Warde Students Recognized by Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center 42 Years Ago This Week

The Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center of Eastern Fairfield County paid special tribute to the students of Andrew Warde High School "who have shown the greatest effort among all participating area high schools in their response to the needs of their fellow man in 1970 and 1971." That's according to a newspaper story which appeared in The Bridgeport Post, Wednesday, June 23, 1971.

Warde students raised $3,304 under the chairmanship of Miss Karen Medve (pictured above left) and Miss Nancy Whiteman. Mrs. Jay Kaner, vice president of the Rehabilitation Center's board of directors, presented a plaque to be displayed at the school to Miss Medve and Mr. Kenneth Petersen, headmaster.

Paul

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1968 to Hold 45-Year Reunion Saturday, July 27, at Tashua Knolls Restaurant in Trumbull

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1968 will hold its 45-year reunion this year. That's the word from Donna Green, a member of the Class of '68 and current secretary to headmaster James Coyne at Fairfield Warde High School. The reunion will take place Saturday, July 27, 2013, at Tashua Knolls Restaurant, 45 Tashua Knolls Lane, Trumbull.

The cost is $45 and includes antipasto, pasta salad, hot hor d'oeuvres passed butler style, a pasta station featuring penne a la vodka and shrimp scampi, carving station featuring filet mignon and roasted turkey, coffee, and dessert. Please RSVP by July 1. Please make checks payable to Jacquelyn Skultety, 415 Goldenrod Avenue, Bridgeport, CT, 06606.

If there is enough interest, a golf tournament for classmates will take place Saturday afternoon at the Tashua Glen nine-hole golf course. The $28 fee includes a cart. If interested, contact Diane Fekete Vieira at DI4850@aol.com.

Paul

Andrew Warde High School's Class of 1963 Planning 50-Year Reunion

The Andrew Warde High School Class of 1963 has begun planning its 50-year reunion. The event will take place in October or November. Please click the image below to access the class Facebook page for more information and updates.

Paul

AWHS Class of 1983 to Hold 30-Year Reunion This October

The Andrew Warde High School Class of 1983 is planning its 30-year reunion. The event is planned for Saturday, October 19, 2013, at the Gaelic-American Club, 74 Beach Road, in Fairfield. For more information, click the image above to access the class Web site.

Paul

Warde Product Announces First Annual Guest Artist Day at St. Emery Church

Andrew Warde 1976 classmate Anthony Procaccini, Music Director of Saint Emery Church, Fairfield, has announced that the parish will hold its first annual Guest Artist Day on Sunday, June 23, at their regular 9:00 AM mass.

"The day is set aside for all to thank the choir for their season, which ends on that day, and to add an outstanding talent to the mix, too. I'm ecstatic that soprano Elizabeth Knauer (pictured to the left) accepted our invitation," Procaccini notes.

Musical selections will include, among others, Mozart's "Ave Verum" (choir), and the Bach-Gounod version of "Ave Maria" by Ms. Knauer.

Elizabeth Knauer's musical training includes an advanced degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University, a Rotary Graduate Scholarship to the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and an Artist's Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.

Elizabeth has performed and recorded opera, oratorio, contemporary and improvisatory music throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is currently performing, teaching and conducting in New York City and New Jersey as a free-lance musician.

Anthony Procaccini, pictured below at the organ of St. Monica's Cathedral in New York City, 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, in addition to playing liturgical music, performs Jazz, opera, and classical music.

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.

Crimson Eagles' Nine Defeated Milford in Opening Round of CIAC Class A Championship 52 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 on this date 52 years ago.

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