Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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

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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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WILLIAM VITO BELLANTONIO, A.B., 16 Fayette Street, Milford, was born November 5, 1914, in that town. He was graduated from the Milford High School where he was president of his class for four years, a member of the dramatics society, a basketball, football, and baseball player. As a pitcher he was one of the best in Massachusetts interscholastic competi- tion. In one All-Scholastic game at Fenway Park he so impressed sub-sports reporter Dalton that the latter instantly recognized him some years later when they met for the next time in Father Mulligan ' s class. He stands 5 feet, 7 inches, weighs 160 pounds. He is short and stocky with brown eyes and dark brown hair. He says that his Italian ancestors were the first to discover that the tower of Pisa was really leaning. When he smiles, his eyes crinkle. When he laughs, he laughs vigorously and pleasantly. He has an especially appreciative way of look- ing at a talkative classmate, and a shrewd abil- ity at formulating judgments. He plays a good game of table tennis, is a masterful interior decorator, and studies so easily that he considers it a hobby. He likes the opera, poetry, novels, and the comic strips. At Boston College he was a member of the Baseball squad in Freshman, a member of the History and French Societies in Sophomore. Through storms, skids, floods, and accidents his car was the bus and he was the driver of Milford students. He intends to go to graduate school. EDWARD JOHN BERRA, A.B., 33 Porter Street, Somerville, was born New Year ' s Day, 1914 in Piedmont, Italy. After discovering that Boston College was in America, and that one could hardly commute daily between University Heights and Piedmont, Ed caught the first liner to the United States. He went to Somerville High School, studied hard, received his diploma and enrolled as a Boston Collegian in September, 1932. He joined Father Quinn ' s Sodality, became an ac- tive member of the English Academy and found that his knowledge of Italian arts and culture enhanced the Dante Academy. As a Catholic Actioneer in Junior, he filed the names of past, present and future Boston College boys. To relax from the cares of filing and studying, Ed will sit down to a piano, go through the in- tricate operatic crescendos of Verdi, the Pied- montese composer. However he aspires to no such career as Verdi, but will instruct future generations in the art of speaking English cor- rectly. With this idea in mind, Ed has ran- sacked all libraries at the Heights and Somerville in his search for good books. Every student of English hopes to gaze at his own work on the printed page. Ed will finally attain this ambi- tion when he gazes at a few of the Sub Turri pages. When a Bachelor of Arts he will go to graduate school, become a Master of English. Then he will look around for a Chair of Eng- lish and settle down to the difficult task of teach- ing English to Americans. 30