Brooklyn Preparatory - Blue Book Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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I l X i ll ' 'A 1 'Val u ' V s I HHN a Freshman first enters Prep he is usually overpowered by the austerity of the building, and the unfamiliar faces about him. For the first day or two of his career he has a lost feeling in the pit of his stomach. Then he begins to thaw outg the bewildered feeling disappears. Here lies the real advantage of a small school over a large oneg the atmos- phere is much friendlier. It is easier to become acquainted. The Fresh- man drops in at Otto,s, or he joins a Debating society, or he plays intramural sports, or he meets other fellows on his way to school, and in this way he begins to feel at home, to feel that he is part of the Prep, not just somebody who attends classes there. He finds that his teachers are a fine, good- humored lot of men with a friendly and personal interest in him and his classmates. Multiply the individual case and we have what amounts prac- tically to an entire student body which looks upon Prep not as a Tower of Boredom but as a school which it is proud of and proud to support. We have, in other words, what is called school spirit, which is known locally as Prep Spirit . AFTERNOON IN OTTOS HESSION AND HIS HEP-CATS

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F0 YEAA YVITII T is late lfternoon of a clear Spring day The cor- udors of the Prep are deserted, the settmg sun ms sendmg lts rays through the wmdovx s ln long shafts of lxght We quxetly close our locker, and slovx ly, thought fully , we vs alk over to the xx lndovt s Before us stands the famxllar scene the tennls courts, St Ignatlus Church, and beyond Izbbet s Fneld, and the apartment houses of Crown Helghts Yes, the same famlhar scene and vet today 1t seems different to our eyes, beeause we reahze that for many of us xt wnll probablv be the last tnme that we wnll vxew xt In a fevx days we wxll hold our dlplomas nn our hands, and Brooklyn Prep wlll have passed, for some of us at least, mto the golden realm of memory As we let our mxnd travel back over four years of yoys and hardshlps, smiles and troubles, lf seems only yesterday that we entered these very halls as bewildered Freshmen A smlle creeps over our face as we recall our first days at the Prep The buxldmg seemed a labyrmth of mtermmable corrxdors, endless staxrs, and countless classrooms Hordes of upper classmen, bug bearded fellows, swarmed about us, eyemg us wxth amused glances And our first slght of DOoges Latm Grammar' How on earth dld we ever learn those forms? And yet, somehow, we dxd Strange faces became strong frxends, understandmg teachers held out guxdmg hands to help us over the hurdles Day followed day and we settled mto the routnne of lnfe at Prep Approaehmg exams, burnmg of the mud night oil passing, new terms, new faees, nevx teachers and then we beeame Sophomores, men of the I rep Caesar led his armies through Gaul, and us through a maze of headaehes, untll vxe made the acqualntance of those Royal Roads to Knovx ledge the books xx nth the hne prlnt between the lmes Then third year xxe strlxe to master the lm gulge of lNlpoleon md of the ellte md xxe learn th It splttexlng sulphurne lend ean h lxe 1 rulnous effeet on elothes And then xx e eome mto the home streteh xx 1th xllglltC.lllI1g us Arma x xrumque emo md the songs of Homer fnllmg on our Ll s from the reaches of the mlstx past 26f1+ Pondering our long struggle after the goal has been attalned xx e realxze that xt xx as after all, xx ell vxorth the effort, consndermg our tralmng m the past four Vears, the change nn our mental make up from Freshman to Semor and the broad cultural background we haxe recexxed as a foundation for future studles, we under stand the value of a classxcal educatlon, lookmg back on our spmtual tranmng and the wonderful 1nfluence and example of our Chrxstlan teachers, we realnze the value of a Cathohc educatuon, and xn our hearts, we are xery grateful As we fondly recall the memorxes that we wall take wxth us when we leave the Prep, and as we gratefully revnew the blessmgs and beneflts that our educatlon at the Prep has bestowed on us, we thunk, wnthout boastmg or concert, that we, too, nn return may be crednted wnth haxnng done some good for the school with havnng benefited or 1mproved It nn some httle wav Not that we have done any more than prevnous classes, not that we lav claxm to any extraordmary accompllshments But xt seems evident that every class that passes through the Prep does leave lf just a lnttle better than when they found xt, enther strengthen mg nts reputatxon for scholarshlp, or gentlemanlmess, or athletnc prowess, or 1n some other xx ay contrxbutmg to the good name of the school Xthletes, scholars, debaters, yes, xx e can boast of them We ean talk of a real leader un Duck Hlckey, xx ho evmced to debatlng through four years of leadershlp at the Prep XX e ean polnt Wlfl'l prnde to Captam Ed Ahrens, of the football team, or George Tntus, or Ed Spaeth, or anx of the other members of that squad, xxe can praise the dnmonel exploxts of Mlke Santlmauro vxho could really xx leld the xxxlloxx We eln elte blond Bobbx lvlullens, an All Scholastnc eourtm ln, or Andy Iaxx renee xx ho xx on equll fame on the emder paths We ean name 1 lx Kxrk, eaptam of Hockey lm Fee, lzlocutlonxst extraordnnarx, Joe Sheerln, Edltor of the Blue ug Doug Cagnex, Presldent of the Student Councnl, Blll Madden and Charlxe Scheld two of the greatest swlm l- I x K x x ' , ' 1 ' Y s ' x r 'L r - r 1 . ' V ' , I I . . I ' ' V r - . . ' I r r v' v . ' - Y 1 3 ' V - . X I 1 . K 1' ' ' 1 , ' D. 1 ' I Q . n . 1 , ' ' ' ' v v 1 ' ' . - r 1 ' , . . ' - Q V V . - he . v I I X S V ' ' e 1 T ' ' ' ' ' ' . x . CUiiil0f-1 to Cilffy OUI'SClVCS Wiill ll Cfrrfalirl swagger. his talents and versarilityin Heldsranging fromSodality - . ' V s V s , ' 'V , , ' ,' ' ' .1 ., - . s ' 1- l s . V. ' vs s s A - V' , I V. ' , -1 -' 7 A Ji . vi . 2 ,,, A h P- , Q , 1 A ' slr- . s. sk s v ' ' . ' e . ' I' . e . I . , -