From the 1959 Flame Yearbook

This is taken from the Andrew Warde High School 1959 Flame yearbook. The school song is below. Please click the image to enlarge:

Take a look at the headmaster and housemasters from Warde in 1959. Please click to enlarge:

The Warde diploma from 55 years ago looks much like a Warde diploma from today. Please click to enlarge:

Paul

Warde Graduate Hosts Second Annual Guest Artist Day at St. Emery's Parish, Sunday, June 22nd

Saint Emery’s Parish, Fairfield, will hold its second annual Guest Artist Day on Sunday, June 22, at their regular 9:00 AM mass, according to parish Music Director Anthony Procaccini, a 1976 graduate of Andrew Warde High School.

"The day is set aside for all to thank the choir for their season, and to add an outstanding talent to the mix,” noted Procaccini, pictured below. “This year the honors go to tenor David Finley."

Musical selections will include, among others, Jacques Arcadelt’s “Ave Maria” (for choir) and Cesar Franck’s “Panis Angelicus” sung in duet my Mr. Finley and soprano Rose Kovach.

The public is cordially invited. A free "coffee and" reception, provided by the parish council and volunteers, will follow the mass.

The church address is 838 Kings Highway East. Street parking only is available, and arriving early is recommended.

Tenor David Finley (pictured at the left), of Waterbury, CT, holds Master’s degrees in both Voice and Choral Conducting. He has performed as a soloist all over the world, and sung before three former American Presidents and two former Russian Presidents. A veteran of numerous opera roles, he also serves on the music faculty of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT and others.

Anthony Procaccini graduated summa cum laude from the University of Bridgeport Music Department, and has been organist or music director in a number of churches in New York City and Fairfield County. He also plays piano, string bass and bass guitar, is a Frank Sinatra historian, a veteran of ten years with Benny Rae, and also performs Jazz, opera, and classical music.

Warde Plays Southington in CIAC Class LL Baseball Semi-Finals This Afternoon

The FCIAC champion Fairfield Warde High School baseball team plays Southington in the CIAC Class LL semi-finals this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Muzzy Field in Bristol. The game can be heard on Hersam Acorn Radio.

Click the logo to access the LIVE broadcast.

Paul

Eagles' Nine Defeated Milford in First Round of CIAC Class A Championship 53 Years Ago This Week

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

AWHS Class of 1975 Planning 40-Year Reunion Next Summer

Plans are underway for an early Summer 40-year reunion of the Andrew Warde High School Class of 1975 next year. We need help in finding classmates' addresses and phone numbers.

If you know someone or are related to someone who graduated with us in 1975, please let us know. Please spread the word, and help us find as many of our classmates as possible. You can also message me directly with any information you may have. Thanks so much in advance for your help!

Love and peace,
Gail Rogers Hopkins

Class of 1976 Flame Yearbook

Please click on each page to enlarge and read. This is a work in progress and will be completed soon. Thank you.