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

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1848 38 By thrs trme jay Rotherm rs lookrng for hrs name so here rs hrs hrstory jay worked rn a shrpyard by day as a rrveter and as a result became a Rhumba teacher at nrght Rrght now he rs part of the navy rnvoluntarrly By mrstake he rrveted hrmself to the bottom of a battleship Whrle we are at sea we come to Ioe Croces story Joe always used to go rnto rnterestrng subjects deeply at school He vyas always courteous and polrte Thrs was hrs downfall howe Jer joe became a deep sea drver and one day he trpped hrs helmet to a mermard whrle workrng under water The last I saw of Larry Flanagan was when he was rn the hosprtal Larry was pretty restless rn school so when he graduated he started a job as flagpole srtter Occasronally he would go to sleep whrle on the job but one day he rolled over joe Lennrhan rs pretty new to the machrne but strll rt tells hrs story It says joe got a job rn a crrcus as a sword swallower He was gorng along fine untrl he burped and cut off both hrs feet Another crrcus man was Drck Kenneweg He used to jump 3 000 feet rnto a slrghtly morst postage stamp Hrs career almost ended when he trred jumprng rnto a thrmble of water The poor fellow almost drowned The ball hrts the last prn wrth the name of John OGrady on rt Because of hrs lack of sales resrstance he now plays a harp rn St Gabrrels land Whrle lrstenrng to the radro the announcer sard Go out that nearest exrt and buy some beans rrght now O G happened to be srttrng by a wrndow srxty Hoors above For 99 years De La Salle has been graduatrng men who were to go out and make a lastrng place rn the world for themselves But what of the 100th graduatrng class the class of 489 Well drop rn on a class reunron at the Verdr Square Hotel rn the year 1973 and see how our boys made out rn 25 years just follow me the party must be rn full swrng by now Here we are You can check your hats over there ready 9 just look around' The fellows certarnly look drfferent after 25 years a lrttle older Cnaturallyj and far more drstrngurshed It seems to be a very happy party but wart' Is that an argument gorng on at that table? Oh' I should have known rt s Speaker of the House Tom Erchenberger havrng an rmpromptu de bate wrth Senator John McHale CR N YJ over the possrbrlrtres of a war wrth Lower Slobovra and the conversatron rs berng made lrvely by General of the Army Kevrn McKay who rs always ready to fight any war wrth anybody Lets wander around and see who else rs here I see Freddy Wertz the atom screntrst Che rntends to blovy up the entrre world as a place unfit for humans to lrve ID, speakrng softly wrth hrs buddy Frnre Hrggrnson the man who rs antr everythrng Che also runs the penny arcade on 42nd St and rs New Yorks brggest bookre S50 to wrn on Crtatron III please'J We have qurte a few teachers vyrth us to nrght so let s go over to the Faculty Corner and see the boys We find here Prof Ed Padden Cthe prrde and joy of Alma Materj Pow chref assrstant to our rllustrrous Hrstory teacher Brother Leonard wrth jrm Thompson first assrstant to chref assrstant Padden Cjrm rs rn charge of all prelrmrnary exams t qualrfy for qualrfyrng exams rn Hrstoryj We also have John Mannrng another frus trated Hrstory teacher Crts rumored that he lost hrs mrnd somewhere between the Down fall of Rome and the Mrddle Ages J Novy rn Faculty Corners athletrc department we have Andy Cyour hero and mrnej Cordral sard to be the best PT coach srnce the days of the fabulous Joe Cuneen And heres brg Drck Clrfford our schools first brllrard mstructor I see we also have a vrsrtrng coach wrth us Long Tom OHalloran who gurdes the football squad at John Adams Hrgh Oo pps' What drd I just bump rnto? Its john OBr1en a late arrrval Cas usualj You must remember John or Moose as we called hrm7 Hes the man who drank all the beer that would have kept Mrlwaukee famous' Theres another brg man Jack or should I say Hrs Honor judge John M Cassrdy Che commrts the mentally rll to rnstrtutrons and after graduatrng wrth the 4B class he ts well qualrfied to prck out the mentally rll from the normalJ9 Hes speakrng wrth two famous men Felrx Del Monte Presrdent of the Republrc of Santa Domrngo and Dermot Foley the famous Irrsh gunrunner But wart' There s the manager of the hotel' Well rf rt rsnt Ernre Sgror Cwhat a dapper fellow'J and he seems to be tryrng to wake someone up rt s Vrncent Breen dozrng off You know Vrnnre rs VrcePres1dent rn charge of bed testrng for the Sleep Well Mattress Company At the same table we have that promrnent specralrst rn somethrng or other Dr Joseph Saggese Cthe man who rn hrs youth drs covered that the walkrng man was a DLS dash manj talkrng to a former De La Salle mrler of great note the man wrth the long black beard Presrdent Frank Smrth of that famous cough drop company I thrnk I see Prof john Alshermer Cwrnner of the Schmaltz Prrze rn Astronomyj over at the wrndow gazrng at the constellatron Alte bacon rn hrs honor Also srttrng by the wrndow rs our engrneer john McCarthy Cthe man who rrpped down the George Washmgton Brrdge and burlt a better mouse trapj We also have a few authors Theres Hank Hrelferty who vyrote How not to Play Basket ball Baseball or Anythrng and the promrnent health expert Peter Callahan author of Effects of Mrlk Crn contarnersj rn Sports Cespecrally Hockeyj A very rmportant man just walked rn I see rt s Charlre Grardrna our renowned pranrst Ches an rceman rn hrs spare trmej and Captarn Robert Hammerton skrpper of the Amerrca Ill Cthats the new Staten Island Ferryj Last but not least we have the busrness tycoon Che owns a nut factory rt goes wrth hrs mental capacrtyl Thus vye haye the class of 48 true reptesen tatryes of De La Salle , ' 1 . 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PHUPHEEY UF THE CLASS UP 48 Whenever some class graduates from any school someone always wants to know what wtll become of hts classmates We have here at De La Salle a magtc ptnball machtne whtch ts legal that forecasts the future of our tllus trtous graduates Lets see what happens We pull back the lever of our machtne and let Hy a ball whtch goes up the slot and htts the first ptn whtch ltghts up jack Carolan Good old J C ts the horse s best frtend He now owns a stable whtch he calls home of horses all of whtch pull yunk carts and mtlk wagons Jack ts a good breeder of horses but does ltttle breathtng whtle worktng Next the ball bounces off the cushton marked Gtllen Ken was referred to tn one of the coptes of the Record as Golden votced Kenny I hts bustness he sttll uses hts votce to promote the sale of fish at the Fulton Ftsh Market There ts a dull ltght as the ball strtkes another ptn No wonder tt ts the name of Ed Donnelly that ts tnscrtbed on tt I came upon htm one day tn 1967 weartng a candle on hts head because someone called htm ltght headed Now Ed has bought up all the salt water tn the world and ts renttng tt to the beaches for swtmmtng purposes joe Btssell ts ltt up next joe always loved untforms thats why he jotned the Nattonal Guard Wtth every advance tn rank he got a new untform He was so far advanced that for falltng asleep at hts post one day the army got htm a spectal untform wtth strtpes all around and P W marked on the back The ball caroons off the ptn wtth Ben Man daros name on tt Ben was always a btg gun at D L S and, tf you wtll pardon the expresston played the accordtan Ltttle ts known of Ben the tub where he made hts cheese and was never heard of agatn As the ball thunders down the machtne tt ts knocked for a loop as tt htts the ptn of Alessto Matera He was the ptcture taktng gentus of 4A tn hts prtme but was never sued by us for defamation of character but we could have a case In fact we could have two cases, one a case agatnst Tess and the other a case of brew for 4A The only way he makes money ts by selltng the negattves for sttnk bombs Joe Smtth opened an anttque shop at the age of 99 but soon closed because he was the oldest thtng tn the shop He now has a job of holdtng up the Brooklyn Brtdge but dont tell the cops As the word Spumont ltghts up on a ptn tt can only mean Larry Marchtony He has revoluttontzed the tce cream lndustry by getttng tt dtrect from the cows The only trouble ts where can you put the money? George Kreeses ltght goes on next Last we heard of George he was wrtttng a Chemtstry book for tdtots He ts sendtng me hts first copy personally autographed George got loose tn the lab one day when tt was on the first floor now the lab ts on the top floor and we finally got a gym james OHara the machtne tells us grew up to be publtc enemy No 1 unttl he was told by the men tn whtte coats not to around put ttng hts ptcture on Post Offtce walls All ktddtng astde James was made a general tn the Nattonal Guard a general nutsance Another james ltghts up james Hannon jtm got a job tn a bank and probably would have been prestdent and rtchest man tn the world but he qutt when he had to brtng back the trtnkets he had taken home The trtnkets happened to be 15 mtllton dollar btlls whtch he thought were no good because all of them had the same ptcture on them When Hannon ltghts up Ronald Podesta ltghts up rtght after htm The two of them are ltke one but when they only put one ntckel tn the subway slot thats gotng too far A long ttme ago Ron fell asleep at the beach and was eventually washed out to sea and across the ocean to Russta When he awoke the people were talktng tn Russtan so thtnktng the Untted States was tnvaded he ran to the nearest recrutt tng office and ts now a part of the five year plan Charlte Pou ts another magnate accordtng to our machtne Recently he astounded the world by buytng every cane tn the vsorld for hts sugar factory The only thtng wrong was tnstead of buytng sugar cane he bought walktng canes Oh well' have a ntce trtp The ball rolls along unttl tt htts Ken Hughey s ptn Ken used to work for the under ground but was ftred and accused of betng a spy when he lost the subway he operated for the Seventh Avenue Transtt Co between 72nd and 73rd Sts It seems he worked for the Thtrd Avenue El Gerald Harwood brtngs a happy note when he ts ltt Gerry the man of btg words and a frame to match had a problem and so went to Mr Anthony Seetng a large audtence he forgot hts problem and dtd a scene from Macbeth before anyone got wtse He was thrown off the atr but not before Mr Anthony solved Mac beth s problem The ball htts Edward Kraus ptn and so another forecast Ed, tn my optnton had one of the greatest bratns that we ever graduated from DLS He would have gone far tf he graduated the same year hts bratn dtd Ramon joseph ts a senator now the machtne states Recently he debated tn congress the btll about baby Sltters rtghts The old btll satd that they must stt wtth babtes unttl they are asleep but joe clatms tt ts too crowded for both of them tn the crtb Hts colleagues say both the btll and the baby wtll be changed The machtne says that James Broedell could have become a great lawyer tf he had only gone to the rtght bar to take hts examtnattons From what I hear jtms sttll at the wrong bar but sttll gotng strong The ball strtkes the ltght of Tom Kenny who ts not concetted but tn 1946 protested vtolently because Rosaltnd Russell played the lead tn Stster Kenny He ts now on the moon work tng at Moonogram Stqdtos He ts dtrector pro ducer and cast of the new verston of Stster Kenny jack Doolan ts another dtsttngutshed graduate who ts coyly cornertng the market tn Denttstry He has bought every comb he could find tn order to sell the teeth He says Now Mtrtam can go around wtthout ustng Irtum The ball momentartly stops at the ptn of Robert Wtlltamson Whtle at DLS Bob was an outstandtng runner Today he ts sttll runntng It seems he forgot to turn tn hts track sutt when he was told and now they are after htm No matter how fast he goes he wtll never replace the automobtle The ball, whtch 15 ttred from rolltng strtkes the ptn of Robert Whealan Back tn 1959 Bob dectded New jersey had nothtng to offer htm so he came to New York to make some money The only trouble was Bobs was not as good as the money made by the treasury so he ts havtng a vacatton up the rtver courtesy of the government 1948 37 9 , I, g . . . , i . g , ' , 1 I v A y I . . . , . . . 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1948 SE IDR CLASS PULL Ramon oseph oseph Blssell john O Grady Gerald Harwood Ramon oseph Kenneth Gnllrn Benjamln Mandaro Thomas Kenny ames Brodel Benjamin Mandaro Gerald Harwood jay Rothelm Charles Pow Kenneth Grllen john O Grady Chemlstry Daily News ournal American L1 e Blng Crosby Lana Turner Robert Wllltanmson Chesterfield Steak Gtrls Manhattan Take lt easy Basketball Baseball Tommy Dorsey Fox trot Bmg Crosby Peggy Lee Henry Morgan lmmy Powers Green Years Lady of Fatlma Gunga Dm Star Dust Bob Hope Dodgers Body and Soul Brant s Most Typical D L S Man Most L1kely to Succeed Most Popular Most Sophrstxcated Most Apprecrated Class Polltrcran Class Optxmlst Class Pessxmrst Class Lotharxo Best Lookmg Best Dressed Class Orator Class Wit Favorite Subject Favorlte A M Newspaper Favonte P M Newspaper Favornte Magazlne Favorlte Author Favonte Actor Favorrte Actress Best Athlete Favorite Smoke Favorite Food Favorrte DIVCISIOH Favorlte College Favorite EXPICSSIOU Favornte Indoor Sport Favorxte Outdoor Sport Favorxte Orchestra fBandj Favorlte Dance Favorite Male Vocalist Favonte Female Vocallst Favorlte Radlo Program Fasonte Columnist FHVOIIIC Novel Favorlte Play Favonte Poem Favorxte Song Favorlte Comedlan Favorlte Ball Team Favortte Movle Favorlte Hangout ohn Cassldy Thomas Elchenberger Andrew Cordlal Fred Wera Frank Smnth john McHale Ernest Hnggenson Fred Wertz joseph Saggese Andrew Cordxal Thomas O Halloran Donald Cox Thomas Erchenberger Ernest Sgrol Hlstory Dally News ournal American L1 e Cary Grant Ingrld Bergman John Cassrdy Chesterfield Steak Glrls Manhattan Charmmg Basketball Football Tex Benke Fox trot Bmg Crosby Peggy Lee Henry Morgan lmmy Powers The Robe Lady of Fatuna Gunga Dm Now IS the Hour Bob Hope N Y Glants Naked Ctty Verdx Square 39 4A 4B Jn . ' ' . - J s . J u J 1 a n . . J . o . I J - ' ' . . J - ' . . A. Cronin ' Gilbert K. Chesterton