Boston College High School - Forbian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THE MERRY MINSTREL MEN With a mixture of Southern tunes, rol- licking jokes, laughing, black-faced end men and a chorus of 40 odd darkies, the first Minstrel Show was presented at B. C. High in 1946. The show ran on the third and fourth of May, making hundreds laugh and applaud. It was a new experience for Father Murphy and Father Tobin as they set to work to select the cast. The elite of senior year were surveyed for those leading roles-the inter- locutor and the end men. However, even after eight seniors and two juniors were chosen, two lucky soph- omores won places as end men. They were George Burke and Barney Shine. With the end men and interloeutor positions estab- lished, a search for talent was started to add more laughs between jokes. It was then that John Di Anni came to the front with his A La Durante - a roaring success. The only non-upperclass- man in the musical Chocolate Chorus was Peter Walsh who gave his all on the melody end. Last, but not forgotten, sitting behind end men, interloeutor, Chocolate Chorus -everything but the back drop, was the entire singing cast with 10 of our fellow classmates sprinkled about. And so the 1946 minstrel show ended to the lively rhythm of Louisiana I-Iayridef' Come on down South, way, way down South were the first bars of the melody that opened B. C. High's second Minstrel Show last year. With that, ten high step- ping end men pranced on stage before the school band and 50 members of the chorus. This year Father Tobin and Mr. Mahler had to find eight new end men and line up specialty acts, an interloeutor and many different songs. The highlight of the 1947 show was The Seawolves and The Original Aquabelles of 1890 with their tintype costumes and bulging muscles. These 14 fellows, as well as ten end men, had been taught tricky steps by the danc- ing teacher, Miss Tobin. Dancers in the Aquabelles were Al Walsh, Dick Fallon, Mike Heffernan, Mat Butler and Pete Keohan. The shining black- faced end men with their southern accents and snappy jokes were completed when Pete Walsh stepped up from the previous Chocolate Chorus, John Di Anni left The Nose behind and Frank Chane joined the ranks. Veterans from the previous year were Shine and Burke with the spirit of the stage deep in their blood. Nine men from '48 sat in the chorus which rendered such bal- lads as Roll You Mississippi, Roll, Zip- a-dee-doo-dah, and closed this smashing success of 1947 with Blue Skies. GliORGli BURKE l 108 l

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FOGTBALL- FRESHMAN YEAR 1944 Our first look at football at B. C. High was a favorable one as the team under the expert coaching of Clem McCann swept through a five-game season undefeated. This season was a shortened one due to games cancelled because of poor weather, and so for this reason we had to share the city championship with South Boston. The sea- son opened when we traveled to Cambridge to take an opening-game victory from Cam- bridge Latin to the tune of 12-0. In our first conference game we defeated our arch- rival English 14-13 in a bitterly fought contest. Then we beat Dorchester, Latin, and Technical in order. Outstanding throughout the whole season were Paul King and jack Casey, both of whom were chosen All-Boston, while Paul King was also named All-Scholastic. SOPHOMORE YEAR 1945 Many veterans greeted a new coach, Fella Cwintoff, in the fall of our second year. This year was destined to be one of the best seasons in the history of the school, as the 1944-1947 team went through a nine-game season with no losses and only one tie. We again took on Cambridge Latin for our opening game, and when the Hnal whistle had sounded, we had won by the lopsided score of 44-7. We then traveled to Lawrence and Port- land, Maine, to beat in turn Lawrence High 27-7, and Cheverus High 14-7. Coming back into Boston we defeated Latin 28-0, and Technical ZS-0. Then in a thrill-packed game English tied us 19-19. We then got back into the win column by beating Com- merce 19-7, and ending the sason with a 20-0 victory over Memorial. Again taking honors for his outstanding playing was Jack Casey who was chosen All-Scholastic by al- most every sportswriter. JUNIOR YEAR 1946 Our third year welcomed still another coach, Dan Weitekamp, our third coach in as many years. The team with only a few veterans from last year's powerful team got off to a poor start, but improved as it went along and won the last three straight. The final record was Hve Wins and five FOOTBALL SQUAD GROUP First row, left to right: D. Gaffney fRf11lI12lgC1'D, E. Donovan, D. Mciioldrick, R. Fallon, ml. Patten G. Foley QCapt.j, R. Kincade, G. Connor, D. Driscoll, E. Pette, QManager. Second row: Coach McLoud, R. Welsh, Valinote, R. Morton, NI. Meany, M. Heffernan, R. Doyle, G. Schultz, J. Montgomery, Cussens, T. Sheehan, Coach Kiley. Third row: R. Noone, C. Carroll, j. Mclienney, Keefe, E. Hunter, L. Sullivan, J. Boyle, xl. Cummings, J. Forty, P. Keohan QManagerj. ii' iw' 51103