De La Salle High School - Delta Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MR. GERALD GEARTY Of the Class of 1931 FBI Inspector 26

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JAMES WAUGH—Annunciation . . . Advisory Officer 2. 3 . . . Honor Roll 2 . . . Contact 4 . . . Intramurals 1, 2. 4 . . . Jim’s pet peeve is Hadley . . . favorite drink consists of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. ARTHUR WELCH—Resurrection . . . Football 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . Basketball 2. 3 . . . Contact 4 .. . Intramurals 1. 2. 3. 4 . . . Islander 3 . . . future plans include getting a college education. DAVID WENZEL—St. Mark . . . Baseball 4 . . . Bowling 3 . . . Choir 3 . . . one of the few St. Paulites at De La Salle . . . enjoys driving cars backwards . . . likes the atmosphere of the Coliseum . . . plans on being a pilot in the Navy Air Force. GERALD WHALEN—St. Bridget . . . Football 2 ... is a man of means . . . commutes daily by car . . . renegade from St Anne’s . . runs taxi service following “Pat Polar. JOHN WICK —St. Austin . . . Intramurals 1, 2. 3. 4 . . . Islander 4 . . . hot. yellow '40 Ford convertible .. . will drink to anything . . . hopes someday to join his friends (on Washington Ave.?). LAWRENCE WILLE—St. Peter . . . Football 3 . . . Honor Roll 2. 4 . . . Dramatics 4 . . . Contact 4 . . . Intramurals 2. 3. 4 . . . BBVC 4 . . . ambition is to be funeral director and embalmcr with a sideline of raising dogs . . . keeps Walgreen Drugs running .. . likes swimming, redheads, and Richfield snow drifts. JOHN WILLIAMS—St. Stephen . . . Contact 3. 4 . . . Intramurals 1, 2. 3, 4 . . . Willie is the hard hitting outfielder who obliges the “smokers with his out of the park homers . . . makes corn for corn pone at the Grain Exchange during his spare time. JAMES WINCHESTER—Holy Rosary . . . Football 2 . . . Intra-murals I, 2. 3, 4 . . . Jim is noted for his alertness and quick response in class . . . played basketball at Holy Rosary in CYO . . . thinking about taking a soft job at the Land-O-Nod Company. JAMES WISHY—St. Vincent de Paul . . . Honor Pin 4 . . . Jaw went to DE only his freshman and senior years . . . is well liked . . . future plans include traveling throughout the country ... secret ambition is to keep his car running. During the past year, various polls were taken by the seniors to find out their likes, dislikes, and such. At the extreme left are the members of Mr. Casanova’s sociology class computing the results of a poll taken to find the three greatest troubles of seniors. Checking through the papers are: Dick Hakanson, Walt Shoemaker, Bob Pcller, Larry Wille, and Dave Wenzel. Standing at the table are: Bob Hildreth. Rog Olson. Charlie Hayden, Jeron Donalds, Larry Hegdahl. Stan Holder, Ray Warpeha. and Jerry Roban. There is something about a big brass band that makes you want to cheer. The band under the direction of Mr. W. M. Peterson has played at assemblies and tooted the teams on to victory. Picture at the immediate left are fbe-senior members of the band, all with four years of service: Joel Carrow, Denny Kohanek, Frank Hohir, Tom Morin. Jerry Meskan, Colin Campbell, Frank McGrail, Claude Stevens, John Marszalek. and Frank Schutta. 25

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chieuement thROUQh SpORtS The way in which a man chose a government position because of his experience in sports is another success story. This is the story of Mr. Gerald Gcarty. Since joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation in July 1939, Mr. Gcarty served as special agent in several major cities, as supervisor of FBI headquarters, as a field inspector, and at his present position as inspector at the Bureau’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Babe Gcarty received four letters in each of three major sports and was the starring member of the Dc La Salle basketball team which won the National Catholic High School Tournament in 1931. After graduation in 1931, Mr. Gcarty attended the Catholic University of America, where he played varsity football and was co-captain of the basketball team. ‘‘Sports in high school and college convinced me, he said, “that the success of any group endeavor is primarily a result of leadership given the group and teamwork among the participants. I found the FBI to be the embodiment of this. The FBI was and is the summation of the qualities that church and school taught me to respect most.” 27