Iona Preparatory School - Saga Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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Prince and Lahey admire Smith's newly-acquired letter . ROM the first grade class of l939, only three staunch Ionians are available to see their classmates graduate. During their eight cherished years in the grammar school, they have come under the jurisdiction of six excel- lent brothers. Each year the class increased in knowledge and size, until now there is a long line of honor students eagerly awaiting gradu- ation. From the fifth grade on, the graduating class has shown great promise in the field of writing. With profound' enthusiasm, junior editors and their staffs published class papers of amazing quality and appeal. These journals were excellently written, closely competing with previous eighth grade newspapers. And this region produces . The bulk of the graduating students en- tered the class in seventh grade. With flying colors, they advanced to the present eighth grade, where their spirit and integrity drove them to even higher levels of knowledge, ln sports, the graduating class is almost without equal, playing and winning the great- est game in all grammar school football history, the game with All Hallows. Through good clean sports, industrious study and cultural activities, the graduating class 'has learned more than simply their re- quired lessons. Under the expert guidance of the Brothers, they learned to emphasize good sportsmanship and the proper conduction of themselves as true lona Men.

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REV. BRO. SULLIVAN Eighth Grade REV. BRO. FITZSIMMONS 5eVe 'h Gfade Rev. Bao. MARTIN REV. BRO. KILLELEA Fifth Grade REV. BRO, KEANE Third Grade QM 172 First abd Second Grade REV. BRO. BRADLE' Fourth Grade REV. BRO. DILLEMUTI Sixth Grade

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Peter Brunenmeister Pete has attended Iona from the first grade. He is class vice- president and has participated in all Minim and Midget Grammar School sports, He has been a consistent honor student and will always be remembered by his classmates. Charles Booth Charley, a personable and curly-haired boy, has been prominent at Iona for the past eight years. He has been a highly valuable member of the Midget football and baseball outfits and has expressed splen- did effort in his studies. ,s a K Q Booth, Brunemeister and Byrne pay close attention to BrownelI's distant observation. Louis Brownell After entering the sixth grade of Iona from Scarsdale's Edge- mont School, Louis worked hard here, and as a result he ranks well in the class standings. Al- though he has -been active in dramatics and elocution, his fav- orite pastimes are those of an outdoorsman. Cooper Byrne For the past seven years, Cooper 'has brightened the halls of Iona with his amiable and co- operative spirit. Coop has taken part in the activities of the Debate Club, the Dramatic Society and the Elocution Class. His hobbies include model-ship building and all phases of pho- tography. l74