OECEMBER, 1937
CENTER CAGERS HAVE
ENLARGED SCHEDULE
If ever the Center team will go
places, it should be this year. The
squad has a wealth of material and
the first quintet is well seasoned. Here
is a haphazard list of the cagers:
Savitz, Jonies, Gallagher, Mooty,
Steciw, Zayach, Piceola, Barnes,
Beltz, Ogrydziak, Dougherty.
The complete schedule for this sea
son is as follows:
Jan. 7 —Pottsville Center, home.*
Jan. 14—Mahanoy City McCann’s,
home.*
Jan. 21—Freeland M.M.1., home.*
Feb. 3-4-5 Penn State Center
Tournament.
Feb. B—Hazle Township, away.
Feb. 11 Hazleton McCann’s,
away.*
Feb. 15—Foster Township, away.*
Feb. 23—Pottsville Center, away.*
Mar. I—Foster Township, home.
Mar. 11—Freeland M.M.1., away.*
(*) denotes Collegiate League
games.
COMMITTEE DRAWS UP
STUDENT BUDGET
Always a thorn in the side of stu
dent council and those unlucky
enough to be appointed on the finan
cial committee is the budget. This
year is no exception. Last year’s
budget committee formulated our
present budget as best they could;
yet, they had not foreseen many de
tails. But then, no one could expect
them to be clairvoyant.
Receipts this year are derived from
three major sources: the college, the
restaurant, and activity fees, all of
which are expected to function in
good order. However, minor sources
of income, such as that from card
parties, etc., are generally unreliable
and are looked upon with anxious
eyes.
The expense side of the budget,
needless to say, is the biggest threat
to financial equilibrium. Athletics
consumes about $2OO, the social com
mittee about $lOO, and the other ac
tivities fall into positions propor
tional to their importance.
The ray of sunshine to the finan
cial committee is the contingency
fund, which will probably prove to
he of great importance. This fund
was necessary because of the un
charted seas that the Center has to
navigate this year.
Taking everything into considera
tion, the students needn’t worry
about our budget; the wizardry of
our financial committee is unex
celled. And faculty adviser, Mr.
Goas, will see that the budget com
mittemen Ruth Bachman, John
Barnes, and Emer Flounders—-sail
on a smooth financial sea.
Students Participate In
Four Club Activities
Dramatic Club.
Our Dramatics Club is the only or
ganization that might be said to have
a “tradition” behind it. Begun last
April, it produced a play, “Sunset by
Slantsky,” in which John Barnes and
Ruth Bachman were “co-starred.”
The supporting roles were very ably
acted by Walter Organist and Any
arita Mhley, one of our alumni who
is now attending Penn State Col
lege.
At the opening of this term, the
Dramatics Club received an influx of
members, largely from the freshman
class. Mary Ann McClintock was un
animously elected president; John
Barnes, chairman of committees. The
first production of this year, “There’s
Always Tomorrow” by Daniel Pet
tigrew, was presented in Assembly
Wednesday, December 8. The cast
included the following people:
Bob Evans—Kermit Laßose.
Joan Evans, his wife—Mary Ann
McClintock.
Virginia White—Ann Greshko.
Mrs. Scrump—Marie Somers.
The committees were: Stage, Ellis
Warner and Frederic MacDowell;
Prompter, Josephine Zogby; Cos
tumes, Alice Marie McGrory; Publici
ty, Walter Organist; Make-up, Marie
Somers and Marian Quick; Proper
ties, Larry Tarleton and Ruth Bach
man.
For the success of “There’s Always
Tomorrow,” the Dramatics Club is
indebted to Miss Yotter. for her
patient and skillful coaching, to the
cast for their fine performance, to
the committee, and to Mr. Herpel
for installing the curtain.
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Ping-Pong Team Wins
First League Match
Nobody can doubt now that the
Hazleton Center has a wealth of ping
pong players. A few weeks ago Tony
Piceola, ace ping-pongist, got to
gether a few of the Center players
and, without any practice, went down
to the Y.M.C.A. to defeat the “Y”
ping pong team. The Center team
took five out of seven single matches.
The winners were: Barnes, Piceola,
Novotnie, Blyler, and Newell.
In the doubles the Center team
took two out of three games. Piceola
and Blyler teamed up to trounce the
“Y” stars, Woodring and Rossman,
Barnes and Organist won the second
doubles match, but Tarleton and
Novotnie lost out in the third match.
Captain Piceola’s men are mem-,
bers of the Y.M.C.A. Ping Pong
League. This league is composed of
twelve teams in Hazleton..
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
Our Cage Team Loses
Its First Two Games
Although Coach Charlie McGee
han’s basketball team got off on the
wrong foot, Center students should
rest assured that Charlie and the
boys will get in line in the win col
umn. 1 That 32-25 defeat suffered at
the hands of Sheppton High can be
explained away by citing the size of
the gym and the high school’s center.
The gym was too small for the Cen
ter cagers and the Sheppton High
center was too tall to be stopped
from dropping in peepers.
Bill Savitz led our boys in scoring
with eight points, and the veteran,
“Nipper” Gallagher, trailed with five
points. Jones and Mooty looked like
two kingpins in our team’s floorwork.
With a little practice on their passing
attack, our cagemen should do better
in the future and on larger courts.
The boys’ second lose was a heart
breaker. They lost a 31-29 battle to
Nuremberg that required two extra
periods to settle. Coach McGeehan
led his team in scoring with eleven
points.
THREE PARTIES
GIVEN AT CENTER
The first party of any school year
is always difficult to plan. The stu
dents, not knowing one another, are
stiff and unnatural; people are afraid
of the sound of their own voices. Not
so the first Center party! Knowing
that working together makes people
feel less shy, our faculty put us to
work sand-papering and painting
chairs and tables. Thus the Center
killed two birds with one stone—they
prevented the party from being the
kind at which one politely stifles,
yawns, and accomplished some very
necessary repairs. A few of the more
sentimental members of the Sopho
more Class admitted, however, that
it was not without a pang that they
eradicated the perpetual record of
the alumni, their carvings in the
chairs. After their hard work, the
painters partook of cider and dough
nuts until the very large supply was
exhausted.
The second party is the Faculty
party which is usually “la piece de
resistance” of the year. (Miss Yot
ter’s French classes will please note.)
This year’s faculty party was like the
one given last year only better. The
scene of the party was the Center
cabaret, a prominent “hot-spot” of
the wicked West iri the nineties.
Among those who conducted gambl
ing games Were Lady Lou Yotter,
Red Harrison, Three-Gun Eiche, Coy
ote Kieft," and Limpy Herpel. At the
bar were Chief Standing Bull Janssen
and ; Mr. Walters? 1 The cabaret was
unusually quiet that evening; no one
McGEEHANITES DROP
CONTEST TO McCANN'S
, Again our basketeers were frowned
upon by Lady Victory. This time it
was McCann’s that did the trick.
Charlie ; McGeehan and the boys at
half time were passing and shooting
like veterans, piling up a 20-14 lead.
But, alas and alack, the McCann’s
cagers opened up in the third period,
cut down our lead, and then devel
oped one of their own. So eventually
we lost our third hopeless game for
this season. If this keeps up, our
team will have to play with its fin-
gers crossed.
The lay-off during the Christmas
holidays, however, ought to give
Coach McGeehan an ample opportun
ity to smooth out the rough edges
and prepare the Center quintet for
its first conquest in January.
Girls' Room Lay-out
Gets Homey Touch
In answer to the curious looks of a
few of the males at the door of the
Girls’ Room, here is a description of
it. Painted in a combination of white
and green, this bright little den is
furnished for the comfort of the girls
with furniture which they donated.
Included in the donations are two
newly upholstered easy chairs, pres
ents of Misses Somers and Newell;
a lounge draped with a chintz cover,
an addition by Miss Yotter; an end
table with book ends and a reading
table with a black pottery based lamp.
A sink, two cupboards containing
dishes and glassware, and two full
length mirrors give a homey touch
to the room. The energy and time
spent toy the girls under the super
vision of Miss Yotter have added to
the appreciation of the comfort which
this room affords them.
was caught cheating, and Three-Gun
Eiche’s kind offer to kill your ene
mies for $5O was not taken. At the
end of the evening, Earl Seybert and
Margaret Lucash were awarded
prizes for having won the most mon
ey. Then a dance of the Paul Jones
types was held. It was discovered
that the faculty were most in demand
as partners in the peanut dance.
The third party of the year was
the Alumni party. Explanations are
in order. Many of the out-of-town
students may have been disappointed
in missing the Thanksgiving party.
The Social Committee, however,
found it impossible to give a party
that could be attended by both the
alumni and the out-of-town students.
We really missed you very much, and
we shall' try to make amends in the
Xmas party. Over fifty alumni at
tended the Thanksgiving party.
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