Rowe High School - Viking Saga Yearbook (Lakeville, OH)

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Rowe Track Wartime Style Track at Rowe (1943 style) took a beating when county officials announced that due to a shortage of players and trackmen in the county that there would be no 1943 Jefferson Track Meet. Rowe, one of the potential powers of track and field in the county, however, will hold a meet on May 8 to take place of the Jeff Tourney. Coach Charlie Hershey invited 28 teams to participate in this racing carnival. Out of these it is expected that probably 8 teams will be present at the Rowe Relays. With Rowe and Spencer looming as the threats of the meet. Hershey’s “ace-in-the-hole” is his brother, Fred. Fred, having swept through the intra-murals at will, looms as leading contender in the half-mile, shot put and discus. Incidently he now heaves the shot about 42 feet and its going out farther all the time. Another Rowe threat is Robbie Puffer in the 440 and half mile. TRACK First row: liichard Armstrong, Howard Irish, Robert Puffer. Allan Ritari, Kay Graff, Richard Olson. Omer Kirk. Allan Punker. Second row: Ray McVoy, Dean Reckwlth. ('lair Bunnell, David Jacobs, Charlie Slppola, Mr. Hirshey. Third row: Robert.Schlaich, Richard Wheeler, Dwane Wheeler, Fred Hirsimaki, Robert Crawford. IIASEBA LL First row: Richard Wheeler. Dwane Wheeler, Fred Hirsimaki, Edward Molsio, Allen Punker. Second row: Mr. Hirshey, Robert Puffer, Charlie Sip-pola, Philip Puffer, Ray McVoy, Jerry Puffer. This year the Vikes started out with a potential game winning baseball combination. They won every game before the tourney started, knocking off North Kingsville twice, Edgewood and West Springfield. Then came the tourney and with it Edgewood, Rowe’s oldest rival, as a first game opponent. Rowe s fate was written at this first game in a slow drizzle. For ten innings these two teams battled on even terms as again and again Rowe’s Freddie Hirsimaki and Edgewood’s Billie Shaylor mowed ’em down. For these long ten innings it rained on one of the greatest pitchers’ battles ever seen in the Tourney. In the last half of the tenth it happened after both teams had been deadlocked by a one-all tie, Billie Shaylor hit a drive to left field good for three bases; then he scored on a fatal error to win the game by a 2 to 1 score. Baseball 42-43

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CHOIR First row: Vivian Lane, A It ha Bates, Delores Davis, Elizabeth Baird, Elizabeth Waddle. Laura Y u s k o, (ieorprlana Kako, Flora Hall. Harriett Montgomery, Mrs. Wellman. Second row: Barbara Kaiser, Ruth Walters. Esther Montgomery, Mary Ring, Phyllis Herbel. Harriett Smith, Lois Wallace, Bessie Ring. Mary Lou Torrence. Mildred Kultti, Margaret Dewey, Bernadene Yusko. Third row: Richard Armstrong. Joe Schor, Howard Irish, Dean Beckwith. Richard Olson. Kay draff, Allan Ritari. William Fhllley, Clair Bunnell. Philip Puffer. Jane Hibler, Grace Hall. A Cappela Choir Tick, tock, tick, tock, goes the clock. Ticking away the precious minutes of the only period the A Cappella Choir has to practice. Despite this short practice period, however, the Choir has done exceptionally well under the able direction of Mrs. Wellman. We don’t expect our names to go in the Hall of Fame but.... We had a grand time at the two parties we had this year; in the fall of 1942 we had our annual initiation of the new members of the A Cappella Choir. The other was a Christmas party, held at Mrs. Wellman’s home where gifts from bubble bath to sock dolls were exchanged. There are thirty-seven members in the Choir, fourteen of whom are new members. Messiah Directed by Mrs. Alma Tallin; Wellman the girls’ chorus, boys’ chorus, girls’ glee club, A Cappella Choir, alumni and guest artists sang George Frederick Handel’s Messiah before a large and attentive audience. On December 21, 1942, at the Rowe auditorium it was given for the second time in the history of Rowe High School. The orchestra, also directed by Mrs. Wellman, played, from the Messiah, the Overture and the Pastoral Symphony. Giving an excellent performance were the five guest artists from Erie; Mrs. Jean Rodefer, soprano; Mrs. Lois Wells, contralto; Mr. David Rodefer, tenor; Mr. William Carr, bass; and Mrs. Alma Way, pianist. ■ 28 ■ ►