Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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BLUE AND WHITE 19 GIRLS’ SPORTS The girls’ basketball season officially opened with a game against Hinesburg. This game might have been amusing, but it absolutely wasn’t exciting! The final score being 26-4, in our favor. The next game we played was in our own gym. Our rivals this time being Burlington JV’s. They beat us 40-36. When we played their return game, they beat us again 17-16. Shoreham was an easy game. We won both times to the tune of 51-17 and 39-23. Our next game was to be against the best girls’ team in Vermont. Bristol. They beat us 26-20. and later trounced us 28-9. Brandon didn’t have too much luck this year. We took them 39-19. Then came one of the toughest games we played. At the half it was 14-5 in Shelburne’s favor. We finally won 17-16. Whew, what a game! The return game we took 34-18. Middlebury surely had its amount of hard work and excitement! We won 17-10 from them here. In their own gvm they really kept us going. At the half it was 8-6 in their favor, but we pulled through with a final score of 14-13. That was real playing, huh girls? For a wind-up we picked a pipper, it was Weeks. At the half the score was 18 6 in our favor. Then they did a bit of hard playing and tied us 32-32. After this we accepted New Haven's challenge. Our second team girls did a grand job, taking them 14-10. The game here with them was harder. The first strng played half the time, plus a little. We finally won 17-13. The crowd was startled by a basket from a certain L. G. Don't tell anyone; it took her two years of varsity playing to make one. Our coach this year seemed to be one of us.. She was “Dotty” Fuller, who to our pride and selfish regrets is joining the WAVES. Girls do you think we had anything to do with it? Now for the line up of “44.” Pts. made Right forward, Grace Sears............48 Left forward, Esther Bristol..........50 Center, guard. Martha Partch Right guard, Kay Evarts Left guard, Maddy Hunt Substitute were: Jean LeBeau ........................21 Molly Burnham.......................24 Jackie Myers ......................8 Nancy Partch .................guard Kay Looby .......................guard Lorraine Poquette................guard Gloria Merrill .................guard We want to say thanks to our manager, Audrey Tucker, and our mascot Rachel Bristol. Also thanks to Shirley Sears, who started our season with us. The Basketball Banquet was held in Middlebury, May 4. I guess that is all, only that next year ought to see a swell team, as it is only loosing one member. This member would like to say, “Thanks girls for a swell time playing with such a grand bunch.” BASEBALL After a very successful basket-ball season which found the first five, all seniors, the 1944 baseball team finds seven of the first nine, seniors. After a month of indoor practice, V. H. S. moved out into the sunshine and with

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18 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL paucae relictae Romae veterae manant. Phillip Griffith, ’46. Latin II Proelium Insulae In Italia est flumen latum et altum. Nautae in flumine hoc naves navigant. Agrieolae et nautae in ripis fluminis habitant. Nautae frumentum urbi por-tant. Nautae et agrieolae villas in insula in ripis fluminis habent, ibi laborant. Olim hostes insulam oppugnabant sed nautae et agrieolae periculum videbant. Hostes fortiter pugnabant. Hostes moenia urbis in insula expugnabant, sed socii nautarum et agricolarum auxil-ium ferebant et hostes insulam reliq-uerunt. Nautae et agrieolae laeti erant quod hostes superati sunt. Ernest Chapman. Cornelia et Robertus Cornelia et Robertus erant Alius et filia magistri. Domi cum matre et patre hieme habitant, quod ad scholam eunt. Aestate in villa cum amita et avunculo habitant. Cum eorum ami tarn et avunculum non juvabant. in flumine propinquo natare amabant. Cornelia et Robertus vitam laetam in villa habent. Fine aestatis ad scholam redierunt, quamquam eorum amitam et avunculum relinquere non volunt. Scholae Romanae sunt dissimiliae Romanis veteribns scholis, et pueri et purl-lae ad scholam eunt. Puellae ex libris similibus discunt quam pueri. Puellae laetae sunt quod ad scholam nunc eunt. Eva Hal lock. ’44. Latin I Mane in Schola Quod helium et labor hello res faci-endi vocant, non sunt multi pueri in schola. Multi eunt de schola laborare in agris et multi aut se offerunt aut appellantur ad exercitum. Pueri qui in schola sunt, debent con-ficere ut possent esse milites meliores et cives meliores. post helium. Schola parat te orbem terrarum ap-propinquare. Joe Griffis, ’45. Latin II Romulus et Sui Amici In parvo oppido homines soli habi-tabant. Romulus et sui amici. Nullae fentinae ibi habitabant, neque exores neque sorores. Romulus consilium hujus modi fecit. Sabini et finiti mul-tas pulchras Alias habebant. Romulus Sabinos cum fentinis ad magnos lodos invitabant. Hi cum magno gaudio ad oppidum sine armis properabant. In Foro erant et lulos circumspecta-bant, cum subito signum ab Romulus datum est. Romani pueri raptabant Sabinas | uellas et portabant ad eorum domus. Patres et fratres puellarum movebantur ab ira. Acriter oppugnabant, et Romani pueri delebantur et Sabinae feminae domus redebantur. Esther Bristol, ’47. Latin I Cornelia et Fulvia In Britannia erat agricola qui duas Alias habebat. Cornelia maxima natu erat. Cornelia animalia amabat et sem-per animalia parva in silva juvabat. Nomen maximae natu Aliae Fulvia erat. Fulvia quoque animalia amabat. Filiae hujus agrieolae in agris laborare habebant, quod nulli Alii erant. Oninem diem laborabant, et noctu in silva errabant ut invenirent animalia vnlnerata quae juvabant. Cum Cornelia et Fulvia erant veterae ibant ad magnum oppidum ut aegros populos juvarent. Erant nctae in oppido quad juvabant aegra animalia in silva et dabant eis cibum. Puellae ad omnes populos et animalia bonae erant. Lucy Parker.

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20 YERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL only a few out-door practices began to click. With the shortage of boys in high school, many have been shifted from their regular positions to fill in elsewhere. Left over from last year’s roster, we find Glenn Faye holding down first base very nicely. His height and lengthy arms enable him to snare balls like a professional. Glen is doing his part with the “stick also, batting around .300. Clyde Badger, one of our two south-paws covers second base. Buddy is our scoring man. Although hitting only around .270 Buddy usually manages to get on and go around to score. The shortest regular and best hunter. Bob Looby, has the territory of short stop. Bob swings a mean bat for a 400 average. He hits to all fields and is an expert hunter. His bunting has helped the club to win more than once. For a small fellow, he sure can cover ground. Bob also has several extra base hits to his credit. At the dreaded hot corner, we find Weston Spooner. This is West’s first year of ball for V. H. S. but by his actions one might think he was born playing ball. His deadly peg to first base has put out more than one potien-tial hit. West has an average slightly under 3C0. In left field is Bob Bar-rows. but even though batting only 200 Bob has caught more than one long drive to his field. In center field. Ray Nelson, the second south paw covers a lot of territory at a 200 clip. Ray likes to start the rallies. John Sheehan is the third outfielder, and John hits a long ball and is our leading R. B. .1. man. Oir' battery consists of a former first baseman and a former short stop. Jimmie Stearns put away his first baseman’s mitt to don the catcher’s equipment. Jimmie is our manager also, and fulfills both positions very nicely. He is our slugger and puts a lot of wallop into that left side’’ swing of his. At a .400 ball Jimmie has more extra base hits than any other regular. As a catcher, he is first rate, calling for the best pitches. The other member of the battery is our Captain, Earl Willard. He is a right hander who used to play short stop. Earl has plenty on the bail and has found himself pitching an average of 1.6 strikeouts per inning. His control is superb and doesn’t allow very many base runners. Earl has credit for pitching a no-hit game against our rival team over in Bristol. He also has a very low E.R.A. Earl also is fairly handy with the bat. swinging out a 400 average. Capt. Willard has only one relief, should his arm flutter. Second baseman Badger is always ready to swap positions if the occasion appears. The only two to return next year are Nelson and Sheehan. Other members of the quad are: James McEvila, Hugh Clark and George Bibeau. Last but by no means least comes our faithful coach Principal J. F. Berry. Coach Berry has found time from his busv day to help train us and coach us. He has bought us new catching equipment, new caps and new bases. The whole squad feels grateful to him. We also appreciate the Rotarian’s interest in repairing our Alumni field and the sp'endid support of the people from Vergennes, who have attended our games, both away and at home. Games played to date are as follows: Middlebury 3 V. H. S. 4 Shelburne 0 V. H..S. 11 Bristol 0 V. H. S. 9 Middlebury 1 V. H. S. 5 Bristol 0 V. H. S. 14 Addison Town Team 4 V. H. S. 5 KEEP ON...... ■ WITH WAR BONDS •