Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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U A L l 9 3 And then there's Dengle, Dutch and dour, Whose brow is not unhandsome. Yet when he woos the lyric muse She flies right out the transom. Close by sits Rubie, Kid McGee, Whose blush disturbs the censors. He inks the floors and breaks the doors But balks at painting fences.. And that's not all. Full twenty more Use words like octahedral. They're only few of many who Do murder in Cathedral. No matter what the subject be ln essay, verse or drama, lt write they will, they aim to kill Or wound you with a comma. Poor Thomas More ot saintly name Was truly bold and brave, But still he moans and sadly groans While turning in his grave. Ah, where the cause? Oh, Whose the crime? Where shall we lay the blame? The world would gasp with throaty rasp Were we to name that name. lt isn't Smith, it isn't Tones. lt isn't Pat O'Looney. lust bend your ear and you shall hear 'Twas -- -- -llll My work is done, a goodly deed, And now l am at peace. Sir Thomas More can now endure, His soul will gain surcease. My rhythm's gone from bad to verse, My rhyme is rather wowzy. But think of those who hold the nose Because their pomes are . . . frowzy. l2l

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OOCATHEDRAL COLLEGE But in all truth we must confess, The man who murders bodies ls not the Worst, though thrice becurst, Of those who dwell in quoddies. Bethink you yet of this my friends Though hell is full of holes The deepest pit sure scarce is fit For those who murder souls. And Thomas More Whose bones are dust ls murdered o'er and o'er . By thoughtless chumps whose brains are bumps Who haunt Cathedrals door. Ten times a year and once a month They give themselves the berry. On topmost floor, third corridor, They mock the literary. As leader of this cutthroat loanol Eugene Molloy is sorry. Detractors rise Without surprise And beg him for a quarry. Be-lloc he cries, or Chesterton Or Let's belabor Pickwick. And off they go with a tallyhol Enough to make one sick quick. To Chief Molloy as helping hand loe Davids first assistant. Alas! Alackl His head doth crack, His mind is non-existentl Of skinny form and peaked mien, All slats and no breadbasketg His Wit too ripe and puns all tripe, His skull is like a gasket. O'Connor's next. Step up my lad, And take one on the chin. Please raise your voice, you're not a hearse. Wipe off that silly grinl lt much befits to liken you To Peter's church in Roma. Your top is fair with golden hair But what an empty domal 120

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ODCATHEDRAL C OLLEGE You've borne with me for quite a time Throughout this jingle's tinkle. So be at rest, you must have guessed- 96 That this is by D. Dinkle. 'k 'k k Explanatory Notes laid him low: To render prone as by a blow. mud: i.e. clay. quoddie: O. E. for jail. hell is full of holes: there is no satisfactory scientific proof of this. Whose bones are dust: in all probability not really dust but amorphous calcium. berry: A now extinct species of bird, once indigenous to the Bronx. Eugene Molloy: There was a Eugene Molloy at the siege of Dunboy. Probably no relation of the same. Belloc . . . Chesterton: Two British Wrestlers who invented the famous triple Nelson, a combination hammerlock, roundhouse curve and brain fag. Chief Molloy: Evidently of Indian extraction. mind . . . non-existent: The author was not given to exaggeration. O'Connor: A boy orator of note, later known as the Wizard of Winfield. A famed poet of the last century, often called Doggerel Dengle. Rubie: from the Latin erubescere meaning fluster. Cathedral: probably a once famous prep school, now a stamp and chess club. turning in his grave: No evidence has yet been found to support this. No trace has ever been found of the correct name employed here. Close research has uncovered the name of a Mr. Muldoon who flourished at this age. Perhaps the familiar derivative Muldoonie was used, in order to rhyme with O'Looney. Stan Forl-:er Ioe Buckley lim Heneghan Roddy Greene Frank Williams Ioe McGowan Ray Morgan Robbie Bausch Iack Hagan George La Flare Freddie Meconi Ed Haggerty Lou Ferber GUESS WHO? CSee pages 35-375 122 Rob Barnwell Hercules Conroy Frank Tyrrell Herb Travis Syl Benack Iim Skelly Don Crynes Tommy Cribbin Bill Lohmann Felix Lopez Mike Fleming Ioe Daly Iohnny McPartland