St Agnes High School - Palm Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

Page 63 text:

'LA, A HERE WE HAVE A BIRDS-EYE VIEW -W of Anne Doherty. as she prepares to serve her badminton birdie. MEMBERS OF THE TRACK TEAM have ample room to practice on our spacious campus. Patricia TUMBLERS WHO PERFORMED at the Latin banquet assembly had to do some extra practicing after school. Bauer seems to be winning this race. but Delores Ditrinco and Margaret Ryan are not far behind. CENTER OF ATTRACTION is this table tennis match. one of the mort' popular pastimes at St. Agnes. 59

Page 62 text:

Qood Qponts pnevaill. ff? if .A ARCHERS Rita Scheg, Carol Vahl. and Carol Rudy all agree that it's much easier pulling arrows off the target's bull's eye than putting them there. AIM. PULL, SHOOT, AND HOPE! IF WE WERE ONLY PLAYING FOOTBALL. we'd have two points! seems to be the general disappointed cry of these soccer players. Under Miss King's able guidance, the Girls Athletic Association plentifully provides and plans extracurricular sports activities for all St. Agnes students so that each girl can find a sport to fit her own athletic desire. Some prefer invigorating volley ball or the bow-bending archery. while others enjoy a speedy soccer game. ln the winter. almost every sportsminded student becomes heated with enthusiastic basketball scrimmages, while some cool-off in K. of C. swimming sprees. Milder maids may prefer clicking ping-pong balls or bunting badminton birdies for their exercise, while in late spring the balmy weather beckons many to competitive baseball games and the Hexecutives' game -golf. These extracurricular activities, in satisfying individual sports desires, help lead to the formation of physically fit, mentally alert students who know how to work and play together. 58

Page 64 text:

VARSITY PRACTICE - with opposing team in blue Pinnies - make every Friday afternoon during the season a busy time in the gym. MISS KING and the G.A.A. officers Virginia Ryan, Kathleen McCusker. Diana Laskowski and Iudith Ackerson seem to find plotting the seasons schedule a matter for great glee. GAMES ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS THE ROOT- ERS SOMETIMES. Maybe this was that one when the sophs were ignominiously downed by the frosh! CQQQIQQHQQQQ neigms Qupneme. Despite the gradual appearance of many athletically- satisfying sports in the program of Saint Agnes, basket- ball still reigns as the 'Afavored first among the students. This year, basketball dominated the hardwood dur- ing the weekly gym period for a period of two and one- half months allowing all students a beneficial outlet for pent-up energy. Being a keenly competitive sport, basketball games were frequently played with outside schools though the program was seriously hampered by the hard winter weather. During sports days our varsity enthusiasti- cally entered into half games with such competing schools as Nazareth College, Mercy High, Nazareth and Sacred Heart Academies, while at invitation games our spirited team, immeasurably encouraged by the cheerleaders. vigorously vied with such distant schools as Mt. Carmel of Auburn, and Notre Dame of Elmira, as well as the vicinity schools. However, an almost keener competition existed in playful scrimmages between homeroom and homeroom. class and class. But, although defeat was always sustained by half of the players, the development of good sportsman- ship and first-rate promotion of school spirit by both players and rooters has been the happy result.