Technical High School - Techtonian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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efadfi SETTING: The Main Salon of the Trans-Atlantic Clipper, the newest development in passenger aircraft. The Clipper is in a New York landing station and is soon to start its flight for London, England, a jaunt of six hours. TIME: Six P. M. on a Tuesday in Iune, 1957. CHARACTERS: EDWARD PETIT-U. S. advisory representative to the United European States Conference. LEE PECK-Nominee for governor of New York of the Anti-Graft Party, accompany- ing Mr. Petit. DONALD DELLMORE-Commander of the Clipper. ROBERT SOUTHALL-Noted television engineer. LUCILLE BEARDSLEY THROCKTON-A handsome and prosperous passenger on the Clipper. Other passengers. SCENE: The salon is a large and elegant room where five passengers read or talk while waiting for the takeoff. Two men, Mr. Peck and Mr. Petit, enter, talking. Petit: Lee, it certainly was our misfortune, having to sail today, on the eve of the Tech Alumni Reunion. Peck: Yes, Ed. This is our twentieth anniversary, too, so our lads will take an active part. Even before I left Buffalo, Donald Becker, of the wellknown law firm of Beck- er, Celli and Gates-you remember Serio Celli and Herbert Gates-they are all practicing in Chicago-had arrived to act as chairman of the reception committee. He brought Edward Collier, who has been playing in Chicago, with him. Petit: What is Collier playing now? Peck: Believe it or not, he has toured half the country With Romeo cmd lllliefu Gnd The Humor of Huqettef' They offset one another, you see. Petit: How did he come to play Shakespeare? Peck: Another local boy makes good vio Edwardo l:'ischle's Television Test and Tour --from ham to Hamlet sort of rise. Q Petit: I flew to New York from Palm SprinQ'S with PCIU1 Mecca and his Swish OfCl'1eS- tra, He woe going to the Reunion to volunteer the services of his band. Victor Heppner is ploying with him now, but is retiring to Hawaii, to rest henceforth. COne of the passengers behind them hos been listening and watching. He leans forward to interrupt:l Pardon me, gentlemen, but I thought I heard you mention Buffalo Tech. It was my school so l - Stops in surprise. I Why, it's Eddie and Lee Peck! How are you boys? Petit: Robert Southall! By love, it is a long time since I saw you. Peck: Greetings, fellow Techtonianl Why aren't you at the Reunion? Southall: I was in Buffalo until yesterday with my two partners, Francis Matus and Richard Gall, and I intended to stay for it, but our television interests abroad de- manded attention. I expected, then, to join Samuel Sortisio who has just taken over Standard Oil Company, for this trip, but he is completing another deal with the Achatz, Novits, and Coyle Steamship Lines, so he could not leave now. By the way, Petit, I though I read that you were going abroad with Mark Locey. Petit: Mark left on the plane before this: he is probably at the Conference now and wishing he were in Buffalo at the reunion instead. He has attended an average of fifteen conferences a year for twenty years, as a representative of some- thing or other. Southall: I was just reading an article in this paper about the celebrities who will be present at the reunion. fLooks through the paper.J Listen to this: 'Tonight beneath the roof of the erstwhile Buffalo Technical High School, now the Buffalo Technical Col- lege of Related Sciences, Dean C. Gordon Ryther, Ir., will welcome all former grad-- uates. The Program Committee includes: Dr. Chinn Ming, Director of the Depart- ment of Chemistry: Professor Edward Lipowski, of Modern Art and Design: Profes- sor Iohn I. Reilly, of Structural Design: Dr. Neil Brown, of Electricity, and Professor Iohn Stacey of Aeronautical Engineering. '7ecfzbmbn 1937

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and his progressive nature. We are not surprised, therefore, to find that Rudolph Doc- tore received the Buffalo Evening News all-high golf award for his brilliant playing, and that once again, Captain Paul Hammer was selected as all-high tackle. The high point of the year came with the presentation of the Annual lunior Day Assembly pro- gram. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore was presented under the di- rection of Mr. Carl Munn. Over a third of '37's component parts contributing to its success. Near the close of the third year of '37's sojourn at Tech, an event occurred-the Moving Up ceremony on Senior Class Day. As those who for nearly a year had oc- cupied the center seats in the auditorium went to the platform, Iuniors took their places to enjoy for a few brief moments a foretaste of the privilege which would be theirs by right all through the coming year. This history has now reached the height of September, 1936. Our hero, Class of '37, looks back over three long years to the days when he was hailed as Frosh. He has become a Senior. After a close, hard-fought election, Mark Locey emerged as president: Loren Kerwin, vice-president: Donald Scheu, secretary: Chinn Ming, treas- urer: and Fred Novits, Sergeant-at-Arms. Now events crowd thick and fast, and in many phases of life 1937 wins honor. First, how fares the mature '37 in athletics? Doctor, Geib, Belton and Hereth are but a few of the many Senior sportsmen who represent the interests of Tech in golf- footbal1-basketball-baseball. Second, what has he done socially? How many attend- ed '37's Senior Skate and Dance? This would be too difficult for even the foremost mathematician to figure, so 1 might say: Who didn't attend '37's Senior Skate and Dance? The proceeds from this gala event provide means for the Senior Banquet, which is held later in the year. Third, where does he stand in scholarship? We find 208 to be graduating in Iune. Of these, 27 are in the Advertising Arts Course: 36 in Electrical: 24 in Building Design and Construction: 21 in College Preparatory: 34 in Industrial Chemistry: 14 in Machine Design, and 52 in the General Course. And so breezing into the home stretch, '37 crosses the line to Senior Day, sufficient in itself to bind us inseparably to our Alma Mater in deep love and everlasting loy- alty. EDWARD FISCHLE 7ecfd'anian 1937

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'Many well known graduates are returning for this reunion: among them are Henry P. Vogt, wealthy newspaper owner, who is a research chemist for recreation: his Winchellian columnist and man about Town, Faye Hilbert: his ace reporter and globe trotter, William Devonshire: the sports commentators, joseph Tuczapski and Leo Skrobacz: the Yarvard football coach, Richard D. Kentner: the Olympic swim- mer, Alexander Stefanik: Commander Robert Ertell of West oint, and Admiral Cedio Saltarelli of Annapolis. 'Mr. August Geib and Mr. Dexter P. Ftumsey, who recently took over the Fed- eral Housing Project, to put it on a paying basis, have arrived from Washington. While here, they say they will combine business with pleasure. 'Mr. Peter Newman and Miss Florence Petrino, who have just received the Motion Picture Academy award for their brilliant performance in The Conquest of Mars, have returned to Buffalo for the reunion.' That just gives an idea of the importance of this reunion ffolding paper: stops to scrutinize another gentleman who has entered the room, Commander Dellmorel. Petit falso noticingl: Don-Donald Dellmore! This is a surprise! How are you, old man? Dellmore: Hello, Edl Hello, boys. fCordially shaking hands.l Peck: We can have a reunion right here on board! Dellmore: We may be able to do that. I've been forward ever since we took off, talk- ing to Ray Zier, Kendall Hermans, and Robert Donofrio, the pilots of the Clipper. They tell me Edward Kordinak and Angelo Zaccagnino, who are also pilots, flew to Buffalo for the reunion. Chester Kajdan, the managing director of a coast-to-coast air line, was a passenger bound for the same destination. By the way, another Tech graduate is on this plane, Mrs. Throcton. She was Lucille Beardsley. Do you remember her? Petit: Of course. Where is she? Peck: Here she is now. Southall: Mrs, Throckton-Lucille! Lucille: Well, gentlemen, I thought the Tech reunion was in Buffalo! How are you enjoying the trip? The hostess tells me we are flying over Newfoundland now. Peck: The trip is fine, but we keep recalling old days and old friends, and I fear we are a little envious. Lucille: There are others who long to be there just as much. Lillian DeGraff started just as we did for a non-stop flight through the stratosphere, from New York around the world and back. She hopes to break the record of ten hours. Petit: I heard about that. It was Amelia Earhart twenty years ago, but Lillian DeGraft today. There will not be many girls there to represent our class. Do you know of any others who will be at the reunion? Lucille: August Konefal, the fashion expert. is bringing his gown creator, Evelyn Stein. She will adequately represent the girls, as will Betha Daughtry, who is a kinder- garten authority: Gladys Brown, who married an architect. and Rose Priore, a beau- tician whose name is on all sorts of her preparations. Elizabeth Ioseph has been traveling in Iapan, but she may be there. CAt this point a passenger turns on the radio. Listenll And in the World of sports, Willifm Geary has been chosen football coach of the Buffalo Technical College. He wi be honored tonight at an Alumni Dinner with All-American Michael Smereka, whose basketball coaching has made history. Another notable guest will be Edward Herrle who revised the rules of basketball in America. Mr. Donald Kochersberger. the humorist, will be toastmaster, and Ioseph Gottstein, a notable after-dinner speaker, will address his audience on: 'Ten Years of Changes in Sports' As I leave you now, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, will join the celebration. This is Gordon Lorig, your Sports Commentator. CPassenger changes the program? Peck: We miss an honorary dinner, too. Radio: This program has come to you through the courtesy of the All-American Air Lines owned by Miles Fries and Bene Ehret. CProgram is again changed.l Southall: I remember those two. They graduated with us, didn't they? 7edaZ'omhn 7937