Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Don Vandrey paces Vikes to an outstanding season The brilliant performance of the Viking track squad has for the second straight year earned VHS a third in the Northwest Conference. A highlight of the season was the capture of the Valpo Relays, where the VHS distance medley team of Mike Weiss, Larry McAfee, John Crockett, and Don Vandrey clocked a 7:39.8 to break the 1966 meet record. At the conference track finals in Gary, Valpo was able to win 33 points and finish second to the Froebel Blue Devils. As the state championships drew near, five Valpo trackmen quali- fied for regional competition after the Hammond sec- tional: Larry Biggs, pole vault; Jim Barth, two-mile run; Paul Kassanits, broad jump; Mike McBain, high jump and high hurdles; and Don Vandrey, mile run. Once again Don represented Valpo at state, this time breaking his own state mile record with a 4: 10.3. Coach Evar Edquist, assisted by Mr. Tom Stokes, has just completed his third successful season with the VHS cindermen. Valpo cinderman Mike McBain bounds toward his win in the high hurdle event at the Valpo Relays Mike ' s best time in this event this year was 15 1 seconds A host of new records, including four state crowns, were added to the track and cross country annuals by Don Vandrey during his three seasons at VHS He is the 1967 recipient of the Robert S Hinshaw Award for his out- standing and sportsmanlike perfor- mance His 4 :05 3 mile record stands as an all-time Indiana best A high- light of Don ' s career was competing with the nation ' s best high school trackmen at the Golden West Invita- tional in Sacramento His scholarship to the University of Wisconsin will enable Don to extend his already illustrious achievements 143 Paul Kassanits executes a 22 ' 3 leap during the broad jump to capture second place at the Valpo Relays

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CONFERENCE MEETS Valpo 64 1 2 — Hammond Gavit 50 1 2 — Gary Tolleston $1 — Gary Emerson 21 Valpo 84 — East Chicago Roosevelt 58 1 2 — Gary Lew Wallace 40 — Hammond Tech 29 1 2 Gary Froebel 99 — Valpo 73 — Ham- mond Clark 31 — Whiting 1 Valpo 91 — Hammond Morton 42 1 2 — East Chicago Washington 42 — Horace Mann 40 1 2 Valpo 69 — Hammond High 62 — Hobart 44 — Gary Roosevelt 35 NON-CONFERENCE MEET Valpo 75 — Chesterton 52 — Port- age 21 DUAL MEETS Valpo 63 — Hammond Bishop Noll 55 Valpo 81 — Michigan City 37 LaPorte 75 — Valpo 43 VALPO RELAYS Valpo 74 South Bend Central 64 Hobart 43 LaPorte 35 Hammond High 31 Hammond Tech 6 HAMMOND RELAYS Hammond Bishop Noll 51 — first Valpo 49 — second LAPORTE INVITATIONAL Gary Froebel 82 South Bend Washington 43 Valpo 41 Hobart 38 LaPorte 35 East Chicago Washington 32 Michigan City 1 8 Gary Lew Wallace 1 1 Gary Horace Mann 4 VARSITY TRACK — First row: M Swinford. P Soliday. 0. Heffernan, J Schnure Second row P O’Keefe, manager; J. Stinchfield. M Weiss, L Biggs. P Kassanits, J Soliday. V Myers, statis- tician; L Boness. manager Third row: E. Edquist. coach: P Seelig. J Crockett, D Vandrey. B Shriver. L. McAfee, L Mahon, T Stokes, assistant coach Fourth row L Salberg, M Saylor, S. Buck, J Barth, S Shauer, D. Gunsaulus. G Corsbie Not pictured M McBain, J Biggs. B Burnett. D Garbison JUNIOR VARSITY TRACK — First row: B Carlson. M Brown. J. Stinchfield, T Kmne, D Albers. D McGuire Second row: M Swinford. D Gunsaulus, M Weiss, C Dalrymple, J. Soliday. T Siebert. J Koday, G. Corsbie Third row E Edquist. coach; D Hughart. D Looman. 0 Griffith, G Gabbard, J Koenig. S Gast. D Huntsberger. R Farrell, T Stokes, coach Not pictured R Bluhm. 0 Evans, 0. Glenn. S Nedberg. D McGuirl 142

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VARSITY BASEBALL Valpo 5 South Central 4 Valpo 9 DeMotte 6 Valpo 3 ‘Tolleston 2 Valpo 3 ‘Hobart 14 Valpo 2 ‘Horace Mann 3 Valpo 5 ‘Froebel 3 Valpo 7 ‘Emerson 6 Valpo 4 Chesterton 0 Valpo 12 ‘Gary Roosevelt 6 Valpo 1 1 ‘Tolleston 5 Valpo 7 ‘Emerson 6 Valpo 4 ‘Hobart 3 Valpo 4 ‘Lew Wallace 3 Valpo 0 ‘Horace Mann 8 Valpo 6 ‘Froebel 2 Valpo 3 ‘Lew Wallace 1 Valpo 8 SECTIONAL ‘Gary Roosevelt 7 Valpo 22 Morgan 0 Valpo 3 Hobart 5 ’Conference Meets VARSITY BASEBALL — First row J. Gorecki. S Campbell. B Nielsen. B Richmond. T. Hart Second row: G. Gray. D Lee. C Nightingale, A Cunningham. G Bowman Third row N Sun- din. statistician: K Rhoda. P Kruger. S Wellman, T Nicklas. R Linkimer. B McCasland. mana- ger: R Rhoda. coach Not pictured H Stalbaum. M Kotys During a tense situation at Rotary Field. Coach Rhoda has a conference with pitcher Rick Linkimer. second baseman Bill Nielsen, and catcher Tom Hart f - . Hoping to catch his opponent un- aware. Rick Linkimer hurls a pitch to catcher Tom Hart. 144