My Father’s High School Graduation

My Father 👨‍🎓 graduates from Bushwick High School in 1933. Here he poses with his Mom and Dad on the side of his house at 8 Vermont Avenue ( eventually 64 Interboro Parkway and now Jackie Robinson Parkway. My Dad’s High School “ History” is an interesting one. It was strongly recommended that he go to seminary pre-school up in Garrison, New York to become an OFM Capuchin Friar (a Catholic Priest) to basically replace his Uncle Charlie who died of a flu pneumonia (the infamous flu of 1918 )a couple of months before he was to be ordained! At the start of his Junior year, when he arrived at the seminary in Garrison, he told the uncle that escorted him all the way up from Brooklyn, that he didn’t want to stay. He came back home from upstate and his Dad had to frantically search for a school so he could continue his High School education. He entered Bushwick HS where he met the 1st of his two lifelong friends, Joe Mule. Joe Mule encouraged my Dad to go to Brooklyn College with him after HS where he met his 2nd lifelong friend, Nick Pascarelli. My Dad said by Junior year he knew he wanted girls in his life and decided a celebrate priesthood was not for him!! Good for me I guess