Wallaceburg District Secondary School - Actiana Yearbook (Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada)

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R. GIRUS BASKETBALL .... Back How - Mary Glasgow. 'Marion 'Mc'Galley. 'Margaret MacDonald. 'Mary Stevens. Marietta Campbell. Emma Bishop. 'Middle Row - Ruth McRae. Lucinda Ayres. Miss lVl.E. Ough. BJ... Olga Lok. Beth Hinnegan. First How - Peggy Burgess. Linda Ayres. Sondra Booth. JR. GIRUS BASKETBALL .... Front Row - Sandra Van Dellen. Catherine Eagleson. KCaptainl' Gay McCreery. Centre Row - Darlene Bastow, Yvonne DeBruyne. Sharron Penner. Mrs. Thompson. Anne Walker. Gail Babcock. Eleanor Shaw. Back Row - Gail Hunter. Iean Leanknight. Ieanette Fields. -57..

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SR. BOY'S HOCKEY . . .p . Front How - Bill Low. Archie Kingma, Eldon VanSpybrooke, Nelson Highfield. Gordon Davies, Paul Kilbreath. Back How - Mr. A. Schell lCoucl-il. Ar! Houle, Ken Kreibeck. Leslie Files. Alan Mann. Bill Bulterman. lim Fish. Barrie Davis. Wayne Melanson. After an absence of four seasons, the K,C.S.S.A.A. Hockey League was back in operation with four teams competing: Blenheim, Dresden, Ridgetown and Wallaceburg. The Bobcats of Blenheim finished on top at the end of the regular schedule, while our Clippers captured second position with six wins and four losses. Successfully eliminating Dresden in the semi-finals, the Clippers were matched with Blenheim for the county title. After two closely contested games, Blenheim emerged victors, winning 8-5 and 3-1, thus qualifying for further W.O.S.S.A. competition. The personnel of this year's team was composed of a few experienced players and a host of newcomers. Eldon VanSpybrook did an excellent job of guarding the twine behind his defence corps of Paul Kilbreath, Ken Kreibeck. and veterans Art Houle and Bucky Butterman. Up front, the number one line was centred by leading scorer Al Mann, who was flanked by wingmen Les Files and Jim Fish, the latter a transfer from Merici High. The remainder of the team was made up of sophomore Gord Clutch Davies, and rookies Wayne Melanson. Barrie Davies, Bill Low, Archie Kingma and Bruce McRae. Les Files and Bucky Butterman finished behind Al Mann in the scoring department with Butterman receiving the most penalties on the team. A great deal of thanks is extended to Mr. Frank Mabey for co-oper- ation at the Arena, referees Ace Routley, Bob Leach and Don Mann who lent their services, and Mrs. Frank Mann who supplied the team with gum and or- anges. Much appreciation is also rendered to our coach Mr. J.A. Schell whose fine competitive spirit has been respected by players and fans alike. All these persons helped to make the '54-55 season a successful one. -51-j-

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GIRUS BASKETBALL .... SR. BASKETBALL TEAM .... EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT. WE'VE GOT A TEAM AND WE'RE 'GONNA' SHOUT IT! In spite of the fact that everyone once thought the senior girls' basketball team would be a flop, we, the senior team of '54-55 have come to the conclusion that we are a good team Knot the best, but a good teamb. We could not have come to that conclusion without the help of Efficient and Effective Elaine , our coach, who put up with us, disregarding our child- ish ways and trying to develop our grown-up skills. The senior team consists of 'Creamy' Campbell, 'Rough' Ruth, Anchor' Ayres, 'Muscles' McGaffey, 'Sim- ple' Sondra, 'Brainy' Burgess, 'Sure-shot' Stevens, and 'Muggs' McDonald, as forwards and 'Lanky' Lok, 'Limpy' Linda, 'Easy' Emma, Grabby' Glasgow and 'Hoopy' Hinnegan as guards. The above mentioned managed to play well enough together to beat Blen- heim, Ridgetown, C.V.S. and C.C.I. to win the Kent County Championship. The game that determined the Kent County Champs was played in Dresden, neutral grounds, with W'Burg and C.C.I. participating. W'Burg won by the score of 45- 26. Our next competitor was Essex whom we had to defeat in order to enter the W.O.S.S.A. playoffs. As everyone knows, they beat us 68-67 so we must con- tradict the foregoing statement and say that they are one point better than we are. We played Essex twice, with total points counting. Essex beat us when we played down there 31-35, but when they came to W'burg, we beat them 36-33 but the sum of the two games put Essex one ahead of us. The game in Wallace- burg was the best game of basketball ever witnessed in the gymnasium of WDHS with W'Burg scoring a basket and then Essex, throughout the game. Both teams agreed it was the hardest and fastest game they had ever played. It was a hard game to lose but as they say, May the better team win! and we guess it did. We shed a few tears after the game but you can hardly blame us for that. f In conclusion we want to thank all the students and teachers for suppor- ting us whether we won or lost and our coach, Miss Ough, whom we all love, for putting up with us. Incidentally, Anchor Ayres was the high scorer with 85 points, Creamy Campbell second with 83 points and Muscles McGaffey third, with 62 points. We'll be back fighting next year! JR. BASKETBALL TEAM .... The junior basketball team and their coach, Mrs. Helene Thompson de- serve a lot of credit and praise. They may not have done as well as the seniors but there is quite a bit to take into consideration, such as: it is the first time the majority of the girls have ever played on a team and in some cases the first year they have played basketball. They played a total of 8 games and won three of them. They played against Ridgetown, Blenheim, C.V.S. and C.C.I. High scorer was Gail Hunter with a total of 20 points and Yvonne DeBruyne was second with 18 points. -58..