Rutland High School - Talisman Yearbook (Rutland, VT)

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Front v-air: Crush Lloyd Flaitz, George Ackley, joseph Davine, Tom Smith, Richard Davidson, Lawrence Duval, William Grace, Robert Seager. Second rout Donald Peer, Richard Clifford, Howard Nason, Robert Sharrow, james Guild, Dudley North, Robert Kellogg, Roy Plumley. Third row: john Edgerton, Paul Fuller, Ralph Nutter, Edward Warner, William Smith, Robert Perkins, Stewart Harrison, William Thomas, Bdiigflff Building for next year was the word with the 1947 diamond crew. Graduation took a heavy toll from last season's championship team, and Coach Lloyd Flaitz wisely decided to concentrate on the lower classes with an eye to the future. As the Talisman went to press, the standing of the Raiders in the Rutland County League was third place with three wins and two set, backs. Five veterans who were lost to the team this june are Honorary Captain Dick Laird, joe Davine, Larry Duval, Tom Smith, and Bob Seager, Coming up for service next year will be Dick Clifford, Howie Nason, Bill Grace, Dick Davidson, George Ackley, Rip,' Kellogg and Bill Thomas and three members of the freshman class, Guild, Warner and Sharrow. VVith this experienced group back as a nucleus, the Raiders will have only to hnd a catcher, first baseman, and a pitcher to spell Guild.

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Richard Lexine, George Pulse, Dick Knipes, Robert Willson. William Bidgood, Wendell Davis, David Roe. Donald Shcrburne, Ralph Elmore, Harold Seward. Robert Steele, Robert Priest, Robert Howe, Robert Beauchamp, john Gleason, Robert Rogers, Paul Kotuby, Peter Kelley, Tilton Richards, Robert Herrick. iv Ronald Bl.1CliVN'00Ll,,I.lH'lC9 Vcnnett, George Taylor, Paul Horton, Charles Wiley, Tom Fagan. Sherman Hunt. Charlton White, Clrflord VVisell, Clmitlr Howard Douglas. 7,6105 The 1947 edition of Howard Douglas' Cinder squad is the best to repre' sent R. H. S, in several years. The Traclcsters have easily won their three meets in state competition, downing Springfield 6750, Burlington 73'44, and Lyndon 661 5501.34 They suffered their only setback in a triangular allqair at Keene, N. H. when the Raiders' 28M points were second best to Keene? total of 7 3M. Leading pointfgetters in the running events are Don Sherburne and Don Cheney in the sprints, mrlers Bob Kingsbury and Bill Bidgood, and hurdlers 'lim Vennett, Richard Roe and David Roe. In the weight department Bob VVillson, Harold Seward, Dick Knipes, VVendell Davis, Irving Shappy and Pete Kelly do the muscle work. Dick Laird and George Pike do the high jumping for the team: Paul Kotuby and David Roe soar in the pole vault, and Don Sherburne is the broad jumper. l Climaxing its undefeated season inLVermont com' petition, the track team became Yermontslnterscholas' tic Tracls and Field Champions at Lyndon on May thlrtjrhrst. Don Sherburne, Bob Kingsbury and Rich' ard Roe won hve hrst places.

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l l Rxthartl Martm, George Peck, Ralph VVelcl1, Mr. Thomas Whltc, Cf.v.1.l:. 556 The Ski Cluh was organized early in the school year. The team par- ticlpateel in the State Meet at Mt. Mansfield near Stowe, Vermont and later at Lyndonville, Vermont. The members entered the downhill, slalom, cross' country and ,jumping contests, Mr. Thomas White served as coach of the group.