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

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I fu 117, WHY., i 2 1 A I f Y? L e fi ' ' 1 5 .05 . Q X' l I Q - , SOPHOMORE A Summer over, we returned to find ourselves no longer lowly Freshmen, but all knowing Sophomoresf' Neither Brother Aloysius nor Brother Alphon- sus, our former teachers, returnedg and so we were very busy during the first few days in becoming acquainted with our new teachers: Brother Bernadine, our class teacher, instructor in Geometry and Religiong Brother Matthew, our French teacher, Brother Alban, teacher of Latin, and Professor O'Shea, teacher of Ancient History and English. As we were a joyous crowd, all smiling and happy to see one another again, it did not take us long to get back to our cheerful selvesg and so we soon formed our class society and elected the following ofhcers for the year: John Downing, President: Robert NVard, V ice-Presidentg John Hoag, Secretaryg Gerald Geagan and John Downing, A. A. Representatives. Then came athletics. XV ith the call for cross-country candidates, ZA responded nobly. Many from the class tried for the team, and Downing, Wfard and Geagan succeeded in making it. p The season for basketball opened and with it the announcement by Brother Matthew of an inter-class tournament. The class acted at once. Candidates were called for, practices were heldg and ZA was ready to conquer. The first game was with our old rivals ZB. They proved to be no match for us. Four more games were played and easily won. Then came the big game with IB. ' In a hard fought battle we succeeded in defeating them by a score of 10 to 6. Thus Captain Geagan, Wfard, Dempsey, Downing, Ryan, Hoag and Hendrickson, repre- senting the ZA class, won the De La Salle inter-class championship of 1927. ' Track' continued throughout the year. Downing showed up very well on the crack De La Salle Mile Relay Team. And doni't think the rest of the class were not busy. At the indoor meet XV ard, Dempsey, Geagan and Murphy man- aged to land third place. . 4 During the first two quarters we were guided by Brother Bernadine, oxieiftfffggf the finest of teachers, and a real pal of the boys. Shortly after the beginning' of the second semester, Brother Bernadine' was transferred and replaced by Brother George, a most capable substitute, who endeavored to make our second part of the year as enjoyable as the first, and he succeeded nobly. The biggest achievement of our school year was our class paper, The Class Observer 5 the first bi-weekly paper to be published in new De La Salle. After a very short time the stafi' officers were elected: VV. Farrell, Editor-in-Chief, F. Donough, .Assistant Editor, C. B. Peters and I. Hoag, Business Managers. Our staff proved to be very capable, and with the co-operation of the class, made the paper quite a success. F831