St. Rita's Class Pictures This page is holding all the class pictures from St. Rita's
St. Rita's Class of 1960 Reunion Alert! Charles Passentino is arranging a reunion in the spring for classes 8-A and 8-B, 1960. Please contact him at bklyneagle@aol.com if you are interested.
		St. Ritas class of June 1934 Our earliest class picture to date comes from Leonora Licata, who sends over her mother Francesca's 1934 class picture. Note the small number of boys in the class. Lee also sends over her mother's diploma, signed by Thomas Molloy, for whom the school Archbishop Molloy High School was named.
		St. Ritas class of 1949 Phil Santella sent over this shot and identifies Father Testagrossa in the class picture.
		St. Rita's Silver Jubilee, 1952 Thanks to Charles Passantino with help from Mike Biscuiti for this early class photo. Matt Shelfo sent the pic on the right. Note they both commemorate the silver jubilee but one uses 1926 as the start year and one uses 1927.
	St. Rita's, 1953 Thanks to Ed Farrell for his class pic, and to Angela (Competello) Polazzolo for helping with IDs; Top row: Jimmy McKeever, Michael Cassiotta, John Keaveny (drowned at Jamaica Bay the summer of 1953), Joseph Napier, Phillip Panzarella, Biaggio Geremiah (rumored to have been killed in a gang fight, but in fact Ed confirmed he is alive and well..), Louis Mallardi, Frank LaBianca, Vincent Gallagher, Edward P. Farrell... Middle row: Antoinette Giacone, Rosemary Palazzolo (no relation to Angela Competello Polazzolo), Mary Bovaro, Angela Competello, Genevieve Gavin, Grace Rinaldi, Lucille Miranda, and Judy Faber (uncertain of this last one). Bottom row: Unknown, Ann Marie Ambrosio, JoAnne Sabella, Unknown, Father Fusco, Louise Mazilla (Uncertain of this one), Louise Carisetti, Unknown, Carmela Fragale (Uncertain of this one). The nuns were Sr. Mary Alphius on the left and Sr. Mary Alphonso on the right. Sr. Mary Alphonso was the principal. Fr. Fusco (center) was the pastor, having succeeded Father Testagrossa.
		St. Rita's 1953, 1955 Thanks to Charles Passantino with help from Mike Biscuiti for this 1953 class photo. On the right, Tony Della Croce sends over his 1955 graduation shot. William Deliberti is Eleanor's brother, children of the owner of the famous Willies Lemon Ices. Tony Davenport recalls Al Yevoli became a policeman and was the scoutmaster for his troop#116 which met in the St. Rita's basement.
		St. Rita's ,1956 Angela (Gironta) Timpone sends over her 1956 class picture- there were two sixth grade classes, 6A and 6B. This is class 6A with sister Olga. Angela is on the far left. On the right, from Charles Passantino, class 4A.
		St. Rita's 1956 Thanks to Matt Shelfo for the 1956 graduation shot. Lenore Catapano sends over a 1956 shot of Class 1B. It's her sister Francine's class, and Francine is sitting 3rd row from the left 3 seats back.
		St. Rita's 1956 Pat Annuziata sent over this 1956 pic of class 3b with Mrs. Rabin. Pat even takes a stab at IDing most of the classmates under the "key" button. Thanks to Michael Biscuiti for corrections and additions. On the right is the Hoffman Junior Bowling Club at Hales Lanes in the late 50s. That's "Mac" (an owner?) and Mr. Inguantis on the left. Mr. DeLuca and Father Antonelli is on the right. Phil Aguece clarifies that "Mac" is Tom McCune who helped run the league. Mack Kozin was one of the owners. Phil also dates the bowling shot as 1955, the first year of the club.
		St. Rita's 1956,1957 Phyllis (Annunziata) Esposito sends over the 1956 picture of Class 7B and the subsequent picture of the graduating class in 1957.
		St. Rita's 1959 Richard Basmagy supplied the 1959 graduation picture of his class.
		St. Rita's 1962,1960 Lenore Catapano sends over her sister Francine's 7th grade class in 1962. On the right, the class of 1960 from Charles Passantino.
		St. Rita's 1961 Thanks to Kathryn (Villacci) Caputo and her brother Paul for sending over the 1961 graduation picture.
		St. Rita's 1961,1962 Marie Raffio (nee Sullivan) sends over her 1st grade picture from 1961. Danny Blanda sends over a picture of his sister Carrie's 1st grade class.
		St. Rita's 1962 Joseph Perrone sends over Sister Jenita's 4th grade class in 1962.
		St. Rita's 1963 Stephen Inguanta and Nancy George sent this over via Judy Close- Judy notes this was Sister Thomas's class, though she is not pictured. On the right, the other 1963 graduating class.
		Vinny Capasso supplied this shot of his 8th grade class, and the graduation picture. "Sabino DeCrescenzo front & center. behind him is Fernando Ferracese who became a Priest. 2nd row 4th seat is myself. 3rd row 3rd seat back is Joe Leccese now a middle school Principal by me. the rest can be identified by matching to the graduation picture".
		St. Rita's 1965 Thanks to Marianne (Giugliano) Kobbe for supplying the 1965 class picture.
		St. Rita's 1966 If I have it correctly, St. Rita's issued this magazine to commemorate the new church. The next series of shots date from 1966 and are from this publication. Thanks to Danny Blanda and Therese Panariello for forwarding this over. Danny just added the Kindergarten class so I have rearranged these.
		St. Rita's 1966 First grade class shots
		St. Rita's 1966 It turns out my old pal Pete Colantuoni has the same book, and supplied me with his second grade class picture. I've matched it with other second grade class picture on the right
		St. Rita's 1966 The third grade classes. Thanks again to Danny and Therese.
		St. Rita's 1966 Finally, a grade 5 shot of Sr. M. Luella's class. Anybody recognize themselves? The second shot is a shot of the altar boys from the 1966 magazine.
		St. Rita's 1966 Danny has now sent over the seventh grade classes.
		St. Rita's 1966 And finally, the eighth grade classes.
		St. Rita's 1966 Joe Perrone sent over the formal picture of the June 1966 class, which matches up with the 1962 shot above. Richard Moore delivers the other graduating class of June 1966.
		St. Rita's 1968 George Power supplies the 1968 class picture.
		St. Rita's 1969 Frank Lombardo sends over the 1969 class picture which includes site fan Carrie Blanda.
		St. Rita's 1970 Tony Davenport helps me to "out" the St. Rita's gang with a photo that includes site fans (all second row) Theresa Panariello (second from right), Cynthia Rongione(second from left), Jacqueline Ruvolo (6th from left) and Anne Salerno (Fifth from left). Tony is pretending to ignore all these cuties from the back row, second from the left. The teacher is Frank Catapano. Ed Giugliano id'd himself, 3rd from right at the top. Danny Blanda sends over his 5th grade class picture, claiming he can still name 95% of them. Yes Danny, send that list over!
		St. Rita's 1970 From David Picascia, the June 1970 Graduation class.
		St. Rita's 1970 From Denise Milo, the 1970 Kindergarten class. Ms. Violet was the teacher, Denise is fourth from the right in the bottom row.
		St. Rita's 1970,1973 Thanks to Nilda Ruiz for not only sending over her 3rd grade picture from 1969-70 but her 6th grade picture from 1972-73 as well.
		St. Rita's 1972 The Amazin Cin fires back with the 1972 graduation picture- Alas, Tony had transferred by then and is not in the picture. Old pal Pete Colantuoni came up with the picture of the other class.
		St. Rita's 1973 Therese Panariello sends over a 1973 class picture, and Tom Cooper via his brother Guy sends over the his class.
		St. Rita's 1972,1973 Denise Milo sends in her class pictures from 1971 (taken in 1972,teacher Sister Kristian) and 1973 (Mrs. Chiarello).
		St. Rita's 1974,1975 Continuing Denise's series, 4th and 5th grades with Sister Alice and Mr. Competello.
		St. Rita's, 1974 Thanks to Peter Downey for forwarding his 1974 class pic via Therese Panariello.
		St. Rita's 1976 Finishing up with Mrs. Manfredi's 6th grade class.
		St. Rita's 1975 Thanks to Daniel Brown for the 1975 class pic.
		St.Rita's 1981 Mike Abney sends in his 7th grade class picture. Mike is third from the right at the top. Mr. Competello was the teacher.

St. Rita's Class Pictures

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St. Rita's Class of 1960 Reunion Alert!