Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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

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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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WILLIAM EDMOND BAXTER, A.B., 102 Lincoln Street, North Easton, was born in that very pleasant little town down in Bristol County on November 17, 1911. He was graduated from the high school in that town and matriculated at Boston College in 1932. Although the daily jaunt from North Easton was a long one. Bill never complained, even when he and his fellow travellers had to stop in Norwood to buy candles to thaw the thick ice from their windshield. He stands 5 feet, 8 inches, weighs 140 pounds, responds to Bill with a smile all over his ruddy face underneath his brown hair, and is full of good-natured exclamations. In high school he was a good outfielder. Now he plays second b ase for the North Easton Town Team and as Buddy Baxter has more than once been a hero, in breaking up or saving a ball-game. In senior he became a member of the Alpine Club, a sociological organization instituted to further the interests of tag football. He is looking forward to a career in business. He is no relation to Dan Baxter, the villain of the famous Rover Boy series. His classmates are willing to testify that his qualities are an emphatic antithesis to those of Dan Baxter. HENRY GEORGE BEAUREGARD, A.B., 48 Harrison Street, Brookline, was born in Worcester on June 17, 1915. He stands 5 feet, 8 2 inches, weighs about 155 pounds. He is descended from Irish, French-Canadian, Scott- ish, English, German, and New England Yankee stock. He was graduated from St. Mary ' s High in Brookline. He was one of the highest rank- ing honor students of our class. He was Editor-in-Chief of the SuB-TuRRi, first Vice-President and then President of the Fulton, a member of the Student Council in Senior, on the Editorial Council of The Stylus for four years, and on the Sodality Advisors Board. In Sophomore, he was Vice-President of the Marquette. For four years he was one of the most prominent debaters in the college. He was an international, intercollegiate prize, and lec- ture debater. As a junior he was the first junior in many years to win the Roberts Medal in the Fulton Prize Debate, the highest debating award Boston College offers and one that caused his name to be inscribed in gold letters on tlie Fulton wall. Mr. O ' Keefe, S.J. Moderator of ihe Fulton, and a Roberts Medallist himself, has described him as one of the best debaters he has ever known. For four years he was active in the Dramatics Society and appeared in four plays. In senior he was one of three representatives sent by tlie college to the National Institute of Public Af- fairs in Washington. In Senior he was a mem- ber of Father Feeney ' s Evidences Guild. 29