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

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EXCHANGE As you sit comfortably in a soft chair while reading The Power, with home- work on your knees, a snack on the left and 'fCuster's First and Last Standw on television, you think of all the pleasures your yearbook subscription entitles you to, including this column. I am deeply indebted to my fan mail writers, for without the backs of their envelopes, I couldn't have written this humble arti- cle. It's not that we're poverty stricken in our fifth floor retreat, but the backs of said envelopes are convenient during a French or English period when you start doing an article you didnlt do the night before. God knows, I don't want that Zi:H:of- V Editor on my neck dis- turbing me during Activity period when I do my French and English Kes, Gabe and the Brothers will have to ge up quite early to beat yours truly To change the topic this -Xcademys O K Of course I could suggest a few changes First of all I would get rid of the oboes in the music room Their clamor makes it hard to sleep in class Secondlv I would do away with the liters in the Physics class INot that we don t appreciate man s best friend but a school is no place for puppies fGet lt? litter liter yuk yukj These last remarks were written on the basis of excerpts from The Blue Jug Brooklyn Prep Please voice all unfavor able comments to that publication since it was they who incited me to the previ on deplorable lack of enrollment in school activities. This as you well know, is also quite true in Power. Of course, the practice of preaching join Activi- ties all the time gets monotonous, but face facts sooner or later. Powerites have a heritage to fulfill when we attend our school. Through the years Powerites have won athletic awards, debate honors, scholastic med- als, etc. This was not because they took the attitude HLet someone else do it, they had the Ngo-Power to accomplish things themselves. If you are a good speaker or believe you have potentiali- ties, join Debate. If you can write or approach what passes for tblushj writ- ing Join the Press If you are an ath lete try out for some team Theres nothing wrong with being an all around UY you have to We lNow we ll put aside the serious con tent and approach more humorous sub jects If it doesnt offend our scholars de Latinum I will allow The Red Owl of St John s Prep to show everyone else how easy Latin can be Please try to translate Lucit villi erdigo Fortibus es in ero Onobile de is trux X adis in em? Causan ux If you can t translate this simple para graph I m afraid there s no hope for you But for friendship s sake Ill give you a tip Read lt slower and in syllables, thus ous madness The Pauw Wow school paper of St Peters College recently ran an article Luc it villi, er de go Forti bus es in e ro O no bi li de is trux had is in Get it? No! Well, hurry to the office and pick up a transfer. They're flying all over the place right now. There is some Latin teacher down there running around like crazy handing them out to guys who get their Caesar wrong. In case that passage seems difficult to the instructors, pupils, etc., we'll try again. 'iLookit, Billy, there they go. Forty buses in a row. Oh no Billy, they is trucks. What is in them? Cows and ducksf' St. Peter's a while back had an in- quiry into business conditions. The re- sults may help those who are trying to choose a profitable profession. As for anyone not intending to follow one of the occupations listed, we simply hope you will find it amusing Business IS poorj said the begg Sa d the undertaker It s dead Its all write with me, said the author The druggist remarked Oh vial' Nly business is sound said the bandleader The bottler declared, It s corkmg It s very good, ' said the parson The tailor remarked Hlt suits me o -Xn -Xmerican General was asked How many bombs to wipe out the Russians? 1 162 , snapped back the General The Alert CII ow' That sounds very much like they arent expecting war doesnt it? IX ell at least they re doing more than white W ashing ton J Be seeing you by the way 'Nlerry Christmas HARVEY By Tom Cadogan boy www A seven emo N :vs PRDEABLY me tcwssr lN we were swoon. I AND ws +o-msys towns-rf MAQINE 1-4AvaNG YO cone TO A PARENT 1sAc:-:ERS NE TING IIPI A -3 Y P Caus an dux Gosui Tau wwe BELN u THERE OUP N Viourouuoeo mos TODAY em votes Il P Mus? 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These flashy showrngs put the score SP0ll'l'S December 21 1951 Dear Xlen of Power lNow that the basketball season rs rn full swrng rt would be well to make a sober observatron on sports here at Power Nlemorral Our great school rs steeped rn glory as our trophy case well attests But regardless of the num ber of rnanrmate cups and statuettes the true greatness of Power teams rs that rntangrble rnherent characterrstrc known as sportsmanshrp To every true Power athlete sportsmanshrp has meant farr play a srncere applrcatron of the golden rule Though our squads have delrghted rn vrctory braggrng and gloat mg or any form of drshonesty have had no place rn therr make up To every athlete and to ex ery observer rt rs absolutely essentral to note that the cardrnal prrncrple of athletrcs at Power rs the lack of favorrtrsm We have no fraternrtres we care not for natronalrtres socral or financral standrng Whatever student comes to our Academy and can play basketball he rs our man Our five best wrll make up our first team Furthermore to make the Power team the athlete must do as he rs told The young man who rs not reasonable enough to see that the team counts for more than the rndrvrdual rs not worth worryrng about One of the greatest factors rn garnrng success rs team sprrrt A team must thrnk as a unrt rt must be resolved that whatever an rndrvrdual does he does for the good of the whole There rs only one purpose rn placrng a squad rn competrtron and that rs to wrn to wrn wrth superror play farr play good sportsmanshrp and to prt bram agarnst bram X rctory rn such fashron and rn no other way develops the finest characters Characters are molded for good or bad by those rntrusted wrth the de velopment of the young Over the past four years the basketball teams have been molded by Mr Edward Burns In thrs age of go getters he rs a go hrmself to hrs charges by the charm of hrs personalrty hrs sense of farr play hrs sympathy and consrderatron for hrs players and above all by the grvrng of hrmself for the benefit of others Men of Power yours rs a great school Those rn charge of your athletrc department are devoted to the marntenance of that greatness on the field of sport Whether we wrn champronshrps or not remember we have grven Power our best efforts Do you lrkewrse Srncerely, Are They Washoutsl' Confident but undermanned the P M A tankmen packed therr trunks and hugh tarled rt to our home tank at 28th Street for the frrst meet of the com mg wrnter season Wrth hrs team hardly dry behrnd the ears moderator Brother Lawrence srzed up the years prospects after the clrckrng stop watches had checked rn the last man rn the final re lay Only two pornts behrnd up untrl thrs pornt farlure to turn on the steam rn the final lap of the relay put the Power swrmmers on the short end of a 32 26 score A poor turn at the far end of the pool thus tossed the confident but rll prepared tank men rnto the losrng 60 BROTHER KOSTKA column The drmrnutrve moderators comment lNot enough practrce You dont learn the art of turnrng over nrght' Its hard to whrp up rnterest rn thrs damp and chrllrng sport Dropprng the first meet hasn t helped the srtuatron rn the slrghtest The old story of a drs heartened squad game but wrth all the zrp gone seems on the verge of berng repeated Checkrng the frgures on the meet shows that the story need not be so Speed and talent are there are practrce and hard work the majorrty what s not at least for clocked rn A snazzy Medley Relay 1 16 4 shows that Paul Holfelder f507J Peter Daly 14041 and Ray Osborne f403l have what rt takes to whrp rnto shape a cracker Jack team Wrth Hol felder duplrcatrng hrs success and john Carroll f6OSJ churnrng the water rrght behrnd hrm the water borne lanthers hrt the finrsh mark of the 100 vd back stroke rn the first and second slots Rackrng up the pornts lrke that rn any meet should put any well balanced team rn the blue chrp class KN hat grves wrth the Panthers? Thrs was the first trme rn the week that some of the team members had been rn the pool even though practrce had been scheduled for three days dur mg the week Wrnded by the hard pull of swrmmrng rn competrtron some had to be practrcally hauled out wrth a boat hook One observer wryly commented that a few of the fellows would have drfficulty makrng the far srde of a gold fish bowl Not so wrth James Gallagher C5065 and Thomas McMahon f403J' Break rng beautrfully at the crack of the start ers gun therr arms and legs were rn motron before they hrt the drrnk Lrttle up and out before the others were rn harlrng drstance of the frnrsh mark Clocked rn 1 04 and 1 04 4 respectrvely they copped first and second rn the 100 yd freestyle at 28 26 wrth the final event yet to come A wrn rn thrs relay would have put the Purple and Gold two pornts ahead of the opposrtron and would have brought home the bacon rn thrs the openrng round of the season At thrs pornt however the teams group weakness was the tellrng factor The prevrous achrevements went for naught as the result of a poor showrng rn thrs final event CLack of practrce arded and abetted the srtuatron J Dropprng the meet rn thrs fashron was gallrng to those of the team who knew where the trouble lay Outscored as a team but not outclassed rndrvrdually the harder workrng members knew that the story could have easrly been a drfferent one lxo matter how fine a showrng was made they felt that second place doesn t satrsfy If only we had l Those turns l A brt more practrce and the story would have been drfferent Thats what hurt The Power , 7 , . . . , . . . . . . 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FACULTI Ll 1 Brother Kostka Power took up 1ts defenslxe posrtlons, waxtlng eagerly for a chance to rlght a lopslded score On the slde llnes Brother T P Ixostka sat dlsheartened at the tally Brother, who moderates the Band also helps out wrth Mother s Club act1 v1t1es -X man well llked he has been teachmg at Power for snr years Slttlng beslde Brother watchmg the game avldly was Mr Burns The star player strolled off the court and the stu dent body clamored loudlv The boys on the bench greeted h1m w1th rous1ng cheers 'NIr Burns moderator of the var slty team for seven years received and warmly congratulated hlm for h1s help 1n wlnnlng the game Also an excellent teacher 1n mathematlcs Nfr Burns has done an outstandmg Job further1ng bas ketball at Power Trawelmg over the East Slde to Ixlps Bav Boxs Club we meet a delegauon of swlmmers eagerly dlscussmg thelr prob LaBua Mr Humphrexs 62 L1Br x M r Burns lems Brother Lawrence IS lntroducrng some undergraduate ln the currect usage of arms for a partlcular stroke Nlean t1me the others occupy the pool and d1x1ng board ID the effort to lmproxe st1'l more -Xsxde from guldlng the team Brother teaches Latln and Hrstory VX 1th certam confldence 1n them and assurance rn the1r success we leave them to go Journeung downtown where we dlscover a member of the track team buslly engaged 1n EXCTCISC ordered by 'Xfr Humphrexs therr coach Stoppmg a moment for a chat we find out that th1S IS Hr Humphreys first year at Power He lS a graduate of Iona Col lege and IS hopmg for greater accom IJllSl'lYIlCI'ltS than ex er seen before from a Power track team Dlrectmg the boxs 1n a sport such as thrs IS a complxcated and dlfficult task but the record so far and the cooperatlon of the sprmters show that he has done the job excel Powprc Brother T V Rxan Powplc Brother Lawrence lently VK hen the handball team assembles for a practlce Brother T V Rvan wlll se lect a few of the many who try out for the comparltnely new P 'NI -X sport Only a few veterans are left to defend 1ts t1tle of the best Cathollc H1gh School Hhandball team The Coach, who has been at Power for frve years thought lt would be a dlfhcult rebu1ld1ng season But after seelng the excellence of the handball players IH the school yard, even cautlous Brother Ryan had to adm1t that rt looked as 1f we were headlng for another perfect vear Lp to today Power trackmen are earnestlv practlcmg for the lndoor sea son th1s year wlth a new moderator Brother Delaney Brother devoted much of h1s t1me to the 1nterests of the team and a great deal of h1s day IS spent not rn track though but 1n teachmg Rell glon LaBua Brother Delaney The Power v 1 QQ , if he 1 HF: M...,.a.gfQt, ABUQ , H 'Y A . . I . . . , . ' 7 - V . v. . . V ' D ' 7 , ' .x .r . . ' ' ' v 1 1 1 A - l . . Q ' ' , . . . . , ' 1 L . . ' 1' . A , ' , . K . Q . ' Y , , V . . , Y Y . I 1 v 1 A v . - 7 1 A . ' Y 1 . v v' , Q Y . . Y. , Y , , 7 v Y . . . . . . , . , 5 ' v. . . . - Y . - . 1 1 K 'VJ -. V I