Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ROCCO MICHAEL CHIASCONE Special Yonkers I ligh School Class football (3): Class Baseball (3, 4). am not Inin rnough to hr thought n good tftudrnt. Shakespeare- Ticeljth Night. HOW he retains the curves of his swelling figure is something of a mystery. To see him reciting in class with the sweat coursing down his brow like a miniature waterfall, you would imagine that a series of examinations would leave him only the limp ghost of himself. Rut each time he comes up the path smiling, ready to tackle the psychology with the persistence if not the zest of an Aquinas. Not even an enlistment in the Navy could make him anything but himself. And of this we are glad. We like him as he is. And a lean, gaunt Rocco would be almost as inconceivable as a nasty, sour, crabbed Rocco. Me is not built for a vast amount of speed. It is. however, his mania. We have it on reliable authority that he has designs on the laurels of his illustrious fellow countrymen. Ralph De Palma and Dario Resta. He will have much use for all this accumulated knowledge a few years from now. We can picture the frantic voice of a woman in the night, the hurried dressing, the mad ride through the sleet and the arrival to find it was only wind colic the baby had. For he is one of the many in the class who intend to make medicine their profession. This great profusion of doctors among our friends will be an embarrassment in the future; we will hardly know which to call upon when the need arises. But (we put it this way so that no one will be offended) Rocco will not be the last.

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DENIS QUINN BI.AKE A. B. I'oidli.im Prep. Class Medal (2b); Essay. Meda (2. 3) : I he Kam. Correspondence Editor (3); I he Monthly. Asso ciate Editor (3. 4); Debating So r.iety (I. 2. 3, 4); Treasurer (3) President (4); Team (4); Prize De bate (2. 3. 4) ‘Varsity Play (3) I. C. Sodality. ' «- u'its hi Logic great critic I’rofoiiNill7 skilled in aiialutic. But hr—Huilitimx. LIKE his illustrious namesake. St. Dionysius of Athens (or as the French called him. Denis), who disputed on philosophy before the F.mperor Augustus, our Denis is a philosopher with few equals. 1 o hear him in circle hacking the argument of the objector into little bits, is an intellectual treat. This logical power stands him in good stead in debating, where he has achieved remarkable success, winning a place in the prize debate for three successive years, and a position on the team. His work as a writer has also been notable. I lis essays have won prizes. His critical judgments have been listened to with respect. His opposition to sentimentality has made him a dreaded Exchange Editor. With just wrath he tears into the slushy stories and maudlin love poems of his contemporaries, transfixing the quivering authors with his facile pen. It is a strange quality in one who has such a devotion to Terpsichore. But if you don’t offend this aversion of his. or comment unfavorably upon the Irish question (if you do you will have an opponent who is terrible in his knowledge of the facts of that question) and if you have a liking for puns (in the making of which he is so nearly a rival of Thomas Hood that among his intimates they have become known as Blakeisms)—or even if you differ with him on these matters—you will find in him a friend who is to be cherished.

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RAYMOND ASHLEY COLEMAN A. B. St. Peter’s Prep. ST. PETERS COLLEGE (I. 2. 3): Class Treasurer (2): Debating Society (I, 2, 3): College PUy (I. 2. 3); Elocution Contest (3). .Vof t tl mature but matchl .in.” Shakespeare Troilua and Crcssida. WE SAW the delegation from St. Peter's come with misgivings. We saw them go with regret. This youngster was the cause of much of the change of heart. He alone would have more than recon-onciled us to the invasion. Entering the door, he cracked a joke, he took his scat amid a burst of mirth and left the same way. His progress through the year could be marked by the wake of laughter he left behind. For he is a true wit, whose genius did much to lighten the sometimes heavy burden of classroom monotony. His genius for being always correct in matters of dress leads to the suspicion that the writer of What Men will Wear has at least his moral support. It would be a natural and correct inference from all this that he is a social luminary, not only because he is of a gregarious turn, but because society in Greenville, l ordham and way points just can’t get along without him. It is unfortunate that there was no Varsity play this year. If there had been we could speak through knowledge of his acting. Now we have only hearsay to guide us. but even allowing for the exaggeration of rumor, it seems he would have backed all his rivals off the boards. Elocution also was his meat, in fact, there are few things that were not, except possibly football. So it is difficult to prophesy his future. The most probable forecast we have heard gives him his own little Sun Dial or Conning Tower.