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

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1-FQEgu4MAus1 LQ47 Freshman Our Hugh School year had begun and the portals of St Josephs beckoned us to luve as men We were soon to learn however that the tutle Freshman carrued luttle esteem amongst the rest of the student body Realuzung thus fact the Frosh entered whole heartedly unto the spurut of actuvuty of SJCI and made quute a name for themselves Wunter approached and we further proved ourselves by turnung un well over TOO percent un the school Buuld ung Fund Druve The Shamrock Club Skatung Party and pucnuc were other notable occasuons of the year Wuth the arruval of Sprung came the school Retreat whuch us an annual event at St Joes Easter approached and wuth ut the antucupated vacatuon The customs and fashuons of the school adapted June exams were met and surpassed by the maloruty of the class The acttvutues un whuch we par tucupated especually the Glee Club pucnuc wull never be forgotten Our first year at S J C l had come to an end SQQMQMOQES 1948 SJ6 095 MW The comung of Fall ushered un a new year new actuvutues and a new tutle Sophomores The spurut of the school was quute evudent un the manner of the Sophs Thus year however created a constant struggle between the Upper classmen and the challenges of the ever energetuc wuse fools The first test came wuth the staguna of the play A Slight Case of Murder our annual play un whuch we surpassed all expectatuons All preluduces were abandoned how ever when the school topped uts prevuous record un the Buuldung Druve The NX. great honor of partucupatung un Buffalos Eucharustuc Congress was extended to us A spectacular fire destroyed our school late un May and we spent the remaunder of our school year as hosts of Canusuus College un theur Delavan Avenue annex Athletucs saw Mr Schuavone take control of all three magor sports wunnung the league trophy un basketball and the cuty champuonshup un baseball The newly formed Hockey team won uts bug contest agaunst Canusuus and the Crew team swept down the Black Rock Channel to wuru the Buffalo Hugh School Champuonshup The comung of Summer and flnal exams brought another school year to c close lj 4, FE V1 T 'Outs

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JUMOZS 1949 As we returned to classes un T948 we entered a renovated buuldung completely repaured from the S70 OOO fire We were now upperclassmen and took full advantage of our posutuon The Dramatu Socuety presentatuon was Reserve Two and the .lunuor class dud more than uts share at flllung Kleunhans Musuc Hall A new football league was formed and St Joes were co champs at the unutlal seasons end I basketball the S.lCl representatuves also capped the crown after defeattng both Holy Angels and St Francus un Memorual Audutoruum for the champuonshup Then came the school drtve The ,lunuors took school honors by exceedung ZOO! of theur quotas and two classes broke all records by achuevung over 3001 Because of the great success of the l949 druve ground was broken for the new Kenmore school and we felt quute proud of materualuzung thus dream Sports however dud not overshadow the Socual lufe of St Joes The Senor Prom and .lunuor dance were the hughlughts of the 1 ce f u K l ' , , I l o u - . . . C . . , . I Q, . ' - ' ' ' ' . nl Q . . ' . . Oo ' , K year, Final exams over, we left school and awaited the advent of the coming year. .pf cf Q fu I l . l . . . , . to . ' l l. U I I 4 ' ' . h l l 5 , SENuoQS 1950 Q As summer lagged on and Autumn approached we were anxuous to resume our scholastuc dutues and renew old acquauntances But thus year was to be enturely dufter ent than those gone by because now we were Senuors the Bug Wheels of the school Another successful play was staged by the Dramatuc Socuety and the mud year exams came and passed very rapudly Once more the Basketball team emerged vuctoruous Then the Prom a bug nught un any Senuor s lufe was prepared for The memory of thus dance whuch was held un the Crystal Room of the Lafayette Hotel wull never be for gotten by the class of T950 Now we were preparung for the last epusode of our Hugh School days Under the expert guudance of the Brothers we soon were able to over come the many problems confrontung a Hugh School Senuor Aprul found us enterung a new school the culmunatuon of our dreams as well as the faculty s Wuth the real uzatuon of four years of traunung behund us we now prepared for graduatuon and looked forward to the new horuzons awautung us