I would venture a guess that Ralph Lucarella knows a number of students from this photo. There's very popular Hamiltonian Ed McManimon directly under the "1936" in the photo, there's my favorite Trenton Mayor, Art Holland. Don Foy, who operated Foy's Fountain on South Broad Street for many years.
Stephen said...This was the last coed graduating class from Immaculate Conception High School. The following September, Immaculate beame an all boys high school and in 1938 was renamed Trenton Catholic Boys High School. St. Mary's Cathedral High School became an all girls high school in September 1936.
Just below the picture of the future Trenton mayor, Arthur Holland, is that of my dad's first cousin, Grace McGarigle. Grace joined the Sisters of Mercy and was known as Sister Anne Cecilia. She was later a teacher and principal at Sacred Heart grammar school in Trenton. - RALPH LUCARELLA said...
YOU'RE RIGHT TOM, I KNOW QUITE A BIT OF THE PEOPLE WHO GRADUATED THAT YEAR. OF COURSE MY FRIEND AND TEAM MATE ART "CHIRP" HOLLAND WAS AMONG THE GROUP. I NEVER FOUND OUT WHY HE HAD THE NICK NAME OF CHIRP BUT THAT WAS WHAT HIS FRIENDS CALLED HIM. ANOTHER FRIEND FRED SORRENTO, BE CAME A PRIEST AND TAUGHT AT TRENTON CATHOLIC FOR MANY YEARS. BEST REGARDS.
This was the last coed graduating class from Immaculate Conception High School. The following September, Immaculate beame an all boys high school and in 1938 was renamed Trenton Catholic Boys High School. St. Mary's Cathedral High School became an all girls high school in September 1936.
ReplyDeleteJust below the picture of the future Trenton mayor, Arthur Holland, is that of my dad's first cousin, Grace McGarigle. Grace joined the Sisters of Mercy and was known as Sister Anne Cecilia. She was later a teacher and principal at Sacred Heart grammar school in Trenton.
YOU'RE RIGHT TOM, I KNOW QUITE A BIT OF THE PEOPLE WHO GRADUATED THAT YEAR. OF COURSE MY FRIEND AND TEAM MATE ART "CHIRP" HOLLAND WAS AMONG THE GROUP. I NEVER FOUND OUT WHY HE HAD THE NICK NAME OF CHIRP BUT THAT WAS WHAT HIS FRIENDS CALLED HIM. ANOTHER FRIEND FRED SORRENTO, BE CAME A PRIEST AND TAUGHT AT TRENTON CATHOLIC FOR MANY YEARS. BEST REGARDS.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the input, gentlemen. Stephen, a classmate of mine in the Hamilton High class of 1951 was Pat with the same sounding name you typed, but I don't know how he spelled it. Phonetically it was
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There was another family in the Trenton area whose name was McGarrigle. I haven't discovered the connection between the two similarly sounding families. There was a John Patrick McGarrigle who went by Pat who was a member of HH '51 class. He passed away in 1998. In October 1946 he was crowned the "Tom Sawyer of Trenton" at the Stacy Theater in a contest from a field with more than 200 boys. Allegedly he was a splittin image of the fictional character from Mark Twain's novel.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stephen. That's the same Pat I knew as a 1951 HHS classmate. I posted the photo of him on my Hamilton High website, but Google deleted many of my graphics when I imported Picasa. I am in the lengthy process of restoring all the lost graphics. It will take a very long time due to the sheer number.
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