Samuel Gompers Vocational Technical High School - Artisan Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Cqmp Ire 4leA Father T1me weaves swlftly the Pattern of Fate T1me goes on but memory remalns of events that were so much a part of us Typlcal of these are the excltmg moments when we watched the Blue and Gray athletes support and l1ft hxgh the banner that stxll waves amldst the roars of those we leave behmd Stop M1ster Hlrzler and ask hlm whether he can forget the hectlc days of colorful Tony Popelsky and Gus Montalbano two of the fmest athletes ever to don the Blue and Gray pac1ng thelr team to basketball champlonshlps and wmmng forty four games over the route Ask M1ster Lopat whether he remembers how thls pa1r helped bu1ld the champ1onsh1p softball teams of 43 44 and 45 Do you recall that resoundlng game agamst Haaren Hlgh School when jack Costello thrllled the throng wxth the blggest one man show ln the annals of our hlstory slxty elght pomts 1n one game' But these days are gone and soon along wlth the others before them go Albert Lnllo Alex Popaduke Romeo Coluccl Angelo Uff1C0 Denms Taltt and Lou Ballardmx hustl1ng ballplayers whose Splflt and w1ll to wm has never been doubted Thelr type of play IS typlcal of the basketball teams record of one hundred and three won and twenty one lost through the years Gompers adopted Baseball lnstead of Softball ln the sprlng of 1946 and after a startling debut fimshed second They captured the champlon shlp 1n 1947 behmd thelr great lefty fnreballer Whltey Nebor Of M1ster Lopat s great team of that year only one remalns Rlchard Scagnellx and he too will bow out thls graduatxon M1ster Welson s splrlted Soccer team d1d not wm any champlonshlps but the boys took the1r respons1b1l1t1es ln hand and played the qualxty of ball that has lmproved with every game Thls year s Co Capta1ns Mxcheal Alt1er1 and Simon Glserman w1ll be two serlous losses to the team The Swlmmlng team was dlsbanded 1n 1945 but back agam lt came two years later Mr Schoenfeld s boys started slowly but as we leave here ln january we are confident that hls efforts ln the long run wxll be rewarded Of all the varslty teams the swlmmlng team w1ll be the hardest hlt Included 1n those departmg w1ll be George Duncan Andrew Wowk Alex Chucka Norman Tullman Stanley Hxnden jack Glazer Alfred Seybold and john Pxngol So fellow graduates thls IS an lnformatlve summary of sports 1n our trmes tlmes filled w1th proud feellngs of satlsfactlon that our colors have flown hlgh along wlth the leaders and w1l1 contxnue to do so 1n the future as our Blue and Gray athletes glve thelr all ln the cause of sportsmanshlp and frlendly strlfe Denms Mylson 16 , . is 11 11 H 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - O' ' - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . . . H . ,, . , . , . . . 1 1 1 1 1 . , . . . . . . 1 . . . , . . ' ' 1 1 . v 1 . 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1

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BASKETBALL TEAM BASEBALL TEAM CRear L to RJ Mr Hlrzler Coach CL to RJ Venere Mr Lopat Coach Grlz CFront L to RQ L1llo Urrlco Ballardml SWIMMING TEAM SOCCER TEAM CRear L to RJ Wowk Glazer Seybold CL to RJ Alt1er1 Mr Welson Coach Chucka Glserman CFront L to Rr Hlnden Pmgol M Schoenfeld Coach Duncan Tullman x ,f 3 , 1 'A N L . Q, ' Colucci, Popaduke, Taitt zaffi, Scagnelli K V 17