St Fidelis Seminary - Skullcap Yearbook (Herman, PA)

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JAMES WAHM Jimmy is the smooth and easy-going man of the class, taking everything in its stride. As president of the senior club and monitor of the St. John Berchmanls Society, Jim accomplished much and performed his duties well. For many years he was an expert horti- culturist on Father Patricks landscape crew. He was a regular figure on the baseball diamond and on the basketball floor When he starts a conversation on sports his favorite topic he will tell you that no baseball player was better than Ted Williams im appreciates good music too Gounod s Faust is his specialty He also lent his talents in the art of dramatics directing a hit for the first class this year He intends to continue with the Capuchxn Fathers m his home town Cumberland where he will enter the novitiate Freckled faced Cumberlander Dave is the youngest member of the graduation class I-le is known to everyone on the campus for his wit and learning, he has a spark ling repartee for any mqulrer Readers of The Fldellan are acquainted with his clever and spontaneous style Dave also served as associate editor of the paper this year Through his literary achievements he acquired editorshlp of The Skullcap Besides his leaning to the classics he takes an active interest in sports For two successive years he captamed a basketball team His flrst bass voice chlmed in with the rest of the section on many festive occasions Dave was also general manager of the Mission Store for many years Together with Joe Kol oszczyk, he was Father Benno s faithful observatory cus todian In July Dave will don the brown robe of the Capuchins in the familiar city of Cumberland ULAUILEH p

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JOSEPH HEHTH Jeff, who hails from New Brighton, is of the strong, silent type, who always adds zest to any group. He has not one, not two, but dozens of hobbies, he is a star photographer of the first magnitude to which the pictures in The' Skullcap testify. Interested in philately, he also collected stamps. In world history Joe found something inexhaustible-World War II was his boon. Still nct satisfied, he delved into the study of foreign languages. A human dynamo of energy, jeff is usually wherever there is a fast game of hockey, baseball, or football. It was Jeff who helped Father Giles pioneer what is now our well-stocked and valuable library. A man of grim determination and perseverence for letter perfection whatsoever he undertakes oe has the qualities which will prove him 1 successful Capuchm novice HU USTH WSH A man of few but thoughtful words calm and quiet Len left St Augustine s Parish Pittsburgh to spend six years here at St Fidelis His artistic taste as senior sacristan showed itself in his clever decorations of the altars From editor of the Junior Gems, Len worked up ward until he bec1me this years man behind The Fldellan, maintaining and raising the high standard of our school journalism He was also prefect of the Third Order When not pushing a pen or pounding a type writer he is either cutting capers on the skating pond or exerting his nimble limbs on the handball courts Saturday afternoon aways finds him before the radio with a llbretto listening to the Metropolitan Opera With his attractive manner and personality Len is 1 tailor made character for the band of six sextani entering the Cum berland novitiate In July LEUNA u m

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HHHUHHY EHAUUAHE Three of the sxxth classmen graduated several months early at the end of the flrst semester m February Because of Saxnt Vxn cent s Semmary s accelerated program the stu dents who wxshed to become diocesan prlests were requxred to begm thexr phllosophy course ln February Thus the three students to gradu ate early were oseph Koloszczyk August Laurenzl and ohn Tomaseskx Thexr early graduation was made possxble faculty Their professors decided that these students havlng fxnlshed five and a half years of study and dlSClPlll'1C and having taken last years summer course were ready for phxl osophy When these early graduates left for Samt Vmcents there was no band on hand to see them off They merely slxpped away without any fanfare but they were sincerely mxssed by all partlcularly thenr classmates All reports from Samt Vlncents lndlcate that they are doing well and that they are none the worse for mlssmg a few months w1th Homer and Cicero H HULUS oseph Koloszczyk was 1 newcomer to the class of 45 when we were nn our fourth year Hts abxlxty to fmt hnmself m succssfully and become a part of us was due to oes affable unassuming nature Slnce he has been here oe has filled at varxou txmes the offlces of monxtor ln the St ohn Berchman s Socxety head of the sports commxttee presldent of the Lxterary SOCIQIY and business marnger of The Fldellan Though -All sports fund nn oe 1 staunch advocate baseball IS hxs favorite We were unfortunate ln loslng oe to St Vmcents tn February 'I I ' ' ' ' JUSEP ZEZYH . :J , ,J , -C . .. I . . . . . J ' , A ' I, by the decision of Father Director and the . . ,.J .J S, . Y , , g - J .. ,i E . I . 3 V ' I f L 'i' . ' . ' . I t I