St Dominic High School - Echo Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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ST. DOM'S BOOSTER CLUB Athletics are well integrated into the American school system, and this is as it should be. The constant demand for physical endurance and mental alert- ness, fair play and cooperation on the part of the athlete highly contribute to the full development of a fine all-around personality in which morals and morale are often found at their best. Sports are also largely beneficial to the whole student body. The victory songs and wild cheering, we should remember, spring from a sense of loyalty and pride which idealizes the Alma Mater in the minds and hearts of the students. From its very beginning, St. Dom's has engaged in a very ambitious athletic program. Remarkable success has been achieved in football, basketball, and baseball, thanks to the expert services of a professional coach, Mr. Richard Gibson. Our hockey team under the able direction of Brothers Leonard and Albert tops the State of Maine honor roll and bids high at the New England hockey Crown. An all-inclusive sports program sometimes creates acute financial problems even for large tax-suppor ted institutions. In a small non tax-supported school, whose budget must of necessity be curtailed to the size of charitable contributions, the athletic program constitutes a crushing burden. A 24-hour shift on the part of certain members of the faculty, thorough backing and cooperation by the student body, the scanty profits of the school canteen can no longer keep St. Dom's sports wagon well-oiled and going. The solution? Well, it was found when a few men of vision and action were told about the problem and met to do something about it. ST. DOM'S BOOST- ERS' CLUB was founded, and what a boost they proved to be! Men of vision and action, we said! Read but the first names on a long list of some 1500: Fr. Drouin, Romeo Forgues, Reggie Cloutier, Don Fortin, Tom Kerrigan, Dr. Paul F ortier, Gene Cloutier, Tony Blanchard, Mayor Gagne, etc. There is no telling how far they will gog but the list of their achievements in the brief four months which have elapsed can give you an idea of what may follow. The Boosters' Club has sent our hockey team to Boston for the New England Tournament - and what a pleasant affair they have made it! They have bought new equipment badly needed for hockey and baseball, they have launched a drive for paper and scrap metal, they have organized a bee to .level the site of the future school for the purpose of laying out a football field: they have paid the transportation of the baseball team. Such have been the Boosters' accom- plishments in the brief four months following their foundation. We can think of but one word to characterize our Boosters: They are FRIENDS! Loyal, devoted, generous, enthusiastic friends. We thank you, Friends!

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THE FOOTBALL SQUAD Seated: Guy Goulet, Lionel Frechette, Roland Lauzier, Robert Pomerleau, Roland Bellefleur, Second Row: Third Row: Fourth Row: Leonard Bourgoin, Leo Therriault, Emilien Hamann, Dominique Casavant. Paul Bazinet, Mgr., Norm Blais, Robert St-Pierre, Gerard Soucy, Noel Cloutier, 'Gerard Berube, Richard Lambert, Rosaire Pelletier, Raymond Chouinard, Rodolphe Grenier, Richard Gibson, Coach. Roger Morin, Mgr., Adelard Lecompte, Aime Morin, Germain Frechette, Raymond Guillemette, Philippe St-Pierre, Raymond Comeau, Marcel Morin,George Banks, Germain Fournier, Gerard Albert, Marcel Chabot, Normand Vallee. Julien Dumont, Richard Poisson, Laurier Maheux, Donald Langlais, Raoul Ouel- lette, Dan Wellehan, Paul Chaloux, Alfred Lapointe, john Thompson, Normand Lebrun, Robert Breton, Roland Boileau.