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

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l rznfzng Cgfazw I0 gf In the ten years s1nce graduatlon I had never met any of my old school chums but th1s was the year of co1nc1dence I passed th1 ough Buffalo on my xx ay to the west coast A1r1v1ng at the statlon I called fox a tax1 and It was none other than Ed Wh1te who was d11V1Hg It We 8111VGd at the hotel and there to my SU1p11Se I found the hotel manager xvas Fred Hagedoxn xvho owned a cha1n of hotels all over the Unxted States I bought a pape1 and read about b1g Don SCl'1XV8ltZ and Don Muehlbauer who wele playmg bang up football fO1 the Los Angeles Rams Whlle at the hotel I called fox the hotel cleanels and who should answer but No1m The Whlbtlel Dolegala He was fo1ced 1nto busmess when the Floran Decoy Kea1ney had Jomed the F01 elgn Le g1on because he wanted to get rld of all h1s t1OL1bleS That nlght I xvent to a famous old Itallan lestau rant oxx ned by the one and only Geol ge XVISHIGVVSIKI I was se1 ved by John Kurasz who after five yea1s as a Waltel xx as stxll t1y1ng to balance a tl ay Wlth one hand Afte1 d1nne1 I heard Norval Kranz and h1s band who were known as Sunshme K1 anz and h1s FIVE Moonbeams They had a male xocallst Bob Swooner Rothman the xdol of all the bobby soxels I knexx those two would never spl1t up The next 1norn1ng I took a rlde out to Cheekto waga and found Charles Lederhouse 1n one of the stores whe1e I stopped to buy a pack of clgarettes He 1nformed me that he was marrled to a woman wrestler and they w re gettmg along beaut1fully togethel F1 om there I went to Tom Azarello s PIZ zer1a He told me that Ray Mazur and B1ll Myszka had become pa1 tners and had estabhshed a prlntmg 51m and were do1ng vxell prmtmg baseball pools He also told me that J1m Baldyga the gxeat xentr1 loqxnst xx as featuxed at the Palace Theater w1th h1s dummy Melv1n On mx 1etu1n I saxx a neon swn that read Bunff them to Ambor He s buy1ng The name sounded fam1l1ar and so I stopped It was Steve Ambor and he was 1unn1ng a 1eputable Junk busmess After a few laughs about the old days I left On mx may to the hotel I notxced a few adve1t1sements on bullet1n boards about Frank Balest1er1 who xx as b1lled as the strong man at the Rxnglmg Brothels Cxrcus Ron P1ccolo Koeppel was featu1ed as h1s asslstant I vxas held up on lVIa1n Stleet because of a pa1adc Thele I saxx LOUIC Se1tz plaxmg the blggest tuba of them all I knew he could nevex succeed ID tak1ng Frankle Lames 1ob away He told n e that he was ma1r1ed and was supportmg s1x ch1ldren on a lmotype 1'l19Ch3H1CS pay He also sa1d that he xx as happy xx 1th h1s half dozen klds Joe Kuklexx 1cz xx ho xx as a Pol1sh 1nte1p1eter at the courthouse phoned me and we went out to dlnnel Aftel a half houl of dr1x1ng ax ound xxe ended up at Gmo Bargnes1s Kubasa K1tchen xxhele xve had a wonderful French d1nne1 Arr1v1ng next IHO1I'11I'1g at the 1a1l1OHd stat1on I met Dan Ny cel xx ho xxas the stat1ons ch1ef detec t1xe Dan xx as esco1t1ng a conv1cted IHUFCIGIGI to the hoosegow As I got on the Ualll and It pulled away from Buffalo I thought to myself how good xt was to see the boys once ITIOIC S1gned sealed and del1vered 1n the year 1962 RALPH BARBALATO RUSSELL GA'r'rUso SERY MARAsco COLLABOQATORS Q . . 1, . 1 7 I . l . ' I I V - Ac - ' ' ' . I C, c . ' 5 ' 3 ' Y, ..' , . .' 1 v v Y ' 9 ' , ' 5 Y . I ' A ' . . , I l . ' . . ' ' . 7 ' . ,' - an - i vv . - ' , . , 1 u - 4 in - ' I -I I . . , . Price Of Pressing Pants Went UP- H9 wld me that Entering the hotel, I bumped into Gene Walczak. an vw , - - . - , . - 1 . ' ' ' . . . . . , , . ' v Y' ' - ' ' 7 Q . 1 . . V' y Y V I I 1 4 . . , . L y '- . . . . ' ' ' Y. ' Y ' 1 7 1 4 r Y 7 . . ' 'I ' 7 f ' - - y la A . - I R. I ,I Y I 4 . . . . . . N . . . Y 14 sa , . - V Y Y I , . - 1 . I I - . ' 7 I v B - ' ' - - ' , .l I . G . . 7 T' . . . 5 ' Y ' ' 1 v Q I l' A

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Ulafl0l'l Clifd p Cy One afternoon whrle dozlng on our front porch Clark Mann and I Bob Barenthaler strangely enough both of us began to dream about the year l971 and xvhat our felloxx students xx ould turn out to be followxng our graduatron from Burgard There xxe xx ere flx mg about rn space rn our flyrng tea cup xvhen suddenly xxe began to run out of our nuclear fuel tea Whrle drrftmg towards earth we saxv txxo arrmen flyrng bx rn then super sonrc brrdplane We xxere surprrsed to see that these arrmen were Edxx ard Croxxe and Bob Whrte Gradu ally settrng the shxp on earth xxe landed rn Eugene Park named after a great arrstocrat Stepprng out of the space shlp xxe headed for the Park Racexvax where Gerald Stokes Joseph Plotnrckr and Bob Solsbak were favorrtes to xvm rn the last race Boyd Anker and Glass came up to sec us too 'md we all bet on Solsb'rk to xxxn the race After the race ended and Solsbak had xx on xxc decrded to search for more fuel to get back to our planet Polrzzr We came 'rcross Johnnx Wrlkcns snr 111 arsenal xvhere xve bought txxo d1i1I1lQ'!8llDg guns for furthur protectron Vthrle xxalkmg along the street xxe passed John Bronner xxho xxas the head of a famous anlrnes companx John Adamx John Goodman and Richard Joxa xx ere xx or krng for thrs f arrlmes company Robert Lorenz was also seen near by he owned a fleet of taxrcabs and rn large letters on each cab xxas prrnted THE LORENZ CAB IS THE BEST We heard from Robert Lorenz that Ed Krnrmrck and Walt Ponrvas had an Avratron Repalr Shop They xvere supposed to be very successful haxrng taken rn a proflt of half a mrllron 1n flxe months After manx hours of lookrng for some form of fuel to help us get back to Polrzzr xve declded to rsk the Inforrnatron Bureau for some adxrce Thrs was located rn the Turner burldrng Insrde we sayx Drck Stypa the Irrsh All Amerrcan of football We drdn t bother to talk to hrm because he was teachmg hrs boxs some formatrons and xvas qurte busy We asked for the mformatron we wanted and found that xxe could get some fuel across the bay at Ruh land Beach xxhere the Percx Walters and Whrte Marrne An post rs located We rented a specral boat to get across the bay and arrrved at the arrpost Percy Walters and Whrte sold us a fcxx barrels of nuclear fuel and three hours lrter xxe xxere on our xx ay to planet Polrzzr Just at that moment Clark xxoke me up We were both surprtsed to find that vxe xvere at my home But noxx xxe strll xxonder just xvhat the members of the class of D2 wrll be dorng rn 1971 '7hm94alonZ'2fmnu,p Muwaaliunzil hwmlhanup. .fd ' ' 7 Q . - , V .' ' . ' . ' V 1 1 . ' V C Y. T C . . r . . . Y v - y - ' Q ' 1 Y. 7 . . ' 1 i- . v 1. ' . 5 , , . l ' . V Q ', .l tl l .7 . , . -',- - . ' . 1 , 'Q ' . . . , . . A fexv minutes later we met Ora Cain and John - C , . . ,y . ' ' 1 5 A 4 V ' K . . 1 4 C 7. 1 . Q T L I 1 -' C V . 'X . V l 1 ss B. . - - V ' ' 'V l f . ' , .' l A Q Y . . C Q . Y - 2 . . , . . , , ' , . ,, . ' U 7 ' f ' L 5. , C . , . . . y 7 -5' ' 'v ' V ,A . , .'B. , . l A u Y V 1 v 1 - 1 I - . . 7-1 ' ' l , . .. . X x f ll 0 I 0 n I ll

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