South Philadelphia High School - Keepsake Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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DAVID YERKES Although he rs a member of the Mace Button Commlttee yearbook staff and senator of A2 Lxttle Caesar manages to loaf He expects to go to West Pomt and become a gen eral fprobably armchau' Edl Nevertheless Dave can always be seen performmg hrs many dutres arduously WILLIAM GOLDBERG Bxlly who appears to be undressed w1thout the company of hls camera does photo graphlc work for the Southron also fmds tlme to buxld model arrplanes Smce he eats sleeps and takes photographs h hopes to become a Naval Pho tographxc Operator upon gradu atlon What E8 the honzon, but a man s ultrmate goal -.1 IOSEPH D AGOSTINO ALOYSIUS ZAPPASODI Zap a baseball enthuslast always seems to be argumg about nothtng Hrs mterests are mamly photography art and bowhng He xs another class student who w1shes to 1o1n the N yy as a C P O SILVIO ANTHONY COLETTA Now a m mber of our armed forces Mrcky Colet left South an excellent drummer After the war M1cky hopes to get mto 1ndustry Good luck Mlckyl Ioes greatest amb1t1on now 1s to go marchmg through Berl1n Now a member of the armed forces this future trller of the so1l was 1ntensely mterested tn sports espectally football and basketball Good luck soldrer tm' Labe Cander vehemently des1res a VIVGCIOUS blonde who can argue cog nently on pol1t1cal Sc1ence Nate Rltano strrctly adheres l1terally to the Bette Dav1s type Wllh a Rlta Hayworth frqure Photography m1nded Larry Shprmtz asks for a well developed prmt of a Curvac1ous pOS1l1VG Wllh a correct exposure 33 . . , . ..-M .-,,., -Q ., , W f 1 , v K H H . ,f 1 . I , , . I t l G 1 . . ' , . ' Q 9 l ll n VI - News Gnd the Y9GfbOOk- H9 A l ern at the end of l2A. He is . . . 3. A 4 ' ' ' I I ll - ll I I e l . ' . . . . , . , . f 1 rl-l ll ll I u 1 H ,, . . . H . . . I I . H . . 1. . . . . . H

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SOLOMON TUCKER A wolf mn sheeps cloth1ng Shorty HIS charmmg per sonahty has made htm very popular throughout the entlre school Of hrs many hObbl9S h1S favorltes are sports Sol was one of those boys who graduated through s u m m e r school Thrs reucent deter mmed and capable student w1ll succeed m any professron he undertakes IOSEPI-I A TURSI Turs has served on he school governrng body for sev eral terms and has done very well H1s mam mterests how ever are grrls and wolfmg He hopes after graduatron to become a flyer IOHN VANNONI IR Doc was on our track and cross country teams for wo years He was a memb r of the A Class Councrl Dance Commrttee and yearbook staff He partlcrpates IH sports es pec1al1y horseback rrdmg and dancmg He captalned hrs 12A champzonshzp relay team Hts amb1t1on IS to travel around the world ALBERT VERBITS Al who 1S an act1ve par trctpant m the Ushers Corps Lrbrary Ards and yearbook l1t erary staff spends hrs letsur trme campmq Swlmmlng read mg and burldmg gas models An enthuslast on forestry m th o s Al rs undec1ded on whether to enter a forestry engrneermg college Realism will bring us nearer to our ideal horizon 32 MICHAEL VERRECHIA Mrke left us before gradu wear the navy blues an 1ntense sports en and was usually seen pxgskrn on Elghth and Streets Mlke a so atton to He was thustast totmg a Mrfflm spent some of h1s spare trme makmg model arrplanes Good luck sa1lor ROY WESTERGOM Roy IS qulte a basketball player for h1s slze H1 rn ter sts are concerned wrth the oppos1te sex roller skatmg and dancmg Hrs mam amb1t1or1 to become a C P O rn he Navy GERALD WEISS Yuss1e as he IS known to the femmme sex spends h1s trme elther star gazmg or sleep mg Hts favor1te sport rs Watch mg football games wtth a fe male accomolzce H1s amb1t1on IS to pract1ce dent1stry rn the cavalry tlftemembermg those qurps rn the rear of the Eng hsh Class shouldnt he enter VCUdGV1llG7 Edl IOSEPH WEISS lo Io was on Southerns second basketball team a mem ber of the patrol and also does a bzt of Swlmmlnq on the srde HIS ambrtron IS to rarse cam Wllh th laps and return t lrve to a rlpe old age on a farm . , - 4, - -. IS . - ' I , . , . . t ,. .. . . . s - . - 9 ' . 1: . rr ' ' ' ' ' . ' IS . f - 1 I 4 ' , , . e W . - Q u ll . - . , , lr H . . - ,L I . . - ' ' C. , - . . 1 . . ' I Q . ' , . ' Q d lr rr . . V ' O , . . or .1 ' Q. ' . L.. .. .. .. ., , I , .-..

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Of Course You Remember . bv leon Rudolph when the fellows were lookrnq for that guy who rumored that ratron books would be ratroned Rrchman tryrnq to Jrtterbuq at our dances the nextdoor ers srnqrna P1stolPackrn Mama durrnq an arr rard drrll Mr C for corn Cades ccmparrnq Bolrvar to Srnatra cause they were both worshrpped lrv Rubrn handrnq out booklets for a mrd town club wrth a curvacrous gal on therr covers Mr Carey showrnq the boys he wasnt back rn years when some qa s vrsrted hrs chemrstry room Burt Bertchman crackrnq a Joke rn French and greeted wrth rcy stares from the qals Mr Nelson s comparrscn of one of hrs relatrves to Dear Aunt Sally the rncredulous stares of Freshmen when they saw the 4F papers the backs of some senrors the freezrnq smrles of Mace members when they attended the lrrst meet rnq thrs term to meet the Mr K you know who 1S tellrnq about Whatsrsname readrnq PM tor the Varqa qorl wrrteups only when Dubrn and lsenberq left the water runnrna rn Chemrstry for srx hours unknown to the teacher the paroxysms the boys went rnto when G K read the wrtches scene rn Macbeth the one mrnute perrod of srlence rn memory of the student who fervently expressed hrs desrre that Shakespeare Just wasnt rn Mr F s room the unwrrtten prayer rn the lrbrary that someone would please tell Mr Galfand the author of Guadalcanal Drary Ierry Werss remark that you make more money worklnq on the bottom than on the top of a Navy shrp Mr P readrnq frve characters at once rn Hamlet and wonderrnq whether we would trnrsh the course rn trme Mr Rrchards startrnq rrqht off by buyrnq an A Class Prn the terrflrcally lot of fun we had ln the three years at Southern Hrgh toqether wrth plenty of heartbreak at commencement that lump rn your throat that you wrshed would have gone away because that cold you had was makrnq your eyes water 34 0 O 1 . . 11 . . 1 11 . . . . 11 11 . , . 11 . 11 . 1 . I 1 . . . , . . . 1 . . . 1 . 1 11 . 11 . 1 . . , 1 11 11 . . . . . . , . . . - 11 11 . . . . . . . . . , . . . 1 1 .