1959 - 1960 Newspaper Articles

The 1958-59 LMCS basketball season had been somewhat of a disappointment to the players and fans, but in the fall of 1959, hopes were high for the coming season..

"Coach Pressavento's varsity team and Coach Shulz' junior varsity opens up the 1959-60 basketball season with a home game against St. Joseph's on Tuesday, November 17th.

The big Wildcats have veterans Vick, Foster, Seeley, Robinson and Eugeni returning to the lineup this year. This means that they have an experienced team and the chances look good.

The junior Wildcats will have many new players as they seek for their fifth straight championship. The first league game for the Wildcats will be Thursday, November 24th as a home game against Tri-Valley." - Barry Foster
 

On the night of November 24th, 1959, the Livingston Manor high school basketball team began league competition with a game against the Tri-Valley Bears at the Manor's auditorium. The Western Sullivan League consisted of seven teams from the local area high schools, whose combined districts covered an area that included two-thirds of Sullivan County, as well as small portions of Delaware and Ulster counties.

Though the Manor's most bitter rivalry was against the Roscoe Central School's Blue Devils, the Delaware Valley Eagles were one of the more talented teams and was considered the team to beat. The previous two years, Manor and Delaware Valley varsity squads each won the WSL championship, the other team coming in a strong second, and both schools promoted strong junior-varsity programs. For the 1959 season, the Eagles had returning from the previous year's WSL champion team many of its members, including high scorers Dave Bult and Ken Mitteweger. The Tri-Valley and Narrowsburg teams were considered to have a chance of topping the league, each having a prolific scorer on the squad, Clark Brown of T-V and Wendall Barnes from Narrowsburg. The Livingston Manor Wildcats were considered "in the hunt."

Manor beat Tri-Valley that night for their first league win of the 1959-60 season. The game was played the Tuesday night before the Thanksgiving holiday. Since all the local weekly newspapers were normally published on Thursdays, for this holiday week they each presented an early edition; too early for the results to be published that week, and forgotten about in the next week's edition.

By the end of 1959, the project designed to quench the thirst for New York City was winding down, as work on the second aqueduct was nearing completion. Water from the east and west branches of the Delaware River, impounded by dams erected at Downsville and Cannonsville, were to be transported to the city through tunnels from each reservoir to Low's Corner, near Grahmasville. The tunnels passed underneath the surface near Livingston Manor and the area benefitted economically, a source of labor for residents along with an influx of money, with shafts drilled down to the tunnels at DeBruce and midway up Johnson Mountain.

With the first tunnel already completed, work on the second, which was started in 1954, was running ahead of schedule, well ahead of the scheduled completion date set for the spring of 1962. Officials of the West Delaware Construction Company hoped to have the excavation done by January, 1960.

Another non-league basketball game was scheduled for the Manor Wildcats, against Roundout Valley on the afternoon of December 14th. Roundout Valley, a larger school located in Ulster County, would be a good test for the local team;

"Livingston Manor Wildcats, aided by center Rich Robinson's 19 points, built a comfortable first half lead and hung on to defeat Roundout Valley's Ganders, 51-45, in a non-league basketball game Monday afternoon.

"Coach Si Pessavento' Manor quintet outshot the other team 13-9 in the first period and ballooned the lead to a dozen points, 31-19, a free-scoring second quarter.

"However, Roundout Valley, which was minus star center Keith Johnson, played the visitors on even terms in the third period and rallied to outscore the Manor 15-10 over the last eight minutes. But the surge fell short.

"Barry Foster chipped in with 12 points to help Robinson shoulder Manor's scoring victory for the unbeaten Wildcats.

"Manor jayvees kept pace with the varsity by winning their fifth game 53-42, as John Hoos scored 28 points for the Wildcat Cubs."
Fred
 

A standing room only crowd filled the school's auditorium on the night of December 18th, as the arch-rival team from Roscoe made their annual visit. As happened each year when these two teams played, both sets of bleachers would be filled to capacity. Spectators stood four to five deep between, and at either end of the bleachers. The same would be true at the two doors leading into the gym, the crowd often over-flowing onto the court and onto the auditorium's stage, fans standing behind the seating arranged for the two teams.

And they were not a quiet bunch. Cheers for each basket, rebound or foul would reverberate throughout the gym, reaching deafening levels when the each school's cheerleading squads worked the crowd into a frenzy. With each sequence of cheers, all well-known by the fans as they chanted along with the girls, the home crowd would attempt to out-shout the opponents, becoming a competition within itself until the noise swelled into a loud roar by game's end;

"Livingston Manor, Tri-Valley and Delaware Valley, the three leaders almost as expected, played Friday to keep pace with each other in the red-hot Western Sullivan League. The Manor Wildcats defeated arch-rival Roscoe 53-49 before a jam-packed home crowd.

"The Wildcats lead with a 3-0 record and undefeated in league games altogether, rolled to a 13-0 first quarter lead and were never caught. The half-time score was 26-22. Barry Foster threw in 20 points to lead Manor. John DuMond and Charlie Banks lent a helping hand with 14 and 10 points."  -  fred

 

The beginning of the new decade, the sixties, brought numerous changes on Manor's Main Street. The block building that was Harry Sturdevant's automobile franchise showroom, had for the past number of years been the furniture and appliance business of Hymen Jacobs. The first of the year saw the business change hands, with young Marty Reisner becoming the new proprietor. Marty's Furniture and Appliance, as it became known, proved to be very sucessful, with Marty incresing the inventory and always eager to serve his customers, both old and new. "Hello, handsome" would be his favorite greeting to the patrons as they entered his business, even for those of us not so well blessed.

The first game for the Livingston Manor Wildcats basketball team after the holiday vacation was against the Jeffersonville-Youngsville Trojans. Jeffersonville and the much smaller community of Youngsville had just combined their school programs the previous year. The last basketball game that the Manor team, Michael Fischer, Gene Barnicott, William Fredenberg and company, played against the Youngsville team, in 1958, was a rout with the score being 102-32.

"The Manor Wildcats trumped the Jeffersonville-Youngsville Trojans 67-51 for the Manor's eigth straight win of the season last Friday, January 8th.

"Manor took an early lead and kept it throughout the game. With Robinson, Foster and Banks controlling the boards, the Cats were off and running. By the half, Manor had the game sewed up, 40-23.

"Four Manor players reached double figures. Robinson was high scorer with 19, Foster and Vick had 14 each and Banks had 10.

"Livingston Manor's record stands at 8 wins and no loses. Five of the wins were in league play and has Manor in first place."The junior varsity also won their game, 45-24 with all members able to play the game. Manor's John Hoos scored 14 and Rich Welch scored 12." - Fred
 

January 21, 1960 - News-Times  -  Win 9

The corner lot located on the corner of Main and DuBois streets, a portion of the oringinal Livingston's manor, stood vacant until the fall of 1959, when Frank Porter, of Liberty, built the block building that was to become the Amoco station. Clifford Scott, a mechanic from Liberty who specialized in automatic transmissions, became the proprietor of the shop which opened in January, the garage known as Scotty's Service Station.

On January 15th, Manor's basketball team and spectators traveled to Narrowsburgh, another long bus ride, to take on the Indians. Narrowsburgh, though a small school, was particularly dangerous this year for the fact that their gymnasium was small, a potential handicap for the visiting team, as well as having the league's leading scorer, Wendall Barnes. Barnes, coming back from a year away from basketball due to being injured while welding an axe while cutting wood, had just performed a 30 point game against Roscoe and the familiar confines of his home court could be to his advantage against the Manor;

"Narrowsburgh High School trailed by a point [21-20] at the end of the first period, led by a point [32-31] at the half and still had a one point advantage [49-48] at the end of the third period against Livingston Manor here Tuesday night, but a big fourth period in which the Manor outscored the home team 23-10, spelled defeat for the Indians, The final score was 71-59 and it was the sixth straight league victory for the Manor team and their ninth overall.

"The varsity game got off at a fast clip and after three minutes, 19 points had been scored with Narrowsburgh leading 10-9. Johnson, Barnes and Bob Nearing led this surge for the home team. DuMond and Foster kept Manor in the game during the first quarter with 8 points apiece.

"The second period saw the scoring pace slow down with Manor getting 10 points and Narrowsburgh 12. This was enough to give Narrowsburgh High School the lead at halftime, 32-31. The teams stayed within one point of each other all through the third period. Things looked bright for Narrowsburgh as three Manor players had three fouls on them at halftime and they were the big guns, Foster, Banks and Robinson. Foster had 10 points in the first half for the visitors.

"The third period followed the same pattern as the first half with Narrowsburgh ahead one point through most of the period. With one minute to go, Narrowsburgh had its largest lead of the night 47-44. Manor came on in the last minute to make it close again and Narrowsburgh had its one point lead at the end of the third period.

Foster, Banks and Robinson kept Manor in the game. Foster incurred his fourth personal foul near the end of this period and was replaced by Eugeni. The fourth period was all Manor and there was little that Narrowsburgh could do about it. With Foster back in the lineup, they just overwhelmed the Indians with a fast-breaking attack that netted them 23 points to but 10 for the home team. The final score was 71-59 and Manor continues at the top of the league, as the second half of the season gets midway Friday night.

"Some people had been wondering what keeps the Manor team up there and the answer can be found in the box-score where five Manor players were in double figures. They have a balanced team with no stars but all five capable of scoring form anyplace on the floor. DuMond had 16, Foster 14, Robinson 13, Vick 12 and Banks 10." - Fred

January 28, 1960 - News-Times   -  Win 10

The dream of George Boddy, a member of the Livingston Manor Rotary Club, came true in 1959 when that youth-orientated group sponsored the first of what is now the traditional Rotary Club Ice Carnival. Until then, skaters young and old, gathered on Scudder's Pond, just south of the village, but now, with the Rotarians in charge, Walt Seeley plowed the snow from the little-league fields located below the school, banking-up the snow to form a long oval, and then with hoses, sprayed the area during the deep-freeze of the evening, to form the thick layer of smooth ice. Then, as now, the event consisted of ice-skating races for all age levels, exhibition figure-skating, snow sculpturing, free cocoa and hot-dogs for all and a carnival-eve ball, where the queen of the event was crowned. Selection of the queen was done on a vote held by the student body of the school, nomination of girls from the junior class. Linda Emery was crowned to reign over the second annual Rotary Club Ice Carnival, held on January 17th, 1960, a relatively mild January Sunday, that brought 700 people out in attendance.

The Tri-Valley Central School building was the new school on the block. Built in 1951, it was ready for occupancy the beginning of the fall term that September. Like the other schools in the area, the gymnasium also served as an auditorium, smallish, with a curtained stage. This would soon change in the fall of 1959, as the district built a new gymnasium, with a regulation size basketball court, a novelty in the Western Sullivan League. It was finished in January, and on the night of January 22, the first basketball game held in this new arena saw the Livingston Manor team play the local quintet before a packed-house;

"Livingston Manor's undefeated Wildcats stretched their winning streak to ten games Friday night - seven in league play - by rolling over the Tri-Valley Bears, 60-46, to remain unchallenged Western Sullivan basketball leaders.

"Coach Si Pesavento's Manor team had difficulty getting adjusted to the king-sized Tri-Valley court, but once the Wildcats did, there was no stopping them.

"A standing-room-only crowd showed up for the opening of the new gymnasium and watched Tri-Valley surge into a 17-14 first period lead on the shooting of Clark Brown and Gene Walter.

"Charlie Bank's foul shots and a jump shot from the corner by Bill Vick tied the score at 17-all early in the second period.

"Then the Manor reeled off eight straight points on a tap-in by Rich Robinson, Barry Foster's set shot, a lay-up by Robinson and two foul tosses by Vick. That surge boosted the Manor into a 25-19 lead.

"Any hopes that the Bears had of catching the Manor vanished soon after the third period started when Brown, the league's second-ranked scorer, left the game with his fifth personal foul. By losing, the Bears missed a chance to tie the Manor for first place. Robinson led the Wildcats with 20 points, Foster had 14, and Banks 10.

"The junior varsity won their game, 40-26. Richard Welch scored 21 followed by John Hoos with 12."
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There is no mention of Barry Foster's mid-court heave. It is a story that, no doubt, will be brought up at the banquet. - Fred

February 4, 1960 News-Times   -  Win 11

The new addition to the Livingston Manor School was completed and on the night of January 26th, 1960, the P.T.A., who were instrumental in the success of the project, and the school board held dedication ceremonies in which over 300 persons attended. With the addition of eight class-rooms in the new "P.T.A. Wing", half-day sessions for the elementary school ended as full-day classes commenced on February 1st. For some of us, it was good while it lasted!

On January 29th, the Manor team played host to the hapless Eldred Central School Yellow Jackets;

"Livingston Manor, winningest basketball team in Section IX, extended its unbeaten streak to eleven games by trouncing Eldred High, 75-39, Friday night.

"The victory was the eighth in a row over Western Sullivan League rivals by the Manor Wildcats this season and strengthened their grip on first place. Eldred, which hasn't won a league game in two seasons, was no match for Livingston Manor on the Wildcat's court.

The Yellow Jackets suffered a double loss at the hands of Manor when the home teams defeated the jv's and varsity. The Manor quintet opened the varsity contest with a splurge of baskets and foul shots to build a 20 point lead. Manor substituted freely with the second squad but Eldred had difficulty penetrating the Manor defenses.

"Center Rich Robinson, a junior, scored 17 points for the winners."  - Fred

February 11, 1960 - Livingston Manor Times  -  Win 13

The Livingston Manor basketball team pushed their luck on the night of February 5th, 1960, when they traveled to Roscoe to take on the Blue Devils' team in pursuit of their thirteenth consecutive win, and ninth in Western Sullivan League play. Early season predictions, which highly favored the Delaware Valley team to repeat as league champions along with a strong showing by the teams from Livingston Manor and Tri-Valley, had little regard for the quintet from Roscoe. What was not taken into consideration for these predictions, though, was the ability of certain coaches to motivate and inspire their team; especially true for Paul Zintel from the Jeffersonville-Youngsville school and Bruce Lamb of Roscoe.

The Roscoe team relied on the scoring of Stan Klinger, one of the league's leading scorers, as well as Eddie and Tom Bowers. Though they started the season slowly, they had recently run off a consecutive winning streak, before suffering a come-from-behind tough loss to Tri-Valley, just previous to the Manor-Roscoe affair. Coach Lamb's motivational skills were now showing results against the league's better teams. The added factor of the fierce rivalry between the two schools would provide additional motivation for both teams, promising for a heated contest that evening;

"Livingston Manor Wildcats won their 13th straight victory Friday night by downing their traditional foes and arch rival, Roscoe. This was the Wildcats ninth straight league victory against no loses.

"At the end of the first quarter, the score stood 20-18, Manor's favor. Both teams fought hard in the second quarter, matching shot for shot and Manor came out on top, 36-32

The Wildcats broke loose in the third period with 23 points to put them in a comfortable lead, 59-45. At the final buzzer, the score stood 79-68 for another Manor win.

"All Manor players hit double with Robinson highest with 20, Vick 18, Banks 17, DuMond 13 and Foster 10.

Junior Varsity lost their closest game of the season in what proved to be one of the most exciting games played this season. The Roscoe J-V's topped the Manor by one point with the score of 48-47. This puts the Manor JV record at 11 wins against 2 defeats."

The excitement generated by the Junior Varsity contest would be repeated by these same two teams, two years later. - Fred

February 18, 1960 - Livingston Manor Times  -  Win 14

The tunnel bored through the bedrock from the Cannosville to the Roundout reservoirs for the flow of water towards New York City ran a distance of 43.4 miles, locally passing underneath our community from Rockland to Johnston Mountain and on to DeBruce, with shafts located at each of these locations. The local economic boom created by work on this tunnel, and the tunnel before, helped mitigate the job loss created by the decline and eventual demise of the Ontario & Western Railroad after the second World War, but by February of 1960 the project was nearing completion and it was feared that the town would fall into a local, and overdue, economic recession. At the height of construction on the project, 220 men, working in three shifts, were employed at shaft five, the shaft located midway up Johnston Mountain on the Beaverkill Road. This full force of men were employed up to the previous Christmas holidays, but by February only twelve remained at the shaft site, and they were responsible for tearing down the equipment and re-grading and seeding the site's location.

The project's offices at Livingston Manor were also scaled back. For eight years, the Town of Rockland had the luxury of having a small police force, the New York City Board of Water Supply Police, which did general police work for the community. By the middle of February, this seven-man detail was transferred from the Manor offices.

On February 11th, the basketball team from Delaware Valley traveled to the Manor's home court with one last chance for the pre-season favorites to rout the league leading Wildcats;

"Manor's Wildcats downed last year's champions, Callicoon, 76-51, Thursday night for the Wildcat's 14th straight victory of the season. The win clinched at least a tie for the Wildcats with two games left to play, one victory in these two games would give Manor the Western Sullivan League championship.

"The Wildcats didn't wait for anything at the start of the game, breaking loose with 25 points in the first quarter to Callicoon's 11. The second quarter followed closely that of the first with the Manor again outscoring Callicoon 19-13. Manor continued to enlarge their lead in the second half and at the final bell the score stood 76-51 for Manor's favor.

"All of Manor's Varsity played in the game with Vick high scorer with 18, Robinson 16 and Foster 14 points.

"Manor's Junior Varsity scored an upset against Callicoon handing the visiting JVs their first defeat of the season, 41-32. John Hoos was high with 14 points and Rich Welch followed with 13 points for the JVs."

February 25, 1960  -  Livingston Manor Times  -  Win 15

The editors of the Livingston Manor Times usually relied on Manor high school students to relay the goings-on at the school over to the newspaper's presses. When the school district centralized, Bill Wilson, class of '40, became the first to submit articles to the Times concerning the school's sporting events. After graduation, Bill would continue his writing when, during the war, he wrote for the military newspaper when he was stationed with the Air Force in England.

The continuance of these local articles seems to have depended on the success of the school's sporting teams, and the interest of the student doing the writing; the more successful the team, the more front page coverage it received. When the 1959-60 high school basketball team began to chalk up victory after victory, Peter Fisk, a member of the junior class, began to contribute articles to the Times on a regular basis;

"Livingston Manor Wildcats downed the Jeffersonville Trojens 67-57 to win the Western Sullivan Basketball League championship. This is the second time in three years that the title has been won by the Manor.

"With still a game left to play, Manor's record is one of the best in this part of the state. Manor has won a total of fifteen games in a row against no defeats for this basketball season.

"Friday night's game at Jeffersonville was an anxious one. Manor had a poor start, falling behind 13 to 16 in the first quarter. Again, Jeffersonville topped the Wildcats in the second quarter, enlarging their lead by 8 points, 34-26.

"In the third quarter, Manor cut down Jeffersonville's lead to 3 points, 44-47. In the last quarter, Manor pulled together, and played like the team it is, scoring 23 points to Jeffersonville's 12. At the final bell, the score read 67-57, Manor's victory.

"This was one of the hardest games for the Manor being exceeded only by that of the first Callicoon game when the Manor won by two points.

"All five of the Manor's starters hit double figures with Foster high with 18, Robinson 14, Vick 13 and Banks and DuMond 10.

"The Junior Varsity won their game 38-33. Rich Welch was high for the JV's with 13. The Junior Varsity now stands at 13 wins against 2 loses." - Fred

March 3, 1960  -  Livingston Manor Times - Win 16

As each class wound its way through its junior-high and high school years, each were expected to raise enough money that ultimately would pay for the grand prize, the senior class trip, which in those days was always to our nation's capital. This was done by a series of class sponsored fund-raisers such as dances and class plays. When the class was in its junior year, the class' monetary shortcomings were always an issue, so the junior class always sponsored the biggest money-making project the school community offered, operating the concessions for the high school sporting events, with the basketball season being the most profitable.

For the last regular season game of the 1959-60 basketball season, the game against the Narrowsburgh team, the Junior class (class of 61) attempted to do somthing different. After the game, what best could be described as a freak basketball clinic was performed. Heavily advertised by the class, it was to be an exhibition of trick shots and other basketball skills performed by, as what was advertised, the holder of 150 world records on 100 trick shots. The advertising promised it to be exciting.

After the game, the crowd remained seated as Mr. Wilfred Hetzel, self-professed basketball wizzard, stepped onto the court. An elderly man, his agility gone years ago, his spindly arms and legs stuck out of the basketball tank-top and shorts that hung over his emaciated torso, the flesh hanging from his stringy muscles. A moan rose from the crowd. Hetzel proceeded to bounce the basketball in different manners, behind the back, between the legs, in various positions, sitting, kneeling and on his back. The moan from the crowd became a little more restless. Hetzel than proceeded to aim the basketball towards the hoop, frontwards, backwards, bank shots, bouncing shots, again in various positions, sitting, kneeling and on his back. Unfortunately, he made few of the shots and the crowd, as most crowds would be, became impolite, to put it mildly. Those of us with a heart felt sorry for the old man, being the subject of such ridicule, but in the end he was paid his hefty sum from the junior class for the show, and moved onto his next school auditorium. Both Hetzel and the Junior class were the winners that night, along with the high school team;

"Livingston Manor rode to a perfect season Friday night by downing Narrowburgh 83-47. This was the 16th straight win for the Manor.

"Although the Wildcats had won the championship by defeating Jeffersonville the previous week, the Friday night win gave Manor a perfect record for the year. Twelve of the sixteen straight wins were in league play. This is the first team to have a perfect record in the Western Sullivan League since 1952 when Roscoe had a perfect season.

"Between games, two trophies were presented to the team. One of these was for winning the league championship this year and the other, the "Wandering Trophy" which goes to the championship team each year. The first team to win three successive championship keeps this trophy.

"Manor outscored Narrowsburgh in all four quarters taking an early lead of 21 to 14. In the second quarter Manor scored 29 to their opponent's 12. The last two quarters saw the Manor outshoot Narrowsburgh by 17-10 and 16-11.

"Richard Robinson was high for Manor with 22 points. Foster had 19 and Vick 12. All Manor players were in the game and all scored points.

"The Junior Varsity won their game to finish a good season with a 14-2 record. John Hoos was high scorer with 16, VanAkin had 14 and Rich Welch 12."  -  Fred

March 17, 1960  -  Livingston Manor Times  -  Win 17

In March of 1960, the Round Top Television Club, Inc., installed a coaxial television line into the school. For the past year, after joining with the River Street Television Club, the Round Top organization had been converting the system to coaxial cable and work to connect into the homes had now begun. Watching television during this early era was always an adventure, never knowing when the lines, which were in most cases draped from tree to tree coming down through the woods from the antennas, would be crossed or knocked down by limbs, knocking out the television reception.

No need to watch television this March for the Manor basketball team faithful, though, because the Livingston Manor Wildacats were now in the Section 9, Class C tournament, taking their winning streak on the road to compete with schools from Orange County;

"In their final bid for the championship of the Section Nine Class C tournament, the Livingston Manor Wildcats will meet the Tri-Valley Bears Friday night, March 18th, at 8:00 o'clock in the Ellenville gymnasium. The history making Sullivan County champs have polished off a perfect season with a total of 17 games, 12 of them in league play. Tri-Valley's two defeats of the season were both dropped to the Manor.

In their first sectional game Saturday night at Orange County Community College, the Manor cagers edged out Chester High School in overtime, 55-52, in the most exciting game of the year.

Manor led at the end of the first period 9-7. In the second period both teams fought hard for the lead, matching shot for shot and at the end of the half, the Wildcats has a one point jump on Chester, 25-24. The third quarter saw the Manor team open a ten point lead, but Chester closed it to five at the end of the quarter.

"At the start of the last quarter, the Cats were ahead 39-34 and for the first four minutes each team matched shot for shot. Chester scored two baskets to tie the game at 48 all. With a minute and twenty seconds left to play, Chester froze the ball playing for one winning shot. Bill Vick tied up the ball, calling for a jump.

"With the clock showing only one second remaining to play, Chester McGinnis got the ball and swished a jump shot through the net just after the bell had rung. Chester fans, shrieking with delight, thinking they had won the game, rushed out on the floor only to find out that the shot didn't count.

"Tied at 48 points, the game went into overtime. Vick scored a shot for the Manor but it was soon matched by Chester. John DuMond scored a jump shot but again the score was tied on two foul shots for Chester. DuMond drove in for a foul shot and was fouled. With 19 seconds left, DuMond made the first of two shots. Manor got control of the ball and again DuMond was fouled. His two shots gave the Wildcats their victory.

"Berry Foster, who made several long net shots, was high scorer with 19 points. Charlie Banks was second with 13, all of which was scored in the first half of the game. DuMond, who scored 5 points in the overtime, had a total of 11. Vick and Robinson both had trouble with their shooting but played good defensively and scored 11 and 6 points respectively." - Fred

March 24, 1960  -  Livingston Manor Times   -   Win 19

Throughout the winter of 1960, residents of Livingston Manor organized a community group, the Livingston Manor Recreation Club Inc., the purpose of which was to build a swimming pool at the Manor. A fund-raising drive was begun and by March, over half of the final goal of $12,000 was raised. At their March meeting, the Livingston Manor Chamber of Commerce pledged $500 for this drive, but individual members donated another $2,500 out of their own pockets.

Plans for the pool had already been drawn up, and many considered the logical location to be on the premises of the Livingston Manor Central School. The Board of Education agreed with this proposal, and at their regular March meeting allowed the issue of the pool's location to be placed on the May 3rd ballot to get the approval from the district.

Meanwhile, the Livingston Manor Central School basketball teams's drive for the Section Nine, Class C Championship had one more hurdle, against their Western Sullivan League rival, Tri-Valley;

"Last Friday night the Livingston Manor Varsity Basketball team brought their season to a glorious end by taking the title to the Class C Section Nine basketball tournament. As in their previous game with Chester, they left Manor fans limp with fear that they might lose right up to the closing whistle.

"Strong team work showed when the Manor took off scoring early in the game leaving Tri-Valley trailing the rest of the way. A last quarter rally by the Tri-Valley Bears wasn't enough to get them on top, but had the fans filled with worry until the final buzzer. Friday's game gave the Manor their third win over Tri-Valley this season.

"Livingston Manor ended up the best team in four counties with a perfect season record of 19 wins and no losses. The Tri-Valley team lost four games during the 1959-60 season in the Western Sullivan League.

"The Wildcats established a four point lead in the first quarter, finishing with a 14-10 score. At the end of the second quarter play, they had increased their lead to eight points and started the second half with a score of 33-25.

Both teams scored fourteen points in the third quarter and it looked like the Manor might have an easy win. The picture changed, however in the last quarter, when the Bears rallied and started to score, but the Wildcats managed to keep the upper hand to become the champs.

Manor's high scorer was Foster with 18 points, Robinson 10, DuMond 8, Vick 7, Seeley 6, Banks 5 and Eugeni 4." - Fred