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

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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.

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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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REV. BROTHER JOSEPH, O.S.F. LATIN Moderator of the Bowling Team ln learning a foreign language such as Latin, a thorough grounding in fundamental rules is an absolute essential . . . Like the baseball player caught off base, the Latin student caught off base is playing a losing game . . . I must insist that students adhere to the basic rules . . . Eventually you will realize the great necessity of being guided by these rules . . . You can act like banshees in the street, but in the classroom, NO . . . Put out your hand boy . . . Of course there are no snakes in Ireland. MR. JAMES E. MCHUGH ENGLISH, HISTORY Track Coach We must interpret poetry by reading between the lines . . . The sopho- more year is the big test, the 'make or break' stage . . . We'll take up the Propagation of the Faith coliection again gentlemen, let's dig! . . . How did Napoleon carry his cannon across the Alps? . . , He put them in a hollow tree trunk and slid them down the slopes . . . When Sohrab's sword pierced Rustum, it only went in a half-inch . . . Please don't confuse Sir Thomas More with Sir Thomas Malory! . . . If you threw paper on the floor at home you wouldn't be around very long . . . You may not like this story but the author does, he was paid three cents a word for it. MR, THEODORE H. ELLINGHAUS PHYSICS Liberal airing of views is fine, but not here . . . Our interests now, are in changes-physical changes in the world of today and tomorrow . . . Few of these facts are new to you, but the reasons for these phe- nomena are best explained in the cumulative writings of so many far- sighted and deep thinking individuals--they delved into the secrets of nature to give us an opportunity to what took place, why it occured, and Knowledge of these facts, to some, elementary beginning in the field of fully understand and appreciate how it will affect mankind . . . will mean little, to others this physical action and reaction be- comes the back bone for future successes in the field of Science and Research . . . Remember! You get nothing for nothing . . . Listen a little, think a little and amass much. MR. WILLIAM REILLY HISTORY Seraph Moderator In History and in Economics merely memorizing facts is not enough- we must integrate these facts . . . Events do not occur in a vacuum, they are caused and in turn become a cause . . . Think, and in thinking, the subiect must fill a functional as well as an academic niche . . . Evaluate your answers . . . Your opinion, yes, but bulwork that opinion with the facts that originally lecl to its formulation . . . Current events do not exist apart from us, we should have an awareness of the importance of the individual . . . The dignity of man is all important . . . Economic well-being for all is essential to world peace.