Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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THE ARETE GRIFFIN, ALBERT 59 Cameron Street “Bud Prepared: Holy Apostles’ School Well, fellows, here is the Aquinas experl on Chemistry. When everybody is at a loss for an answer, “Bud” comes to our rescue. He excels especially in the scientific methods of painlessly extracting a smoke from one’s pocket humidor. “Bud” is also an authority on formulas. All of them are at his command whether it be for the latest bootleg, dynamite or an absence excuse. Without a doubt he will occupy a chair at Harvard in chemistry. Though a chemical wizard, he avers that some of his classes are a sure cure for insomnia. GUNDELL, EDWARD “Ed 49 Dove Street Prepared: Holy Rosary School Here is Charley Coyle’s partner in wickedness. Few fellows about school enjoy greater popularity than Ed. Ed captained our baseball team through a successful season last year. Besides being our own peppy allscholastic short-stop, he is a regular dinosaur on the gridiron. Perhaps we may attribute Ed’s carefree and happy-go-lucky disposition to his habit of risking his neck in football. If they do not squash his brains some day on the grid, Ed will add his bit to the reputation of Aquinas with the dash and pep that has characterized his activities among us. HULDER, ERNEST ANTONY “Ernie 1114 East Main Street Prepared: Corpus Christi School Enter Ernie of the genial smile, only competitor of Samuel Johnson, savant, linguistic wizard and votary of the abstruse poets. Ernie plus some of the elite of the school (the rest of the senior class) is a combination that cannot fail to dispel gloom. At the daily event of the parade up State Street at 2:30, Ernie will enlighten us on anything from the trials of the French Class to Schiller or Rabelais. Ernie has a terrifying zest for oral English, delivering, when the occasion demands, a pyrotechnical, machine-gun oration that almost paralyzes us. One of his delights is the American History ('lass, where Father Brien’s soothing voice daily wafts Ernie to the Elysian fields. By his studious attempts to imitate the wailing sax, Ernie well merits the title of “the Walking Saxaphone.” LALONDE, ELMER “Duke 277 Lake View Park Prepared: Holy Rosary School Hail to the disperser of gloom—Duke Lalonde! Duke is a regular hail-fellow-well-met type of individual. On fine, balmy, spring days, Duke sits in his seat gazing dreamily out of the window and his mind many miles away from the school room. Studies become a secondary matter with him. We have a suspicion that Duke has a great desire to travel. He is also quite a conversationalist and his complicated discourses usually tend to bewilder rather than enlighten. This is also his chief mission in the Chemistry Class. He has found the philosopher’s stone and the fourth dimension, and is now working on the fifth. The “Duke Lalonde Lunar System” will be a feature of the coming epoch. fourteen

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THE ARETE DOYLE, EDWARD P. “Ted” 218 Dartmouth Street Prepared: Blessed Sacrament School DANIEL WEBSTER’S ONLY RIVAL Ted’s admirers in the school are as unlimited as his interests. While exhausting the classical lore found in our curriculum he easily conquered the languages of this modern world. Although a noted scholar he maintains a placid indifference toward studies. Ted does not confine his noteworthy achievements to the school room. Famous high school players will tell you how much they feared the abilities of our center. Animated after dinner discusions in Weber’s find him at one end of a lively conversation. To him the boys hie with questions varying from athletics to the modern drama and he can sympathize and criticize with every one. The school that enrolls E. P. Doyle among its members will find him an active, competitive scholar and gentleman. GABEL, JOHN “Jack” 307 West High Terrace Prepared: Holy Apostles’ School Jack is an ardent supporter of school activities. He was voted by some of the basketball fans to be a charming usher. Guess who they were? Not even the occasional debates that Jack has with the Spanish teacher can dampen his optimistic outlook on life. He was reported as a whiz of a skater on the Genesee Valley Park rink last winter. Jack is in the first rank as a supporter of our morale and good humor, for he would rather listen to a joke than do an American History lesson. Jack talks with the cool drawl that always assures a pungency of remark. He will make a big hit after he has left our school, too. GIANNI, ANTHONY MYRON “Chic” 437 Smith Street Prepared: Cathedral Grammar School “Chic” is well known around school, especially because of his ever recurring smile. He can always see the laughable side of any topic and his little witticisms are never left unappreciated by those around him. Quite justly he is considered a wit around the whole school. Every morning “Chic” walks in just as the 8:50 bell is ringing. It looks as if he had made an agreement with Mr. Ryan for that purpose. Don’t think from this that he is always very close to the limit, for he is not. No teacher has yet been able to catch him napping in class. Some malefactor once started a rumor that Chic studied, but he is making great effort to live it down. GOELTZ, PHILIP “Phil” 36 Lawrence Street Prepared: Saint Peter and Paul’s School Phil in a pensive mood would make that great work of art known as “The Thinker” look like a playful schoolboy. Throughout his high-school course Phil has worked until, now. he is reaping his just rewards. Alertness and intelligence are his main foundations upon which he may build his future. As a master of the violin, he is without peer, barring everyone. Regardless of his talent he is unassuming, and many of his achievements have yet to be discovered. We are sure, for instance, that Phil’s playing would tame the wild beasts—providing, of course, that the beasts were not too wild. thirteen

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THE ARETE LINTZ, EDWARD JOHN “Eddie 51 Tacoma Street Prepared: Holy Rosary School Throughout the annals of the school, there has been no more fervent supporter of school events or sports than Eddie. He is always ready to lend a helping hand, wherever it is needed. His success as treasurer of the Senior Class shows that he is capable of handling things—especially money. He is a student of the Classics, and someday he hopes to be a second Virgil or Cicero. In his studies, he ranks second to none, for despite the fact that he persistently claims that he never studies, his class standing shows otherwise. He has only one notable failure on his record—that which resulted from his efforts to enlist the fellows’ aid in putting up the bleachers. MAIER, LLEWELLYN “Lee 11 Jewel Street Prepared: Perpetual Help School Lee’s conspicuous knowledge in Latin and English literature has amazed the whole school. Besides being an intellectual and a benevolent book-worm, he is a prominent supporter of athletics and vacations. The way Lee tears off a History assignment is positively weird. His standings show what fruit his application has brought him. No undertaking seems too difficult in his eyes. Lee is a scribe of recognized quality, having wTitten on philosophy and other frivolous topics for the Arete. It is an inspiration to watch Lee engaged in a task, and from observation wfe can predict that some day this city will be famous as his birthplace. MALLEY, JOHN D. “Jack 507 Chili Avenue Prepared: Cathedral Grammar School Jack is a true scholar and as a dignified senior he is the last word, but the above portrait would be more familiar if his overdeveloped brogans could be included. He has a great flair for physics. Jack does not spend his time sighing for new worlds to conquer; he has turned his master intellect to photography. This book testifies to his success in that line. Jack would be a big man in any country, and that does not cover just his physical altitude. Jack is one of the leading lights of the senior class, even if he has never been “lit up.” Jack is a mainstay of the best decisions in our class meetings, and as a leader he should put Daniel Webster and Clinton N. Howard in the shade. MARTIN, CHARLES “Charlie 144 Otis Street Prepared: Holy Apostles’ School Charlie has been prominent in every activity of the school. His versatility is infinite; it has enabled him to devote his attention, with uniformly successful results, to practically everything of scholastic, athletic and social interest which occupies a noteworthy place among us. He is possessed of a dry and profound humor wrhich transcends all else in the school; his ability to instantly grasp and dominate any situation is an indication of unusual resourcefulness and great power of personality, and his spontaneous smile is the mirror of the disposition that has made him famous as our class president. fifteen