McQuaid Jesuit High School - Accolade Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Bishop Kearney lays the cornerstone under the shadow of the growing framework as we assemble for the first time at the NEW school, Bishop Kearney dedic student lives to St, Francis Xavier. During the first week of school, the new grass be- hind the school got a rough workout as football hope- fuls groaned through calisthenic tryouts. Thirty-five stalwarts boarded a bus for South Park, Everyone else, including the grass, had broken under the strain. Bill Meagher, Jack Witzel, Jack Button, Jerry Hickey, Jack Edwards, and Gerry Locklin paced our first football team to a 5-1 record, By Christmas the basketball team had won five straight and promised to extend the streak. Swimming had also been added to the sports roster. Some first heard about it on the radio, others tried to puzzle out the front-door message which started Christmas vacation two days early, But by nine o'clock in the morning of December 21, 1955, everyone knew that fire had swept through the cafeteria. Armed with mops, squeegies, pails, dustcloths, and even shovels, students and faculty set to work cleaning up the debris. Amabhl and the Night Visitors, our play, was resche- duled for the St. Agnes Auditorium on Epiphany and the Oratoricals waited until February. We began a Christmas vacation without assigned homework. We returned January 3 to a cafeteria crammed into the recreation room, staggered lunch hours, an activity period, and exams. George rSppas won the Oratoricals and the Student Council added a February dance to the calendar. In the second half of the basketball season, Mr. Monagan’s charges split with Canisius, losing the Le- Moyne trophy, but twice defeated Aquinas before ca- es £ our school and our Watch it ref: he's going to foul you. Jack Donovan celebrates another victory over Aquinas 98

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Stu studio, music room, bu students and a substitute teacher were not uncommon. The English exam had to be postponed. In the second half of the year, the Knights took two from Canisius to win the LeMoyne trophy, split two gaines with Aquinas, and finished with a 13-5 record. Jerry Hickey led the scoring, followed closely by Jack Button and Gerry Locklin. It took overtime to do it, but the students finally defeated the faculty in a sports contest, a 52-50 victory on Mission Night at the K. of C. Spring brought baseball as Paul Stein and Pete Geiss pitched the Knights to a winning season. May saw the Sodality sponsor our first dance. We filled St. Monica’s Hall, eager to show that we could run our own dance and to have one last night out be- fore Province exams! It had been a full year—lunch in the crowded base- ment of St, Patrick's Church, hot ping-pong matches down in the boiler room, shattered-window air con- ditioning, crumbling desks. Only dreams of the new school made it bearable. During the summer Dick Rohrer brought McQuaid nationwide mentior as he rolled to victory in the na- tional finals of the Soap Box Derby. New faces filled the corridor as we began our second year. Father Kelly replaced Father Fagan as Principal, and Father Hoffen became the first Prefect of Discipline. Paul McGrath was elected the president of our first Student Council, Peter Geiss won a close second- ballot victory over Vincent Prestianni for vice-president, and John DeSando became secretary. 97 And the one day the sink transformed it into @ swimming poo 1D fails under passing arm of Faculty f the ball, the drip of the pipes.

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mop-up after the fire, pacity crowds at home and at the K. of C. to win the Scuteri trophy. The season, begun with an eleven-game winning streak, closed with a 15-2 record. In the process Jim Clapp had become the first Knight to score 200 points in a season. The students completed the victor- fous year with a tense 42-41 victory over the faculty in the mission game. When spring finally did come, John DeSando and George Lappan starred as the Dramatic Society brought the second year syllabus to life with the presentation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. TV’s Navy Log inspired a rash of wrist-slapping contests; and someone men- tioned he had seen a fellow named Elvis Presley on TV the other night. Baseball was washed out by late spring rains. In May we got really excited about Student Council elections. Posters, pictures, promises filled the air and walls as homerooms campaigned for their nominees. Ralph Bufano was elected president, Tony Yazback vice-president, and Brian Fleming secretary. Province exams descended, casting quiet over the hectic year, Someone said this would be our hardest year—at least we could never have gone through it again! As Junior year dawned we began to lose that “out in the desert” feeling. Buses came regularly to Clinton and Elmwood, and profits from the magazine drive financed the planting of a few trees. The parking lot was filling up faster now as we turned 16, and the more persuasive talked someone at home into letting them bring a car to school. Volume III, Number 1 of The Lance reported that Howard Angione and Gerald Esterheld had been named co-editors, McQuaid had gone for Ike and thirteen new teachers joined the faculty. McQuaid had its first “Night at the Barn,” and the Athletic Council sponsored the Varsity M” dance. It was a building year for the football team as they reversed the previous year’s 5-1 record. Soccer and cross country gave more fellows a chance to earn a letter. Basketball got off to a shaky start but the record stood at 4-2 as the old year faded. December was speech month. The Dramatic Society The Christmas pudding was scorched in an all night fire