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

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EXTBACL BBICL LA The Babe of Bethlehem was Born A tmy stable the birthplace whlch Hrs presence only dxd adorn Clad ln clothes so small and warm He lay at peace But some day ln that prous form A l1fe would cease Shepherds and Nlagl came from afar By watchmg a star so brlght They knew lt was He the Redeemer And sought Hlm wlth anxious delxght They approached the Chlld so sweet Before the Holy One they knelt To pray thexr thanks that He had come And offered glfts of rlchest wealth Ixow they glorned at what they saw A Chlld w1th1n a Manger Twas He the world awalted long Twas He He was no stranger Twins In Duplncate Two txmes five IS ten If there are two IH a palr ten dlvlded by that num ber w1ll equal flve I ll have to cover flve pa1rs Fnve palrs of what VK hy twms of course weve got a bushel of them mto when Gabe Walsh thrust thls as slgnment at me One paxr IS bad enough tno hard feehngs fellasj double trouble as a matter of fact, but five' Waltll I find my res1gnat1on We may as well start wnth the Mat thews twms Ed and Jlm are an excep tlonally xdentxcal palr Actually therr mother can t dnstmgulsh between the two Thenr hobby IS photography Try as I mrght I couldn t learn whether they use twm cameras or not Two young lads who chose Soclal Studles as thelr favorlte subject are VS llham and Francls Cassldy It rs Brother Delaney who tol erates them for thls the1r flrst perlod and you can be sure he IS IH agreement wxth the other brothers who tutor the twms On what? Merely the fact that IS necessary to th1nk twnce before reprrmandrng them Rlchard and Donald VS asp are what mxght be called Algebrauacs That they rate this thelr number one subject IS evxdent slnce lt IS taught to them by the affable Brother Ixostka Sorry but there are no trlplets re ported m the last communlque Ive re cexved not even a set of quadruplets so 1ts back to twms agam jlm and Pascal 76 Pat and Jzm Ferrara George and Frank Brendel in '- Q B111 and Frank Cassuiv Don and Rzrh Wasp John and Frank Scott Ed and Jzm Mathews the Ferrara twm f401J are two water mmded boys Th1s IS evldent from the hobbles they lndulge 1n For mstance troplcal fish fsee Hobbzes Extracurrzcu larj and swlmmmg Thelr favorlte sub muth so capably teaches Last but not least come the Scotts john and Frank who are ln Sophomore year john IS a debator They both hke sports and have chosen geometry as thelr favorrte subject Brother S A Ryan wms out 1n thexr cho1ce for favorxte teacher Thls new fad whlch has hlt Power may lncrease Who knows m a few years the school name may change to Twm Haven One bright senlor re cently stated that m the case of ldentxcal tvs 1ns the two could alternate on school days One on 'Nlondaj the other on Tuesday etc The onlw dlfflculty IS who vull come m for the exams? just th1nk of the p0SSlbllltlCS of twm Brothers fthe teachmg klndj or duplicate Principals The next tlme you brlng ID half fin lshed homework tell Brother that wlth all thus twm busmess your vlsxon dou e Telephone Booth Good Excuse? I had t0 make 3 Phohe Call Brother ,loc Maffel and hrs llttle red address thats why Im late Those are HOW book The phone booth m good use LaB The Power - 0 , F . 5 A ' 5 ' I 'I or if y ' I 1 I B . . . an . ' . l gn I 7 4.1 A - ' X v . f jf' Y ' f K ' , , A ' 'jf c Lf 4 - be I U . . . , ,I M, u y - . l 3 . . . . . . . , . ,, . . , . , . . n 1 , , - - , . . . . J ' - ' Yes. I diClI1't kl10W what I WHS getting ject is goemetry, which Brother Dille- . , . . ' . . . , , . , Q , I Y ' ' . , A , . . . . . , . - A v , ' Y fl ' 7, - nl - Jw ' ' - . . I. , ' . . . . A V, ! Y v ' ' l ' - 1 ' . ' I A' cc - an l Y. l D l ' . , ' ' 7 l ' ex -- va ' ' . , - - - - bl d. , ., . , , , ' ua 5 y .. . V 7 A . . . . . . , . . , ,, - , . , . ,

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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

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EXTBACUBRILULA famous words of hep Powerxtes Of course lts true that the convenlently lo cated phone booth does offer a tempta tron to those who can afford the luxury of telephomc conversatlon Nevertheless free whnte passes are gxven to these tele phomacs passes whnch entltle the tardy socxety of Power to-not phone calls but detentlon Seriously the booth outside the Cafe terla, though not very dnfferent from lts part of school lxfe It IS frequented by frosh and semor and IS always glad when patromzed by an overtalkatlve Powerlte the most humorous of these bemg the rrght at home type He lS the person who whlle makmg a call w1ll take his sandwlches and potato ch1ps 1nto the booth and spend h1s lunch perrod m ecstacy Fortunately most students use the telephone ln 1ts proper capaclty Our phone IS not snobblsh ln the least about monetary values smce It w1ll ac cept your quarters as readnly as your drmes Well so long for now Its get tmg late and yes you ve guessed xt I have a call to make LaB a Exam schedule blues wlth John Healy Bulletin Boards: Mecca of Info ll ere all the classes mterrupted by the publlc address system for the m1llen1a of scholarshrp offers, dances and other etents wh1ch necessxtate mformmg the student body dally, the requxred curr1 cular could not be accomplrshed Thus bulletm boards are employed The mam one IS kept m the audxtorrum, whnle there IS also one 1n the hbrary and another outside the cafeterna On the audrtorrum February 18, 1952 val twlx 1 9,7-Y fa QpxX'mxhgC, l E X VI' qgiah L Bua Excerpts from the Bulletm Board board can be found basketball and dance schedules scores attamed 1n Power v1c torles and materlal on Cathohc Actron Huddled 1n the mam foyer eekmg ln formatlon are the lntelllgentsxa of Power seekrng out scholarshlps and scholastlc contests In our excellent hbrary rs a supple mentary bulletm board Here are hsted The Leglon of Decency gurde mforma t1on and plctures on extraordmary cme ma productlons and detailed mformatxon on scholarshlps to M I T Harvard Manhattan and other mstltutlons of learmng The thxrd board has l1sts of track members and other sports ltems llxth thls system lt IS a small wonder Powerltes are so well lnformed Help Behmd the Scenes The covs turned gears ,round and the lntrlcate mechanlsm of the school help pulsated Gften not consldered 1n the school s structure Powers army of waltresses and Janntors may be regarded on an equal plane wlth the teachlng fa culty They hand you your sandwlches and ple to gobble down at lunch tnme clean state by removmg the papers and scraps which you are prone to leave ly mg around Sllent unnotlced and un thanked frlends thzs lS thelr meager trlbute May I Introduce In case you re mterested ln meeting them let me mtroduce you Here comes the cafeterxa crew whlch conslsts of NIISS Sharf the manager who s 1n charge of ordermg and selhng and who has been at Power eleven years, Laura Penella who has tolerated us for ten years Mary Mc Cormlck a nme year veteran and Mlss O Donell an old hand after seven years Approachmg the audntorlum we see Mrs Estnvo who boasts ten years of servlce and Mrs Kennedy a begmner Wlth only four years to her credlt Buslly engaged wlth waxmg the floors rs our custodlan, Trm Sweeny Erther he or hrs three colleagues Tom W alsh Barney Oats or james J W alsh may be seen whenever repalrs beckon And so as thls new year of 1952 be gms all Power extends two words to lfS help Thank you LaBua Tom, our favorlte CllSl0fl18Il, at work Wllll lus hammer ln 506 77 - ' 5 ' U F7 ' - - - - I A cz - QA H rl 'V valid. . ' I y l Jflsitl ',-24 g 4- 31 7 Y - 1 'Y' V-fi. , ' ' ' 'V JL.. V , x . 1 ,ff-zgzvvr , gnybgg-gl . . - h - 1 4 1' S, :Q 'fx YV . . f . - vffi' 4'--H Ylxttibhlj iff' ' ' - ' ' ' 'I 7, 7 , prototypes, is regarded as an essential ' f and xt IS they who keep the school ln lts ' ' ameri ff I n itil . - : 1 ' . . . - 4: ' n ' T . ' ' V 4 ' . ' ' ' f , . . . s I 1 3 ' u y . . . L . ' . . . 1 - 4 7 , . y - . . . . . S . . - . 7 . . . . i . 1 . ' . , . I a U , 1 , . ' I A . . . A . A ' ' ca - xv ' 1 s l u u . , I - Q 1 . , ' 7 . . ., , , , A . . . V K o u 1 y , . - I I I 3 .X c U. , ,