La Salle Academy - La Sallite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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1848 38 By this time jay Rotheim is looking for his name so here is his history. Jay worked in a shipyard by day as a riveter and as a result became a Rhumba teacher at night. Right now he is part of the navy involuntarily. By mistake he riveted himself to the bottom of a battleship. While we are at sea we come to Joe Croce's story. Joe always used to go into interesting subjects deeply at school. He was always courteous and polite. This was his downfall however. Joe became a deep sea diver and one day he tipped his helmet to a mermaid while working under water. The last I saw of Larry Flanagan was when he was in the hospital. Larry was pretty restless in school so when he graduated he started a job as Hag-pole sitter. Cccasionally he would go to sleep while on the job but one day he rolled over. Joe Lennihan is pretty new to the machine but still it tells his story. It says joe got a job in a circus as a sword swallower. He was going along fine until he burped and cut off both his feet. Another circus man was Dick Kenneweg. He used to jump 3,000 feet into a slightly moist postage stamp. His career almost ended when he tried jumping into a thimble of water. The poor fellow almost drowned. The ball hits the last pin with the name of john O'Grady on it. Because of his lack of sales resistance he now plays a harp in St. Gabriel's land. While listening to the radio, the announcer said Go out that nearest exit and buy some beans right now. O. G. happened to be sitting by a window sixty floors above the street. Well! like O. G. this is the end. 4B' For 99 years De La Salle has been graduating men who were to go out and make a lasting place in the world for themselves. But what of the 100th graduating class, the class of '48? We'll drop in on a class reunion at. the Verdi Square Hotel in the year 1973, and see how our boys made out in 25 years. Just follow me, the party must be in full swing by now. Here we are. You can check your hats over there . . . ready? Just look around! The fellows certainly look different after 25 years, a little older Cnaturallyj and far more distinguished. It seems to be a very happy party, but wait! Is that an argument going on at that table? . . . Oh! I should have knowng it's Speaker of the House, Tom Eichenberger, having an impromptu de- bate with Senator john McHale CR. - N. YJ over the possibilities of a war with Lower Slobovia and the conversation is being made lively by General of the Army, Kevin McKay, who is always ready to fight any war with anybody. Let's wander around and see who else is here . . . I see Freddy Wertz, the atom scientist Che intends to blow up the entire world as a place unfit for humans to live inj speaking softly with his buddy, Ernie Higginson, the man who is anti-everything Che also runs the penny arcade on 42nd St., and is New York's biggest bookie - 3.50 to win on Citation III - please!J. We have quite a few teachers with us to- night, so let's go over to the Faculty Corneri' and see the boys. We find here Prof. Ed Padden Cthe pride and joy of Alma Materj, rmw chief assistant to our illustrious History teacher, Brother Leonard, with Jim Thompson, first assistant to chief assistant Padden Cjim is in charge of all preliminary exams to qualify for qualifying exams in Historyj . . . We also have John Manning another frus- trated History teacher Cit's rumored that he lost his mind somewhere between the Down- fall of Rome and the Middle Ages J . . . Now in Faculty Corner's athletic department we have Andy Cyour hero and minej Cordial, said to be the best P.T. coach since the days of the fabulous joe Cuneen . . . And here's big Dick Clifford, our school's first billiard instructor . . . I see we also have a visiting coach with us, Long Tom O'Halloran, who guides the football squad at John Adams High. Oo-pps! What did I just bump into? . . . It's john O'Brien, a late arrival Cas usualj. You must remember john or Moose, as we called him? He's the man who drank all the beer that would have kept Milwaukee famous! . . . There's another big man, Jack, or should I say His Honor, judge John M. Cassidy Che commits the mentally ill to institutions, and after graduating with the 4B class he is well qualitied to pick out the mentally ill from the normalj? He's speaking with two famous men, Felix Del Monte, President of the Republic of Santa Domingo and Dermot Foley, the famous Irish gunrunnerf' But wait! There's the manager of the hotel! Well, if it isn't Ernie Sgroi Cwhat a dapper fellowij and he seems to be trying to wake someone up . . . it's Vincent Breen dozing off. You know, Vinnie is Vice-President in charge of bed testing for the Sleep-Well Mattress Company. At the same table we have that prominent specialist in something or other, Dr. Joseph Saggese Cthe man who in his youth dis- covered that the walking man was a D.L.S. dash manj talking to a former De La Salle miler of great note, the man with the long black beard, President Frank Smith of that famous cough drop company. I think I see Prof. John Alsheimer Cwinner of the Schmaltz Prize in Astronomyj over at the window gazing at the constellation, Alte- bacon, in his honor . . . Also sitting by the window is our engineer, john McCarthy Cthe man who ripped 'down the George Washington Bridge and built a better mouse-trapj . . . We also have a few authors. There's Hank Hielferty, who wrote How not to Play Basket- ball, Baseball or Anything and the prominent health expert Peter Callahan, author of Effects of Milk Cin containersj in Sports Cespecially Hockeyjf' A very important man just walked in. I see it's Charlie Giardina, our renowned pianist Che's an iceman in his spare time, and Captain Robert Hammerton, skipper of the America III Cthat's the new Staten Island Ferryj . . . Last but not least, we have the business tycoon Che owns a nut factory, it goes with his mental capacityj. Thus we have the class of '48, true represen- tatives of De La Salle.

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1948 PHUPHEEY UF THE CLASS UF '48 Whenever some class graduates from any school, someone always wants to know what will become of his classmates. We have here at De La Salle a magic pinball machine, which is legal, that forecasts the future of our illus- trious graduates. Let's see what happens. We pull back the lever of our machine and let fly a ball which goes up the slot and hits the first pin which lights up jack Carolan. Good old J. C. is the horse's best friend. He now owns a stable, which he calls home, of horses all of which pull junk carts and milk wagons. jack is a good breeder of horses but does little breathing while working. Next the ball bounces off the cushion marked Gillen. Ken was referred to in one of the copies of the Record as Golden voiced Kenny. In his business he still uses his voice to promote the sale of fish at the Fulton Fish Market. There is a dull light as the ball strikes another pin. No wonder it is the name of Ed. Donnelly that is inscribed on it. I came upon him one day in 1967 wearing a candle on his head because someone called him light- headed. Now Ed has bought up all the salt water in the world and is renting it to the beaches for swimming purposes. Joe Bissell is lit up next. joe always loved uniforms that's why he joined the National Guard. With every advance in rank he got a new uniform. He was so far advanced that for falling asleep at his post one day the army got him a special uniform with stripes all around and P.W. marked on the back. The ball caroons off the pin with Ben Man- daro's name on it. Ben was always a big gun at D.L.S. and, if you will pardon the expression, played the accordian. Little is known of Ben because at the tender age of 20 he slipped in the tub where he made his cheese and was never heard of again. As the ball thunders down the machine it is knocked for a loop as it hits the pin of Alessio Matera. He was the picture-taking genius of 4A in his prime 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 against Tess and the other a case of brew for 4A. The only way he makes money is by selling the negatives for stink bombs. joe Smith opened an antique shop at the age of 99 but soon closed because he was the oldest thing in the shop. He now has a job of holding up the Brooklyn Bridge but don't tell the cops. As the word Spumoni lights up on a pin it can only mean Larry Marchiony. He has revolutionized the ice cream industry by getting it direct from the cows. The only trouble is where can you put the money? George Kreese's light goes on next. Last we heard of George he was writing a Chemistry book for idiots. He is sending me his first copy personally autographed. George got loose in the lab one day' when it was on the first floor, now the lab is on the top floor and we finally got a gym. james O'Hara, the machine tells us, grew up to be public enemy No. 1 until he was told by the men in white coats not to around put- ting his picture on Post Office walls. All kidding aside james was made a general in the National Guard - a general nuisance. .Another james lights up - james Hannon. Jim got a job in a bank and probably would have been president and richest man in the world but he quit when he had to bring back the trinkets he had taken home. The trinkets happened to be 15 million dollar bills which he thought were no good because all of them had the same picture on them. When Hannon lights up, Ronald Podesta lights up right after him. The two of them are like one but when they only put one nickel in the subway slot that's going too far. A long time ago Ron fell asleep at the beach and was eventually washed out to sea and across the ocean to Russia. When he awoke the people were talking in Russian, so thinking the United States was invaded he ran to the nearest recruit- ing office and is now a part of the five year plan. Charlie Pou is another magnate according to our machine. Recently he astounded the world by buying every cane in the world for his sugar factory. The only thing wrong was, instead of buying sugar cane he bought walking canes. Oh well! have a nice trip. The ball rolls along until it hits Ken Hughey's pin. Ken used to work for the under- ground but was fired and accused of being a spy when he lost the subway he operated for the Seventh Avenue Transit Co. between 72nd and 73rd Sts. It seems he worked for the Third Avenue El. Gerald Harwood brings a happy note when he is lit. Gerry the man of big words and a frame to match, had a problem and so went to Mr. Anthony. Seeing a large audience he forgot his problem and did a scene from Macbeth before anyone got wise. He was thrown off the air but not before Mr. Anthony solved Mac- beth's problem. The ball hits Edward Kraus' pin and so another forecast. Ed, in my opinion, had one of the greatest brains that we ever graduated from D.L.S. He would have gone far if he graduated the same year his brain did. Ramon Joseph is a senator now the machine states. Recently he debated in congress the bill about baby sitters rights. The old bill said that they must sit with babies until they are asleep but Joe claims it is too crowded for both of them in the crib. His coll - . both the bill . - - - n. y wi l be changed. The machine says that James Broedell coul have become a great lawyer if he had only gone to the right bar to take his examinations From what I hear jims still at the wrong bar but still going strong -- -. strikes the 3- s t enny who is not conceite ut in 1946 protested violently because Rosalind Russell played the lead in Sister Kenny. He is now on the moon work- ing at Moonogram Studios. He is director, pro- ducer and cast of the new version of Sister Kenny. jack Doolan is another distinguished graduate who is coyly cornering the market in Dentistry. He has bought every comb he could find in order to sell the teeth. He says Now Miriam can go around without using Irium. The ball momentarily stops at the pin of Robert Williamson. While at D.L.S. Bob was an outstanding runner. Today he is still running. It seems he forgot to turn in his track suit when he was told and now they are after him. No matter how fast he goes he will never replace the automobile. The ball, which is tired from rolling, strikes the pin of Robert Whealan. Back in 1959 Bob decided New Jersey had nothing to offer him so he came to New York to make some money.. The only trouble was Bob's was not as good as the money made by the treasury so he is having a vacation up the river courtesy of the g0VEI'I1I1'l6!1t. 37

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SE IDB CLASS PULL 4A Ramon joseph Joseph Bissell John O'Grady Gerald Harwood Ramon joseph Kenneth Gillin Benjamin Mandaro Thomas Kenny james Brodel Benjamin Mandaro Gerald Harwood jay Rotheim Charles Pow Kenneth Gillen john O'Grady Chemistry Daily News Journal-American Life A. Cronin Bing Crosby Lana Turner Robert Willianlson Chesterfield Steak Girls Manhattan Take it easy Basketball Baseball Tommy Dorsey Fox-trot Bing Crosby Peggy Lee Henry Morgan Jimmy Powers Green Years Lady of Fatima Gunga Din Star Dust Bob Hope Dodgers Body and Soul Brant's Most Typical D.L.S. Man Most Likely to Succeed Most Popular Most Sophisticated Most Appreciated Class Politician Class Optimist Class Pessimist Class Lothario Best Looking Best Dressed Class Orator Class Wit Favorite Subject Favorite A.M. Newspaper Favorite P.M. Newspaper Favorite Magazine Favorite Author Favorite Actor Favorite Actress Best Athlete Favorite Smoke Favorite Food Favorite Diversion Favorite College Favorite Expression Favorite Indoor Sport Favorite Outdoor Sport Favorite Orchestra fBandj Favorite Dance Favorite Male Vocalist Favorite Female Vocalist Favorite Radio Program Favorite Columnist Favorite Novel Favorite Play Favorite Poem Favorite Song Favorite Comedian Favorite Ball Team Favorite Movie Favorite Hangout 4B John Cassidy Thomas Eichenberger Andrew Cordial Fred Wfertz Frank Smith John McHale Ernest Higgenson Fred Wertz joseph Saggese Andrew Cordial Thomas O'Halloran Donald Cox Thomas Eichenberger Ernest Sgroi History Daily News Journal-American Life Gilbert K. Chesterton Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman John Cassidy Chesterfield Steak Girls Manhattan Charming Basketball Football Tex Benke Fox-trort Bing Crosby Peggy Lee Henry Morgan jimmy Powers The Robe Lady of Fatima Gunga Din Now is the Hour Bob Hope N. Y. Giants Naked City Verdi Square 1948 39