Richmond Heights High School - Yearbook (Richmond Heights, OH)

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5 t 9 • •■) ' f • . -v Hi m Finally. Sharing his state championship victory with the Richmond Heights fans is 167 pounder Bob Suszelt. Bob, a senior, qualified as a sopho- more and placed second as a junior. Quality Not Quantity. The champions and their coaches rejoice as they are presented with the class A championship trophy. Richmond Heights has placed first in the state four times. Sweet Revenge. Riding out his rival Tony Too Small? Proving that muscle, and quickness Cardaman to a 1-0 championship victory is 132 work better than size is heavyweight champion Den- pounder Mike MacLellan. Cardaman defeated is Loushin. Dennis (a 200 pounder) wrestled boys Mike at Districts 5-3 in overtime. weighing 260, 327 and 295 pounds.

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A trip to Columbus destroyed the March doldrums. . . .the greatest state wrestling per- formance in more than three decades . . . — The Cleveland Plain Dealer. ... Richmond Heights uses a record setting performance to inflict lots of pain on the class A field . . . — Lake County News Herold. These statements refer to the performance put on by the Richmond Heights Spartan Wrestling team at St. Johns Arena in Columbus, March ninth and tenth. There was some doubt that the Spar- tans would win the Class A State wres- tling tournament for the second year in a row, sending only five boys down. But on Saturday night March tenth, The Big Five were all crowned state champs, also giving Coach Mike Papouras his fourth team championship in six years, outscoring regional champs, Ledgemont, 98.5 to 82.5 The Big Five were freshman Dan Hansen, who won a 6-2 decision at 98 lbs.; Senior co-captain, Mike MacLellan who won a 1-0 decision at 132 lbs.; Senior co-captain Bob Suszek who won an 11-3 decision at 167 lbs.; Junior two-time champ Bob Potokar won on a 10-2 deci- sion at 175 lbs.; and senior co-captain Dennis Loushin won a 5-2 decision at HWT. All five wrestlers were also named first- team all East Suburban Conference. Bob Suszek was named Most Valuable wrestler in the E.S.C. and Coach Mike Papouras was named Coach of the year in the E.S.C. Bob Suszek and Dennis Loushin were asked to wrestle in the East-West All-Star meet at Cleveland State University. The wrestling team, under Papouras, proved that 1984 was a year worth waiting for. —84— Photos courtesy of Sun Newspapers Photographer Joseph Darwal.

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A year of ups and downs, but truly worth while. Through the course of the year many good things happened at Richmond Hts. High School. There were numerous amounts of rennovation done in the classrooms and in the junior-senior lounge, giving students a more comfortable atmosphere to study in. Parties were thrown in and out of school. There was a toga party sponsored by the senior class. And students gathered to watch the annu- al physics egg drop. Although many good things came to be this year, not all of the good things ex- pected were delivered. The volleyball team and Boys Basketball team suffered losing seasons. The girls b-ball team fell short by placing second in the E.S.C. to Kirtland. The yearbook staff didn ' t sell enough in ads to have color pictures in the book. There was also little cooperation from the junior and senior class in the organization of activities. Because of the newly painted lockers, locker signs made for the athletes had to be hung together in the lobby. This diminished the Spartan tradition of having a locker sign on lockers. And the lack of turnout from the student body hurt just about every activity group and sport team. Something that shocked the community was the brutal murder of Mr. Frank Noch of 2043 Beverly Hills Drive. Mr. Noch was eighty-five years old. Now that you ' ve seen the two sides of Richmond Heights, it ' s up to you to judge for yourself whether or not ... It was a year worth waiting for.