Phoenixville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Phoenixville, PA)

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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

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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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1939 Baseball Ralph Rhoads and his two assistants, David McVey, and Howard Moore, all of the faculty, called the battery candidates together for the first practice, February 28. Practices were held in the Junior high school Dun- geon , until the weather permitted outdoor practice. On March 24 a gen- eral practice was called for all candidates. Inclement weather prevented steady practices so that very little practice was had before the opening game with West Chester. Only four veterans are left from last year's team, Paul Detwiler, third base, Mike Drevyanko, first base, Jim Detwiler, and Darlington Groff, pitchers. , Seniors who will be lost by graduation are Paul Detwiler, Jim Detwiler, Richard Soulen, Edward Wynne, Robert Hopple, Thomas Taggert, Albert Batzel, and two senior managers, Quentin Hamborsky, and Vincent Free- man. Track Team The track team of Phoenixville high school participated in nine meets during the season of '39. All meets were away from home because of the condition of the track. The meets were as follows: Chester County Relays, Penn Relays, University of Maryland Interscholastic, a dual meet with Norristown, Chester County Meet, a dual meet with Downingtown, The District One P. I. A. A., the Pottstown meet, North Coventry, Spring City, Phoenixville meet. and the Philadelphia Suburban Meet. The seniors who participated were: Stephen Magyar, Joseph Montich, Joseph Mihalcik, William Raysor, and Edward Szegedy. The managers were Albert Byerly and Edward Pietro. Cheerleaders The candidates for cheerleaders had try-outs in Study Hall before the opening of the 1938 football season. The following were elected by the student body: Doris Wadsworth, Grace Batturs, and Miriam Thomas, seniors, Mary Rose Barkasy, Virginia Cress, Rosemary McCann, Marian Yenchik and Albert Valensky, juniors: Alma Clark, Olga Flaga, Jean Neuhauser, William Hopple, Frank Kelly, Lawrence Martin, and Harold Kesting, sophomores. The senior cheerleaders were the captains, and a squad of nine cheered at every game. At the close of the season, the senior and junior cheerleaders were in- vited to the annual football banquet which was held in the Memorial Jun- ior high school gymnasium. Vernon Replogle, of the faculty, acted as coach, and Miss Kathryn Kelly, as faculty adviser. Forty-th