Transcript StMArys PPS - Instructions - 50th Reunion Memories Library

Saint Mary’s High School
Class of 1961
50th Reunion
E-N-U-N-C-I-A-T-E
your words!
Born in Brooklyn, Msgr. Sharp
was ordained in Baltimore in
1918. He served for 30 years at
St. Mary’s and left as Pastor
Emeritus in 1969. He also taught
language, literature and theology
in diocesan schools on Long
Island. He was the author of
several books, including a history
of the Brooklyn Diocese and an
autobiography entitled “An Old
Priest Remembers.”
Rt. Rev. Msgr. John K. Sharp
1892 - 1979
“What Msgr. Sharp Hath Put Assunder,
Let No Man Seek To Rejoin”
Mother Paul Joseph
Brother Cletus Richard
Brothers (Clockwise from top left): Lawrence Ephrem,
Ronald Bernard, Kenneth Robert, Anthony of
Padua, Donald Richard, Peter Martin
Mrs. John McCarthy, Sr. M. Consuela, Mrs. Ford
Miles, Sr. M. St. Leonard, Sr. M. Huberta, Sr. M. Marylyn
(Clockwise from top left)
Roy Campanella Paralyzed in Port
Washington Accident: Jan 28
1958
Elvis Draft Notice: Jan. 20
US Nuclear Bomb: Eniwetok, May 22
Great Balls of Fire #1 Jan 10
1958
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Best Song: “At the Hop”
Best Movie: “Gigi”
Best Novel: “Doctor Zhivago”
Top TV : “Gunsmoke”
World Series: Yankees
Fashion: Silhouette Dress
Hot Car: Chevy Impala
Dow Jones: 583
1958
Top Records:
1."At the Hop“
2."Don't I Beg of You“
3."Tequila"
4."Twilight Time"
5."Witch Doctor"
6."All I Have to Do is Dream“
7."Purple People Eater"
8."Hard Headed Woman"
9."Poor Little Fool 10."Volare"
Top Movies:
1. Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Peyton Place
3. Sayonara
4. No Time for Sergeants
5. The Vikings
6. Search for Paradise
7. South Pacific
8. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
9. Raintree Country
10. Old Yeller
Top Row: Ralph Ronzoni, Bob Reith, Gene Piana, Larry Phalen.
Bottom Row: John O’Callaghan, John Burke, Art Reffelt
Town Hall Classic!
The Chocolate Egg Cream
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Ingredients:
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Instructions:
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1-2 oz. Chocolate Syrup
1-2 oz. Cold Milk
8-10 oz. Cold Seltzer Water
Step 1
Add 1-2 oz chocolate syrup,
1-2 oz cold milk in a glass.
Use a spoon to mix well.
Step 2
Add seltzer water in the
glass, 1/3 way up. Slowly mix
well. Pour more water in until
full. Slowly Mix well.
Voted Most Loyal
Michaela Cohan & Jim Zeitler
Jim Zeitler
The Wing-Footed Five
John McKee
Cheaper By The Dozen!
Bob Sullivan, Murph Firth, Jill Sickles, Carol McGill
Voted Friendliest
Sue Connell & Jim Anderson
Still dancing
after all these
years!
Olga “Cookie” Mitrou & Daughter
?
For which of our
classmates did
being at the
Long Island
Railroad station
feel “just like
being at home?”
Answer: Helen McLean Lived There!
Voted Best School Spirit
Patricia Murphy & John Burke
Left to Right: ?, Roger Sullivan, Dave Wilson,
John McKee, Gerry Endres
1959
1st 7 Mercury Astronauts
Eisenhower & Khrushchev
Castro Becomes Premier
Selected Apr. 9, 1959
1st Visit to US: Sep. 26, 1959
January 7, 1959
1959
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50th Anniversary: Les Paul Standard
Best Movie: “Ben-Hur”
Best Novel: “Exodus”
Top TV : “Gunsmoke” (again!)
World Series: LA Dodgers
Fashion: Shirt-waist Dress
(Not So) Hot Car: The Edsel
Dow Jones: 679
Best Song: “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”
1959
Top Records:
1."Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
2."Stagger Lee"
3."Venus"
4."Come Softly to Me"
5."The Happy Organ"
6."Kanas City"
7."The Battle of New Orleans"
8."Lonely Boy“
9."A Big Hunk O' Love“
10."The Three Bells"
Top Movies:
1. Auntie Mame
2. Shaggy Dog
3. Some Like It Hot
4. Imitation of Life
5. The Nun's Story
6. Anatomy of a Murder
7. North by Northwest
8. Rio Bravo
9. Sleeping Beauty
10. Some Came Running
“Finished Basement Party” - 1959
Top Row: Mickey Wands, Dave Ross (hidden), Tom Mead, Dave Wilson, Steve Walthall, Paul Schoenberger, Larry Tory, Eddie
White, Rich Burke, Gene Kelly. Middle Row: Unknown, Rowie Barsa, Grace Kelly, Mary Fox, Kathy Doran, Jill Sickles, Maura
McCarthy, Sippy McGuire. Bottom Row: Denise Quinn, Cookie Mitrou, Carol McGill, Germaine Reusch
Voted Most Diligent
Jane Phelan & Tom McKenna
Need Moore Be Said?
Omnia
gallia
divisa
est in
ties
tres
Voted Best Artist
Barbara Murphy & James Schofield
The Team!
Corvair 1st Rear Engine US Car
Unsafe, but cool, at any speed!
1960
Gary Powers’U-2 Downed
1st Sit-In Woolworths
May1, 1960
Feb. 1, 1960
1960
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Best Song: “El Paso”
Best Movie: “The Apartment”
Best Novel: “Advise & Consent”
Top TV (Last Time) : “Gunsmoke”
World Series: Pittsburgh
Fashion: “Full Over Full” Look
Hot Car: The Corvair
Dow Jones: 616
1960
Top Records:
1."El Paso“
2."Running Bear“
3."Teen Angel“
4.Theme from "A Summer Place“
5."Stuck on You“
6."Cathy's Clown“
7."Everybody's Somebody's Fool“
8."Alley-Oop“
9."I'm Sorry“
10."Teenie Polka Dot Bikini"
Top Movies:
1. Ben-Hur
2. Psycho
3. Operation Petticoat
4. Suddenly, Last Summer
5. On the Beach
6. Solomon and Sheba
7. The Apartment
8. From the Terrace
9. Don't Eat the Daisies
10. Ocean 11
Cotillion Ball at the Old Garden City Hotel
Rich Burke, Linda Badini
Voted Most Likely To Succeed
Adele Giachetti & Bill Grace
Left to Right: Peter Bonafide, Steve Coughlin,
Gerry O’Malley, John Dooley, Jim Cullen
Father & Son Activities Night
Dave Wilson,
Don Pilling & Dads
Father & Son Activities Night
Rich Burke & Dad
It must have been an
attendance award!
Scholarship Club
Clockwise from left: Tom McKenna, John Johnstone, ?, Evris
Coutroubis, John Leary, Brother Ronald, John Burke, Ray Stroh,
Frank Occhiogrosso, Peter Lawrence.
Voted Brightest
Judy Schutt & Ray Stroh
Honk If You Attended A Game!
Girls Choir
Voted Best Thespian
Melanie Varol & Don Pilling
Invasion of Cuba Fails
April 25, 1961
Alan Shepard May 5, 1961
1st American in Space
1961
Entire US Figure Skating Team
Killed in Crash: Feb 15, 1961
Construction of Berlin Wall
Begins: Aug. 13, 1961
Freedom Riders Head South: May 4, 1961
1961
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Best Song: “Moon River”
Best Movie: “West Side Story”
Best Novel: “Agony & Ecstasy”
Top TV : “Wagon Train”
World Series: Yankees
Fashion: “The Snob Dress”
Hot Car: The VW Bug
Dow Jones: 725
January 27, 1961
“Ask not what your
country can do for you,
ask what you can do for
your country.”
1961
Top Records:
1.”Wonderland by Night“
2. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
3. "Calcutta"
4. "Pony Time“
5. "Surrender"
6. "Blue Moon"
7. "Runaway"
8. "Mother-in-Law"
9. "Travelin' Man"
10. "Running Scared"
Top Movies:
1. The Guns of Navarone
2. Absent-Minded Professor
3. The Parent Trap
4. Swiss Family Robinson
5. Exodus
6. The World of Suzie Wong
7. Alamo
8. Gone With the Wind
9. 101 Dalmatians
10. Splendor in the Grass
1961 Yearbook Dedication
Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III
1927 - 1961
Voted Best Writer
Eileen Stanley & John Leary
Left to Right: John Piccano, Tad Blissner, Bill
Robinson, Ralph Ronzoni, John O’Callaghan
Voted Neatest
Maureen Hunt & Eddie White
Voted Best Dancer
Cookie Mitrou & Gene Kelley
Voted Most Ambitious
Judy Herbert & Evris Coutroubis
Senior Prom
Miles of wire, acres
of plastic wrap, and
an indulgent faculty,
transform the boys’
gym into a cave
adorned with
Stalactites!
Rich Burke, Mary O’Callaghan
Ever wonder what inspired the “Enchantment Under The Sea”
Prom Theme in Back To The Future?
Voted Most Popular
Murph Firth & Dave Wilson
Top Row: Mike Clancy, Jim Zeitler, Gene Schlette, Tom Costarino, Dave Ross, Bill Doyle
Middle Row: John McKee, Bill Grace, Pete Hickey
Bottom Row: Dave Wilson, Gerry Endres, Ken Martin
Voted Most Distinguished
Juliann Lepore & Pete Lawrence
Pan American Study Group
Pat Bardak, ? , Mary Arendt, Catherine Geary, Nancy Stanton
Penn Relay Team
Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
John Love, John McKee, Coach Zeitler, Joe O’Rielly (C 62) , Jim Zeitler
Voted Best Athlete
Gail Hotarek & Pete Hickey
Voted Wittiest
Maura McCarthy & Bob O’Sullivan
Ring Ceremony
Voted Best Singers
Ann Kavanagh & The Trinidad Trio*
* John Burke, Ken Martin,
John Picciano
Gaels In Action
Voted Best Musician
Pat O’Brien & Jay Helfrick
Girls Clubs
Forensics, Science, Art
Voted Best Poet
Mary Ann Gardner & Pete Meade
Spring Play
Boys’ Activities
Trinidad Trio: John Picciano,
Ken Martin, John Burke
Ray Stroh On The Air
Voted Best Looking
Joan Grimm & Kevin Costello
Girls’ Student Council
Girls’ Intramurals
Voted Most Responsible
Joss Coyle & Richard Burke
Girls’ Student Government
Boys’ Student Council
Left to Right Top Row – Bob Sullivan, John Burke, Bill Doyle,
Bill Grace; Bottom Row – Don Pilling, Frank Occhiogrosso,
Dave Wilson, Peter Lawrence
Girls’ Activities
Seniors Entertain Freshmen
Riding Club
“I’ve had my eye
on you people
and, you know,
you don’t look
all that bad for
68!”
40th Reunion – The Whole Class
40th Reunion – The Girls
40th Reunion “The Boys”
40th “Harry Hepcat” Otruba’s
Mercury: Staring Role in “A Beautiful Mind”
40th Reunion
Mary Love Thralls,
Rich Burke, Dave
Wilson, Sippy
McGuire, Patricia
O’Neill (center)
40th Reunion Dinner Dance
40th Reunion
Sunday Brunch
Tom Troy, Mary Fox,
Peter Meade, Eileen
Murphy, Marianne
Pascale (center)
40th Reunion – Sunday Brunch
40th Reunion – Sunday Brunch
IN MEMORIUM
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Peter Bonafide
John Burke
William Doyle
David Hamilton
Gene Kelley
Peter Lawrence
Brian McGuire
Donald Pilling
Robert Reith
David Ross
Edwin Smith
Lawrence Tory
Thomas Troy
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Leslie Banks
Patricia Bardak
Marilyn Bishop
Ann Bonnano
Michaela Cohan
Margaret Firth
Valerie Hand
Denise Healy
Mary Ann Mazian
Denise Quinn
Joann Ruppert
Barbara Wootton
"To live in hearts we leave
behind is not to die."