Weldon E Howitt High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Farmingdale, NY)

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Below: Dave Reid, senior, practices coming out of the blocks. INDOORS-OUTDOORS I'll tell you point blank guys, the reason for winter track is to carry right over for the spring season — Walter Brem, coach. A big disadvantage is the lack of space to work out in, because the school refuses to let us run in the halls — Vinnie Grande, senior. Mr. Brem fought a long time to get an indoor track team so we would be in shape for spring; the dis- advantage of running indoors is it really hurts our legs and there are really sharp turns — Chris Beat- rice, senior. It's hard to practice inside because we have to run around in circles in the gym. I’d rather be running outside” — John Mazujian, senior. '7 personally don’t like running indoors, because I’m a distance runner. Inside we have to do more laps and that’s a psychological disadvantage” — Rick Reichel, senior. Running inside we don't have to worry about the rain or any other kind of weather, but running on the floor hurts the ankles, the knees, and the shins — Tom Soluri, senior. Winter Track FHS 70 League Meet 1 st place 21 Conference Meet 4th place 17 County Meet 4th place Above Middle: Concentrating deeply. Mike Ward gets ready to throw the shotput. Back Row: Ann Lankford. Nancy St. Nicolas. Karen Fast. Donna Hickey. Patti O'Brien, Cathy Shellhorn. Second Row: Diane Kalkof, Janet Paula, Barbara Rice. Jean Timmons. Laurie Kovacs. Vicki Skevofelix, Coach Walter Brem. Front Row: Kathy Sindilar. Chris Abato, Debbie DiCicco. Carolyn Rosberg. Kim Newman. 143

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Below: Chris Beatrice practices hurdling. Winter Season Readies Track Team For Spring Meets Three years ago track coach Walter “Butch’’ Brem got a break; he started get- ting paid for coaching win- ter track, a job he had been performing since 1973 with- out pay. In that year Brem had recognized the ex- ceptional talent of soph- omore high jumper Jason Meisler, and started enter- ing him in winter meets. As the years went by, Brem’s group increased in size and strength until final- ly, prodded by the teachers’ union, the administration saw the justice of paying Brem and initiated a full schedule of meets. Since then, the team has grown to ninety members, and has become one of the strong- est in the state. In January the team com- peted in the Conference I meet against fourteen other teams. A trophy was awarded to the Dalers when they placed first in the League A championships with seventy points. Farm- Back Row: Robert Bisberg, Neil Ferrara. Scott Kramer. Jeff Riha, Jim Genoy. Harry Penn. Mike Fried. Sal Guastella, David Reid. Mike Mena. Coach Walter Brem. Fourth Row: Mike Ward. Mike Wolling. Parish Patel. Jody Peck. Stu Fast. George Kaiser. Mark Amster, Paul Romanelli, John Conneely. Kurt Ludwig. Charlie Reichel. Third Row: David Hickey. Matt Rothman. Phil Abshire, Glenn Fink. Vinny Grande. Mike Gaghan, Henry Verga, Scott Brown. Jim Lavelle. Dan Gorzycki. John Mazujian. Second Row: Joe Perettine. Ray Soluri. Ken Cottrell. Tony Faria. Charles Del Aquilia, Tom Soluri. Ross Fabregas. Frank Sposato. Tom McGurk. Tony Mauro. Jeff Jacobs. Front Row: John Driscoll. Steve Kumbasky, Tom Walsh, Harry Graber. Aaron Cano. Mike Buckley. Tony Giminaro. Steve Languilli. ingdale also took fourth place in the Conference I championship. Three names are men- tioned as outstanding mem- bers of this year's winter track team: Harry Penn, Da- vid Reid, and Ross Fabr- egas. The coach described Penn as “an excellent dis- tance runner, from the 880 yard run and up.” He was also chosen most valuable runner by his teammates. Dave Reid represented Farmingdale at the Nassau and Suffolk county cham- pionships in the triple jump event. Ross Fabergas com- peted in the same confer- ences in the long jump event. Both took third in their events. Much hard work will be necessary for next year’s team to meet the standards of the 1979 winter track team. Right: George Kaiser leads the pack around the last turn. Jeff Lund. Frank Innes. Charlie Kahlkof

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Below: Yelling instructions to his players or comments at the referee keeps basketball coach Carl Savalli in his element. Right: A strategic move is planned out by football coaches Don Snyder and Bob Mulligan in a game against Oceanside. Above: The lacrosse team huddles during a time out in a game against Bethpage as coach Bob Hartranft gives instructions to his players. Center Left: Volleyball coach Rosalie Lebenick discusses the game plan. Center Right: A major asset of the cross country team was coach Al Parks, who was cited as a main reason for its winning season. 144 Above: Track coach Walter Brem keeps time as the team does its daily laps around the gym.