St Johns Preparatory School - Spire Yearbook (Danvers, MA)

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lt seems luke only yesterday-so the cluche beguns Yet ut does seem luke just the other day when we were green luttle freshmen mouths ogope at the vastness of the Prep and uts buuldungs But let s retrace our steps from the begunnung the real begunnung of our secondary school educotuon at Saunt John s Most of us would have to say that our Prep lufe actually started un the eughth grade for un that year we decuded on St John s as our place of further study And so on a balmy Aprul mornung we took an entrance exam for the Prep un whuch for tunately we were all successful So we spent the summer dreamung of lufe at the Prep and what ut would be luke The Fall of 55 eventually came wuth regustratuon for all of us wee freshmen Receuvung un the gym the ummense number of books allotted to each student we realuzed wuth a sunkung feel ung that hugh school was no yoke Our brothers cousuns and older fruends were rught when they saud lts not a cunch at the Prep And how fearsome the Brothers seemed on that fateful furst day' Brother Stanley trued especually hard to be pleasant and to make our 'angled nerves settle down and we were glad he was a freshman teacher Brothers Ernest Francus de Sales Luke Carey Melvun Columkulle and Norman lukewuse strove to elumunate flrst day tensuons ln Brother Stanleys classes nothung academuc was at tempted for the furst two days Instead Brother held a get acquaunted peruod un each of hus classes And dudn t a glow come unto our cheeks when we learned that he had gone through the struggle humself and had graduated from the Prep just seven years earluer' Brother Francus de Sales started thungs goung un busuness luke style wuth Tom Barretts recutal of Femlna, femunae, femunae femunam femuna But Brother Norman s Algebra was one of the most unter estung classes durung that furst year Whether expoundung a pruncuple of multuplucatuon of polynomuals land who us there that does not remember the My Dear Aunt Sally rule9l or castugatung a student un uproaruous fashuan he always com manded and receuved our unduvuded attentuon and respect Who can forget Hey Guogluo lus that rught Maruo7l or the day Ralph chucked Brother Melvuns steam engune out the wundow at Brother Norman s unsustence7 Soon however we were well under way unto the school year Nate Masterson J C Cabral and Pete Malkowsku proved theur worth on the J V gruduron and we all cheered our upperclassmen on the varsuty wuth true Prep spurut Mud years came and went leavung us dazed but vuctaruous Two frosh dayhops Bruan Chambers and Dave Bernardun were for tunate enough to make the golf and tennus teams respectuvely Sprung cautuously approached, and we all dreamed lun class too Tsk, tsk'l of summer and the days when we would no longer be freshmen, but sophomores, those superuor beungs who lorded ut over the freshmen HISTORY OF THE Eventually ut happened we were no longer freshmen but sophomores chompung at the but Although ut was summer we could hardly waut to arruve on the Prep campus scene un the Fall of 56 and begun a yearlong domunance over the new Prep arruvals Struttung luke gamecocks we proudly ocknowl edged ourselves as veterans of Prep lufe and made the freshmen acknowledge ut too' Feelung ut below our dugnuty we nevertheless condescended to afcept the heady broun assugnments of Brother Gules who un the prevuous year had munustered to our unner needs canteen prefect We were mystufued by the Pythagorean theorem the curuous propertues of the 300 600 900 truangle and other bafflung complexutues of plane geometry Neverthe less our geometry teachers Brothers Thomas Andrew Melvun and Funtan succeeded eventually un gettung them through our heads Caesars Galluc wars French pronuncuatuon Sponush verbs all these were un tume mastered by us un our second year at Saunt John s On the athletuc scene J C Cabral Bob Egan and Pete Malkowsku all made the varsuty football team and on the J V Basketball team stars luke Kerrugan and Ruckus were guvung a prevuew of theur potentual to be realuzed on the varsuty quuntet two years later In thus fateful year Ralph Devlun was to begun hus spec tacular ruse to fame from vendor on Brother Stanley s gravy traun to senior cafeterua asssutant wuth two years experience horts even got out of the red9 Perhaps the reason us that Brother had such profut eaters on the payroll as saud Devlun Bernardun Masterson et al lnevutably Caesar wrapped up the Helvetuan campaugn the three conjugatuons of French verbs were mastered funals were at hand and passed to our great satusfactuon Yes we had reached the half way mark at St John s Two more years of luke effort lso we thoughtl would make us senuors ready to graduate When we returned to the Prep campus un the Fall of 57 we began to realuze that soon lufe would have a deeper mean ung to us even as students In thus year we would take Na tuonal Merut Tests and the all umportant College Boards and thus un thus year careful preparatuon for college seekung would commence Durung thus eventful year the furst strung of the football team was enhanced wuth such stars as Bud Ruckus who dud a bang up job un the season s opener John Cabral a good offen suve back but even more valuable on defense Pete Malkowsku a bug rough defensuve luneman Moruarty the capable alter nate quarterback Tom McTeague fleetfooted back, and other stellar players such as Egan Cahull OConnor Chambers Reully and Powers Scholastuc wuse we were dusmayed by the complexutues of physucs claumed by most to be the hardest sub ject at the Prep Algebra ll also gave us some bad moments but auded by the understandung and explanatuons of our teachers we survuved . . . 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CLASS OF l959 At the mud year mark we veterans of Prep mudyears had luttle trouble wuth those exams and were concerned wuth an other aspect of Prep lufe a mauor revusuon un the Prep dauly s hedule Lunch peruod was changed to suxth peruod when all Prep upperclassmen trooped over to Memorual Dunung Hall for hot lunch Under the careful supervusuon of the procurator the qualuty of the food was always durectly propartuonal to the relatuve velocuty of the students goung back for seconds Auso durung thus year we dud credutably well un the College Boards Mauruce Bosse eduted the Concordia J C Cabral went out to lunch Bull Kullen passed physucs the Prep basketeers wuth Kerrugan Ruckus and Casano barely lost to Central twuce the track team turned the undoor and outdoor ha truck agaun and countless other memorabulua And when our predecessors the senuors of S8 graduated we wushed them well un future lufe realuzung that by theur graduatuon we were at long last St John s sensors Weren t we proud that summer as we dusplayed our rungs to admurung faur fruends? Thus we whuled the summer away dreamung of the gloruous last year that would come wuth Fall Eagerly we returned to Saunt John s that Fall determuned to polush off our one last year at the Prep un fune style Soon we became accustomed to the classroom technuques of Brother lvo the heavy assugnments of Brother Kyrun the unformal at mospwere of Brother Callustuss small Latun IV class Y s ut dawned on us though slowly that these Brothers and laymen were fruends as well as struct teachers The football team once agaun enjoyed the servuces of Cabral Ruckus and Moruarty These three fleet backs were auded ummeasurably by the fune blockung of Pete Malkowsku Nate Masterson Bob Egan Bruan Chambers Joe Reully Dave Armstrong et al After most games a vuctory Pl party was held at Austun Ford s house where the punch lthough un spukedl fuowed freely Remember the excursuon to Lowell for the Keuth game and the subsequent gloruous vuctory for the Prep eleven? Thus wruter doubts that the good cutuzens of Lowell have yet recovered And then of course Macaulay had to run out of gas onthe way back Yes those furst few months were hectuc ones gettung used to the scholastuc grand and yet beung unvolved un the socual whurl Bob Egan was elected Presudent of the Senuor Class and led the Student Councul to new achuevements Led by Tom Odom Al Chew and Pete Cahull a reuuvenated Prep debatung team captured twelve trophues and two scholarshups Maruo Zampuello thrulled the capacuty crowd at the Sprung Glee Club Concert wuth hus operatuc solo La Donna E Mobule Not to be forgotten euther us Joe Commette s rapturous rendutuon of Zl Malaguena on the concert grand The Sodaluty led by Dave Downey collected stamps and canned goods whuch clut tered the Buology lab for months For those basketball fans among the sensor class the Prep quuntet provuded many thrulls Though our hearts were broken lpartucularly those of the Prepsters from Lawrence! by the close scores of those Central games the Eagles gauned sweet revenges by whuppung them un the furst round of the Catholvc tournament Joe Denahev dud a bang up uob under the boards whule Casano Ruckus and Kerrugan controlled the floor actuon The track team agaun provuded us wuth sweepung vuctorues un the undoor and outdoor State meets Brother Patrucuan al ways seemed to come up wuth the best athletuc team at St Johns Under hus capable guudance the Prep runners won three consecutuve state tutles both undoor and outdoor We were all pleased when Brother receuved a well deserved trubute for hus success at the Father and Son Banquet Yes ut was a great year lt was the year when Bull met Frances Al got a haurcut the boys went to Sunapee had a puzza party all Fords neughbors moved away Pete passed chem most of us passed Hustory Brother Pascal agaun olled up the old power mower Jumbo went to the Prom wuth the general s suster Bob got the Alumnu Servuce Award Paul got the Scuen e and Math Award and the General Excellence Award Dave Bernardun got the Language Award and Dave Downey recelved the Catholuc Actuon Award At the Father Son Banquet un May all applauded lustuly when the top oth letes and scholars receuved theur respective awards We wull all fondly remember the wonderful Senuar Prom The gym was beautufully decorated un a Japanese motuf, and all the gurls and even the boys looked especually wonderful that evenung tor should l say mornung7l And we stull wonder uf Torn McTeague ever found hus pants When Graduatuon Exercuses funally came around all were eager to be lusted as alumnu of St John s Prep And then we shook hands wuth our classmates wushed them well un future lufe and hoped to meet them all agaun Those fortunate enough to have several classmates attendung the some col lege as themselves reuouced to have old fruends un what would be a strange place Now that your eyes have begun readung thus lune you have graduated and have proceeded unto future lufe May thus book and these words serve as a souvenur of four wonderful years' l . ll ll ' T I I I ' I I T I I . c . , , . , . - f , , . . . 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