Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Senior Annual, Nineteen Fourteen On May twenty-sixth in the afternoon hours, We shall meet round the table that blushes with flowers, Where with speeches and toasts and stories and rhymes, We shall talk and live over our many good times. Should our board then be graced with your presence, dear Friend, A charm to the hour, a new joy it would lend; And a kindlier welcome ne’er was given, I ween, Than that you’ll receive from the Class of Fourteen. Class Day Officers Salutatorian Poet Historian Prophd Testator Albert J. Geiger Esther M. Fitzgerald Kathleen A. Guerin George A. Kalmbacher Charles W. Napier Frances J. McCarthy Jack T, O’Hara Adeline M. Farrell Kathryn T). Laffir twenty-one

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ROCHESTER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA

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HE Class of Nineteen Fourteen has won laurels in many fields, and in all its work it has endeavored to uphold the standard of the Rochester Catholic High School. The work done by the debating teams is especially praiseworthy. The first great debate entered into seemed to predict a bright future in this line, for, when only Juniors, the class, represented by George Kalmbacher, Thomas Sercu and William Deverell, defeated the Seniors. The resolu¬ tion was in the negative, “Resolved, That immigrants should not be sub¬ jected to a literacy test,’’ and the Juniors proved quite clearly that the literacy test is necessary. In the next debate, “Resolved, That the Philippines should be granted independence before 1921,” the affirmative was supported by Albert Beikirch, Jack O’Hara and Charles Napier, while the negative was de¬ fended by William Miller, Felix Clossey and Albert Geiger. Both sides advanced concise and sound arguments, but the judges declared the nega¬ tive side victorious.