Red Deer Composite High School - Yearbook (Red Deer, Alberta Canada)

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Girls’ Curling Champs Boys’ Curling Champs CURLING A very successful curling year was enjoyed with two round-robin series being completed. In the final round-robin McAllister’s rink emerged winners of the crests. They nosed out the rinks of Sproule, Silverberg and McPhee. Iv. embers of the winning rink were: Skip, Art McAllister; Third, Fred West; Second, Bob Golden; Lead, Bob Lougheed. Ken Sproule was elected president of the Curling club with Bob Golden as his secretary. Teams from Red Deer attended the bonspiels at Innisfail, Olds and Wetaskiwin. A good showing was made at all three places and, as well, an enjoyable time was reported by all. An all-star team consisting of Art McAllister, Jack McPhee, Ken Sproule and Dana Morkeberg went to Wetaskiwin to represent Red Deer. They took third place, being beaten by Camrose who won the Central Alberta title. GIRLS ' CURLING Great interest was shown in curling by the girls this year. Due to the poor curling weather the two teams (Argent and Morkeberg) were unable to play off the final game. ★ ★ ★ An escaped inmate of the insane asylum returned to his old home, and decided to shave. As he was poised with his razor, ready to start, the mirror fell unnoticed to the floor. “Just my luck,” said the man, staring at the empty wall, “my first day heme, and I cut my head off.”

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76 BOY’S HOCKEY TEAM Back row, 1. tor.: Lloyd Crawford, Tommy- Leader, Bobby Thompson, Doug Silverberg, Don MacArthur, Wm. Service (manager). Front row: Doug Strong, Chester Black, Lars Pedersen, Cyril Whiteside, Gary Hughes, Don Loewen, Ted Twack, K. Warkentine. BOWLING TEAM Leone Parcels, Bernice Good, Gerald Martin, Connie Starrat, Bert Sparrow. COMPOSITE HIGH SCHOOL COUGARS The C.H.S. this year entered a team in the “Big Six” rural league. The team per¬ formed very well during the season. It started out with a bang sweeping the first six games it played, but sagged badly in the last four contests, dropping three of them. The final league stndjngs were: W. L. T. Pts. Penhold 7 2 1 15 Burnt Lake 7 2 1 15 C.H.S. 7 3 0 14 Lawrence’s 5 5 0 10 In the playoffs Penhold defeated C.H.S. in a close two-game total point series. While in the other half Burnt Lake beat Lawrence’s Juniors and went on to win the league. Mr. Service and Mr. Evans coached and managed the team. BOWLING Bowling teams were organized at the beginning of the year with Rose Mueller as supervisor. Games were played on Monday and Tuesday nights after school, each team bowling two lines. Gerald Martin’s team came out on top for the season. The players on his team were Burt Sparrow, Connie Starrat, Leone Parcels and Bernice Good. THE BADMINTON CLUB The badminton club had a very successful year under the supervision of Mr. Dandell. The club consisted of ten members with Dorothy Hunt as president and Rose Mueller as secretary. At the end of the season we had an inter-club tournament, the winners being Bob Gish, Boys’ singles; June Lovlin and Don Vinnedge, Mixed Doubles; June Lovlin and Rose Mueller, Girls’ Doubles.

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SPORT SHORTS The Red Deer Juvenile and Midget hockey teams went to to the finals of the Northern Alberta “B” Playdowns. The Red Deer Bantams captured the Alberta “B” Bantam title. Last summer Doug Silverberg won the junior golfing championship and a trip to New Brunswick where he played in the Canadian junior golfing championship. Here, he placed fifth. Arthur Hart won the Silver Boy Award this year in the Golden Gloves competition. The basketball fans of Red Deer were treated to some exceptionally good basket¬ ball when the Hillspring Panthers played the Composite’s senior squad in the pro¬ vincial high school championships. The Red Deer boys lost the two thrill-packed games by the slim margins of five and three points respectively. THE TUMBLING CLUB The tumbling club consisting of ten boys and six girls, has been advancing very nicely during the past year. Activity was a wee bit slack throughout the winter but with the coming of spring it has again reached a good pitch. The club has given a number of exhibitions, not only at school functions, but also at different towns and villages. Under the careful instruction of Mr. Ward the club has made definite advance¬ ments over last year. Many people marvel at the different stunts and gymnastics but actually with good instruction and natural ability on the part of the student one can learn the fun¬ damentals of tumbling. Some people belive that tumbling is a lot of playing about and a waste of time but this, of course, is a misconception for it is an excellent way of building muscle tone and co-ordination, and besides all this, jt is a lot of fun. And so to those who are new, and, those who are old, try out the tumbling club, and if you succeed you’llfind that it has been a worthwhile achievment. HOUSE LEAGUE BASKETBALL The teams this year were given names and group numbers and now receive radio time on CKRD. The boys were split into two divisions, the Dorm and the city. Both of these were then divided into four groups, alphabetically with a captain for each group. These were, in order of league standing: CITY Group 4—Tigers, 10 pts. Group 1—Cubs, 10 pts. Group 3—Panthers, 10 pts. Group 2—Lions, 0 pts. DORM Group 2—Indians, 10 pts, Group 1—Giants, 6 pts. Group 4—Spitfires, 7 pts. Group 3—Pirates, 2 pts. Group standings were: Group 1 —16 points; Group 4 — 14 points; Group 2 — 10 points; Group 3 —-8 points. The quality of basketball displayed was exceptionally good.