Where are they now? tHe First cHamPionsHiP soccer team Fielded By crescent in 1974 Roy Bartell has been a Captain in the Toronto Fire Service for over 30 years. He is married with six children. Martin Perantinos has been married for 28 years and has three children. Martin works for Travel Only as an agent, and also as a bartender at the Rogers Centre. Peter Corolis is an Associate Director at Scotia McLeod in Toronto. Peter has been married to Christine for 19 years. Their two sons are Crescent boys – Harrison graduated in June and Matthew is in grade 11. Mike Parry got married in July and moved to Port Perry. His son, James, attended Crescent, graduating in 2007.
1974 Soccer Team with coach, Dick Howard
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t started in the usual way with the annual trip to Rochester New York to take part in the East High School Tournament and two creditable drawn games. The next trip to Port Hope was not as enjoyable with a 4-1 defeat to a strong TCS team. A wake up call because the team then went on a nine game unbeaten run before losing to SAC in the ISAA Tournament in Aurora.. Four days later on a wet, windy and muddy day the Coyotes triumphed 5-3 over that same SAC team to capture their first ISAA Championship. The team: 3-3-4 Goalkeeper: Blair Howkins ’75 Defenders: Sandy Howkins ’77, Paul Sinclair ’76 (P’08), Glenn Macdonald ’76 Midfielders: Ian Douglas ’75, Ross Devenport ’77, John Galbraith ’75 Forward: Roy Bartell ’75, Martin Perantinos ’76, Peter Corolis ’75, Mike Selby ’77 Substitutes: Mike Parry ’76 (P’07), Ted Kemp ’75, Allan Day ’75 (P’06,’07) Injured (did not play): Dean Waterfield ’76 Manager: David Beale ’77 Coach: Dick Howard.
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Blair Howkins has been the owner of Work Office Furniture for 26 years. He has been married for 13 years and has five children. Blair lives in Terra Cotta, Ontario. Sandy Howkins is the manager of a company called Specimen Trees. He is married with three children and lives in Pitt Meadows, B.C. Paul Sinclair lives in Toronto where he is CFO of UBS Investment Bank in Canada. He has been married for 24 years and has two children. His son, Bryan was in Crescent’s class of ’08. Glenn Macdonald is the owner of a land development Company called Olde Towne Development. He is married with two children. Ian Douglas is semi-retired and lives in Whitby. He and his wife have two children. John Galbraith works for Oracle Corporation in Europe. John is married and has a 20 year old daughter. He lives in Basel, Switzerland and regularly attends FC Basel football games. John remembers “an incredible team spirit … and the muscle pain after the intensive training Mr. Howard put us through. After following football in Europe for over 25 years, I realize what a professional coach we had in Mr. Howard, and still think of the adrenalin rush we had winning our games.”
Allan Day is Managing Director at MGI Securities. Allan and Lynn have been married for 28 years and have three children. Both of their sons are Crescent grads, Havilland in 2006, and Cameron in 2007. David Beale lives in Port Hope with his wife and two children. David has spent 27 years with the Canadian Forces. Dick Howard is back at Crescent as Director of Soccer. He continues to work as a Media Analyst and FIFA Technical Advisor. Dick and his wife, Anne Martin, live in the Beach area of Toronto. We currently have no record of the whereabouts of Dean Waterfield, Ross Devenport (who played in goal for the Canadian National Youth Team), Mike Selby or Ted Kemp. Many thanks to Fred Gaby’75 for conducting the research. Ed. Note: Two members of this illustrious team, John Galbraith and Ian Douglas, also have the unique honour of being the only students in the 100 year history of Crescent School to have spent their entire school career from kindergarten to grade 13 at the School. Both gentlemen attended the Dentonia campus, where schooling started at nursery level, and followed the move to the current campus, staying on as the grades were added. They were both members of Crescent’s first high school graduation class.