English High School - Blue and Blue / Record Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Needless to say your letter brought back many pleasant memories of my association with you and with Mr. Stone, my first teacher in chem¬ istry. I frequently recall the wisdom and guidance I received at English High School and how they guided me in the years that followed. I know that there are untold others who have profited by the unselfish and inspi¬ rational teaching of you and your staff. Through the years, you must have gained joy and strength following the careers of your many boys.” Carl A. Shifman, a graduate of this school in the Class of 1948, has recent¬ ly been selected as a Rhodes Scholar, of which there are only thirty-two chos¬ en in the entire United States. He is the only representative from Boston. Since graduating from English High, Carl has attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is reported to be a top ranking senior in Physics. For two years, beginning next October, he will attend, on a free scholarship basis, Oxford University in England. The Cecil Rhodes Scholarship Award is con¬ sidered one of the highest honors that can be given a college or university graduate. Henry Gilman, another English High School Alumnus, who is now on the faculty of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Depart¬ ment of Chemistry), wrote to Mr. Downey in appreciation of the latter ' s letter congratulating him on the Iowa Award in chemistry. In part of his cordial greeting Mr. Gilman said: I need hardly tell you how greatly indebted I am to the splendid training I had at English High. They were some of the happiest years of my life. My professional interests in chemistry really started in my sen¬ ior year there when I tcok the course with Mr. Stone. Our Alumni are continually displaying their interest in the achievements of the English High School student body. The following letter was sent by the Secretary of the Class of 1898 on the occasion of our victory in the Pennsyl¬ vania relays: Dear Mr. Downey: At the 54th Annual Reunion of the Class of 1898, Boston English High School, held last Saturday, May 16th, 1952, it was unanimously voted that the Secretary write you, and through you the student body of English High, and congratulate you all for the fine manner in which you upheld the traditions of the old school at the recent Pennsylvania Athletic Carni¬ val by capturing the American Championship in the two-mile relay races. Such victories are heartening to the older, but enthusiastic alumni of En¬ glish High, as much as they are to the present student body. Sincerely yours, English High School, Class of 1898 by Fred O. Watt, Secretary, Class of 1898

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lumni Notes The Alumni of the English High School of Boston have, through previous decades, heaped insurmountable glory upon our Alma Mater. Many of our graduates occupy key positions, locally, nationally, and internationally. We are pleased at this fine representation of English High in today ' s troubled world and only hope that this graduating class of 1952 may be able to make a small contribution to this list of prominent personages of whom the following are but a few. To a soldier ' s soldier and inspirational leader named General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization recently entrusted the most vital assignment in the Western military alliance. Our Head Master, Mr. Walter F. Downey, after sending a letter of congratulation to Ridgway, received a cablegram in which the General acknowledged his debt to English High School, and expressed his desire of visiting us here in the near future. During the last year Ridgway has held no less than four huge jobs. As director of the war in Korea he has been the deputy frr the seventeen nations furnishing troops. As boss of United States ' military strength in the Far East he has had charge of a vast army, navy, and air force. As military governor of Japan he has represented the eleven Allied Powers of the Far Eastern Commission. And as director of the United Nations negotiations for truce in Korea, he has spoken for a free world ' s hope to avoid either a grievously widened war or a thought¬ less, worthless peace. Only a man of Ridgway ' s immense stamina could have carried such burdens with such zest. In Korea Matt Ridgway has become en¬ veloped in a great legend — a legend vastly complimentary and almost whol¬ ly true. It has been symbolized by the showy field uniform he has always sported there: pile cap with the peak tied back, wcrn shirt bearing the white and blue Airborne patch, parachutist ' s pants, field overcoat with a harness to which are taped a hand grenade over the right breast, first aid kit over the left, and a canteen against the rump. Such an outfit has suggested a fondness for the dramatic inherited from his predecessor. But with Ridgway it has been more than a gaudy good-luck uniform. It has been a badge of victory — the uniform he made conspicuous when he so effectively stopped the rout of Am¬ erican armies in his first winter in Korea. Like many another tough soldier, Ridgway is both devout and sensitive. He reads the Bible attentively, attends church, and at one time served as vestryman at St. Bartholomew ' s Episcopal Church in New York. Like his temper, his sentimental emotions are near the surface. Once when a photographer in Korea surprised him with a carefully mounted portrait of his wife and young Matt, Jr., the general broke into tears. Since his graduation from English High School in 1924, Max Tishler has been honored several times for his work in the synthetic development of corti¬ sone which is used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and several other chronic diseases. The Max Tishler Scholarships at Tufts College, where he majored in chemistry for four years, and the Max Tishler Lectures at Harvard University, where he took graduate study and subsequently taught chemistry for nine years, commemorate the first successful manufacture of this steroid drug from easily obtainable substances. The success of a group of chemists directed by Tishler at the Merck Laboratcries was announced in May, 1951 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. In recognition of Tishler ' s achievement the board of directors of Merck and Company voted him its Scien¬ tific Award. In response to Mr. Downey ' s congratulatory letter Max Tishler wrote:

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Mom Roll OF ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL BOYS NOW IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Compiled as carefully as possible from all available Robert L. Abruzzese Perry A. Constas Sidney W. Agger John F. Cooley Robert C. Aizley Clarence M. Cooper George J. Alban Joseph F. Cosgrove Francis N. Allen Albert B. Cote Henry Allen Stanley H. Cox, Jr. Alfred Aloise Thomas J. Cross Stanley Alpers Jerry Crowly Bernard Appel Kenneth E. Cullivan Edward F. Baker John E. Curley Marglin Barach Robert P. Curran Robert P. Bates Kenneth A. Davis Winston W. Bell John A. Dell ' Orfano John W. Bean Donald Demole Bernard Becker Charles M. Devlin Stanley Berezin Albert F. DiBlasi Jason Berkowitz Murray Dobro Donald F. Beurman Leo J. Doherty Peter A. Bicchieri Robert J. Donahue Richard H. Bilodeau Charles T. Donovan Max L. Bloomfield Joseph K. Downey Dana W. Bonner John J. Duffy Lawrence Braverman Robert J. Dugan Henry J. Breen William G. Dwyer Daniel E. Brienzi Gerald P. Eidelman Charles Bright William Farrell Robert Brown Mark Fay Charles K. Bush Thomas F. Flaherty Thomas W. Bushlow Charles E. Floyd Thomas A. Butler Edward P. Flynn Frank Boutilier John J. Foley Richard Bumstead Sumner Forman Michael J. Castellano John G. Francis Gerald M. Cawley Richard Francis Carl G. Cederquist Richard J. Francis W. G. Chin John P. Gaffney Gerald H. Chubbuck Alvan H. Garber Robert S. Churnick Harold Garber George F. Ciampa Richard A. Garland John Ciccola John Geary Richard S. Clarence Richard B. Gilbertson Paul J. Collins Robert L. Gillen Timothy J. Collins Harry Ginsberg William I. Condon Melvin Ginsberg. Patrick J. Connolly Joseph J. Giorgianni, Jr. information) Charles Goldberg Jason M. Goldman Martin Goldstein Philip Gray Arthur E. Greenberg Melvin Griffen Albert I. Gross Joseph Guinta Edwin S. Gushue Robert Harrison Donald R. Hartin William P. Hartin Joseph Hasparian, Jr. Arthur Henderson William E. Henderson Clement R. High Bernard J. Hines John F. Holland Richard A. Hood Lloyd R. Horadan Charles E. Hotton Irving Howe Edward Hunter Isiah R. Ingerman Joel R. Jacobs Robert Jacobs Robert J. Jepsen Thomas E. Johnson James M. Joyce Martin F. Joyce Luther Joyner Evangeles Karalexis Joseph Kasparian, Jr. Thomas J. Keaveney, Jr. Edward Kegan James Kelley Joseph A. Kelly Paul F. Kelly Richard J. Kelm Robert C. Kervin Jeremy King Richard E. Kordaszewski Richard Koury Ronald A. Karuse Melvin Krozy