Burgard Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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We're turning out men to build vital parts ot bombing planes, fighters and pursuits. Our skilled trainees are Working on trucks, tanks, engines, ships, shells, and machine guns. By running the school doy and night, weve pyr- amid our capacity ond literally added 230,000 sgucire teet to our operating floor space. Our crowded working conditions are os good as we can make them in these abnormal times. Welre guarding our health and safety at work. And we are working harder and faster thon we've ever worked before. We---all of us---boys, graduates, troinees and teachers, ore seeing this job through TOGETHER. We Want to produce the skills to do the job,---and pro- duce to the limit, for America dnd the Pimericoin Way ot Life. li Principal

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The freshmen of 1938 were, indeed, a studious looking group of boys as they started their high school career. As the year passed speedily away, Burgard was to find that among these freshmen were boys that would bring honors to the school. The most promising athletes were Alex Stefaniak playing basket- ball and George Wessel playing football. Aside from sporting events, nothing meritorious was accomplished in our freshman year. Our sophomore year brought great changes. Gone were our freshman days and O45 ambitious sophomores, we were determined to set an exarnple for the fresh- men by excelling in school activities. Alex Stefaniak became captain of the varsity basketball team and scored many points throughout the season. He was also a good player on our baseball team. As we attained the third rung of the ladder of education, our junior year, we went all-out for our Alma Mater. The football team distinguished themselves by winning every single game of the season, including our first Thanksgiving Day, beating Riverside, 6 to O. However, we wound up in third place in the league. lnterclass touch football was first introduced in the school and Group 301 became the school champions. They were also the junior basketball champions. Finally, came our senior year. Henry Banas was our football star. Andrew Bottaro brought glory to the school by attaining the highest rating in scholastic marks in the history of vocational education in Buffalo. His remarkable average was 9925. During his entire high school career, Andrew Bottaro has never been absent, tardy only once, and has been on the honor roll every single period. For our senior class officers we elected our star baseball player, Hay- mond Macieiewski, presidentp our cheerleader, Wallace O'Connor, vice- president: Chester Kryszczuk, secretary, and Rocco Romano, treasurer. As we complete our high school education, we find a war-mad world, torn with greed and hatred. With our own beloved United States battling forits exist- ence, we grimly face the task that is before us. Witli memories still lingering, We depart confident that the training given us at Burgard will carry us through the troubles of life and make us a credit to our Alma Mater. . .VAS ROCCO ROMANO Treasurer GEORGE WESSEL Sports Edifcr