Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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WILLIAM JKROMK SIMONS fair' 40 Avenue I) St. Joseph’s Bill is an industrious fellow—school work and basketball occupying a good share of hi time. In school his work is above the average despite his frequent absences We expect Bill will soon be a court interpreter, his extensive knowledge of Greek. French and Albanian will be helpful to him. HERMAN ANTHONY SOMERS Hoo irr 189 Atlantic Avenue St. Patrick’s School. Buffalo As you would suspect from his picture. Herman is a perfect lover. He has a weakness for girl , especially blondes He is an active member of the Hermit Club, and creates quite an uproar at the meetings by displaying the photograph of his latest victim. We expect to sec Herman take Robert Mantell’s place in the future, as a Shakespearian player Those who have seen him on the stage at the Lyceum tell us that he is very popular with the theater-goer Hooaier is popular with his fellow-students and also with his teachers. because liesides giving considerable time to fun-making, he finds time to study, and always comes out on top. LEO RAYMOND RAl'BKR Drmonihmrs” 758 North Clinton Street St. Michael's A great etymologist, a real orator, a true leader, and a helpful classmate! Rauber is a familiar figure standing before his classmates, with his hand in his coat delivering an oration. But his fame does not stop here, it enters the field of I atin. On the works of Virgil he is an authority of no mean repute. May his progress in the work! of strife be equal to that of his success as a student. seventeen

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HUBERT HENRY OBERL1E8 Hub 704 ? outh Clinton Street St. Boniface Various good traits are concealed within the person of Hubert Obcrlic . As our class president we are destitute of words to praise his sincere efforts and diligence in class work. He is preparing for an engineering course, and is looking forward to the construction of a tunnel under the Atlantic. He is a student of the Spanish tongue, and intends to marry a Spaniard: love with them is so much more romantic, Hubert claims. His entrance to c'ass guarantees us much mirth—h:» chicken laughing is our constant delight: for further particulars on this point see Father Brien. With such a pleasing personality as Hub” possesses, a character higher than Doheny’s, and with his incessant hard study, we assure him a successful life.— Adioe, mi amigo y colega. EDWARD AUGUSTINE MURPHY E r 70 Glasgow Street Immaculate Conception Let us introduce Ed,” our whimsical advocate of wit, humor and aesthetic dancing His gyrations and pirouettes are familiar maneuvers alsHit the school building. He is also somewhat of an aviator, part of his time bring spent in flying in and out (mostly out) of his various classes. It is also rumored that Eddy in regarded as a finished artist in the musical world (?i but despite his activities along educational and musical lines our Adonis is a prominent. figure at the numerous frat” hops. It is a decided treat to see his collegiate brogues tripping the dance floor to the strains of Steamboat Sal.” ARTHUR MICHAEL O’MEARA Art 11211 East Main Street Corpus Christ i No. this tall, dark, handsome youth is no fancy of an imaginative mind, he is a real, flesh in the blood, regular fellow. He is an important factor in all class activities and is in hearty accordance with every plan of the boys. His wanderings in English VI class are a constant source of amusement to his fellow students ami if it weren’t for the guiding influence of a certain English teacher. Art would now Ik fifty miles from nowhere and then some. But despite li’l Art ha’s roamings and an occasional craving for argumentation with his professors, he is recognised as one of the most popular seniors in the class. sixteen

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FRANCIS EDWARD ST. DENIS Saint” Rod Crook, N.Y. St. Mary' An all around good follow and student in Francis. Ilia congenial manner ami keen sense of humor make him appreciated and welcome in any circle. Our plana to make him an understudy of Harold Lloyd were altered when we realized hia ability in the engineering line We have great hopes for Francis as a mechanical genius, and should not be amazed to see him the constructor of the first elevated railway in Rochester. JOHN JOSEPH TANGNEY John” 329 Plymouth Avenue Merriman School. Cincinnati John has impressed us as l eing a person of deep thought and power, a person who possi-sse the abilty to reason intelligently and soundly on vital and difficult problems. It is because of these fluidities that we have sought his prudent advice and counsel on many complicated questions which were beyond our understanding. We feel sure that John’s prudence and wisdom will play the same important part in the world’ affairs as they have in schooj activities and we are confident that they will la the medium of his reaching the goal of Success. LESLIE THOMAS SPIEGEL “ ’’ W)7 Wilkins Street Holy Redeemer Here we have the highly touted, proud possessor of that schoolgirl complexion To make the acquaintance of lx ” is to know the true Palmolive. Rut I Arm' activities are not confined to soap. His taciturn method of learning seems to be a most successful one. His scholastic standing and his court and diamond performance are closely rivaled by his ability a a dancer. He is l ound to be a winner in life as is evidenced by his journalistic prowess maintained in the sport section of one of our prominent dailies throughout the past season. His true character is marred only by the fact that lie trie t ti ll u he doesn't study. Nevertheless, none rank higher in our respect and admiration than lx .” eighteen