Mr. Allie P. Quatrano
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The major purpose of physical education at St. Mary’s School is a social one, namely, that of developing “morale”, rather than of training exhibition or championship athletic teams from selected talent. Physical education is therefore first of all for every boy and girl from the first grade to the eighth, because every boy and girl needs to be assimilated and socialized. In the second place, physical education must furnish, through suitable activities, an outlet for the normal and legitimate impulses of play, competition and exhibition which are characteristic of the adolescent. And finally, because these impulses can be guided and directed through our control of the activities, physical education must be made to yield valuable by-products in health, in understanding of individual and communal health problems and resources, and in individual adjustment.
Boys and girls of St. Mary’s School, Elmira, boast of “the best athletic and social program of any parish in the Rochester diocese.”
This sounds like a proud exaggeration until you meet Coach Quatrano, their full-time physical education director, and study the busy schedule of activity for all young people of the parish that crowd the excellent school gymnasium and the large playground.
Mr. Quatrano, a member of the school faculty, teaches 21 classes of physical education, two classes of general science, American Junior Red Cross First Aid and Safety Education. Each grade in the school has regular weekly, and sometimes twice weekly, gym classes, where he instructs in calisthenics, games, marching drills, and even folk and tap-dancing. He supervises a frantically enthusiastic intra mural league for noon-hour and after school competition. The boys all learn touch-football, basketball, hockey, baseball, handball, track, boxing, wrestling and ping-pong; the girls participate in volleyball, newcomb, basketball, indoor hockey, softball, ping-pong and shuffleboard.
The games attract every pupil in the school from the fourth grade up. Coach Quatrano picks his varsity school teams from the Intra-mural leagues.
In addition to his teaching and supervision of athletics for the grammar school, Coach Quatrano is the parish director of Cubbing and troop committeeman in Scouting, director of athletic and social program for the high school students of St. Mary’s Parish.
When school closes for the summer the program goes right on with a Parish Day Camp operating for six weeks and attracting over 100 youngsters a day, ranging in age from four and a half to eleven years.
A native of Elmira, married and father of a six-year old son Ralph, Mr. Quatrano came to St. Mary’s after 15 years of service at the Elmira Neighborhood House where he was director of Physical Education and later became Executive Director of the Institution. A graduate from St. Anthony’s school, Elmira Southside High School, he was granted his degree in physical education from the American College of Physical Education, Chicago, Ill. He was trained in athletics and “boy work” at such schools at Notre Dame, Cortland Teachers College, New York University, Cornell, Holy Cross, Colgate, Hamilton College, Long Island University and Springfield College.
Mr. Quatrano is a member of St. Mary’s Holy Name, Elmira Rotary Club, American Red Cross First Aid Instructor Club, New York State Coaching Association, and New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. A Field Director in the American Red Cross Forces in World War II, an Eagle Scout, the holder of the Scoutmasters Key and selected as the outstanding young man in Elmira, by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1941.
Boys and girls of St. Mary’s School, Elmira, boast of “the best athletic and social program of any parish in the Rochester diocese.”
This sounds like a proud exaggeration until you meet Coach Quatrano, their full-time physical education director, and study the busy schedule of activity for all young people of the parish that crowd the excellent school gymnasium and the large playground.
Mr. Quatrano, a member of the school faculty, teaches 21 classes of physical education, two classes of general science, American Junior Red Cross First Aid and Safety Education. Each grade in the school has regular weekly, and sometimes twice weekly, gym classes, where he instructs in calisthenics, games, marching drills, and even folk and tap-dancing. He supervises a frantically enthusiastic intra mural league for noon-hour and after school competition. The boys all learn touch-football, basketball, hockey, baseball, handball, track, boxing, wrestling and ping-pong; the girls participate in volleyball, newcomb, basketball, indoor hockey, softball, ping-pong and shuffleboard.
The games attract every pupil in the school from the fourth grade up. Coach Quatrano picks his varsity school teams from the Intra-mural leagues.
In addition to his teaching and supervision of athletics for the grammar school, Coach Quatrano is the parish director of Cubbing and troop committeeman in Scouting, director of athletic and social program for the high school students of St. Mary’s Parish.
When school closes for the summer the program goes right on with a Parish Day Camp operating for six weeks and attracting over 100 youngsters a day, ranging in age from four and a half to eleven years.
A native of Elmira, married and father of a six-year old son Ralph, Mr. Quatrano came to St. Mary’s after 15 years of service at the Elmira Neighborhood House where he was director of Physical Education and later became Executive Director of the Institution. A graduate from St. Anthony’s school, Elmira Southside High School, he was granted his degree in physical education from the American College of Physical Education, Chicago, Ill. He was trained in athletics and “boy work” at such schools at Notre Dame, Cortland Teachers College, New York University, Cornell, Holy Cross, Colgate, Hamilton College, Long Island University and Springfield College.
Mr. Quatrano is a member of St. Mary’s Holy Name, Elmira Rotary Club, American Red Cross First Aid Instructor Club, New York State Coaching Association, and New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. A Field Director in the American Red Cross Forces in World War II, an Eagle Scout, the holder of the Scoutmasters Key and selected as the outstanding young man in Elmira, by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1941.
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