West Hempstead High School - Westerly Yearbook (West Hempstead, NY)

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': in Q Q1 XHP: N -- . if wo TRACK TEAM 1956: Row One, left to right: F. Homer, Heinze, J. Schaeffer, B. Fineman, V. Fischetti, B. Jacoby. Christiansen, C. Nagel. Row Two, left to right: P. Binger, Schiff, M. Goldberg, B. Blauberg, j. Boccone, J. Walters, BASEBALL Having a nucleus of 10 veterans returning from the '55 baseball squad, Coach Salerno busily prepared the Rams for the coming season. After two tuneup games, the Rams faced their first league opposition in Malverne. Behind the fine pitching of Howie Wiener, they easily defeated the Mules. Malverne, however, returned the compliment by beating the Rams by that identical score in a second match. Two easy wins over hapless East Meadow followed as the Rams went on to win 5 straight league games. Wantagh brought the winning streak to an end by beating West Hempstead 5-2, but the Rams got revenge by pounding out a 10-2 victory in the return meeting. After beating East Rockaway twice, the Rams opened up a two game series with the tough Lynbrook squad. In a brilliant pitching duel between Duke Molter and Lefty Lehrhoff, the Rams eked out a 1-0 decision. At this stage of the season Mal- verne and the Rams were deadlocked for first place. Both teams took their final games as West Hempstead trounced Lynbrook and Malverne beat East Meadow. A playoff game for the league title was arranged and the Rams went down to a heart-breaking 2-1 defeat. Z 11111 v . ,. ' l if I F 1. Q? Tumer, S. Nelson, M. Poppe, D. Jagger. Row Three, left to right: Mr. R. Jahelka, Coach: A. Kaltinick, M. Ainbinder, B. Vincent, London, J. Spadafina, F. Munaco, H. Blaustein, N. Ariola, R. O'Brien. TRACK The Rams got off to a Hying start by trouncing Beth- page and Freeport, as they dominated all events. Compet- ing in its first triangular meet of the season, the Rams defeated Malverne and Wantagh handily. A close win over Hewlett followed. The first defeat of the campaign was suffered at the hands of Hempstead and Southside in a second triangular meet. After romping Uniondale, the Rams lost a thriller to Lynbrook. Competing in the last triangular meet of the season, the Rams downed Massa- pequa and Hewlett. In the Section Three meet held at West Hempstead, the Rams were unable to defend their title as Lynbrook took it away from them easily. The steady performers all season were Bob O'Brien, star sprinter who led the team in scoring and who received the Most Valuable Player awardg Fred Homer, hurler and sprinterg Harvey Blaustein and John Boccone, shotputtersg high-jumper Billy Vincentg and miler John Walters. Our fine relay team consited of O'Brien, Vincent, Fischetti, Homer, Ainbinder, and Chris- tiansen. It was a very sucessful season for the Rams, and Mr. Jahelka deserves much praise for his fine handling of the team. Q. 6' cz . i , -f Sf! u mums fl ' E. , . P . . K' L -.,y I' A 1. U. ,121 '. Jiuggf ' 'V '-If 13:4 A r , f'.e-Efenilf'- 9 .4 .5 'i Q- L Left to right: G. Amos, W. Laybourne, H. Rufa, G. ' AM Bemard, J. Sabella, J. Markowitz, F. Insinga.

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5-.nal-v'+ '.' I Q Q .ww i3 '-.'n2'h'iv11- + - - . - , .- 'A-f..: f H nil' ' ' ' -if . I - X-'i:.- 55' KK1-'ff'-'mi ' .. ' ' L as A ,, 'H' 1-ef' APA.-l, J.V. BASEBALL 1956: Row One, left to right: S. Sonkin, B. Blauberg, J. Morris, B. Iger. Row Two, left to right: R. Metzger, R. O'Loughlin, R. Flack, L. Hornstein, P. Binder, R. Goldberg, B. Fischl, Manager. Row Three, left to right: J. Covello, B. MacArthur, W. Jagger, T. Harmon, R. Sabella, B. Heimink, Mr. P. McCabe, Coach. 9 4? I .9 all .rl +W .r X it it Xx!izl4E'iQ f',TQWf 'l,x 1 . iv , f 3 x VARSITY BASEBALL 1956: Row One, left to right: R. Fawcett, J. Markowitz, G. Amos, J. Sabella, D. Hobby. Row Two, left to right: H. Weiner, H. Kurtz, D. Lenz, W. Laybourne, G. Bernard, Mr. N. Salerno, Coach. Row Three, left to right: B. Ainbinder, D. Gwydir, M. Cingiser, D. Molter, F. Insinga, H. Rufa. 1 B 1956 VARSITY BASEBALL SCHEDULE Port Washington ........................ 3 Rams 7 Port Washington ......... ...... 1 2 Rams 11 Malverne ...................... ...... 2 Rams 5 Malverne .................. ...... 5 Rams 2 East Meadow ..... ...... 0 Rams 13 East Meadow ..... ....... 1 Rams 15 Long Beach ....... ...... 1 Rams 9 Long Beach ....... ...... 6 Rams 2 Hewlett ....... ...... 2 Rams 3 Hewlett ........... ...... 4 Rams 6 Garden City ....... ...... 2 Rams 7 Wantagh ........ ...... 5 Rams 2 Wantagh ................. ...... 2 Rams 10 East Rockaway ....... ...... 2 Rams 17 East Rockaway ....... ...... 0 Rams 8 Garden City ............ ...... 1 3 Rams 6 Lynbrook ...................... ...... 0 Rams 1 Lynbrook ........................... ....... 0 Rams 10 Malverne fplayoffj ....... ...... 2 Rams 1 1956 J.V. BASEBALL SCHEDULE East Meadow ................................. 2 Rams 1 East Meadow ......... ...... 5 Rams 0 Long Beach ....... ...... 8 Rams 1 Garden City ....... ...... 5 Rams 4 Mineola ............ ...... 5 Rams 1 . Lynbrook ......... ...... 6 Rams 4 Hewlett ............ ...... 8 Rams 17 Long Beach ........ ...... 1 5 Rams 6 Garden City ....... ...... 1 4 Rams 5 Lynbrook ......... ...... 1 3 Rams 3 Wantagh ......... ...... 8 Rams 1 Mineola ............ ...... 2 Rams 1 Long Beach ....... ...... 1 1 Rams 3 Long Beach ....... ...... 2 Rams 4 1956 TRACK SCHEDULE Bethpage 43-2X5 .................................... Rams 65-3X5 Freeport 38 V2 ................................................ Rams 65 V2 Wantagh 24 V2 ...... Malverne 40 ...... Rams 64W Hewlett 43 ............................................................... Rams 52 Hempstead 66 ...... Southside 32 V2 ...... Rams 23 V2 Uniondale 19 .................,....................................... Rams 85 Lynbrook 64-3. 5 East Meadow 2 Rams 62 V2 Hewlett 32 V2 ...... Massapequa 3710 ...... Rams 60 J if

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