St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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CLASS HISTORY T. SEBASTIAN'S was inaugurating its third successful year when we were incorporated into its student body in September 1943. Al- most forty strong we constituted the largest group in the School and the size of our class called for a division of our personnel into two sections, designated as Freshman A and B . To begin the scholastic year under divine auspices, the first assembly of the students was in the Chapel to assist at the Mass of the Holy Ghost, celebrated by the Headmaster. At its conclusion, Fr. Mclnnis spoke to us from the sanctuary, exhorting us to the proper proportion of prayer and work in the year ahead. When we filed out of the Chapel, we were assigned our respec- tive classrooms which, upon cursory examination, seemed lightsome and almost cheerful. The Priests who were to guide us along the paths of scholarship next made their appearance and their preliminary addresses to us were re-assuring and en- couraging. They identilied themselves and their subjects to us in succession and before the day was over we had rather definite ideas of what the immediate future held in store for us. Father Collins, soft-spoken and genial, was to introduce us to the mysteries of Latin, while the tall, jovial Fr. Hannigan was to lead us through the intricacies of mathematics. History, it seemed, was the province of the red- headed, humorous Fr. Keating who was destined to become the idol of our Fresh- man days. In French we made the acquaintance of the benign and mild-mannered Fr. Stocklosa while the vagaries of our native English were to be pursued under the direction of Fr. Flanigan. To round out our course, we were privileged to have the doctrines and practices of the Church unfolded for us in most eloquent and interesting fashion by the Headmaster. After this introduction to the Faculty, we began to appraise the companions that fortune had thrown across our path. Hesitant smiles were exchanged tenta- tively at first, but it took only a recess, a dinner hour and a session on the Football field to put us on terms of easy familiarity with those about us. There was one good point to recitations, at any rate, for they enabled us to associate faces and names and in practically no time at all we were hailing classmates by name. Even the Freshmen of the other section, separated from us by a door, soon came to be recognized and greeted, and in short order the threshold was being freely crossed at every available moment. The A room was tenanted by such stalwarts as Bob Bullock, Freddie Buttner, the Crowley brothers, Frank Fandel, Bob Fichtner, Dick Griffin, Vin Horrigan, john Kehoe, Jack Kirk, Dave May, Dick McCarron, Charlie McDonald, Phil Monahon, Paul Morris, Bob O'Shea, Ed Quirk, jack Seth and Keith Staples. In the B section were numbered warriors like Herb Baker, Richard Cronin, Bill Delaney, Doc Doherty, Ted Fandel, john Gallagher, jake

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CLASS OF 1947 Rear Row: Griffin, O'Leary, Watson, Ford, Kehoe, Ellard, McAuliffe Center Row: Horrign, Quirk, O'Shea, Bullock, Fichtner, McCarron, McKinney, Shannon Seated: Boles, O'Donoghue, Kirk, Cremmen, Caulfield, Harwood, Heavey

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BROTHERLY LOVE Seven sets of St. Sebastian brothers Left to Right: The Malden McAu1iffesg the Elstonsg the Collupys the Griffinsg the Keelansg the Fitzgeraldsg the McKir1neys.