Otterbein Towers April 1959

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ship on a continuing basis. A kick­ off banquet will be held on April 20 at 6:30 P.M. in the Blendon Grange Hall, Westerville. Tickets are $5.00 each, with the profit being used to start the fund. Persons desiring tickets or wishing to make a contribution to the fund may do so by writing to the ParksScarfpin Memorial Scholarship Fund, Box 87, Westerville, Ohio.

A Memorial Scholarship is being established at Otterbein College joint­ ly by the Westerville High School Booster Club and the "O” Club in memory of two Westerville coaches, David W. Parks and James W. Scarfpin.

All-Ohio Conference

Purpose of the scholarship is to give a deserving Westerville High School athlete a full tuition scholar­ ship at Otterbein College. Only a Westerville student-athlete is eligible for this scholarship, which will be awarded on the basis of grades and athletic ability.

John Leohner, 6-3 sophomore for­ ward from Lancaster, Ohio, on the 1958-59 Otterbein basketball squad, was selected by the Ohio Conference basketball coaches on the All-Ohio Conference Team. He was the lead­ ing scorer in the Ohio Conference, with 435 points in 19 games for an average of 22.9 points per game. Leohner connected on 138 field goals out of 275 attempts for .502 percent and made 159 free throws out of 198 attempts for .803 percent. According to National Collegiate Ath­ letic Bureau statistics, Leohner ranked thirtieth in the nation among small college individual scoring leaders. His Otterbein teammates voted him the outstanding player on the squad for the 1958-59 basketball season. The Otters completed the season with two victories (both against Ken­ yon) and seventeen losses. The Otters scored a total of 1359 points while their opponents were making I6IO.

Parks, a resident of Westerville from 1921 until his sudden death in 1956, had his first coaching assignment in Westerville from 1921 until 1925, when he accepted the football and base­ ball coaching position at Columbus Central High School.

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Scarfpin came to Westerville as football, basketball, and baseball coach in 1944. During ten years as football coach, he compiled a respectable 5420-3 record. He was athletic director at the time of his death in 1958.

CLUB MINSTREL

The second annual "O” Club Min­ strel will be held in Cowan Hall, Fri­ day and Saturday, April 17 and 18, at 8:00 P.M. Admission is $1.00. This is a money-making project of the "O” Club to aid worthy athletes at Otterbein. A capacity audience is expected both evenings.

An annual sports banquet to raise funds is planned to keep the scholar­

SPRING SPORTS SCHEDULE - 1959 Sat. Sat. Thurs. Sat. Mon. Wed. Sat. Tues. Thurs. Sat. Tues. Thurs. Sat. Wed.

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Baseball Marietta Akron Ohio Wesleyan Capital Kenyon Muskingum Wittenberg Denison Kenyon Oberlin (May Day) Muskingum Ohio Wesleyan Wittenberg Capital

Marietta Westerville Delaware Columbus Westerville Westerville Westerville Granville Gambier Westerville New Concord Westerville Springfield Westerville

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Springfield Wittenberg Ohio Wesleyan and Bluffton, Delaware Westerville Akron Wester\411e Wooster New Concord Muskingum Heidelberg and Wittenberg Tiffin

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Granville Westerville Oberlin

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Muskingum New Concord Ohio Wesleyan Delaware Denison and Ohio Wesleyan, Granville Capital Columbus Tennis

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Marietta Westerville Delaware Westerville Westerville Westerville Westerville Wooster Springfield New Concord Columbus Oberlin


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