Creighton Preparatory School - Jay Junior Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Dedication Bill was already a guard on the varsity football team in his sophomore year. We, the graduating class of 1963, dedicate this edition of the JAY JUNIOR to our deceased classmates, William Pycha and John McDermott. Bill died when he was a sophomore and John when he was a junior. These two boys registered with us as freshmen. They shouted Third Straight State with us as our football team soared to glory - Bill as a team member and John as a true Prepster. They sat through jug and participated in all phases of Prep life with us. We lost two class- mates when these boys died, but we gained two representatives in the court of heaven. Bill Pycha gave all he had to whatever he undertook. In his fresh- man year he merited first honors all four quarters. He was the spark of the freshman football team, a member of the Sodality, and a shot- putter on the frosh track team. In his sophomore year Bill was aguard on the varsity football team with a great athletic andscholastic future ahead of him, Early inthe fall of his second year, Bill became fatally We Have Loved Them in Life WILLIAM PYCHA

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EIUNIGN PREPIIPQTGQY 325435-.L , The library windows command a panoramic view of Old Glory flies over the school daily. West Omaha. Creighton P1'ep...producer of scholars, builder of true Christian gentlemen. .ly '- . x Q. . U '- .rxy H wx -A mr . ,, vw N 1. T1 ll

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We Will Noi Forget Them in Death r JOHN MCDERMOTT John must have been type-cast as the witty advertising man in TWELVE ANGRY MEN. ill with leukemia. He died of that disease at one o'clock Tuesday morning, October 4, 1960. John McDermott also personified Prep spirit., He took pride in his school as his school now takes pride in him. The happy redhead well known for his part in TWELVE ANGRY MEN as a vivacious advertising man, always added a spark of life to his surroundings. John died sudden- ly on December 14, 1961. Our class had sustained a deep loss, St. John Chrysostom once wrote, We have loved him in lifeg let us not forget him in death. We now say, We have loved them in life g we will not forget them in death.