Phoenixville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Phoenixville, PA)

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oys' Basketball Si First Row: Joe Montich, Whitaker Griffen, Isaac Travis, Steve Magyar, Paul Detl wiler. Second Row: Edward Pietro, Jim Gotwals, Michael Drevyanko, Andrew Haggerty. Third Row: Vernon Replogle, Ed Stec, Robert Edinger, Joe Bergantz, Stephen Natisky, Joseph Quinn, Roy Hopp. During the past season Coach Joseph Quinn's squad did not fare so well. It won seven games and lost eleven. This year's team, however, was the only Phoenixville team to beat Pottstown since the Suburban Confer- ence began. In the coming years the coach expects to put a team on the floor that will surpass those of the previous seasons. Mr. Quinn was very much pleased With the team this year because everybody cooperated one hundred percent. The three leading scorers for the Phoenixville high school team were Edward Stec 97, Paul Detwiler 89, and Whitaker Griffen 76. The following received letters for their showing during the season: Michael Drevyanko, Edward Stec, James Gotwals, Whitaker Griffen, Paul Detwiler, Steve Magyar, Joseph Bergantz, Edward Pietro, Joseph Montich, Andrew Haggerty. Robert Edinger is manager. Boys' Health Class Coach Kuhrt Wieneke is in charge of the gymnasium classes for boys. In the fall and spring, classes were hel.d at Washington Field. Tag football was played in the fall, baseball in the spring. Fundamentals of track were also practiced. During the winter, classes were held in the Memorial Junior high school gymnasium. Here the boys played soccer, basketball, and volleyball. Varsity men were excused from classes but acted as coaches of the above-mentioned teams. Forty-o

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Forly Hockey First Row: Alma Clark, Margie Gavin, Leona Campbell, Ada Boyle, Dolores Mar- cliegiano. Second Row: Doris Wadsworth, Eleanor McCarraher, Virginia Cress, Nancy Charles, Rose-Mary McCann, Grace Batturs, Mary Scoringi, Rose Savchyn. Third Row: Jean Neuhauser, Norma Barlow, Virginia Hesser, Ruth Busch, Sara Thomas, Marion Hallman, Anna Mae March, Betty Jane Smith, Miss Catherine Rankin, Miriam Thomas. The 1938 hockey team reported for practice at Washington Field, September 15, under the supervision of Coach Catherine S. Rankin. There Were thirty-three candidates who reported. The senior varsity members are Grace Batturs, Ada Boyle, Leona Campbell, Nancy Charles, Marjorie Gavin, Eleanor McCarraher, Rose Savachyn, Mary Scoringi. Miriam Thomas was elected student manager. The results of the hockey schedule for the season of 38 : Royersford 3 ..... Phoenixville 0 Spring City 1 .... Phoenixville 0 Phoenixville 1 ..... Spring City 0 Upper Merion 3 . . . Phoenixville 0 Phoenixville 4 ........ Berwyn 2 Phoenixville 1 . . . West Chester 0 North Coventry' 3 . Phoenixville 1 Phoenixville 2 Downingtown 0 Girls' Health Classes The senior girls had their gymnasium classes on Wednesday after- noons. In warm Weather they went to Washington Field and on cold days, through the winter months, had class in the Memorial Junior high school gymnasium. Miss Catherine S. Rankin was health instructor. The rules this year were the same as in previous years. The class was divided into groups with leaders who took roll and reported to lVIiss Rankin the absentees of the class for that gym period. The games in which everyone took part at some time or other were baseball, hockey, basketball, volleyball, and ping-pong.

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Forty-t Girls' Basketball First Row: Virginia Miller. Mary Rose Barkasy, Nancy Charles, Anna Mae March. Ncdah Custer, Frances Dunmore. Second ROW: Mary Alice Evans, Alma Clark. Virginia Cress, Miss Catherine Rankin, Rose Mary McCann, Rose Savchyn, Dorothy Neil. Third ROW: Olive Eagle, Juno Dawson, Sara Thomas, Mary Scoringi, Dolores Mar- chegiano, Marion Hallman, Betty Jane Smith. Miss Catherine S. Rankin called for candidates for the girls' basketball team December 8, 1938, and many girls responded for tryouts: only twenty- eight were kept for the squad. Practice took place at Memorial Junior high gymnasium each evening to prepare the team for the good season which they enjoyed, winning four games, losing three and tying one. The officials were Coach: Miss Cath- erine Rankin: Captains: Nancy Charles '39, Anna Mae March '39g Man- agers: Marion Hallman '39, Ethel Taggart '40. The team was composed of the following gir.s: Varsity forwards: Anna Mae March. . . '39 guards: Nancy Charles ...... '39 Frances Dunmore.. '40 Virginia Miller ..... '40 Mary Rose Barkasy . '40 Schedule P. O. P. O. 1 Spring City 18-18 Norristown 7-17 Upper Merion I6-26 Spring City 15-14 Conshohocken 35-12 Downingtown 32- 8 C44 Berwyn 33-34 North Coventry 38- 8 Recapitulation Games played-8: won-4: lost-35 tied-1. Phoenixville, 194 9 Opponents, 137