Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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RAHGO, WILLIAM A. Slip-stick Bill 1149 Hancock Avenue. Bridgeport, Conn Class Baseball Class Basketball Class Soccer Nutmeg Club Bill is always willing to lend a hand unless he has a date with some fair damsel from Bridgeport. ‘Then nothing in the world can stop him. His motto is, “I did it with my little slide-rule.” RENNER, FRED H. Fred 44 Crosby Street, West Hartford, Conn. Captain Varsity Baseball ’25 Varsity Baseball ’24 Class Bowling From the wilds of West Hartford came the Steinmetz of Mathematics. He surely is a wiz on the ball field and the dance floor. Oh! how he can sing after eleven P. M. He is going to invest in a pair of boots to wear from the station to his home. Yes, we have no sidewalks. Favorite saying is, “Oh, where is my Anna?” SAMMOND, WILLIAM A. 725 East Thirteenth Street, Brooklyn, N. We Class Soccer Crown and Spade Club Bill and his “Damfino”; complements of each other. Man and steed comprise a unit of per- fect co-ordination and correlation. SCHMIDT, C. EDWIN Smitty oz Farragut Avenue, Hastings-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. The guy that put the haste in Hastings. A city slicker in a small town on the Hudson. We wonder what the attraction is that takes him home every night. SCHULTZ, EDGAR H. 209 Weirfield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. He is helping himself and others through school, and to knowledge of the ins and outs of the chanticleer business. 35

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PETERSON, KARL Y. Pete 29 Chapman Court, New Britain, Conn. Class Secretary ’24-'25 Varsity Baseball ’24 Class Soccer ’24 Nutmeg Club Pete is quiet—sometimes. Look out if he is, especially if he has a bandage on his face and an accompanying scowl. ‘There’s a mustache under the bandage. He protects his mustache as a hen protects her chicks. When he gets out—watch his speed. PINTAVALLE, JOHN L 129 Tenth Avenue, Schenectady, N. Y. Class Bowling ’25 John is a conscientious worker, but he caught the disease of seeing instructors after school. He can always manage an A in Math. His practical knowledge is sure to get him a good job. PLATT, HUGH Westfield, N. J. Hugh is the boy wonder of New Jersey. After he leaves school he is going to design a tug boat and show the marine designers a thing or two. In the machine shop he shows us all how to do our stuff. Tle’s a good scout and we wish him luck in his endeavors. POINT, CHARLES A. Cap 833 Ninth Street, Huntington, W. Va. Class Basketball ’24-’25 Class Baseball ’24-’25 Class Pool ’24 Southern and Western Club He comes from where they grow them big. A sturdy, likable soul with a perpetual smile. He has proven himself in class basketball and baseball. The fair sex have been watching him for two years, but someone in West Virginia saw his worth before he came up here. His favorites are four of a kind. RAFFINI, J. FELIPE Raff Bolivar 1347, Montevideo, Uruguay. A shiek in disguise. He has, in his career, employed those old Spanish methods of court- ship, combined in some degree with the methods of the man of the stone age. Just as he has the woman won, so with his weird method, he has overcome and conquered the work in engi- neering. 34

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SCHWANZEL, ALBERT 2017 Walnut Street, Toledo, Ohio A man by this name should never speak with this-now-downeast twang, but transplanting is to blame. His single-mindedness of purpose onto which is grafted Yankee pertinacity makes a combination for which industry awaits with avid mouth. SEIGER, EUGENE K. 41 Wells Avenue, Jamaica, N. Y. Crown and Spade Club He is cheerfully willing to explain anything that he has made his own, in a simple, under- standing way. He evidently expects the same in return, for in Calculus he once nominated himself spokesman and asked, “Just what is it all about?” In electricity his light shines. When he doesn’t blow it up in Chemistry, his retort boils under the same consideration. SIRICA, JOHN L. 4o Union Street, Waterbury, Conn. Class Pool ’24-’25 Class Bowling ’24-’25 Class Baseball ’24-’25 Class Track ’24-’25 Don’t judge him by his walk, for he is a boilermaker. An active student, of pleasing personality, he knows how to handle a cue and is quite clever on the alleys. Is especially fond of fresh-water bathing. Ask “Red.” Weak- ness—cake, dancing and “sugar.” SMITH, EARL C. Smitty 114 Stedman Street, Sayre, Pa. Class Pool ’25 Neighborship Representative ’25 Coming to Pratt with a desire to attain the best, Smitty has proven a consistent worker with a pleasing personality. We look for him to do our machining of the future. Why the long calendar studies, Smitty? SPOOR, EVERETT E. Pete 739 Brandywine Avenue, Schenectady, N. Y. Class Treasurer ’24-'25 Treasurer A. S. M. E. ’25 Assistant Manager Baseball ’24 Manager Varsity Baseball ’25 Handles Calculus like a bicycle. The best treasurer the class ever had. Reason—we only had one. Made up the best schedule ever had in Varsity Baseball. Expects to rebuild the Appian Way with concrete next year.