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

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TUMBLING TEAM Coach: Ben Cassuto Steven Carrol Graham Menzier Joseph Spalding Charles Hoffman Mike Masone Bruce Mackin George Roldan Jerry Luisi Jan Plocica Robert Seigal Robert Savastano Elliot Munjack David Droller Danny Murphy Rodney Hampton David Dougherty Billy Freundlich Gamaliel Vasquez john Casazza Dominick Nicoletti Al- Dennis Guglielmettci Ronald Dritz Hermon Kinard Mayer Mory Cedric Simmons George Bendo John Luciano Frank Rabinowitz Morton Maimon Richard Lomas Ray O'hagon Richard Luhris james Santana Bruce Gronoff Ken Kaplan joe Sacks Sale Seymor Barry Halpern Alan Singer Bert Schlossberg Larry Ehstein Tullio DiMorro 71

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A TRIBUTE TO OUR TEAM AND ITECEH The 1962-63 basketball sea- son at Walt Whitman J. H. S. proved to be the best it has ever had. The team came as far as the borough semi-finals losing to Sands Junior High School by only three points C51-485 Coach by Mr. Ben Cassuto, a fine athlete himself, our team trained regularly and displayed some remarkably excellent of- fensive plays, not to mention that our defense was also out- standing. Our team showed its jumping capability at the cen- ter and other jump balls, on offensive tapping, and rebound- Our team was led by our six- foot-three-inch center,.Coak Cannon, who was the scoring leader and rebounding ace. The star guard, Ronald Tishkevich, had an excellent season scoring just short of 270 points C267D. Also Eugene deEugenia, and Alan Perry proved to be two fine de- fensive and offensive players. Great improvement was evident in the record of our star for- wards Valentine Rodreguez, who finished as one of our leading scorers. Basketball is not only a game of skills and agility, but also a game of sportsmanship and brains. You can be assured that our team desplayed worth. Good luck, Mr. Cassuto, to you and to next year's basket- ball team ing. Harry Hill INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS' RECORD Position Name Games Class Ttl. Points Average Center C. Cannon 18 9-5 325 18.0 Guard R. Tishkevich 20 8-9 267 13,3 Guard A. Perry 20 9-1 128 6,4 Guard D. Eugenia 16 9-10 111 6,9 Forward V. Rodreguez 20 9-5 74 3,7 Forward J. Enz 14 9-9 64 4,6 Center R. Lomas 13 8-1 40 3,1 Forward A. Shewatgon 8 7-10 12 1,5 Forward M. Shaffler 7 8-9 9 1,3 Forward T. Moss 3 9-7 3 1,0 Forward G. Vasquez 0 9-ll 0 0,0 CGym leaderb LEAGUE COMPETITION RECORD W: playoff game Date Walt Whitman Opponent 1-10-63 57 Hudde--31 1-17163 50 Ditmas--19 1-31-63 51 Hudde--18 2-7-63 66 Ditmas--19 2- -63 '59 Cunningham--41 2-15-63 W5l Markham--41 2- -63 f48 Sands--51 73