Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Brian E. McGunigle President Daniel E. Needham Treasurer Anthony M. Palermo Vice-President Wilburn M. Porter Secretary CLASS COMMITTEE Edward D. Murphy Afk Charles M. Elboim Thomas J. Branca Chairman David E. Stanhewicz Joel A. Getman 21

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To The Class Of 1964 . EHH HHK91 BRIAN McGUNIGLE President PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE For the past four or six years, we have been a part of latin School. Now latin School is a part of us; we must uphold its reputation of excellence and its tradition of greatness. We are proud, not only to be members of the three hundred twenty -ninth graduating class of the oldest secondary school in our nation, but also to have been associated with fine instructors whom we admire and respect, and whose efforts in our behalf we are only beginning to appreciate. At latin School we have learned not only Latin, chemistry and mathematics, but the all-important lessons of integrity, loyalty, and courage. Although this school seemed cold and impersonal to us when we entered we now realize that it has been our guardian and protector. We have matured and are about to face our responsibilities in the adult world. It is now time to leave the shell. Yet we mark today not onlv an end, but a beginning. Our lives have barely begun; our intellectual development is really still to come. We have just started to ask the questions that will determine the course of our lives: Who are we? What are we? Where are we going? You cannot teach a man any- thing, Galileo once said. You can only help him to find it within himself. In essence, all education is a search for that something within oneself, and life itself is a process of educa- tion. Life is a continuous search for identity. Inherent in this search for identity is the enigmatic question of man ' s purpose and destiny. In the words of the late John F. Kennedy, This century could be the greatest in the history of mankind, hut it could also be the last. And thus today we do mark a very real beginning, the beginning of our personal connection with the struggle of all mankind to reach the ultimate and attain the destiny ordained for man by his Maker. The road will be long, the climb arduous, hut man will continue to look upward and reach greater heights. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes magnificent- ly expressed man ' s struggle and destiny in a speech shortly after the turn of the century: I think it not improbable that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace. The other day my dream was pictured to my mind. It was evening, and as I was walking homeward, to the west the sky was aflame with scarlet and crimson from the setting sun. Hut, like the note of downfall in Wagner ' s opera, below the skyline there came from little globes t he pallid discord of the electric lights. And I thought to myself the Gotterdammerung will end, and from those globes clustered like evil eggs will come the new masters of the skj. It is like the time in which we live. But then I remembered the faith that I partly have expressed, faith in a universe not measured by our fears, a universe that has thought and more than thought inside of it, and as I ga ed. after the sunset and above the electric lights there shone the stars. 20

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GLASS CHRONICLE CLASS VI 1958-1959 On September 5. 1958, over seven hundred wide-eyed, apprehensive members of our future Class of 1964 stepped through the doorways of Boston Latin School for the first full day as Latin men. Barraged from the very beginning with long and difficult assignments, we sixies suffered a considerable number of drop-outs the very first week. As the year wore on, however, the determined survivors, per- haps afraid of the now familiar sight of a boy turning in his books, began to develop the study habits, good or bad, that would become routine in the next six years. As busy as we were, we could not help noticing the hectic state of the world, the good news mingled with bad. Hawaii was admitted as the fiftieth state. John Foster Dulles, President Eisenhower ' s right-hand man, only recently retired as Secretary of State, died after a long siege of cancer. South of the border, Fidel, the bearded one. began the program of purges and recrimination that was to lead to the establishment of the first Communist state in the Americas. The rest of the headlines was the usual hodge-podge with unreliable missiles, new crises, and dangerous hot- spots. The assembly hall, meanwhile, saw a lot of use. The Key Club, Social Science Club, and the Debating Society tried to outdo each other with forums on various topics. Walter Kelley received both the Grinnell Scholarship as the outstanding senior and the Thorn McAn gold shoe as the outstanding football player. Ernie Zissis presented Max Levine with an honorary football letter for his sup- port of school athletics. In professional sports, the omnipotent Yankees were taken to the seven game limit by the brave Braves in a thrilling World Series. The Celtics became the world champions by crushing the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games. The Bruins fought their way into Stanley Cup contention, but were turned back by the Canadiens in the finals. On the home front in sports, the football team was the proverbial coach ' s dream with scores in our favor of 6-0 (E.B.). 34-0 (Trade). 18-8 (B.C. High), 58-2 (Dot). 25-19 (Tech), 47-14 (Trade), and 32-0 (B.C. High). The last two games were a little more difficult. Against Tech, the stalwarts trailed 18-6 at one point, but won the thriller 22-18 in the last moment. In the Thanksgiving Day clash with English, the determined Latinites roared back on the arm of Tommy Bilodeau from deficits of 18-0 and 24-6 to win 26-24 in the dying minutes, a fitting end to an unbeaten, untied season. The hockey team placed second in the City League. One consolation was a 4-2 win over Tech that snapped their twenty-one game winning streak. Except for a 3-2 upset by English in the last game, the hard fighting sextet would have captured a share of the championship. A fellow named Pete Treska who would have a lot to do with Latin School hockey in the future made his debut on the ice for the Purple. The basketball team started with a rush, but lost mo- mentum and a chance for the city title in the last game of the season. The team did, however, qualify for the Tech Tourney. The indoor track squad was exceptionally good by Latin School standards and took third place in the Reggies. The fresh-air squad seized third place in the city meet and a creditable berth in the Saint John ' s Relays. Another near and yet so far team was the baseball squad which finished second, a somewhat disappointing showing as the team had many veterans returning. Sports Night Guests: Egan and Marciano Arthur Klein Mr. Fitz 22