Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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EARL ERNEST AVERY, Ph.B., lives at 12 Green Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Plym- outh, New Hampshire, has long been noted for its extensive self-advertising. When Earl first saw daylight there on May 22, 1913, he received the usual birth notice. Some seventeen years later Pat had become the local high-school leader. For Pat led everything from the High School Orchestra to the best football squad Plymouth has seen. St. Anselm ' s Prep, welcomed this all-state half back following his graduation. At St. Anselm ' s Pat met Ted Galligan and Tim Ready. They prevailed on Pat to come to the Hub city ' s Boston College. Joe McKenney, saw a great prospect in Earl ' s one hundred and eighty-seven pounds nicely propor- tioned to a height of 5 feet, 10 inches. Jovial Joe ' s prophecy proved to be exactly correct; for Pat has not only made a reputation for himself on the gridiron, but also for others with his fine blocking. He plans to coach and teach after graduation. He says the greatest thrill in his youthful career was the position he held as high-flying Eagle on the afternoon of October 19, 1935. Final score, B. C. 18, Mich. State, 6, and he has yet another facility. Mrs. Avery ' s boy is another Rudy Vallee; he plays a saxophone and croons. We don ' t know whether Pat will ever follow this musical career as Vallee did. We don ' t have to wish Pat good fortune, he has, and can take care of himself. DAVID BENEDICT BAILEY, A.B., 34 Berk- eley Avenue, Lowell, was born August 29, 1914 in Lowell. He entered Lowell High School, spent four years there, playing tennis and bang- ing tunes out of the old piano in unison with the school orchestra. A few months after he re- ceived his diploma, he decided to get a Boston College degree. Here, like his fellow Lowellite, Vin Mahoney, he has played varsity tennis for three years, but has confined his piano playing to the city limits of Lowell. In Junior he entered the Pre-medical course, has thrived on its varied menu of four o ' clock guinea pig ever since. For the past two years he has also given his time to the Programs of the Catholic Action Council. Naturally Dave enjoys watching a red hot tennis match, and oc- casionally he gives Lowell natives an idea of his terpsichorean achievements. During any time that he happens to be left unoccupied, Dave will turn on the radio and keep time to some smootli orchestra, like Casa Loma or Wayne King ' s. After countless warnings that the Boston Col- lege Pre-medical course is positively mild when compared with Medical School, Dave is still firm in his intention to bring an M.D. back to Lowell in four or possibly three years. Wlien he at- tains this ambition and takes the Oath of Hip- pocrates, Dave promises to send down many more Lowell lads to swing Boston College rackets. 27

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JOHN MATTHEW AHEARN, A.B., 39 Webster Street, Arlington, was born on November 25, 1913, in Somerville. John soon moved to the town of Arlington. For four years he found James Street Prep an admirable place to study the wanderings of Ulysses and the adventures of Aeneas. His speed and flash made him an efficient and capable ice performer and he was a regular member of the Eaglet squad for three years. When the Spring grass turned green then Red smote a little white pellet around the turf for the golf team. When thoughts of college came to John, his eyes turned towards Newton and he discovered that Boston College was sit- uated in a place that was conducive both to study and play. The lure of the ice came again and he was a varsity performer in freshman and sophomore years. Irksome and tedious as were the duties of beadle Red carried them out with ability and dexterity. It was Mr. Ahearn this or Mr. Ahearn that and always with a smile he carried on. At the football games he was cheer leader and was always an inspiration to his class-mates, urging them on to cheer for Alma Mater. The wonderland they call New York City appealed to him in 1933 and he mentions that trip as the most memorable incident passed in college years. The future will find this sincere Arlington lad an asset in the ledger of life and the journal of the accounting world. PETER ANDREW ALUKONIS, A.B., 57 Carey Avenue, Chelsea, was born in Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, on July 4, 1910. He graduated from the Chelsea High School, where he was head cashier of soinething. He is a well-set, well- developed person with blonde hair and peaceful blue eyes. He firmly believes in the maxim ' ' Mens sail in corpore sano, and lives up to it with all his 200 pounds and 5 feet, 11% inches. He is proud of his Lithuanian ancestors who were Crusaders, leaders of their community in the old country, and always ready and eager to fight, drink, eat or work. He is a good friend, and an unassuming fellow. He became Presi- dent of the Law Academy and Business Manager of the Playshop. The Dramatics Academy also numbered him as a member. For a while he was a trackman. He will remember his trip to Dartmouth, the Junior Prom, the Michigan State game, and philosophy with Father Low. He admires the beauty God has created in the world, in nature. He dances, plays football, likes to do interior decorating, is interested enough in the drama to try his hand at playwriting, reads in a desultory fashion, and loves children. Golf also interests him. He is fascinated by his fellow-men, dislikes hypocrisy and inconsistency when he sees it, and admires honesty and good-fellowship. He makes it a careful practice to count fifty when he feels himself getting angry. He says he wants a happy and successful life here on earth and in the life to come. 26

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WALTER LEON BANKS, A.B., 12 Cottage Street, Lowell, was born February 16, 1914, in Lowell. He went to Keith Academy, studied, managed the football and the baseball teams. When he found that a squadron of Lowell lads was marching to the Heights, he fell in line, en- rolled with the Class of 1936. Despite the hours he spent in transporting himself to and from the country, he managed to find time to take part in quite a few activities. He attended the Sod- ality for four years; in Sophomore, he startled fellow Lowell-ites by winning races for the Track Team. The following year he began a series of vocal recitals, together with fifty other members of the loud sounding Glee Club. His success as a virtuoso caused him to join The Heights Staff, in order that he might censor and enlarge Glee Club articles; to take care of the fiscal side of the concert business he joined the Economics Academy. After singing a difficult aria, Walter sits down and completes three or five crossword puzzles; if the audience is exceptionally friendly he will test a pun or two on one of its more gullible members. He recalls vividly his tour to Man- hattan with the Glee Club and his trip to Boston to attend the Junior Promenade. Walter has promised that he will give up yodelling after graduation, will follow the money mart instead. After a year at Boston University Business School he will go back to Lowell and open the chain of Banks ' National Banks. WILLIAM LEO BARRY, A.B., 17 Huckins Street, Roxbury, was born April 26, 1914, in Roxbury. At the conclusion of his grammar school days, he entered Boston College High School. During his undergraduate days at the High School he debated on ponderous questions, then graduated and entered Boston College. He ran around the cinder track for a year or two, but finally decided that he would spend his time on the rifle range. Bill also joined the Von Pastor History Academy and occasionally traced the course of past events for college historians. In Sophomore and again in Senior he left Boston and travelled over to the Polo Grounds to watch Boston College play Fordham. Bill ' s greatest thrill as a B. C. man came when the Eagles trounced Michigan State. He enjoys an argu- ment between Jonsey and Billy Frazier in the Rotunda, he does not enjoy the yowling of grand- stand quarterbacks or the post-mortems pro- nounced over examinations. Bill has shown his keen literary sense, by spending many hours as a librarian, and delving over the countless tomes in the book stacks. When Bill receives his Bachelor of Arts degree he will not leave the Heights; instead he will con- tinue his courses a year or two and receive his Master ' s degree. After this Bill thinks he will give up his job as a librarian and devote his time to teaching youngsters how to debate, how to study history and why they should all go to Boston College, and possibly why they should go to Boston College High. 28