Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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COMMERCIAL CLASS 1 CASCHETTA,JOSEPH “Joe” 19 Riley Place Holy Apostles’ School Joe is the senior member of the class. He fulfils that capacity by giving to his classmates the best of example. Were all like Joe there would be but little trouble in the world. Joe is quiet, thoughtful and studious and the best liked fellow in the class. He is a lover of his fellow students and takes a keen interest in their successes or failures. His pleasing personality is sure to bring him success. Good-luck, Joe. CROWLEY, JOHN C. “Cornelius” 82 Cypress Street Immaculate Conception School John from his youth until he entered the Aquinas Institute was educated at Immaculate Conception. John has speed and accuracy in shorthand as well as on the typewriter but he becomes tired of school every so often and comes trooping in about five minutes late. When John grows up he will be one of the prominent men of his parish. John likes baseball as well as other sports but does not make a practice of them and generally thinks of his school work. We wish him success and happiness. DUPLACK. DANIEL E. “Danny” 28 Rauber Street St. Michael’s School A young, lively, amiable, intelligent, religious, as well as industrious, lad is Danny Duplack. He is always down to business or “down to brass tacks.” As his English is Al, Washington Irving will have a competitor whom he cannot surpass. Danny is a proof that it is not the genius but the hard worker who overcomes opposition and gains success. We are sure that in future years he will be one of the outstanding personages in the business world. twenty-one

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THE ARETE was Caedmon, a monk. Specimens of his work, crude, unfinished, barely intelligible to us of modern times, are still extant, and supply an object of much attention and study for scholars. A Catholic, his poems indicate his religion in every line, and form the basis for this refutation of opposing contentions. And a few centuries later, still in the Catholic world, the papal supremacy over old dominions, we find Chaucer, the earliest poet commonly known at the present, another Catholic, and one who propagated and revealed his faith in his every poem and tale, and who openly professed his belief as no man does today. In every era we have outstanding writers, even in the darkest days of Catholicism in the history of England. The Elizabethan age, the Restoration, the Reformation, all disclose famous men of our faith, those men who outshone all their contemporaries in genius and ability. Shakespere—there is a subject for controversy. “Not a Catholic,” you say. “Prove it,” is the reply, and the task, for it is that, immediately looms up enormous and impossible. The great dramatist had every opportunity to display preference for the Protestant faith. He had every inducement to evidence an antipathy and disrespect for Catholicism. Increased popularity would have acclaimed any sentiments malignant to Catholics and their Church or laudatory to Protestantism. Every logical movement favored his expression of non-Catholic beliefs, and yet the man contented himself with a perfunctory mention of the established Church, and a potent respect for our own. Shakespere, in his innermost convictions, was actuated by Catholic tendencies, and his superb works may be partially attributed, if the motivation be sought, to those very same tendencies, for the facile imagination, the unfailing inspiration, and the other qualities in which he was unusually talented. But nowr Milton claims our attention. The most talented, cultured, learned, poet of the English language he was, incontrovertably, but in more human and personal characteristics he was sadly deficient. As to versification, facility of diction, readiness and perfection of beauty and poetical thought in his verse, undoubtedly he occupies a premier place in our attention; in fact, his literary talent and its corresponding subordinate abilities in every type of literary production must not be sullied by my humble and inadequate pen. But consider Milton the man. An ardent and obdurate advocate of divorce, absolutely devoid of basic Christian ideals and human sympathies. Cold, shrewd, calculating, in personality, (continued on ixige 108) O God, Who hast commanded us to honor our parents, in Thy clemency have Mercy upon the soul of his mother, Margaret: pardon her sins and grant that her son may one day be re-united to her in a bright and joyful eternity. The faculty join the alumni and undergraduates in extending to our Bishop sincere sympathy in the loss of his mother. twenty

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THE A It E T E GODF ' FRANK “Curly GAVIGAN, JAMES “Jimmie 7 Post Avenue St. Augustine's School Our Jimmie has won the hearts of his companions by his amiable qualities of character, his generosity and his readiness to take part in everything that tends to advance the interests of the school. He is very active in every line of athletics and labors hard to keep up with his class. Never morose and sad but always seeing the bright and humorous side of life are his chief charac-tistics. No doubt he will make a good business man. 239 Herald Street St. Stanislaus School Frank, a rather good-looking fellow, is regarded by his fellow students as a second Paavo Nurmi when it comes to shorthand and typewriting. He is quiet and is always absorbed in his studies and school work. He is well liked by his classmates and is the bosom pal of Skipper Schirmer. If good wishes come true, Frank will some day be one of the country’s leading lights. IRELAND, WILLIAM “Bill 116 York Street St. Augustine’s School Our friend is one of the best looking fellows in the class. He has exercised great influence for good upon us and always helped us in life’s darkest moments. He is a promising fellow and we have no doubt that he will do creditable work in the business world. KUEBFT. EDWARD “Cueball” Forest Lawn St. Salome’s School Cueball hails from the depths of the country. He is a finished product of the educational system of the school ft Sea Breeze. We are told by “Doomy” White that ” ashington Irving got his idea of Rip Van Winkle from the appealance and attitude of Cueball. He is, however, conscientious about his work and takes a deep interest in the Sketch Book. We all hope he makes a success of his work and life. twenty-two