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

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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

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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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gh the oir ights were trying their basketba A prize picture from the days when spurs, Jim Clapp on the staged Stalag 17, and George Lappan won the Ora- toricals for the second straight year. We left for Christ- mas vacation with entries in our assignment pads. When we returned from vacation, we elected Jack Button and Paul McGrath to head the newly-formed Student Court. “Man in the Street’ quotations helped break the quiet as exams closed in. The “Spirit of 76 permeated the second Student Council Dance. Howard Angione won the best speaker award at the Aquinas Debating Tournament. George Lappan and John DeSando again won awards when the Dramatic Society presented a Shakespearian Festival. Ten straight milaaeaton victories provided the punch as the basketball team finished with a 14-4 record. Gerry Locklin led the varsity, going over the 200 mark in both total points and rebounds. A rookie on the faculty team, Mr. Masino, scored more points than any of us care to remember as the faculty won its first post-season Mission Night contest, 55-47. If there is one night we will remember as the best night of the year, it was the night of our Junior Prom. We filled the grand ballroom of the Powers Hotel for a dance that ended all too soon. Ralph Bufano, Tony Yazback, and Brian Fleming became genuine incumbents as they were elected to head the Student Council for the second straight year. We finished our modern language exam and became at last Seniors in name as well as in deed. Skitch Scan- lan dreamed of a summer of fishing, but along with the rest of us he took a look at the college tuition rates and went to work. Talk about a yearbook was the first sign that Senior year was underway. Three school-wide ballots chose Accolade as a partner for the Knights and the Lance. Father White succeeded our first Student Counselor, Father McCall, who had been assigned to duty as a chaplain in the Air Force. Mr. Frank, Mr. McDonald, and Mr. Moore followed Mr. Browning and Mr. Sams 100 Who wears short-shorts? Lappan gets Fraser Smillia's goats) at the Christmas rally. George to theology studies at Woodstock, Father Boyle, Father Paret, and Father Staebell would be the only Jesuits to span the full four years with us. We went to a new Prefect of Discipline, Father Foley, for admission slips, etc. Every one of us was down, if not out, with Asian Flu at least once during October. More than fifty of us recovered in time for the Washington Excursion, October 24-27. Exotic dishes and sleepless nights were the spice for four full days of sightseeing. In a more serious vein, we traveled to Christ the King Retreat House for our Senior closed retreats. Lured by cash commissions, we brought in yearbook ads (with a big assist from the underclassmen) until editor Brian Fleming gave up trying to figure out how many pages the Accolade would need, We went down for our yearbook portraits before we realized how final it was all becoming. December saw the Dramatic So- ciety judge the fate of Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. As we returned from a socially successful Christmas recess, the snow began to pile up in more ways than one. Every day it took up more precious inches in the parking lot. A deluge of white, test papers for mid- years, college boards, and State Regents exams greeted us in the classroom. Father Kelly’s desk was piled to drift proportions with college applications. The climax came February 4 when the snow outside piled so high that school was closed for the day. Two weeks later more snow closed the school for four more days, and it all grew a little anti-climatic as the novelty began to wear off. March brought a call for the spring play, The Strong are Lonely, and the third annual Oratoricals. As we braced for the stretch drive, events passed faster than ever—Easter vacation, Sports Award Night, May dances. Province exams, Senior Week, the Senior Ball, and Graduation—about all that’s left of high school for us. It has been an exciting privilege, this “pioneering” a new school. Now, as we leave McQuaid for college or work, the biggest challenge is just beginning.