Seattle Preparatory School - Echo Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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THE C LAS S '7fze5Z'af1,qafSeaJfl'lep'wf1 VOLUME FIFTY IT is AN impossible task to attempt to capture all the happenings of the past four years within the pages of a manuscript. Yet even if we could list these events, we could never put into words our feelings of happiness which accompanied these experiences. We must, therefore, com- mend these happy days to the undying embers of our memories, to be preserved in those sacred flames forever. It is a likewise impossible task to try to catalogue all the achievements for which our classmates have worked and won in that time. But such achievements seem only secon- dary when we recall that it is the SPIRIT OF SEATTLE PREP which prompted these individual actions, and which we will remember in years hence. With this forethought, we will narrate a few of the manifestations of that SPIRIT, and a few of the outstanding names of Prepsters who have helped to write this golden jubilee volume in The Story of Seattle Prep. 046-plea I Gallia est divisa . . . to the accompaniment of these famous words, 105 timid grammar schoolers became polished Latin scholars. But it wasn't until we experi- enced the woes of freshman initiation, that we felt we had earned that proud title. Inside the classroom, we felt for the first time the influence wielded by our men teachers, with hardened posteriors and broken knuckles. Such men as the Messrs, Doyle, Rebhahn and Prasch, SJ., respective moderators of IA, IB, and IC, were especially close to us at this time, as we fought with Caesar in the Gallic Wars and fought with Mr. Coen in Algebra class. But we soon found out that school is not all work and no play, as we began to look about us, and saw the numerous activities which invited use. The first seeds of leadership were sown as' IA elected Douglas and IC Weston to the class presi- dency, while Kaufer held the posts of prexy of IB and frosh Sodality Prefect. Our first retreat was a big impression on our young minds. On the gridiron and maple court, it looked like Holmes and Douglas were a pair to be watched, while Burns pitched his way to a big S to be our first striper. We can't forget the Forty Mule Team , either, those bulky aspiring basketballers who would have looked more appropriate in elephant cages. Bob Lucid was the first of our number to distinguish himself on the platform in winning the Junior Apologetics contest, as voices which would later be acclaimed throughout the state were then first heard. But it was not these victories which heralded that year as a success, for actually we were no different from the forty-nine other classes of dumb little freshmen which preceded us. But rather all prosperity in our first year was due to the speed with which enthusiasm and genuine school spirit found our hearts. As those nine months drew to a close, we found ourselves quite proud to call ourselves Prepsters T efnc-plea .2 Sophomores. As our teachers oft told us, that word described second year men exactly, and we must agree that we were truly wise fools. No longer were we looked upon with disdain. No longer were we the bait of all jokers. We had reached a new era of dirty cords and gangling legs, and with a new zest for life, we wrote nine more months, probably the most humorous, in the story of Seattle Prep. No doubt sensing our pent up energy, Fr. McDonnell appointed Fr. Flajole and Fr. Veelkin as moder- ators of IIA and IIB as Douglas and Kaufer again held the spots of class prexy. IIC found itself dominated under the regime of President Terry and Moderator Mr. Paquet, in our first taste of tyranny, as IIC won the intramural crown. For Prep in general and the sophomore class in particular was beginning to feel the uncertainty of postwar times along with the rest of the world. There was, first the Hitler Youth Movement in Fr. Veelkin's class. Then there was the trial of President Terry in which he was indicted on a charge of not enough meetings, while Mr. Paquet busily tried to keep track of his paddle. To learn out love for study one had only to look on the bulletin board each night for the long lists of wise fools who were sentenced to jug But sophs shared in Prep's victories as the names of Drew, Hentschell and Kokesh were added to those of Douglas, Holmes and Burns as full fledged lettermen. Competition in speaking contests became keener among sophomores and O'Neill carved nitches in the annals of Extemporaneous Speaking as Kaufer won junior Elocution. At the same time that the sophs began prominent in Debate circles, O'Brien, Murphy and Sifferman upheld our cause in the Seattle Prep Panther and sophomore thespeans aired their acting ability in the junior Dramatic productions. We regard our second year at Prep as a briefing period for the last two, in which the stars of today were molded. efna-pied 3 Determination might well have been the motto of our junior year. We had risen above the days of carefree under- classmanship into the realm of the upperclassman. For the first time we realized that we were destined to carry, in