, Polash, Rehrig and Tergo. All had promis- ings of fine players in them then. Bossard, Chamberlin and Gearhart played their last tennis games flying the blue and white colors. These three boys were highly re- sponsible for the successful year in tennis and much credit is due them. In track, Ernest Rehrig has been throwing the discus and putting the shot to no meager means. Fred Heller has been running in true form in both the 100 and 220 yard dashes. .Iaek Mur- ray, brawny Irisher, has been found fast on his feet, and he and .Ioe Plechavi are two of the cin- der-path artists on this season 's track squad. For the last two years Sidney Wvebb has been seen chasing flies in right field playing in most of the baseball contests, and he, with Rehrig, will receive letters in this sport. 1Yith such line turn-out alhletically, in every one of the offered sports, who can say but that perhaps the hearts of Coach Braucher, Coach V1'ilhelm, and Coach Barnes will undergo serious palpitations when they see one or two of their prodigies Camong the 1932 graduatesj listed for competition in the International Olympic games? 23

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THE Mnmon SI-:mon Issum f fs' ax , QQ lee if - 4 'S 4 The Track team, coached by Mr. Wilhelm, achieved the highest honors in this sport tha. our school has ever attained. The team won one Meet, lost two and placed third in the County Meet at Summit Hill. For the first time in the records of this school, two members of our Track squad, Mike Kuba and Steve Mazepa, entered the P.I.A.A. State Pre- liminaries in Altoona. In the finals, Kuba was one of three boys who tied for second place in the pole vault. The boys on the Track squad are: Mike Kuba, Steve Mazepa, Fred Heller, John Fabian, Frank Jonas, Ernest Riehrig, William Smida, John Olivia, Frank Danchez, Steve Tergo, Joe Ple- chavi, Sigfried Kretzel, Joe Tergo, Horace Far- ber and Mike Samok. P.H.S. has just completed the most success- ful year in athletics. We came nearer the goal than any school in the Lehigh Valley when our basketball team reached the semi-finals for the state basketball championship. ' Though a rather small school, Palmerton was undefeated two years previous and repeated this season to win the Lehigh Valley League Cham- pionship for the third consecutive year. In the last five years blue and white basketball teams have won 65 out of 70 league games played, mak- ing them champions four times during a period of five years. In the race for the State title, Coach W. E. Braucher's quintette met and defeated several of the foremost contenders for this honor. Blythe Township, Summit Hill, VVest Chester and Steelton fell before the attack of the Pal- merton High aggregation. Encountering Old Forge in the State semi-finals, our boys were defeated after a hard, well-played game. The boys were hailed everywhere as a wonderful team and Palmerton fans were recognized for their fine sportsmanship. Qtr C