Venango Christian High School - Saga Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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Trying something new... A proud teacher watches his teens becoming our team! Photos by Ted Szalewicz His first teaching assignment was at Wilkensburg. In 1957, Mr. Zagorski came to Oil City to teach at St. Joseph High School. His first head coach j ob was at St. Joe’s. He taught biology and physical education at St. Joe’s until 1961 when the new high school was completed. Mr. Zagorski is also the mod- erator of the football club. Aside from the daily practice sessions, the players meet once a week to discuss past games, new plays, or j ust about anything that per- tains to football. In this club, the new fresh- men team members learn many of the finepoints of the game and are prepared to take over when the senior class graduates. All in all, Venango owes much to Mr. Zagorski and we all hope that he’ll stay at Venango in the future. 11

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by Daniel Goodman 90CUS: We’re The Venango Vikings have finally emerged from a two year losing streak. Much of the credit must be given to the players, but nothing could have been accomp- lished without the coaching of Mr. Stanley Zagorski. Aside from coaching the foot- ball team and a gym class, Mr. Zagorski teaches biology. He attended South High School in Pittsburgh and graduated in 1950. He went on to study at Slippery Rock and Rutgers University. In college he majored in biology, health and physical education. His love for football goes back to his high school days when he played four years for South High and three years at Slippery Rock. a Winner; So Is the Coach Teaching the sophomore class... It takes more than muscle. 10 Testing the senior class... Here, Coach is teaching football theory to the team.

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ROVING REPORTER: Look Who’s Talking R. Mizwa A. Caccavo M. Schneider K. Guyton M. Horos J. Froncek D. Xander T. Omiatek P. Fletcher B. Burns C. Staub J. Ward j. Wnuk K. Fitzgerald T. Gabreski by Constance Logue, Veronica Ruby Students of Venango often find comments about our Student Council arising in our conversations. Is it really beneficial to us? So for the first issue of the 1964 65 edition of The Barque, we faced members of our student body with “Do you feel you and your fellow students are adequately voiced through our Student Council? These are their answers: Bonnie Burns—(Junior) I do feel we are effectively voiced through our Student Council. We tell our problems and requests to our representatives and they present them to the Student Council. Then if the requests are not too far fetched, they are given ap- proval and taken to Father Antoun.” Debbie Xander—(Sophomore) Our officers represent us well, but many of our requests are refused. Karen Fitzgerald—(Senior) Stu- dent Council does have many bene- fits. But in many cases we re told how the faculty feels, while the fac- ulty doesn’t hear how we feel. Chuck Staub—(Junior) I feel we are well voiced. We tell our home- room representatives what is on our minds and they in turn bring it up and discuss it in Student Council meetings. Tom Omiatek—(Senior) Student Council can be very rewarding if you have all the students cooperating. But how can students expect to be represented properly if they show no faith in their Council? (member of Student Council) Joe Wnuk—(Sophomore) Student Council in itself is good. It gives the students a chance to voice their opinions. But our Council does not push many of its issues hard enough. The reason for this, though, is that they don’t get enough support from the student body.” Ann Caccavo—(Sophomore) No, I don’t feel our representatives really give much voice to our student bo- dy’s wishes. It seems they are a council in name only.” James Froncek-( Sophomore) I feel our council does have a big say in many matters. If not, what would there be to electing them?” Mike Schneider-(Senior) No, be- cause the advisors don't seem to give our wishes much opportunity to go through.” Ozzie Mizwa-(Senior) If there does seem to be a lack of co-opera- tion it is with the student body a- lone. If they did get their ideas or- ganized and presented them to the representatives, I’m sure they would follow through.” Karyn Guyton-(Sophomore) No, the representatives don’t have much say because the advisors seem to have too much control over what is discussed.” Mike Horos-(Senior) Yes, the Council has enough voice; it’s just that the students don’t seem to want to give their problems to their home- room representatives.” Dick Frawley—(Senior) Over half of the important suggestions are passed and that is due to the efforts of the Student Council.” Ted Gabreski—(Junior) No, be- cause the voicing seems to come from the advisors rather than the Council.” Pat Fletcher—(Sophomore) Our wishes seem to be discussed by the faculty more so than by our repre- sentatives.” Julie Ward-(Sophomore) No, be- cause if the student body does get together with an idea we can hardly count on it getting through the ad- visors.” 12