June 2014 - GFA Baseball Team 1931

The Greenville Free Academy baseball team of 1930-1931 poses: top, left to right: Charles Raddick, Bill Vaughn, Lefty (Reinhold) Schermer, Chuck Burgess, Charles Winans, Don Blenis, Maynard Makely, Scott Ellis; front: Elmer Carlson, Arnold Nicholsen, Lee Cunningham, Roland Young, Joe Slater, Ken Lawyer; Sitting: Russ Baumann, John Zivelli.

January 2023 – JV Basketball

The wooden bleachers of the GCS gymnasium invited friends, family, and fellow students during the long winter evenings of basketball season. Encouraging, enduring, and socializing were all parts of these athletic contests that also masqueraded as community-builders whose memories have lingered. This JV game in the winter of 1976-1977 drew the usual crowd, with this bleacher section focused on a down-court play. Tentatively identified are: Row 1 (bottom, basketball team): 1-Ron Clifford, 2-John Whittaker, 3-Gordon Caldwell, 4-Jim Kudlack, 5-Steve Andrus, 6-Larry Bryan, 7-Darryl Cornell, 8-Kevin White?, 9-Coach John Hagan, 10-Dan McCarthy; Row 2: in wheelchair-Tim Welter; bleacher row 2: 1-Robert Welter, 2-Bette Welter, 3-Bob Rose, 4-Jeannette Rose, 5-Carol Schreiber?, 6-Joan Smith, 7-Gail Parks Welter Biskupich, 8-Barbara Van Auken, 9- Jack Van Auken, 10, 11, 12, 13, scorekeeper-Bob Randall; Row 3: 1-Chris Ahlf, 2-Sandy Benigno, 3-Ruth Ahlf, 4-Alice Clifford, 5, 6-Carol Boyd, 7-Fred Bilewski, 8, 9-Guy Lounsbury, 10, 11; Row 4: 1-Don Mabee?, 2-Art Werking, 3-Eleanor Werking, 4-Mike Werking, 5-Kim Pettit, 6 , 7-Mike Zarcone, 8-Martin Brand, 9, 10-Bob Fisher, 11-Freda Fancher, 12, 13; Row 5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7-Richard Ferriolo, 8-Bob Mangold, 9-Curt Cunningham, 10-Pat Elsbree, 11-Dave Elsbree, 12; Row 6 (top): 1, 2, 3-Joan Sweeney, 4-Jack Sweeney, 5, 6-John Whitaker, 7-Jean Whitaker, 8-Paul Bear, 9-MaryLou Bear, 10, 11-Liz Carl, 12-Bob Carl; In lower left, two boys.

photo courtesy of Alice Clifford Bryant

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