St Peters Boys High School - Aquilan Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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Sc 'Uv rr WE 'mon X4 955 ROM JUNIOR YEAR SENIOR YEAR Our most drfhcult year but agarn the year was brrghtened by the rnannerrsms and unprecedented methods of our teachers Physrcs was made more rnterestrng by Brother B Henrys lesson on Russras Muttnrk rn hrs frequent tangents Brother Leo talked about many fields that were entrrely new to us we were taught Math by Brother Bernard and French by Brother Adrran and Brother A Henry Brother C Peter acquarnted us wrth hrs chart of student teacher relatrons wrth regard to vrtalrty acted as fire warden for Brother Stanrslaus our Latrn and Englrsh teacher the mrd year Latrn mates garned notorrety by hrs famous aerral antrcs the success of the newly formed Benrlde Socrety was evrdent rn the tremendous rncrease rn vocatrons from St Peters last year once agarn the basket ball and track teams won the Island Champronshrps after the Senror class graduated we finally achreved the coveted trtle of SENIORS It was durrng thrs our runror year that the stu dents of St Peters and the whole of Staten Island were saddened by the death of Brother Vrncent .1 marnstay and shrnrng example of Chrrstrrn vrrtue at St Peters for nearly twenty years NICE choo Our most enjoyable year new prrvrleges more responsrbrlrty extra study Brother Francrs ac quarnted us wrth hrs system 4C lrterally ate up Brother C Peters Hrstory perrod whrle Brother Clement told hrs hrstorrans brrng a Chrrstmas tree son well go rrght through Mr McGlone rntro duced us to Shakespeares Macbeth and those rm mortal words Lay on Macdufi' French III and Latrn IV were added to the currrculum t e school was thrown rnto a heated and colorful Student Councrl electron campargn durrng September Tom OMalley emerged the vretor hrs drrve and our cooperatron brought about the first Senror Dance hrghly prarsed by both faculty and students alrke our fire drrll was made more realrstrc by the arrrval of three fire engrnes whrle we were clearrng the school a certarn senror decorated the cerlrng rn the Chem lab the basketball team beat LaSalle for the frrst trme srnce 44 the cross country team retrred the oseph F Malden Trophy rn the Staten Island Champronshrps both the football and basketball rntramurals recerved excellent partrcrpatron from the entrre student body the Senror Retreat under the drrectron of Father Adrrm Brennan OFM Conv synthesrzed our four years of rnstructron and we were ready to go forth Crtholre scholars and gentlemen CD00 a li, goff' e5 ,geo wa mt 0 fe Gox VC' fads 0 gs? P . . . . . . , . ' . I . , . - . . ' . . , . , . , ' n ' ' ll II , , . . . . ' - . . 4 A I D H K . 6 L K'G. L , ' , . ' ' . . . . . . - . t I ' , I I ' D . . . exam turned out to be a snap . . . one of our class- . I . , . e 4 , ' 1 ' ' . , . . . , I . . a a ' ' ' . . . , V Y I L ' I , if . , . . . . I . Y A . ' . 'D ,. . . . .- gi 1' t '7 0: .. . ., . S il -l

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SQVIOR Q-1 as IV Q 93 C swf' v W THE PATH fr AUX DY-X HA ARY S A FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR Samt Peters Boys Hrph School new expertenees new subyects new frrends our hxgh sehool career began wrth the Mass of the Holy Ghost at St Peter 5 Church Mrs Hurley put many of us at ease wrth her frtendly and helpful manner Brother Edward and Mr DeMar1a took us on our first venture tnto the world of serente we learned that there was now standmy, room only rn the lunchroom Mrs Lawless and Mrs Dubltnskt became our second moms Brother ohn was heard to say tough lrfe gentle men Mr Monahan and Mr Walsh were affec more yocular classmates the freshman cross country team excelled tardlness tn the morntng proved to be eostly we happrly d1scovered that school now ended at 7 30 the freshman class cheered the basketball team tt Mad1son Square Gar en many began to feel that Lattn was a dead language and should be burted specral buses awarted the prrvrleged of St Peters Brother Kevm trred to prove to us that x t e biology lab beeame over populated durrng the Easte vacatton our flrst year rlpxdly came to a close and we realtzed that we were now SOPHOMORES T ough Life uncle P' Our most memorable year many of the events of thls year wtll be remembered throughout our lrves w ho can forget Brother Pascals famous quote the war 15 over or Tennysons and slowly tnswered Arthur from the barge Brother Austm used to plead wrth us to eltmb down out of those trees some of us had to endure as many as three Latln perxods a day of h1c haec hoc and ason ehasrng the golden fleeee Brother Clement who always thought we were trymg to fool the brother showed us how to choochoo ehoo up a trrangle strlled rn us by Mr Boyle we learned how to parler francars from Brother Adtran and Brother A Henry as a class we excelled tn the annual LaSalle drrve plactng three classes rn the top srx the Varstty Cross Country team wrth three sopho mores on rt captured the Island champxonshrp Island ehampronsh1ps were also won by the basket ball and track teams many sophomores were seen parnelpatlng 1n the newly formed basketball and softball tntramurals for the first nme we faced those dreaded regents but when they were over we dtscovered that we were now JUNIORS is Over The W at Bxbere Est Vwefe 9 00 g o E Y-B G rt YY f ' ' 'Y ' - A ' ' ' , ' ' 1 . .. , . . . x h ' A ' 4 'l ' I ' W c . l . . . ' P 7 4 4 v c -' B . . . I L Y ', . . . A I ... J . ' - . ' ' , tionately dubbed Mutt and Jeff by some of our . . . the facts and dates of World History were in- ' 4 1 . C ' D ' Y - . . 1 L 1 1 - K I . I I Y, - ' . . . ' . ' ' ' . ' . . . L . ' ' ' . ..:, . . . 1 ' , ' ' ' , .. ' 2 K 1 1 ' . ' 1 , P r 1 , I . d . . . 1 f an . ' ', r ' ' , , , Y . Y 1 ' . . . ' . ' ' ' - ' ' A - Z y . . . h . ' ' I ' 4 lr ' l I ' t . . . l 4 U . . . K 2 ' ' 71 r 3 ra a A v r A , ff ,, .. 5? X .. - Q I .-

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R Kellman Sullivan J Venturella MOST MATURE J Hooke R Kam K Gordon 52 MOST POPULAR THE BEST WITTIEST Jlm Sulllvan T Vermaelen -I Sulllvan x ...Jw DID MOST FOR SCHOOL G King C Gxglxo R Canncl BEST DRESSED T OMalley C Smxth -I Sullivan