Power Memorial Academy - Power Yearbook (New York, NY)

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NEWS Arr Rand The Day Power Memorlal Stood Stull Thxrd per1od was just begmnrng' There was tenslon xn the alr Seconds ago Brother Hennessy had announced oyer the P -X that the Mr Ra1d Drxll would shortly take place He had been warned 1n ady ance by a speclal Xellow Slgnal Xl hop XX hop VK HOP VK HOOO The sxrens walled and pos1t1ons were scrambled for Then qulet relgned and the drlll went on as practlced Brother Conefrey slnce he had not practrced w1th a class the day before was startled to behold h1s 406 ers rawl mg under desks 11ke crazy textbooks strll ln hand Dlsmay was apparent IH other places IH the school Imaglne the teacher IH 306 who had sxx foot Pete Xesey folded up llke a carpenter s rule under a tlny Freshman desk On the slxth floor some astute pupxls w ere standlng w1th the1r heads bur1ed 1n a pane of glass fan or1,,1nal posltlon lf the bomb d1d drop They exther wanted to depart from thrs l1fe fast and thus not waste the opportumty of bemg ln the by the tremendous December heat J One of our outstandmb lay teachers QNIr Ixassj the day before had threat ened to wear oy eralls to school 1f he was requlred to crawl on the floor ln a few mlnutes the All Clear sounded and eyeryone returned to hrs class That afternoon Brother Hennessy announced that the dr1ll was a complete success and that we had conducted our sely es 1n an exemplary manner In ad d1t1on he told us that 1n the near future a nre drrll would be held to thus lnsure the safety of the school 1n any emer hency OH To Aff1C3 tbelowj was at ltS successful peak, a great steamer sa1led out of New York Harbor bound for South Afrlca O board were two men destlned to make a 's2s 'l. 1 'x 'I-ZW. 'I 'Hrs LCWIS whets the klddles buylng appetltes w1tl1 some frxlls from the gala stage on Wlllfll Brother Kostka and Hr- Fltzpatrlck awarded prizes 40 Mother s Club Pennles, Pennles Everywhere One of the b1ggest and most success ful anual functxons of the 'Nlother s Club of Power 'Nlemorlal IS the Penny Sale, a type of bazaar, whlch was conducted th1s year under the leadershlp of Mrs Helen Forbes, Pres1dent of the orgam zatlon and under the moderat1on of Brother Rlce -Xll members elther sent a glft, the yalue of wh1ch was determxned by the sender or made a donat1on of one dol lar The g1ftS were used as prlzes, the money pald for decoratxons, stand rental, The Power . , V ' zz 'V ' ' ' ' v V V . . . . . ,' ' ' 5 1 e - . . U' ' . ' ' ' V VV. . O' rl. Incidents State of Grace or they were overcome A5 the mst night of the penny Sale 7 . 1 . v v I 7 . . , . U L ' ' Q - , , ' d' - , . ' . I1 ' v ' J nv v v 1 y H . ' . X r SQ f N.,

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'NEWS to Pow er to fulnll hrs promxse In hr speech one whxch ex erx Power student should hate heard he stated h1s prrde 1n bemg a graduate of the Acad emx and mstrlled a greater measure of that prlde 1n all those attendmg Nlr Gormans speech had been pre ceded by an address bx Ur Jo eph K1ng sports colummst for The II orld Telegram and Sun The exenmg had be gun bt the showrnv of the illm The Nlalung of a Yankee the story of a ballplax er from hrs mtrorluctron lnto the mrnor leagues untxl hrs day of days m X ankee Stadlum At the conclusron of the speeches re freshments were served and Brother O Dwyer the new moderator w1th 'NIr -Xndrew Gavnor the Presldent, declared the affarr to be a huge success L IN Y YY orld Tclcgrclm and Sun Sports Colurnm t Joe Kmff Exams Dreaded Days Nox ember 14 and 13 seemed just hlte am other daxs 1n 1991 s elexenth month There was ru t enough ot an 1n troductlon of Xhnter to make worlnnv pleasant and all of Pow er w as fex er1 hlx takmg adx antaffe of the weather uar terlx Exams w ere here Dues Irae There was a srlence 1n the school usuallx re erx ed for the lrbrarx and thls arr prexarled al 0 on the mneteenth when Report Cards were dl trrbuted Brother Hennessy h1mself gaxe them out December 21, 1951 LaBua The mlllmv throng awalts the hour of retrlhutlon as the EYHIHIIIBIIOII Day LllIlChllIllC IS about to termlnate to the Ireshmen and Qemors whrle the other cl rssmen recelx ed them from their teachers Entrance Exams On Frrdax December 7 school was drsmrssed at twelxe o clock The reason potentlal February Irrosh were taltmg Entrance Exams rn the afternoon Powpxc Tom Carman Xlmost IOOO most of whom came from Long, Island rnvaded Power After haxmg, pald therr fee they were ar ran fed rn groups of twenty ive and under the leadershxp of Semor proctors, were taken to the classrooms There they had thexr nrst taste of l1fe at Power, for the Exams were preceded by a Hall N1ary LaBua A brood of sounff uns wlth tlrelr que tlonnalres Lv vxi , , ,'. v ll - .' , 'D ,. Q 7, 7 vf V' A 1 7 ' l l ..U . U . . - l l. : g ' - ', A Thousand Strong r 5 1 N .S . U .S y E . Q - , . 1 5 ' X . a . - A we v 5 Q v .S . . D v , I o I n . Q C a 39

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'NEWS name for themselxes rn the Ireld of Xfrr can natrxe educatron Thex were both I Q B members Brother Nlartrn and Brother XIcLou,1zhlrn Though unrelated bx blood thex hate been together srnce H1 h School Lanada and entered the Chrrstran Brothers of Ireland at the same trme For srx tears thex had been separated but now thex were fulfrllrng a dream They were on therr wav to jorn two other school chums rn teachrng at the Nlrssron at Ixrmberly South Xfrrca One of them Brotherj K Nlartrn he had hlled rn when a teacher was ab sent etc and was drstrngurshed as The Brother wrth the drv humor and the horn rrmmed glasses He entered the Order rn 1940 and be van teachrnf at St Qecelras rn N X Q From there he went to teach at Power and then was transferred to the 11 est Coast For the past three tears he had been statroned at ODea Hr h School 11 ashrngton where he was moderator of the xearbook 11 hen Brother Nlartrn reads thrs ar trcle rt wrll be from a copx sent to hrm rn krmberlx and the New Xear wrll be but a dax or two awax Thrs rs to let hrm know that he starts 1932 and hrs labors there wrth the best wrshes of hrs lrrends rn New Xork Happx New Xear Sodallty Pms Inqulrm g Freshman One of the newcomers to Power was wanderrng through the srwrth Hoor one afternoon earlx rn October He peered rnto the Chapel and was surprrsed to drscox er a Relrffrous ceremom Home on It was nlled wrth Senrors berng ad dre sed bx Father N1cGough Pre sed for trme our Freshman had to return to hrs classroom That after noon he asked one of hrs fourth xear frrends about what had taken place at those rmpressrxe proceedrnvs and was answ ered Fortx Senrors w ere enrolled rn the iodalrtx small frx and rf wou mu t know more Ill ffrxe xou the hap penrnf s chronologrcallx 11 e went to the the Prax er of Lonsecratron whrle Father NlcGough blessed the srlxer Sodalrty pm and Brother Galwax our modera tor gate us our certrhcate of member shrp 11 e went to our pews as Sodalrsts Cokes arc slpped whllc awaltrn the rafflm of the basket of cheer for wluch Hrs Caulfield sells Chances etc and bought addrtronal ware for some lucky Nlothers Llub patron to wrn The chances were based on the rnsrgnrhcant denomrnatron of one pennx as the name of the affarr rmplres Thrs wear rt ocurred on the nrghts of Decem ber 7th and 8th lnnovahon The '91 Sale had somethrnq new added Brg Canarx colored cards were drstrrbuted to the student bodx for sale to themselxes therr parents and therr frrends There were srxtx blanks each representrng a chance and each repre sentrng one second 11 rnners on these cards were determrned bt who had wrrtten the closest approxrmatron of the December 21, 1951 trmes that would appear on fifteen clocks whose faces were hrdden and whrch were placed at mam spots around the -Xudr torrum Prrzes for thrs portron of the exenrng were rn the form of currencx to the amount of three hundred and trftv dollars Reward Nlembers of the Nlother s Club Com mrttee that had helped set the scene rn the Xudrtorrum for the esent were re warded wrth a drnner rn the school cafe terra rmmedratelx after the close of the second and last nrsht of the Sale How ex er no one w ent home unrewarded who attended rt for prrzes and splendrd en tertarnment took care of that Photos hw LaBu1 -X gas sale-lads Hr- Prlefer 41 ' I L . ,H . u .h. A -'h.b ' . . , . ' A 'g Q 5 1' A ' of ' 'fi' in - ' ' s ' , . ' '. . L . - ' . U v ' Y A v Y 5 - - u ' rs' ' 1- - was known to many Power students, for and 00091 Luck- Brother! Altar rail in groups of six and recited 7 A7 I v 0 o Al V . . . . , 1 , . ,, ' Q I :Y 1 -Y s Ai f 'F . . l . U . U a u u u . Y ' A I g n F' P ' Q Q 7 a , ' Y ir 'J