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The Voice Of St. Matthews, January 3, 1957: Highlight 1956Mallon Plan, Church Growth, Court Decision Highlight 1956The County Board of Education in June announced that Waggener Junior High School would be a full-fledged high schoolin 1959. Each year, Waggener would add on a grade until the change was completed.The move was designed to relieve Eastern High in Middletown, which has a capacity of 1,500 pupils, but was expecting1,957 for the 1957-58 year.Trinity Builds: In March, what had been known as Holy Trinity High became simply Trinity High. Plans were announcedfor a new school building to cost between $350,000 and $400,000. It is now under construction and will be completedsoon. Trinity will graduate its first class in June, 1957.Holy Trinity grade school added a $70,000 wing during the year, and St. Margaret Mary added eight new classrooms andfour convent rooms.Eastern High in May graduated 320 seniors, the largest graduating class in its six-year history. In September the school gotthem back with interest. Enrollments crept up to 1,641, and increase of 115.Generally though, the increase in school enrollments here was not as great as in former years.The year saw a switch in the P.T.A.’s here. The mothers went to work getting men active in P.T.A. work. They had startedthis move in earlier years by switching the meetings to night time.Stivers P.T.A went the whole way and elected a man as president in March. He was C. H. Edwardsen, a former paratrooper.The following month, Eastern High followed suit and elected lane McCroskey president.Melbourne Heights elected Ora Spaid president. At St. Margaret Mary’s they elected four male officers. Joseph Diersen,vice-president; Haydon Heaphy, treasurer; Joseph Mehr, sergeant-at-arms; and Gorman McMullen, board member.Waggener went easy. James C. Warren was re-elected treasurer. The rest of the officers were women.Other P.T.A. presidents elected were at Waggener, Mrs. Henry Hoenig; Chenoweth Mrs. Thurston Cooke, St. MatthewsElementary, Mrs. Earl Schaaf, Lyndon, Mrs. Donald McCammon; Holy Trinity, Mrs. Evan A. Fraser; Ballard, Mrs. WilliamCheschier; and Greathouse, Mrs. Thomas St. Clair.Ballard got a new principal Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughn, and Lyndon honored one of long standing Kenneth Lam. The P.T.A.gave Mr. Lam a surprise reception and a gift in December in honor of his 10th anniversary at Lyndon.Fine Sports Year: In the field of sports it was a fine year for St. Matthews.Eastern High’s David Haycraft set a new Falls City high jump record of six feet while the Eagles were losing a track meetto Manual. In the state Track Meet in May. Haycraft set another record, with a jump of six feet, two inches.The Eastern tennis team, coached by Emmett Goranflo, captured the State championship in both singles and doubles. JimTarr won the singles and teamed up with Burton Shelley to take the doubles crown.The eastern golf team coached by Bill Hoke, compiled and impressive record of nine victories against only two defeats.While the eastern High basketball squad was finishing up in March with a 13-9 record for the season, the Jayvees rackedup 17 victories against only five defeats for eth County championship.Opening the 1956 season, the Eagles, under Coach Roy Adams, won their first four games of the year and were ranked theNo. 2 basketball team in the State. Then last week in the first Fern Creek Invitational Tourney, they lost their first game ofthe year. They were beaten 66-65 by Nicholas county.Other Champions: A great young spots competitor, 14-year–old Jerry Kazunas, in March was awarded three trophies forh is basketball powers.Playing with St. Margaret Mary in the parochial basketball competition, he was given trophies for being the outstandingplayer and most valuable man in the Far Eastern league, and for being unanimous choice for the All-Tournament team, hefurther won the Paul Karem award for outstanding ability, attitude and sportsmanship.That same month, the Waggener basketball team won the Junior High Tournament sponsored by the County Board of Recreation.Out Lady of Lourdes basketball team, coached by Bill Cardot and John Gaynor, won the Far Eastern League championshipwith a 9-1 record.For the second, consecutive year, the St. Matthews Baptist Church team won the City-wide Baptist basketball tournament.They were coached by Carl Edwards.