Walpole High School - Topper Yearbook (Walpole, NH)

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The Baseball Team SEATED: Left to Rightg Arthur Hill, Richard Murray, Gilbert Chandler, Donald Houghton, Wayne Bryant, and William Kopacz. STANDING: Coach, Robert P. Desmaraisg Robert Cobb, Robert Houghton, Donald Hill, and Kendall Menard. Troy Home Lost Away Marlboro Home Won Away Keene Home Lost Away St. Mary's Home Lost Away Vermont Academy Home Won Away Claremont Home Won Away Vilas Home Lost Away Charlestown Away Chester Home Won Away Lost Won Lost Lost Won Won Won Lost Won The boys had a fairly good year last spring in baseball. They won nine games and lost eight. The fellows had private cars as transportation for the away games, and they really had a lot of fun meeting the different opposing teams. The players last season comprised the following: Donald Houghton, Kendall Menard, Gilbert Chandler, Nilliam Houghton, Arthur Hill, Robert Cobb, Donald Hill William Kopacz, Richard Murray, Wayne Bryant, and Robert Houghton. Looking toward the 1952 season, the team was fortunate to lose only one player to graduation last year. However, the present Senior Class has in it five members of the team, and four of these are pitchers.

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The Walpole Cheerleaders LEFT TO RlGl'-IT: Beverly Messer, Judith Metcalf, Patricia Chickering, Head Cheerleader, Ann Rogers, Kay Menard, Dianne Schiff, and Jane Howard, The lively cheerleaders have been under the helpful guidance of Miss Norma Hunt. The girls' peppy routines and well-rehearsed cheers at the pep rallies and all the games have given evidence of many hours of rigid practice. With a total of approximately forty cheers, the girls have been able to provide just the right words for the occasion. This variation plus their tricky stunts have earned the group much support and acclaim from all the fans. The uniforms the girls have had this year are those worn by the cheerleading groups for the past two seasons. The seven girls comprised two Seniors, Ann Rogers and Jane Howard: one Junior, Kay Menardg three Sophomores, Beverly Messer, Judith Metcalf, and Dianne Schiff: one Freshman, Patricia Chickering plus one substitute from the Freshman Class, Joan Bemis.

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Girls' Softball Team FIRST ROW: Left to Right: Margaret Reed, Ann Rogers, Mary Ramsay, and Kathryn Whitman. SECOND ROW: Kay Menard, Joan Kopacz, Kathryn Graves, Ruth Jameson, and Carole Graves. THIRD ROW: Manager, Elisse Nash: Janet Prentiss, Dorothy Lund, Bernice Cobb, Phyllis Jensen, Sheila Barry, and Coach, A. Louise Bradley. The girls' team last spring had only a six-game schedule, but this developed into an undefeated season. l Each member of the team wasexceptionally alert and showed some real spirit. The co-operation of these members and the wonderful guidance of their coach, Miss Frances V. Weeks, is reflected in their mutual success. One particularly unusual game was played one afternoon when the girls opposed the boys' team in an assembly program. The students were very enthusiastic rooter and best of all the teachers acted as umpires. Needless to say the boys won this con test. With the majority of the players on hand for the 1952 season, the team hopes' earnestly for another good year under the new girls' coach, Miss Ruth Carr. S