Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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least once as a unuversal Speech us for the communucatuon of udeas A speech us due next Saturday when wull the 14th of May come7 W PLAYED Our basketball teams had some fearsome names fantue u s Colts Shannon s Sharks Seudel s Stags Sulluvan s Heels Remarkable play was an every day occurrence Denny Harkun won the basket snootung contest Tom Henry truumphed un the table tennus tourney Tom Oconnel put humself un the Hall of Greats un Golf at Quugley wuth hus two Champuonshups un one year the Summer Open and Fall Tourney ohn Enrught and um Coffey took over control of the Lufeguards Dud a good job Duc Prunduvulle shot at the wrong basket un a cage game but won a letter un swummung wuth a hands down vuctory un the breast stroke competutuon Dulla came through wuth a vuctory un the 41 Begunners Chess tournament Rough House captauned hus bowlers to a champuonshup Duck Feller and Duck Fassbunder were top keglers wuth that outfut oe Murray can throw a bowlung ball faster than any other senuor ack Brett was our champ at handball Crean was quute a crackshot wuth the water pustol as a freshman but gave up the pastume long ago Some of the roughest and most enjoyable fun we had was our versuon of water polo Bob Sponder dud a remarkable job of sport reportrng un the frank sheet known as The Double Drubble such verve and such verbs' yet ut was a most unterestung column and wudely rea The Athletuc Raffle was always an event un the Fall Remember the year that the student durectors of the Raffle Duck Feller and Tom House, saw both of theur fathers wun War Bonds un the Raffle7 Presudent Bull Ryan drew the wunnung tuckets one year and fauled to draw a sungle tucket sold by hus classmates ther wunners among us were the suster of ohn Enrught and the father of the blond Sulluvan boys Remember the day Ray Muller appeared on the gym floor to play basketball un a dress shurt and a tue7 Duck Carroll one of our most versatule athletes and a class offucer a vuctum of poluo after the summer sessuon But on hus way to recovery now a grand guy and a good athlete WE ENJOYED ur cultural sude was not neglected There was great appuecuatuon of fune musuc among us and some amazung exponents of boogue woogue as for unstance Pete Shannon Phul Vufentzel Bob Sponder Tom Lynch can move hus mannush hands across the keyboard wrth surprusung results tan Rudcku a near double for Leopold Stokowsku was a star performer on the puano 3 E ... '.... , ll .I.. ...J - J' . -Dv. -I.-.li ' - :Mu - -r..u a... - lnvl - . . J . O . I.. . . I I . ...AI ...S

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WE LEARNED- atomrc energy a long long way from lemma femrnae to Eheu lugaces Postume Postume labuntur annr The years drd glrde srlently away a long way we have gone from the trmrd lrrendshrps of our freshman days to the warm comradeshrps of our senror year A flood ot memorres sweeps baclc upon us' Way baclc rn 42 Pete Shannon was a slrght lrttle fellow Henry Sowa was the alderman type even then Chylewsler was the tallest man rn the class Brrzzolara carrred lots of werght Feller was the neatest and Sponder one of the tlashrest dressers es rt rs a long way from the 218 Freshmen to the 58 senrors we are today Lots of thrngs happened 42 per cent ot the class made the honor roll rn Sophomore year Klose was prefect for every one of hrs frve years Schwartz always up there at the top Crean Kulleclc Henry Brrzzolara Clrfsullrvan T Lynch Seidel Dyer but why go on7 Ours rs a good record of scholarshrp and ac complrshment Prrndrvrlle won the Thomas ehterson Oratorrcal Contest whrle a student at Loyola Too bad we drd not have the chance to see hrm rn a starring role rn that play of last May which was postponed Our ltalran contingent of Cantrerr, Brrzzolara Cernrglra and Gurstolrse was wrtty, popular and on the scholarly srde Dan Sullrvan was the hardest worlcer rn the class We had a great varrety of professors all srzes and shapes different rn teaching habits Hope all the lessons strclc wrth us rom 1941 untrl graduatron rn May 1946 our stream of conscrousness ran somethrng lrlce thrs X equals the unlcnown and how unlcnown' the genrtrve case demerrt card blue card report card the bar rrers of crvrlrzatron agree rn gender number and case wheres the verb7 algebra srr rs a scrence now Greelc rs easy e square of the hypotenuse solrd oh so solrd geometry the me verbs reduplrcatron and augment the second aorrst e middle vorce drat that man Caesar' the old ablatrve absolute toprc sentences perfect paragraphs perfect failures note boolcs composrtrons short story and short story rndrspen sable readrng the conflrct and suspense uo usque tandem abutere old Socrates and hrs Apologra Hamlet those solrloqures P Vergrlrus Maro and hrs opus how can a man wrrte that stuf'f7 the Federal Reserve Banlc then Sophocles added the thrrd actor the frogs and therr delrghtlul chorus rn The Frogs Whats this fellow Horace drlvrng at? Dante and lnferno our fantastrc drawrngs of the lower depths The mrddle term must be used at 4 ' ll . . DI ll I I I -U . . . , ...Itis ' ' .I I I l I l' I I I ' ' I I , I , '. .1 . Q , ,, , ...th . - ll li ,, ',..rh . . MQ ll . - . - 1 all ll 'Z

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and organ He played for chapel servrces and was rn the orchestra Paul Schwartz was frrst vrolrn rn the orchestra Phrl Wentzel was also a vrolrnrst Many of us sang rn the Cathedral Chorrsters as freshmen All of us sang an the Gregorran Chorr We saw srx hrst class plays rn our term here Our Parrsh You Cant Talce It Wrth You Arsenrc and ld Lace Estuary House , The Order of Melchrsedech and Room Servrce Our only actors were Phrl Wentzel who played the part of Agathangelos Bagratrdes rn Father Lrslces orrgrnal comedy, The Crder of Melchrsedech and scored a hut every nrght Drclc O Nell who was the red laced Mr O Fallon rn the same play and sang with the quartet we can stall see and hear hum rn the Dramond ubllee Song and Marty O Hara who was Officer Toolen rn the same opus We never had a chance to do any more actrng for the suspenseful play Kind Lady whrch we rehearsed for four gruellrng weelcs was postponed Prrndrvrlle O Nerll Casserly Howard Readrng,Srmpson Shannon, Serdel Somervrlle and Stage Manager Sponder were IH the cast Father Lrslce predrcted rt would be a hrt Too bad rt never was presented Collectors of thrngs were among us also Don Kulleclc had hrs huge collectron of War relrcs on exhrbrtron guns, hand grenades dead bullets army rnsrgnra Stamp collectrng was the hobby of Dovrclc Schwartz and Sponder who was Presrdent of the Club The Amateur Hour was revrved by Chylewsla to relreve the monotony of the summer sessron It was good hot weather entertarnment lmpressarros CoFfey and Chylewslcr drd a good o The response to the call for talent was very satrsfactory Wat ohnson came through wrth a tap dance Schwartz and Sponder were a team There were srngers, prano players, rmrtators The Annual Concert meant a lot ol labor but the results were most soul satrsfyrng Gladiators by Sousa Gypsy Cverture by Merle lsaac Selectrons from Carmen, Excerpts from Wagners Operas Knightsbridge March by Eric Coates We sang wrth gusto and power rn the Glee Club Panrs Angelrcus O Bone esu Too ra loo ra lts a Grand Nrght for Srnglng The brggest th II of II Graduation rn Holy Name Cathedral wrth Hrs Emrnence Samuel Cardinal Strrtch presrdrng e pageantry of the Solemn Hugh Mass the srngrng of the chorr e presence of the entrre faculty our parents and relatrves there to wrtness our trrumph the recervrng of the gold cross, ancrent symbol of graduatron at Qurgley the strrrrng message of Hrs Emrnence and the Pomp and Crrcumstance of the recessronal Frve golden years come to an end Clrfford Bergrn 6 I It 1 ll, 11 5 1 ll, 1l 1 Q ll If ll ll 1 ll 'I ' l' I I 1 It 1 YI 1 1 D 1 1 ll 1 ll 1 1 1 I 1 ll P ll I - 1 1 if 1 J 1 If D I A I If 1 II1 I - - . 1 ll 1 li 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 ' ' A I I I I I . I l I I '1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 : C D, I lcnives, helmets, bayonets, etc .... Sponder showed his huge collection of . . . t ' , . . , I j b , . . ' . , . l - . . 1 . 1- I ll 1 ll Cl ll ll 1 ll I I ll I fl ll 1 1 ll 1 , . 1 1 ll 1 1 ll If J fl If ll Il I 1 1 1 ,I 1 1 1 1 . . . rr a . , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . ' ' ' . . . ' ' ' . . . th 2