Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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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

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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 MffiBfflasmmmasasg, McGuire. eh win Mar 207 Berkley Street Blessed Sacrament School Here is the peer of Galileo, the outstanding chemist in MBHp 1HHH local scientific circles. He is a genius disguising graM « . pennies as worthier coins, and much in demand as a ' BKm result of this discovery of the epoch. Mac has a per- Ly verted sense of humor; he delights in torturing with flPPjpjjplE ' HH the most appalling odors the delinquents who are some- HHHRT jHH| times imprisoned in the lah. Mac will take his place with the immortals if he does not blow himself up too lie also demon selling rings, stationery. Mac is the chap who gave Vermont the title WBSBm of the nutmeg state by selling some wooden nutmegs J the re during the Christmas vacation. He recently con- tided that he is Working oil a hair restorer for the bald members of the faculty as a tribute to their labors in behalf of our class. MITCHELL, LOUIS J. “Louis 207 Hollenbeck Street Prepared: Perpetual Help School Behold him, everybody—the little giant of the class. As a student and a gentleman he is a great local favorite. His fiery orations fill our timid hearts with terror. The propositions of Euclid are “open sesames” for his master mind. He has pursued the wanderings of Aeneas with “unperturbed pace” (?), and logarithms are to him what crossword puzzles are to the rest of us. It is unfortunate that Louis is so hampered by his studies. He would delight in taking Bill Tilden’s title away from him if he only had the time—Louis is a zealot at tennis, you know. A student of his caliber must spread the fame of Aquinas when he matriculates somewhere. NEIROCKER, FRANCIS “Frank 150 Warwick Avenue Prepared: Saint Augustine’s School In January Frank left us, after stupefying the local academy of arts and science with his mark in chemistry, which was the fruit of his Trojan labors in the lab. Of course, we envy his mark, but Frank’s capacity for work we regard as a dubious blessing. Frank was born to be a second Beatrice Fairfax or Socrates or something. The way he solved our questions and corrected our errors would be an inspiration for a mah jongg or bridge instructor. What is a hyperpolydemisaturated solution, Frank? But here’s one we know ourselves— Atom: This attempt of ours to summarize Frank’s character in a paragraph O’REILLY. JOHN “Johnnie 61 Pearl Street Prepared: Saint Mary’s School When you see a chap with a wide and ineradicable smile, who greets everyone with a genial, chuckling “Hello thar,” you are looking at this Aquinas celebrity, Johnnie. The editor of the Arete hereby offers the sum of three dollars to anyone who can catch Johnnie without his smile. Johnnie has contributed to the reputation of the C. Y. M. A. as a lively organization by his activities there. Johnnie dribbles through the arts and science just as he dribbles through the opposition on the court. He has been the butt of many gibes about his avocation (witness the famed pugilistic haircut), for we cannot picture him deliberately, and in cold blood, actually hitting anybody! sixteen