Christian Brothers High School - Gael Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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mgidfrafion ay-1976 Ly join ug ia The date is September 4, 1976. The scene is the office of the Christian Brothers High School. The phone rings. The Registrar leaves his desk answers the phone. Christian Brothers School, Brother Albert speaking . . . Yes, this is a fine school . . . Yes, we have many distinguished graduates . . . Name some? Hmmmmmf' Well there's John Hamilton and Jim Ber- toni, editors and owners of 'The Bee', THE M555 Garrett Lem- mon of Lemmon Ford Company, Joe Genshlea, head hasher of Stanford U., Jim Karver, Flurry Healy, Rollie Gray, and Frank Stagnaro own the 'Happy Times Liquor Company,' although it's not producing much at present. Gerald Asher, airplane manufac- turer, is another distinguished graduate, and then we have Ralph Han Lee, who owns 'Lalphs Laun'ly' in Modesto, Eg Mori, the man who purchased Slough' house from the Signorotti family, and Robert Proaps, the TV repairman who brought back radio-all graduates of Christian Brothers. Many prominent figures in the sporting ranks got their athletic starts at C.B.S. 'Tiger' Fernandes, jerry Cooke, john Lane, 'Sticky-Fingers' Colbert, Mark Margetts, and 'Rah-Rah' Risse play for the undefeated Detroit Lions. CLEATS CLEANED H 5 IIN' Q Q -' 9 W1 9:5151-H .- Bill Ferreirae, the first man to run the 880 in two minutes flat-back- wards-also plays on the same team with George Lotz, Al Zuniga. Marty Jennings, and Byron Schnetz in the Midget Basketball League. They got tired of playing seven-foot giants and started their own league. Tony Garrido is a stand-out at second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 'Marlon' Hardmeyer and jim 'The-Wild-One' Jones recently captured the Na- tional Two-Man Motorcycle Cross-Country Cham- pionship. And poor Jim Morin-may God rest his soul-was killed at the height of his sports-car racing career. s ff' E ll Colonel Lynch, whose horses have consistently finished last in Kentucky Derby races for twenty years, and Jerry Valerio, only pro golfer never to break eighty, also graduated from Christian Brothers. Surely you must have heard of them.

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Yes, we have had graduates enter the field of politics. 'Big Mike' Desmond, Mayor of Cat- michaelg 'Bos' Riffel, who runs Reno with the assistance of Bill Benner and Police Chief Tim Leahy, and Thomas Baker, president of the newly- formed Republic of Alturas. And one of our most famous statesmcn is Luis Castrillo, who successfully directed the' recent revolution which established him as the 4000th president of Nicaragua. Y- f G9 - U 1 In the professional world our school is well- represented: Doctors 'Palsied' Parker, the famous brain surgeong 'Gouger' Golen, the noted eye doc- tor, and 'Painless' Keating, the orthodontistg all send their patients to have prescriptions filled at the K 8: K Pharmacy, operated by Dennis Kehoe and Bob Kirrene. Bob Perry and Bill Limeberger, world-famous engineers, are building a drawbridge from Los Angeles to Hawaii where they will meet Paul Barsotti and Gerald Schmdgall, who are building the other half of the bridge, starting at Hong Kong. This project is financed by the fi- nanciers, Bob Dwyer, Anthony Muljat, Mike Golden, and. Bob Neves-whose cash heretofore had been tied up in money. Paul 'Frenchy' Reaume, the well- known disgrace to money, has moved to the Left Bank in Paris, where his name matches the sur- roundings. Mike Brooks, an eminent philanthropist, returned for Homecoming Day and made the school a present of one gas station-destroyed by a spe- cially-constructed atom bomb. The Sigl brothers, James and John, are doing well in the haberdashery business. Their rummage sales are the talk of the North Twelfth Street set. Don Dittmer has his own radio station, KORN, in Willets. joel Witherell was recently appointed Dean of Extra-Curricular Affairs at Strickleesub Normal-the same college which lists john Dillon, George Darling, Sid Car- penter, jerry Nevis, and Frank Sousa ferudite pro- fessor of Latinb on its teaching staff. Thanks to Frank Banks, inventor of the X2 bomb, the world won't have to worry about the Russian Menace. Russia no longer exists. 1 Q' Bobby Schnetz carried on the family tradition as a bakery- man and is rolling in dough. gn I f-ij , 36 - Z E' 1 1 V if A Lf iff? '7 .. . y t' 4, :fri B x2xl'-3 B Mother Murphy's genuine Irish Muffins employs Don Pesavento, Mike Duffek, Julius Micheletti, and jim Herzog as man- agers. joe Silva is a bus driver on K Street. This allows him to continue his daily trips past St. Francis High School. It H0 Of