Grover Cleveland High School - Clevelander Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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THE CLEVELANDER 17 Memories Warren Sweeney doing the Flea Hop at basketball games . . . Tom Kennedy talking behind his hand in the study room . . . Santo Bellanti working after school on problems found in old math text books . . . John Carriero trying to dodge playing the piano in the orchestra . . . Louis Privitera receivf ing a big hand after his Washington Day speech . . . Joe Carey's red cheeks . . . Mary DiGregoria unconsciously tearing up her Completed homework . . . Charles Cascio's rosefcolored sweater . . . Phil Taibbi surprising every one by singing so beautifully in a radio amateur . . . Mr. Ping's short assembly speeches- Help . . . Norma EC1dy'S Cl6mOI1St1'HtiOn of the sundry shades of iingernail polish . . . Joe Corbo and Tony Privitera creating poems to present to the charming substitute English teacher. The fun in Miss Geyer's thirdfhour senior English class when a note was passed to the pupils on April 1, telling them to blow their noses at 11:20 sharp . . . The trouble Miss Larson had in trying to get the girls to step in the foot bath fthey claimed it wore out their stockingsj . . . The hard time the orchestra had in getting the musical instruments in tune on Junior Day f1935J . . . The morning our Senior Boys were shoveling snow for the city and eating bologna sandwiches while the younger set of Clevelandites were going to school . . . The uselessness of entering the shower room when we had nice leaky pipes to drip water on us while undressing . . . The paper which accumulated in our desks while we were attending classes in other rooms . . . The freshmen boys early in the term trying to sit far away from the teacher in the studyroom and their chagrin at being asked to move. Mimeograph sheets of Campus Topics . . . Fire drill in the midst of an assembly . . . The debate in '35 that began an hour late because one of the judges forgot his appointment . . . Halls ringing with The Music Goes Down and Round . . . The bidding for football tickets in assembly . . . The first pictures our photography club took . . . The spurting of the water fountains giving more than one person a clean face . . . Winning the trophy for debating-dfollowed by placing first in the tenor and the baritone classes in the cityfwide singing contest . . . The squeaking seats in Room 212 . . . Prac' ticing new cheers in assembly . . . Boys trying to open windows in assembly pulling all the cords but the right ones. The number of priceless friends you made during your high school days . . . When the Seniors of '36 were Freshmen in '32 and had to attend every other assembly . . . And when we had to carry cafeteria chairs into the auditorium so that we could sit in the aisles and the trouble we had taking our seats back to the lunchroom . . . The Christmas spirit in the lunchroom- Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells . . . The senior girls' baseball team being beaten by a team onefhalf its size . . . The RED TIE and GREEN BOW days of '36. Josephine Mineo getting locked in the Secretarial Practice Room . . . Joe Knepper buying a garter belt to keep his stockings up while playing hockey . . . Miss Marquardt leading the cheers at the basketball games . . . When Rose Shevlet was usherette at the spring debate and walked gallantly down the aisle to turn and find that nobody was behind her . . . Miss Moore giggling at the Senior Class meeting. The time Miss Middleton asked Norman Ventura to name a tragedy of Shakespeare, Norman's reply: Shakespeare's Macbeth, by Julius Caesar. . . . When Mr. Cavelieri asked Joe Corbo to sit at a girls' table in the cafeteria. Did Joe blush? I should say not. He liked it . . . When Frank Penna told Mr. Dressler's history class that the Pilgrims landed in Virginia . . . The stormy day when all the girls in Room 200 were on time and they didn't ring the tardy bell until 9 o'clock. Were the girls irritated and were their nice curls straight? The time Miss Geyer had getting Jeannette Catanzaro out of the room when she had her eye full of powder in 1932 . . . The time the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra came to G. C. H. S. When Mr. Kennedy was delivering a speech one of the musicians moved a little, striking the chimesg did Mr. Kennedy get the gong . . . When we had the bad weather everyone in school was thanking Old Man Winter because we received a day off, but the laugh was on us when we had a day subtracted from our Easter vacation.

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16 Tara CLEVELANDER Front row: D, Kerr, S. Randazzo, C. Rossi, H. Oirlialoro. S. Pascal. Back row: P. Mazuea, W. Blomberg, F. Sill, J. Hunt, F. Penna. First Place in Debating Won by Grover To the Debating Teams goes the glory of bringing the first trophy, emblematic of supremacy in interfscholastic competition, to the halls of Grover Cleveland. ln their third year of participation in the interfhigh school debate competition the Cleveland forensic stars were able to surprise debate enthusiasts throughout the city and win the coveted Board of Education award. Wiiiiiiiig and losing in the Fall debates and with a total of 12 judges' votes, Grover representa' tives rested in seventh place when the Spring debates took place. Then in one of the biggest upsets in the history of debate competition the Grover team surged into first place by winning both debates and accumulating 19 judges' votes thus giving us a yearly total of three debates won and 31 judges' points. Victory in the interfscholastic debate competition is determined first by the number of debates won and second by the number of judges' votes received. In each contest there are three judges who cast five votes each. These are split between the teams upon the basis of merit in argumentaf tion and presentation. When two or more teams are tied on the basis of debates won the decision goes to the team with the greatest total of judges' votes. The results of the Fall and Spring debates follow: Grover Cleveland, affirmative 8-Hutchinf sonfCentral High School 7g Grover Cleveland, negative 5fRiverside High School 103 Grover Cleve' land, aihrmative 8-Bennett High School 7g Grover Cleveland, negative 12W-East High School 3. The success of both teams depended largely upon the excellent coaching of Mr. Selig Adler and Mr. Frank Dressler. -

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18 THE CLEVELANDER The Prophecy of the Class of 1936 THE PARLIAMENT OF BIRDS QWith apologies to Chaucer, Poe, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Everybody Elsej SCENE: A Student's Den. TIME: No Time. CHARACTERS Student, a Graduate of Grover Cleveland High School . . . Floyd Sill The Raven ...........,.. . . joseph Naples Chanticleer . . . . . . . Louis Privitera Jenny Wren . . . . . Isabelle Leisinger Longfeared Owl . . . . . Frank Penna Bluebird ............... . Ruth Cavanaugh The student falls asleep while reading Poe's Raven In his dream the Raven appears. On the request of the Student for information, the Raven summons members of the feathered tribes who give the following information about the graduates of the Class of 1936. 8 -3 In the field of literature I note that Sebastian Militello's book called Militelloism has been awarded the Nobel Prize for the outstanding work on how to run the government of the United States. The author suggests advisers to help the President. The committee is composed of ten mem' bers, five women and live men each with an equal say so. Salvatore Saiia, Isabelle Liesinger, Peter Zanghi, Marian Corby, Charles Scozzaro, Harriet Liddell, Warren Sweeney, Ethel Nie, Joseph Torchia and Mary Palisano are the members of this committee. The author states that with such competent advisers as these we cannot possibly go wrong. There can be no more depression. Incidentally the book was published by Catherine Grosso and Matilda Nassar. Lena Tona has just been awarded the Rigoli award by Sebastian Rigoli for the century's out' standing poem, entitled, Ode to Donofriof' in honor of the great lover of music, Anthony Donofrio. Rowena Thomson has perfected her television apparatus. Soon she will broadcast the greatest play ever produced, Passing the Buck, written by James Higgins and directed by Rose Moscato. Salvatore Alessi is the hero and Paulette Stauffer, the heroine. Russell Battaglia and Vincent Bar' hcra are the Gfmeng Thomas Buscaglia, the doctor, Jean Trumello, the mystery girl, Evelyn Tymesen, the dancer, Seraphine Rizzone, the telephone operator, Elizabeth Price and Mabel Joseph, the strange women, and Anthony Sodaro, the butler. The scene of the play is in the Empire State Building which was recently purchased by Betty Gimbrone and Irene Kerr. The plot is original and outlandish. In it is the greatest array of stars ever assembled for a drama, a moving picture or a radio broadcast. Here's more theatrical news. Trieste Ripoli and Mildred Ricigliano have purchased a large moving picture studio. John Civello is publicity manager and John Barill, director. Jack Fundaro and Ruth Cavanaugh have been assigned to play opposite each other in the company's new picture, Do Nothing . Wrigley's Gum Manufacturers have sold out to Beck's Gum Company, its greatest rival. The company is owned by Wellington Beck and is operated by joseph Chiaramonte, his business manager, From now on it will be Beck's Gum . Harold Brun and Salvatore Failla are the proprietors of an interior decorating shop. Among the employees are, Jeanette Mazzola, Angeline Mangano, Marian Aquino and Angeline Battaglia. Jane Lonca, Mary Giordano and Angela Fusco sing for the broadcast sponsored by the Drayer Show Company. On the same program, Sarah Guarino and Mary DeGregoria tap dance. Chester Annis is the announcer. Louis Migliore and Dominic Mecca are financing Marie Buscaglia's nonfpropeller airplane invenf tion. The most daring pilots are: Alena Battaglia, Frances Fickera, Mary Berrigan, Marie Carnevale,