Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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-BOY'S HEALTH EDUCATIQN PROGRAM This year's health education program had been one of the best in the history of Walt Whitman Junior High School. Under the superior supervision of Mr. Cassuto, Mr. Barber, Mr. Altshuler, and Mr. Goldberg, our boys receive the very best train- ing in physical fitness, sports, and the art of sportsmanship. The boys follow the P.S.A.L. program and the new physical fitness plan sponsored by Pre- sident Kennedy. Under the P.S.A.L program, the boys receive HAH and HBH awards according to their excellence in certain gymnastic fields. The boys are taught basketball, stunts, tumbling, volleyball, track and field. Football is re- served for the ninth grade boys exclusively while the eighth t grade boys receive instruction in soccer. If any boy wishes to join a school athletic team, there is a choice of varsity basketball and varsity baseball. Walt Whitman plays various other schools in these two sports. In May there is a track and field day in which many of our boys participate. This year Mayor Wagner sponsored an invi- tational meet. After-three-o'clock-school- activities are still a vital part of sports at Walt Whitman Junior High. Boys can play and practice under the expert supervision of a competent supervisor who is always on hand especially for interclass events. It is easy to see the male half of our school is taught physical fitness and athletics quite well. Girls! Look around. You may be pleasantly surprised at what you see! Sandi Miller f! 87

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GIRLS' HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM The female population of Walt Whitman Junior High prides itself in an excellent program of health education. In the gym the girls learn volleyball, punchball, deck ten- nis, and overtake. Basketball is taught in the ninth grade. Calisthenics include thrusts, sit-ups, and push-ups. The routines conform to requirements of the P.S.A.L. League which also sets high standards for the boys a Mrs. Nonas, Mrs. Bauman, and Miss Lineal are the teachers in charge of the Girls' Health Education Program. Girls in the program may join clubs. The seventh grade has a punchball clubg the eighth and ninth grades, a leaders club. Mrs. Nonas, of the Leaders Club, has a squad of twenty-five. They meet Mon- a faculty adviser This year an award for excel lence in the field of Health Education goes to Laura Rowland of class 9-1. She, too, is a member of the Leaders Club. In the Leaders Club are: Laura Rowland 9- Donna Grauer 9- Arlene Harris 9-12 Carol Swank 9-12 Zinnia Steinhauer 9-12 Karen Dicks 9-12 Linda Elliot 9-12 12 12 12 5 12 12 Sharon Urist 9- Trudy Font 9- Maxine Milstein 9- janis Mostow 9- Linda Reifenkugel 9-2 Francine Lomansky 9-2 Dina Gratz 9-1 Karen Monchick 9-1 Rita Solar 8-6 Janet Sonnenstein 8-3 days and Thursdays in the gym. EXCEPTIONALS - - - 3'5 -'El- - Qualifications for the Leaders 3 2-na ?1n 7 8 Club include an A in conduct Shella Ralnffs 7 '8 and a teacher recommendation. ShefY1 Karl!-U 7-7 T... X X f' 9, 5 K ,Ox 0 .1 ?1 H , l X , yn, xgqgf g I if l Q? 71252 I ' -,- -.-Q rf :'f'?f . VMVZ: i2'i'.'.-I 'Y' ' . . 'ft?!-'J'-1' E UMC: nf fl f 1' i lffil nf ,g 3, T ' NX Y e I,.,.g' ,f if -1-l' Q, 1' ' JAM O 1 A 5 ' 7 1 , R-EMvuw 86

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YQ5CxNx'f5xx ,X .fqi ' -it 1- -.. i l ,,,.pu- .- -qib 1 .......-L.,, :-:- l a I , 'xx q , SX J L..,.... Q ea ,g5g??ife N A I .kgrsgldlxy , - -.-.J-v .. , ' -4 AT WALT WHITMAN j,H.SL VN A SUCCESSFUL BASKETBALL SEASON 1 The Walt Whitman Basketball Team under the excellent coaching of Mr. Cassuto beat Ditmas for the division championship and Shellbank for the section championship with a fourteen and five record. They entered the Brooklyn Championship playoff, which is a great accomplishment in itself. They ran a thirteen game winning streak during which they hit 521 of their foul shots and averaged 52 points a game while they held their opponents to an average of 39 points a game. Coak Cannon's height and fine shooting ability made him the team's ace rebounder as well as its leading Scorer with a total of 325 points for a 17.1 average. Coak scored the record number of points in one game, when he scored thirty points in a game against Shellbank. Carlton Screen sparked the team with a fine shooting record of 284 points for a 14.9 average. Ronnie Tiskevich, the only seventh grader to ever start on the Walt Whitman team, was third with 118 points for a 6.2 average. The leading foul shooters were Ronnie Tiskevich,scoring 32 out of 48 for a 66 percentage,and Carlton Screen shooting 52 out of S8 for a 59 percentage. In the past season, the games which we lost were by a slim margin. For example,we lost to Lefferts by one point in the last seven seconds 88 of the game. The following week at our gym, we handed Lefferts a defeat by beating them forty-six to forty- four. Our team had a rather tough schedule as in the game against Decatur whose team members were much taller than ours. Because of excellent team la in however we tied the score until the last twenty seconds of play when Decatur scored two foul shots. Next year Coak Cannon, Ronald Tiskevich, James Enz, and Valentine Rodriguez will be the nucleus of the new varsity team. Robert Mila- tano, Nathan Friedman, and Mark Hershkowitz are to be congratulated as team managers. Two factors greatly contributing to a well-played season were the determination and effort of Mr. Cassuto whose supervision and train- ing was an asset to the team. All the boys on the team deserve credit for a very successful season. The players on the Walt Whitman team included Co-Captains Coak Can- non and Carlton Screen, Ronald Tiskevich, James Enz, James Dorsey, Neil Berman, Valentine Rodriguez Shelly Ash, and Kenneth Goldman, Melvin Bernstein Steven Lustbader