Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1976 Graduated 39 Years Ago This Evening

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1976 graduated on this date, Thursday, June 24, 1976. The newspaper article appeared the following day in The Bridgeport Post. Please click "view" and then click the article to enlarge and read.

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Paul

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1975 Graduated 40 Years Ago This Evening

Forty years ago this evening, Wednesday, June 24, 1975, the Andrew Warde High School senior class held its commencement exercises. Here is the story which appeared in The Bridgeport Post the following day, Wednesday, June 25. Please click "view" and then click the article to enlarge and read.

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Paul

Andrew Warde High School's 1976 Class Day Award Winners Listed in Newspaper on This Date

Andrew Warde High School's Class Day award winners for 1976 were listed in The Bridgeport Post on June 20, 1976. Please click "view" and then click the article to enlarge and read.

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Paul

Class Day Awards Given at AWHS on This Date 51 Years Ago

Class Day awards were given out at Andrew Warde High School on this date, June 17, 1964. Please click the newspaper story below or "view" to read the complete article which appeared in The Bridgeport Post the following day. Please click "view" and then click the article to enlarge and read.

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Paul

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1965 to Hold 50-Year Reunion Two Weeks From Tonight

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1965 will hold its 50-year reunion two weeks from this evening, Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Il Palio Restaurant, 5 Corporate Drive, Shelton. The cost is $75 per person, which includes a cash bar and music by Dreamin'.

The class has a Facebook page with information about the reunion. Please click the banner below to visit the page.

The weekend-long event includes a happy hour, Friday, June 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Southport Brewing Company, a tour of Andrew Warde High School, Sunday, June 28, at 11 a.m., and Jennings Beach "playtime" Saturday and Sunday. Please request a free beach sticker when mailing payment for the reunion.

Please send a check made payable to AWHS Class of 1965 by May 15 to Jan Jurgielewicz, 80 Pocahontas Road, Redding, Connecticut 06896.

Donations for a scholarship for the 2015 senior class president of Andrew (Fairfield) Warde High School are welcome by check at the door. Please send your favorite class photo to Jill Soderholm at jsoder7524@gmail.com.

Paul

Warde Defeated Milford in First Round of CIAC Class A Baseball Championship 54 Years Ago Today

Andrew Warde High School's well-balanced baseball team finished runnerup to Norwalk for the Fairfield County Interscholastic Conference baseball championship in 1961. However, the Crimson Eagles were victorious while Norwalk was eliminated in the opening round of the CIAC Class A championship tournament, Monday, June 12, 1961.

Coach Bob Jackson's Warde squad advanced to the tourney semi-finals with an impressive 2-0 victory over Milford's higher-rated Metropolitan Bridgeport Conference champions as Dick Bernard, who remained unbeaten since the baseball season opened, hurled a two-hit shutout to earn his ninth straight victory in a pitching duel with the Indians' Ricky Grich at Quigley Stadium in West Haven.

The Crimson Eagles, ranked seventh among the eight teams which qualified for the Class A title competition, backed Bernard with a nine-hit attack and tallied single runs in the fourth and sixth innings to defeat the third-ranked Milford team. It was the 17th victory in 21 games for the Fairfield squad, and just the fourth setback in 19 contests for Coach Ray Stoviak's Indians.

Outfielders Mike Siavrakas and Larry Gill connected for two hits each to lead Warde's attack against the veteran Grich, but it was rightfielder Tom Dardina and third baseman Frank Chimelewski who drove in the two runs for the Eagles with extra base hits in the June 12, 1961 contest.

It was a scoreless game until the fourth inning. Grich walked Gill with one out and when Chimelewski hit a grounder down the third base line, both runners were safe when the throw to second base for the attempted force out was too late. One out later, Dardina smacked a double down the left field line to score Gill with Warde's first run.

Tom Cody, Milford's rightfielder, made a fine catch of a long drive by Joe Magdon to open Warde's sxith inning, but Gill singled and Chimelewski bounced a triple off the fence in left-centerfield to bring home the Eagles' second run.

Both of Milford's hits off Bernard were bloop singles by third baseman Art Bungerford in the first and sixth innings. Although both hits were preceded by walks to Vic Nelson, the Indians were unable to capitalize. Warde's second baseman Hank Bahe made a poor throw following Hungarford's first single, but catcher Joe Vige threw out Nelson trying to advance to third base. In the sixth inning, both Nelson and Hungarford were picked off first base on throws by Vige and Bernard.

Paul

Warde's Class of 1965 to Honor FCIAC Champion Boys Basketball Team at 50-Year Reunion, Saturday, June 27

The Andrew Warde High School Class of 1965 will hold its 50-year reunion Saturday, June 27, 2015. Two of the committee members asked me if I would research the results, box scores, and newspaper articles from the 1964-65 season for the FCIAC champion Crimson Eagles' boys basketball team.

Here is the summary:

Tuesday, December 1, 1964: Warde 88, Trumbull 69 

Tuesday, December 8, 1964: Warde 76, Stamford Catholic 60 

Friday, December 11, 1964: Norwalk 59, Warde 55 

Tuesday, December 15, 1964: Warde 85, Darien 62

Thursday, December 17, 1964: Warde 68, McMahon 62

Tuesday, December 22, 1964: Warde 80, Danbury 56 

Tuesday, January 5, 1965: Warde 67, Greenwich 61 

Thursday, January 7, 1965: Warde 80, New Canaan 55 

Tuesday, January 12, 1965: Warde 70, Rippowam 68 (overtime) 

Friday, January 15, 1965: Warde 73, Central Catholic 54 

Tuesday, January 19, 1965: Warde 74, Stamford 68

Friday, January 22, 1965: Warde 67, Stamford Catholic 60

Tuesday, January 26, 1965: Warde 68, Staples 58

Thursday, February 4, 1965: Warde 77, Ludlowe 58

Friday, February 5, 1965: Warde 82, McMahon 55

Tuesday, February 9, 1965: Warde 80, Trumbull 50

Friday, February 12, 1965: Warde 70, Ludlowe 49

Tuesday, February 16, 1965: Warde 86, New Canaan 54 

Monday, February 22, 1965: FCIAC Championship: Warde 64, Norwalk 60

Wednesday, February 24, 1965: State tournament: Warde 66, Fairfield Prep 54

Saturday, February 27, 1965: State tournament: Warde 65, Notre Dame West Haven 60 

Thursday, March 4, 1965: State tournament: Wilbur Cross 66, Warde 51 

Paul

Saint Emery Parish to Host Fundraising Concert Sunday, June 14, at 3 p.m.

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Saint Emery Parish invites the public to a fundraising concert featuring soprano Rose Kovach, the Saint Emery Festival Choir, and Parish Music Director Anthony Procaccini performing on the parish's historic Wurlitzer organ.

The donation per ticket is $10, and children under the age of 12 are free. Advance purchase is suggested since there is a limited number of tickets available.

Soprano Rose Kovach (pictured at the left) graduated from Seton Hill University with a degree in vocal performance and sacred music. In August of 2014 she was conferred a Masters in Elementary Education from the University of Bridgeport. Ms. Kovach lived and taught in Hungary for four years. She will begin teaching in Beijing, China in the summer of 2015.

Ms. Kovach will sing sacred and secular music in a total of six languages, including English (Handel and Copland), German (Brahms), French (Faure), Italian (Mozart), and Hungarian during the fundraiser. Ferenc Erkel's "Ba'nk ba'n," a 19-century politically-charged opera, is considered Hungary's national opera and is not heard often outside that country. The ethnic history of Saint Emery Church is Hungarian, so the use of this music for this concert is both quite unique and appropriate.

The Saint Emery Festival Choir consists of volunteers from the parish and frequent "friends" from outside the parish.

Music Director Anthony Procaccini (pictured to the right in the above photo along with 2015 Guest Artist Frank Mastrone), is a graduate of Andrew Warde High School and graduated summa cum laude in Music from the University of Bridgeport. He has served as organist and music director at parishes in Fairfield County and NYC.
                                                          

A certified Italian-English interpreter and avid linguist (Italian, Spanish and Hungarian) and Frank Sinatra historian, he plays organ, piano, string bass and bass guitar, and performs Jazz, classical music and opera.

The Saint Emery Wurlitzer organ dates to the 1920s or 1930s, and was transported from Chicago to its present location. It has 7 ranks, and approximately 511 pipes. It is one of only three known to exist in the state of Connecticut, all of which are not on their original location.

When the currently inoperable Tremolo Box and Tuba stop are repaired, the parish hopes to offer organ concerts to the public, perhaps as early as 2016. Organist Frank Martignetti, director of Choral Studies at the University of Bridgeport, has offered to perform to benefit the parish.

To purchase tickets, call Barbara Chuga at 203-268-4535.