St Josephs Collegiate Institute - Star Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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THE STAR Leaving Milwaukee the next day for home, I began thinking of the achievements of the fellows. Well as I look over the class in my mind's eye, I am not so surprised at the positions that the fellows occupy today. Anybody could have seen that most of the fellows found jobs suited to their inclinations. With the exception of Bill Gardiner and Sarkis Anthony of whom I really expected more, I can't say that I feel any of the fellows have come below my expectations. As I was thus contemplating the fate of my old pals, the train brought up with a jerk and looking out I saw I was back in the old home town again. F. C. 0'CONNOR, '27 ST. JOSEPH'S 1900-1915 Thirty 1

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THE STAR Seeing a garage sign down the street, I walked down to inquire after the hire of a cab. Seeing nobody ibut a mechanic around, I went over to dig him from under the car he was working on. Hearing me approach, he squirmed from under the car. He was a smutty, greasy, sleepy-looking individual whom I immediately recognized as Neil Maher. Getting a car for double the regular hire, I drove around the city. On my way back to Neil's garage, I noticed a sign, Fred Kilroy's Beauty Parlor . I stopped the car and entered and there was Freddy directing a comely girl how to arch eyebrows. Fred said Washington was a wonderful business town and that he had the Senatorial trade. Fred was the same handsome devil he had always been and had changed but little. On returning home from Washington, I was given my vacation which I determined to spend at an aunt's in Milwaukee. When I entered the station at Milwaukee, I noticed a sign Howard- Dolan, Information on Anything . I stepped over to see if this was the Howy of my acquaintance, and sure enough it was that same wise, owlish- looking mug that presented itself to me. He told me several of the other fellows were in Milwaukee. And on asking how come he had settled down here, he said, that the soda water was the best in the country . I stopped up to see Maurice Furlong who was the local radio an- nouncer. When I asked how he had come to get that job he said it was the only one he could find that didn't interfere with his sleep. I went to the Zoo to see Kerin Lyons, as Howy had told me he was working there. Lyons was putting on a wrestling act with the white mice when I entered. He told me his success as a wild animal trainer was due to the fact that he stuck to his bicycle pants . Hearing from Lyons that Lester Brass had an office in the basement of Shyster Building, I took a hop down there. There was Lester Brass's name in red chalk on' an office door. I noticed beneath his name the legend Attorney at Law or What Have you . Entering I was face to face with a grave looking fellow who was Less and none other. It was hard to convince Less that I was an old school chum of his and not a prospective client. When I inquired after the success of his profession, he hands me , that the only case he had since he opened shop turned out, when tested, to b.e wood alcohol and he couldn't find the fellow who sold it to him. I was informed by Less that Joe Chute was running a dance hall. That night I dropped in and there was Joe surrounded by his wife and child. Thi ty eight

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THE STAR The Expiring Sveninrs' last will anti Testament THE distinguished, and soon to be extinguished, Class 5.3 of '27, late residents of St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, as City of Buffalo, County of Erie, State of New York. hav- ing served at least one full year's term in Rooms 4A and ' 4B of said institution, and being now of UNSOUND mind and LAPSED memory Do make, publish and declare this to be our last Will and Final Testament, all others being declared null and void. ARTICLE I. To the Senior Class of next year iif there be anylz First, We leave to you the name of Senior, that most awe-inspiring of titles, at the pronouncement of which Freshmen faint, Sophomores weep, and Juniors cringe. Second, Upon you we bestow the guardianship of Rooms 4A and 4B for a period not to exceed one scholastic year unless you become so enamored with your studious surroundings that you feel it would be an injustice to your teachers to deprive them of your presence after so brief a stay. With the custody of the afore-mentioned rooms we confide to you the care and preservation of all trophies, pictures and documents proclaiming the greatness of your immediate predecessors, in particular the oil painting done in wax which a-dorns the rear wall of Senior Ag we Warnyou never to try to improve on this Work of art. Third, We direct you to pay, with accumulated interest, all the honorable debts that We have justly contracted and left as an heirloom to the school. fKeep our addresses quiet while performing this dutyl. Fourth, We further direct you to erect in some conspicuous place a suitable monument to the memory of the Class of '27. Cldeas may be obtained by a perusual of the Washington Monument. the Bunker Hill Monument, or the more conven- iently located McKinley Monumentl. ARTICLE II. To the school in general we leave our exalted example of irreproach- able behavior and inimitable scholastic achievement. With sympathy for our successors -do We realize that never again can St. Joe's produce such master minds as Brass, Sebert and Peschiog such exponents of strategy in debate as Cuba Candee and Manila Griffin, or such dry humorists as Cudney, Maher and Ready. Poi ty