St George Academy - Crusader Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Ba., .Frank Dastis, Eugene DeLucie and Bruno Cattaneo did their best to bring popular music to St. George. This trio had the Hjoint jumpin'H on many an afternoon with their lively jam sessions in the auditorium. In addition to working hard to get new recruits into their band, Dastis and DeLucie made the entire school more music-conscious with their regular column in the school paper. The group has high hopes for the future. When they discovered that Mr. Maloney is a professional music- mmtmymwmmwtowmwmhm to help and coach them so that they will be better able to play for all school dances and social affairs in really professional style. We hope their ambitions will be fulfilled. With Mr. Shust as its Moderator, the newly-formed Art Club surprised the entire school by demonstrating the tremendous effectiveness of using posters for campaign purposes during the Student Council elections The club followed this up later in the year by practically covering the school with posters urging vigorous promotion of the annual chance-book drive. Outstanding among the artists were Bob Rampinelli, John Roach, Ed Kelly,who also turned out several comic strips, and Owen Kennedy, who showed equal skill with a brush as well as with a baseball bat. George Fioto tries the vocals The Michaelangelos of St. George

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In the early days of our school, almost every member of the faculty took an active part in the effort to start sports at St. George Academy. Mr. Pitt organized a basketball team Mr. Matthews and Mr. Galdi formed touch-football squads in the hope of developing a future football teamg Mr. Coupe helped to start a softball team. As the school grew, Mr. Kelley was placed in charge of planning and organizing a sports program, and, while he worked on the inter-school program, Mr. Stead helped to set up an inter-class sports competition. A varsity basketball team was organized, but, with only Juniors on the team lthere was no Senior class at that timel, it was difficult to compete successfully with seasoned teams that had the advantage of a court on which they could practice regularly. The junior-varsity team showed excellent promise by its per- formance as a member of the Catholic High school Basketball Leaguegit had fine spirit, capable members, and it managed to roll up quite a few vict- ories. A track team did well under Mr. Bove's watchful eye. Each class competed in an intra-mural softball tournamentg and a Ping-Pong tourna- ment drew a great and enthusiastic response. t A scholastic crackdown on some varsity and junior-varsity team mem- bers was beneficial in the long run because it resulted in a revision of the sports policy of the school. In 1949,it became clear that the school,instead of branching out into too many sports at once, would conv centrate on and build up one major sport at a time. That Fall, under Mr. Kelley's Moderatorship, the var- sity basketball team encouraged the entire school by winning half of its scheduled games. Thenk in the Spring of 1950, an all-out effort was made to organize a varsity baseball team. New uniforms and equipment were pur- chased. and the team was entered in the Catholic High School Baseball League. Without its own field to practice on, and with mostly new and inexperienced team members,the base- ball team suffered many defeats when it played.against such veteran teams HS XaVieI'y Power and LaSalle. There was a bright side to the picture, however, and that was the blossoming of true school spirit. In spite of defeat after defeat,St. George teams always had greater school attendance than any of their opponents, regard- less where the games were played. There is every indication that this will be one more tradition started during our Senior Year.