De La Salle Institute - Torch Yearbook (New York, NY)

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my eaiiafisimal p ?lEaieJ1eJEaital alll JAMES J. FITZPATRICK Jim Public School No. 30. Fitz Track, 1, 23 Class Relay, 1, 2, 35 Ring Com- mittee, 4. Four years ago a little fellow from P. S. 30, joined the Freshman ranks of De La Salle. He soon won fame by his cheerful nature Fitz is an ardent ad- mirer of military life and for this reason always wore his uniform. This intellect- ual youth began early to manifest his love for the sciences. notably physics and chem- istry. Jim is a wicked stepper at a dance as many young ladies will testify. He is a well built fellow and ranks among the strata of the big fellows of the class. jim regards his school work as a duty and treats it as such. He is one of that species of beings, that can be humorous without being ridicul-ous and serious with- out being solemn. One cannot know the teflicacy of an infectious smile until he meets ,lim . He never wearies of the toilsome struggle of life but labors day after day with unfailing zest. Memories of thee Jim will not easily pass into oblivion. FRANCIS J. FLANAGAN St. Francis -:le Sales. K. D. C.: Printer of Class Paper, 35 Class Re- lay, 35 Track, 33 Cross Country, 3. Frank blew in to us one day from Belle Harbor during a big snow storm. It did not take him long to thaw out and catch up with the regular De La Salle school spirit. He is one of the class commuters, and we therefore give him little credit for standing high in his class recitations. Frank is a pugilistic young gentleman, and claims the title of the Class Boxing Champion. He stands for a great deal of kidding, and takes it in good part. NVhile at De La Salle, Frank labored under a great handicap, due to the lack of li- brary facilities in his hometown. l1Vhen it came time for making his Literature and History reports, he always envied the boys from the big town with its big libraries. VVithal, Frank's quiet and de- termined manner gives us the impression that he is the kind of a fellow who gets what he goes after. Mr. Flanagan intends to go to a college that has a big library. Page thirty-one lltfttl iatiierlili ti 9 2 El IMSHQJQJHMBMWEI

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E1?EJmf1KTW+'il WU if -S JEAN E. ENGLER jean St. Johns, Washington, D. C. Swimming, 45 Tennis, 4. NVhcn the class of '26 came together for its last year in De La Salle, one of the new faces noted was that of a handsome, well built young man, answering to the name of Jean . He came to attend De La Salle all the way from St. john's in NVash- ington, D. C. His numerous friends tes- tify to his good fellowship. Jean has been with us but one short year, but in that time we have learned to hold him in high esteem, We feel confident that he will uphold the trust placed in a graduate of De La Salle. VVe shall remember him by his generosity, his high-mindedness, and his fidelity to duty. To conclude. it should be said that the good nature radi- ated by his genial smiles, and his sallies of wit have furnished the class with a stimulating merriment, and that his in- terest and endeavors in the class welfare have won for him the affection of his class- mates. Page thirty JOSEPH V. FERRER Joe St. Augustines, josey Porto Rico. Debating Soeietyg Torch Stuffg Editor of Class Paper, 3. Here you have a gentleman who hails from Porto Rico. Joe is the class linguist with more than a working knowledge of Spanish, French. Latin and Italian. His musical versatility was a well known fea- ture of ou.r class entertainments. Joe is a fellow of numerous theories. There is hardly a subject we can mention on which he has not Hxed and immutable ideas. He is a great lover of books but his youthful mind and sunny disposition pre- vent us from classifying him with the hook worm type. Joe is the kind of a fellow who can get more kick out of a Shakes- pearian play than the average fellow gets out of jazz, vaudeville or comedy. He has traveled extensively and has seen much of the world. However we feel that nothing in life has meant as much to Joe as his school days at De La Salle. We expect to hear great things from him in College. Authorship is our prediction of him. UvfiifEl3Teif axmillll Sill

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Until mtmtzal EDWARD C. GHIAZZA Professor Holy Cross. Glass President 1: Class Secretary, 3, -lg In- iloor Track Games, 45 Tennis, 4. Eddie is one of the original members of First Year B of IQ22. He came to the institute from Holy Cross School with an admirable reputation as a student. Eddie has certainly lived up to this rep- utation, winning the general excellence medal in Freshmen year, and managing to keep with the leaders during his entire scholastic career. Eddie has rendered the class many valuable services as president, secretary and committeeman. As an iron fisted ruler he yields to no one, no not even to Mussolini. One of his most not- able feats has been the editing of the hu- mor section of our class paper, The Sieve. However Eddie has not limited his efforts to studies and writing. He is besides, a tennis player of note. The professor has chosen Manhattan College as the field of his future scholastic en- deavors. VVe know the reputation of '26 in The College-by-the-Sea , will be safe with Eddie showing the way. Page thirty-two WILLIAM J. GRADY Bill De La Salle Grammar. Junior Prom Comm.: Senior Prom Comm.: Cross Country, 3, 43 Capt. 47 Class Relay, 3. Bill started with us in Freshmen B, a retiring little fellow from the De La Salle Grammar. Like the shy little flower it took time for Bill to blossom and bloom. ln junior and Senior Bill has been one of the go-getters of B '26 The suc- cess of the Junior and Senior Proms were clue in a great measure to Bill's enthusiasm and faithful discharge of his committee duties. As a campaign manager and stump-speaker, Bill proved himself a true Tammany Brave by putting over his man for president of the Archconfraternity. As an athlete Bill has few peers in the art of travelling over hill and dale. Of course he has the jump on us all here for 'tis said Bill trains by chasing rabbits on his native heath in Hartsdale. In class Bill's specialty is math. He would have few worries if there was only some method whereby he could add his excess points in Trig to the beggardly Spanish marks. Bill expects to join the D. L. S boys at Manhattan College where we be- speak for him, continued success. iris 2 allude