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

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---iEXTBACUBBICULA Oratorsz Declamation Contest Those fortunate enough to be at Mount St. Michael's last month tDec. l5thJ heard among other works, a scene from Rostandis famous work, Cyrano de Bergeracf' A play was not being held, rather was there a dramatic and hum- orous Declamation Contest in which our representatives participated Listed be low are the orators and their pieces Ralph Della Cava a scene from Cy rano de Bergerac james McGee The Black Cat john Fogarty The But ton Richard Page The Cask of Amontillado At this contest Power did not win any trophies but we scored a greater amount of points than such schools as Xavier Chammade All Hallows Aquinas Cath yerlne McCauley and Brooklyn Prep These accomplishments were oversha dowed for the moment by the lunch which was served to all the contestants in the Mounts cafeteria On January 12, there was a three round Freshmen Oratorical Contest. CThose lucky spokes- man got free lunch too.j This event took place at La Salle Academy. The Power freshmen in this tournament were Ri- chard Dunne, Vincent Malafronte and Chrales Tamburello. Their respective pieces were, An Appeal to Arms, 'tSpartacus to the Gladiators and War and Democracy. Debate ' With the excellent moderation of Bro thers Conefrev and Nagle the debate team IS expected not only to equal their previous records but to surpass them with quite a margin The outstanding team for two years has been Frank Bat ridge and his cousin james Fitzgrbbons Outrankmg them are the veteran deba tors who boast three years experience like john Egan and John Fogarty who helped us win a trophy two years ago in the Irish Christian Brothers Debate Tournament A newcomer jimmy Hayes helps bolster the negative Senior team This now brings us to that third year star Mike Hynes Mike 15 the promis ing individual who leads the Junior team. The most promising Frosh are C. Tamburello, R. Wolfe, M. Andrews, J. Bastias, and J. Scott. You debate fans can be sure that we'll have plenty of info next issue, too, since it is quite an exception when our debate team doesn't make history. Band Current Events Recently letters of invitation to the annual music conference of the Catholic Music Education League were sent to the principals of Catholic High Schools in lNew York The affair took place in Steinway Music Hall Saturday after noon December 1 at 1 15 PM It was here that the principals discussed plans for the seventeenth yearly music festival This celebrated event will be held next spring The festival has the wholehearted ap proval of the archdiocese and the diocese of Brooklyn The most important event John Egan Paul Bastias Privrleged debators Paul Mullaney and Dick Dunne sit while companions in oratory Ed Sancho Wally Watson and Dick Pa e stand to pose for this picture Ed Andrews Bob Wolfe Powp John pogany Mzchael Hynes 74 The Power . . , - . '- ' .. 1 H . . . . . 2 yy rr - ' ' ' , -' r N . H . . . . , , 1 , U - . . . . J . ' - . . . , 7 . , , . . . 2 J 1 ' . . , , . . , . I ' ' u . , . - - - . . , Q - u 7 A , 5 ' v J A 'A ll f ' et , . n, pkg, V4 4 .i -. t ' 'A ' i f fir , I , It A A ,. iv ics . . . - - x . I , ' rr . U ' kv A

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Examinations: The Most Pensive Power Week of 1952 The Regents papers had lard m a strongbox for several weeks On the mormng of January 21st the key to the box arrrved by speclal messenger It was opened and wrth the dxstrrbutron of the first paper the semr annual examma tlons began To the speedlly wr1t1ng group of Senrors rn the audrtorlum rt was an antr chmax after the weeks of prep aratron they had put rn studymg lt was merely routme In other parts of the school, rn class rooms, laboratorres and even rn the aud 1tor1um the hum of students busy at work could be heard To each boy the exams meant some thmg drfferent For the Semor, lf h1s work was above average, rt m1ght mean a scholarshrp to college Even for the Semor Wlth average marks, good grades rn the exams would get h1m 1nto a bet ter college For the Junror lt was a chance to rmproxe h1s grades and lf a great rmproxement was shown, perhaps some more free t1me after school away from h1s books To the average Sopho more rt was a chance to get back 1nto the good graces of hrs parents And even the Freshmen benefited by the exams for these were h1s first b1g tests ln hlgh school and by thexr results he would know exactly how much more trme he needed to put 1nto h1s studylng All 1n all It was a hard week for the Powerrtes Yet an mfrmtely satrsfymg one the exam lt ot tou llcr as tllllf, clap ed and selrolarlw tllou lrt appear: in NEWS .Z Twenty Cl ht flaws affo over a tllous and of us took nud term Prlmed and reads Pete Panther tw plcal Powerman began 1 to row dreper and deeper ull Powprts from flu look of tht r .muon fret rllu rntruarn of flu prolmlun Int and Hnalls tXllZ1ll t tllc te t taker Februarv 18, 1952 73 . . . . . 7 . . . . . V . - V - ' ' v ' F5 r- v v N' . . , I - H - c - 3. u u I I u ' i ' ' ' ' . ' ,ve 7 , . ' , I-' 1 'K v 7 5 g K at sn f ' a ,L F f -X 'W' M ' , U U . W ' s Q ' rr ' ' xl rr ' H ' S I . ' r- 1- L ' - 1' 1' r r J' . .C 4 1 , , sig 1 .. ,, V 1- ' ' ' I . . x . 'Q wi . . gs. - x . 1 . . . . s 5 rss- 4- 5 i ss' s. - s. 1 ,S 1 - , 5 -, . , - .Av 5 s 5 , - I

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LaBua Brother McGowan Alde to Brother Kostka scheduled for the festrvrty at least the most rmportant to Powerrtes wrll be an Kostka Besrdes berng our own band moderator, he s the vrce charrman of the woodwrnd and brass ensemble of the League Later at the conference the assembled men and women were entertarned by the wrnners of the recent audrtrons whrch were held under the ausprces of the Nlu src League The meetrng was presrded over by Charrman Nlrss Isabell Lowdm Thats about all for now but the band rs always wrth us Xie experrence thrs everyday as rts melodres rrse throughout the school Hobbres F rsh Story Frsh darted and slrthered through the translucent water Therr beautrful red yellow blue and green hues shrmmered rn the rrpples of the eyer ilowrng depths lNo we havent descended to the bot tom of the ocean wrth Professor Beebe We re vsatchrng wrth fascrnatron the hobby of Jrm and Pascal Ferrara who hall from St Ixeyrns Flushrng Queens They became rnterested rn therr troprcal frsh hobby when therr aunt gaye them sri: guppres From thrs they haye come to add yarrous types of fish rncludrng Zebra, Lrghtrng Sramese Black Nlollres, Red X elvet Sandfish Angel fish, etc lNeedless to say these valuable crea tures must be contamed rn somethrng For thrs purpose the Ferrarras have February 18, 1952 both a ten gallon and a three gallon tank At present they are speculatrng on the purchase of a thrrty gallon reservorr In the troprcal fish hobby there are many necessrtres besrdes a tank and of course the fish themselves jrm and Pas cal use a heater to keep the water at a temperature of about seventy tive de grees and thus sustarn the comfort of the underwater creatures A pump and frlter system rs also used to keep the water pure The tanks are rllumrnated by ffuo rescent lrghts Perhaps the Brother who checked the Ferrarra s homework was rrght when he sard Theres somethrng fishy about rs Hobbres Bard of 605 A school wrthout a song rs rn a bad condrtron A class mrnus a poet rs excep tronal So rt was wrth hrgh sprrrt we EXTRACURRICULA entered class 605 rn search of the most talented Powerrte rn thrrd year It was here we drscovered the find of the cen tury joe Kenny Of the many types of poetry Joe prefers that whrch rs sprrrt ual It was at St Andrew s that our poet began hrs ' lrterary career ' and thus he fondly remembers hrs alma mater Now rf your begrnnrng to respect Joe for hrs masterful rnclrnatrons let me rn form you of hrs other pastrme and you wrll understand why he rs called The Bard of 605 As soon as he frnrshes hrs mrllenra of homework over the week ends he translates songs rnto French Thus we have a poet lyrrcrst rn our mrdst We could go on for ages descrrb rng hrs tastes and preferences but we thought you d be rnterested rn a sample of hrs work And so here for the first trme rs a prrnted opus by Hrs Poetrc ness Joe Kenny A Chrld ls Born On a wrnter cold nrght of trme ago, LaBua Hrs Poetrcness ,loc Kenny of 605, searches for an elusive phrase Ferra a Pat Ferrara clrcked the shutter, hrs brother Jrm pornts out a Zebra 75 Y 7 ' . . ' I t . . y 7 ' . . , . 1 n , , - ' - xc ' rr ' y n 1 - - H y . l . . . - y - th' . ' . ' - l , . . . . . . I M ,, . . - I . r . . . ' ' address to be given by Brother T. P. . ' Q , , , , ' , I , , . . gif , I , ,fi GG ' ' 97 ' . . , - ' r Y r v l ' , y A . , . . l . . . ' l ' r