Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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.

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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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JOHN JOSEPH CROSBY A. B. St. Peter’: High School ST. PETERS COLLEGE (I, 2. 3) College Play (3): Debating Society (I, 2, 3); Secretary (2); Elocution Contest. Medal (3): ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (4); Banquet Committee. To thi dauntlfft tempi r of hi mind H hath a wisdom that doth f uidf hi with To art in nafitxi —Shakmpcait—Marbrth. JACK is another member of the Jersey delegation. He was one of the last to take his place in the class. Uncle Sam thinking so much of his services that it was only after considerable deliberation that he consented to let him join us. An entire stranger. Jack soon endeared himself to us all by his sterling character, open mind and zealous work for the welfare of the class. There is one dominating impression which forces itself upon all who come into contact with him—he has the courage of his convictions. We hear that while at St. Peter’s Hank, as they sometimes call him. starred in all branches of collegiate life—in athletics, oratory, dramatics, society and whatever else goes to the making of a regular college. 1 le was the mainstay of the football team in his Sophomore and Junior years, a regular on the baseball and basketball teams, winner of the elocution medal, star actor, with his name in large caps on the program, equally a leader in other things that it would be tedious to mention. It is easy to see how he got the reputation of being lucky, for the event of each of his undertakings was success. Rut to call his success mere luck is detraction. Everything he won was won by work. They will probably call it luck, too, when he successfully transplants arms and legs and docs more than the wonders of Doctor Moreau, but we will know better.