This is just a random page from a copy of Xavier High School’s 1933 yearbook. Xavier, founded in the 1847, is an elite Jesuit high school on West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues that attracts boys from all over the metropolitan area. Until 1971, ROTC was mandatory, hence the military uniforms.
But when were the boys below marked RIP? Perhaps they died young, in World War II. Or maybe the classmate who owned this yearbook wrote the initials recently.
Tags: Jesuit high schools in Manhattan, Manhattan high schools, ROTC, Xavier High School
December 22, 2008 at 3:47 pm |
There is a Mortimer V. Walsh listed as a crew member of an Army Air Forces aircraft show down in North Africa in 1942. Crew presumed dead.
http://www.footnote.com/image/30088435/mortimer%20walsh/
December 22, 2008 at 4:07 pm |
Thank you for looking that up and posting.
December 22, 2008 at 6:34 pm |
Thanks for posting this bit of history from my alma mater.
Trehy’s and Uminger’s names did not show up in the American Battle Monuments Commission Website for WWII or Korea, or the National World War II Memorial site, so it may be possible that they passed away after the war.
You may be able to obtain biographical information from the school itself, but student records may not be available to researchers. Also, the school website (www.xavierhs.org) doesn’t seem to have a specific contact e-mail.
January 20, 2009 at 4:59 am |
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