Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Senior Annual. Nineteen Fourteen was with her, the very “Puss” we knew at school. Her education is also benefiting her, as she has the reputation of being a very clever business woman. I learned from these girls that both Mary Collins and Kathleen Guerin have entered the order of the Sisters of St. Joseph and at present are teaching in the high school. Josephine Norman is the only one among us who has entered into the matrimonial state. She is the wife of Richard Ryan, the celebrated author. She herself has written several good books. The search so far had been quite successful, but still I had not accounted for all the members of the class. I was just beginning to feel a little disappointed, when I heard this startling exclamation, “Why, Ger¬ trude, I hardly knew you, you’ve grown so tall!” And there to my amaze¬ ment stood William Shea. He gave me a great deal of information I must say. lie, himself, has been in Chicago for the past three years employed as advertising manager for the “Chicago Tribune,” while Felix Clossey is its editor. Both Leo Fleckenstein and George Weltzer are in Cleveland. They are in partnership and are the proprietors of a large manufacturing plant. All the boys, William said, had had great suc¬ cess and he pointed out Francis McMahon, State Commissioner of Edu¬ cation, as an example. Our conversation was interrupted by the appearance of Norbert Wat- tel. He has changed a great deal since we left school but not for the worse. Norbert had quite a time getting away to attend the reunion. He is employed as a real estate man and does a thriving business. Eugene Calahan sauntered by while we were conversing, and we shortly stopped his further progress by demanding that he give an account of his worldly career. In the briefest possible way, he conceded to our demands—“Grad¬ uated from the Buffalo Dental College in 1917; came to Rochester and have been practicing here ever since; doing a pretty good business.” Of course we all laughed at the brevity of his answer. All further conver¬ sation was cut short by the midnight strokes of the great hall clock, which acted as the signal for our dispersion. All hurried off to the waiting taxis and so ended that eventful night. Now, dear friend, I trust I have not bored you with the recital of all these happenings, but hope they have been of as much interest to you as to me. I will expect to hear from you very soon and wish to know all about your rovings in the Old World. Your loving classmate of Auld Lang Syne, Gertrude A. Fleming. I folded the letter with a sigh, but it was a sigh of content. It was indeed a great pleasure to me to hear such wonderful news of the Class of 1914. Fate had certainly been kind to us all. It seemed that no one had let opportunity slip by unheeded, but had listened to her counsel and followed her advice. Our success, we owed to our dear Alma Mater. A hundred thoughts of home and of my schoolmates of old surged through my mind that whole evening and I only hoped that the same kind Providence that had watched over us in the past and had given us so many temporal and worldly blessings would guide us ever onward to eternal spiritual success—the possession of the Kingdom of God. seventeen

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Senior Annual, Nineteen Fourteen Editorial Staff The “ Student ” Board Editor-In-Chief - - THOMAS SERCU Assistant Editor - - ALBERT GEIGER Managing Editor - - WILLIAM DEVERELL yJssistant Managing Editor - FELIX CLOSSEY Associate Editor - GEORGE KALMBACHER Associate Editor - - GEORGE WELTZER Athletic Editor - - - JACK O’HARA Athletic Edit or - - ALBERT BEIKIRCH Exchange Editor - - CHARLES NAPIER Exchange Editor - SYLVESTER CRONIN Advertising Manager - WILLIAM SHEA Advertising Mianager - - FRED SWEET The l Senior Annual” Board Editor-in-Chief THOMAS SERCU Associate Editors ALBERT GEIGER JACK O’HARA GEORGE KALMBACHER CHARLES NAPIER Managing Editor WILLIAM DEVERELL A doertising Manager WILLIAM SHEA nineteen