St Francis Preparatory School - San Fran Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MR. ROGER EGAN ENGLISH San Fran Moderator, Student Council Moderator Keats was only one of the terrn's authors but Beauty and Truth were the course . . . Spirituality and the Catholic Heritage in literature . . . A good critic is not a cynic, and a cynic never makes a good critic . . Decrease your denominator instead of increasing your nu'merator . . . The must-haves present more problems than the haves and have- nots . . . Please do not lick this page-you see, it was the copy not the picture that sold the candy . . . There are somethings up with which I will not put . . . A loud voice is the expression of a limited mind . . . His stoneless rings for indifferent students, his bow ties and concrete language. MR. SALVATORE ESPOSITO MUSIC Director of the Orchestra Music is a beautiful language . . . When well played it is expressive and touches the heart . . . Good tone, intonation phrasing and tempo are some of the absolute essential factors . . . Abused and allowed to become boisterous the reaction is similar to that of a loud voice, noisy but definitely lacking expression . . . Look up here . . . Ready . . . Broaden the stroke of your bow, you sound like you're sawing wood . . . Use your diaphragm . . . Drummer, this is not a bombardment . . '. And the concert is only five months away. 'IE REV. BROTHER LOUIS, O.S.F. BIOLOGY, ENGLISH Moderator Swimming Team, Moderator Galvani Society The most important thing in doing a book report is that you first read the book . . , The diagram of a sentence is a code message by which you give me your analysis of it. I can't tell what you are thinking unless we both use the same code . . . Shakespeare hit it on the head when he said, You block, you stones, you worse than senseless things . . . The sound waves hit the drum, the drum vibrates and causes the hammer to hit the anvil, the anvil vibrates and causes the stirup to vibrate the cochlea membrane, the membrane causes a movement of the cochlea liquid in which the auditory nerves are set, these nerves carry an impulse to the brain and YOU hear what I am saying-it certainly is a lot of work, isn't it? REV. BROTHER THEOPHANE, O.S.F. LATIN OK, Gentlemen, please turn to last nights assignment . . . Any ques- tions? . . . lt belongs to the primary tense sequence, therefore it must be followed by the present subiunctive . . . Any other questions . . . No! . . . Good . . . Read after me gentlemen-Iam per angustias . . , Notice on line five, fellows, the present subiunctive rogent , . . Say are you chewing gum? . . . Get rid of it . . . Brother, how is it that the Heleve- tians never got wise to Caesar? . . . Well my friend, it iust shows you what a shrewed article Caesar was . . . All right who'II take the next line? . . , No one? . . . Okay, l'II take it . . . Sure I know it is hard kids, but anything worthwhile is hard to get . . . Who will take the next line, l'lI give you the words . . . Say! . . . Why the dative case? . . . You! . . . Point out the territory of the Aedui . . . Gentlemen, prepare the next paragraph and write the principal part of . . . . MR. JOSEPH RAZIANO FRENCH French Club Language study is a mind builder and the basis of all education . . . A correctly constructed sentence in a foreign language is not a miss or hit affair . . . Language study fosters world citizenship and makes a reality of international tolerance . . . Have you studied under me for the last two vears or have you simply exposed to me? . . . Shock me, give me the present subjunctive of the verb 'vouloir' . . . Let me dispel this tremendous lethargy that has descended upon you by doubling the assignment for tonight . . . Fail if you must, but fail with your boots on . . . Lets translate, not desecratef'

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it Xt It 21, 21? Xt MR. EDWARD DONNELLY PHYSICAL EDUCATION it Tweet!! Tweet!! . . . Let's move men . . . No doctor's slips on Wednes- day . . . This is pick-up-the-papers-in-the-locker-room-day . . . Step lively men! . , . This is Brooklyn, not France, only 30 minutes for lunch . . . Don't forget, kids, you have to pass four years of P. T. to graduate . . . Ping Pong is played on a table, the green one with the net on it . . . Leave the basketballs by the cabinet men, you can't use them in Religion . . . Who forgot their socks? . . . No potsie game today, the yard is too wet. X? MR. WILLIAM DONOVAN HISTORY, LATIN Freshman Basketball Coach Including A . . . Pass up the homework and those without it, out in front . . . A half sheet of paper, all books away . . . That means pens and pencils down . . . There will never be another Dunkirk . . . Up ot page l89 and still NO HISTORY . . . A registered Democrat, but . . . Are there other County Court Judges? . , . Sullivan County? Where's that? Oh, the garden spot of New York State . . . Here's a question for the Public School boys . . . Five pages! . . . For the benefit of those who didn't get it the first time . . . Now talk that over . . . Thumbs in vest, legs crossed, script in hand. it it REV. BROTHER ROGER. Q.S.F. Athletic Director it It it It it it 11? It It Xia it if It MRS. MARJORIE BERRY LIBRARIAN Be sure to get your slips, gentlemen . . . Get in line, after all l can aid only one at a time . . . All others be seated and be quiet otherwise we can do without you . . . Get down from that ladder . . . l've enough grey hairs already . . . No this is no bargin sale, just a busy 'before and after' school rush . . . But what a day, what a day. REV. BROTHER CHARLES, O.S.F. MATHEMATICS Let's go, boys . . . Those who have no homework to the Board . . . do it twice for tomorrow . . . Plus you change nothingg minus you change everything . . . All you sons of Rest who live on Easy Street in the town called Don't You Worry, get working . . . Where is your report card? . . . I forgot-I forgot is a thread-bare excuse fifty times for tomorrow . . . Peddled teguments artistically illuminated and lubricated for the infinitesimal compensation of ten cents per operation is a sen- tence that calls for quiet . . . Who is Mr. Nobody? . . . You had better do some work now . . . lt's very hot here during the summer . . . Have your report card tomorrow--don't wait till your mother is busy and then say: Sign here, Mom. .5 is I ,,.

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REV, BROTHER MARTIN, O.S.F. HISTORY Moderator of the Volleyball Team Natus est in Mesopotamia ca 2000 BC. Scrlpsit primum codicem legum quem incidit in hastile duro. Quod hastile in templo Marducis posuit, Hoc codex crudelissimus fuit. Quisque puer tertii fori nomen scriptoris codicis huius cognoscitf' 3 'W 23, It XF xl, XF it It X? ij: . 237 I It its it its 22? REV. BROTHER CASIMIR, OSF. ENGLISH Assistant Librarian How would you define literature? . . . To read and absorb is not enough-we must develop the ability to read and think . . . Ahem, next . . . The first four years are the hardest . . . Let's analyze this sentence: His favorite team in the National League is the Dodgers . . . Have you read a biography of St, Francis? . . . Of course, there won't be any as- signment next month, you only read the first four volumes. it it ZIP XP we X? it its 2? COACH TELLIER Addresses Prepsters at Football Dance. MR. JOHN BOYLE HISTORY Assistant Football Coach The various 'isms' have had their 'bibles', Nazism had 'Mein Kampf', Communism has the Communists Manifesto but where do we turn? . . . We turn to God where the Christian tenets on daily economic and social problems can be found in the Encyclicials . . . The rights and obligations of each individual to fully understand his relations with his God, his country and his fellowman are explained by learned men of authority . . . Come in from left field, gentlemen and recall that point in the process of learning, where the ears and mouth work in reverse, when one is open, the other should be closed. THOMAS A. BOORAS PHYSICAL TRAINING Swimming Coach Let's go-line up . . . All boys without sneakers step forward . . . all right boys, kneel down . . . Locks and lockers, the Patron Drive the Annual Concert, the Boat Ride . . . A little tape and you'll be fit as a fiddle . . . Three boys to the office on the double . . . What?-You're not in any extra-curricular activity-we'II fix that . . . Franciscan spirit comes slowly, boys, but once you have it, you'll feel and appreciate the difference . . . Tankrnen will be at the pool at 5:30 sharp . . . Twelve championship teams, among them the i951 C.H.S,A.A. championship.