Jorge Bolet, Cuba's Answer to Liberace!

Res Gestae: The Stony Brook School Yearbook 1955 records a rectal by Jorge at his old high school on Long Island (Class of 1934) on 14 October with a well-meaning but less than flattering entry:

'Jorge Bolet, Cuba's answer to Liberace, gives dazzling performance; but even more dazzling are the thirty-eight Knoxers.' The reference is to The Knox School (female boarding and day school on the north shore of Long Island), whose students presumably also attended the recital.

On 15th: 'Hurricane Hazel rocks the Brook, causing candlelight evening study.'

(Photo: some of the editorial team with member of staff)

The Latin phrase Res Gestae literally means "things done" or more generally "deeds". It ultimately derives from Res Gestae Divi Augusti (The Deeds of the Divine Augustus), a monumental inscription composed by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, giving a first-person record of his life and accomplishments.

The text was completed just one month before Augustus' death (19 August AD 14), although most of its content was written years earlier and likely went through many revisions. The original, which has not survived, was engraved upon a pair of bronze pillars and placed in front of Augustus' mausoleum. Many copies of the text were made and carved in stone on monuments or temples throughout the Roman Empire, some of which have survived; most notably, almost a full copy, written in the original Latin and a Greek translation was preserved on a temple to Augustus in Ancyra (the Monumentum Ancyranum of Ankara, Turkey); others have been found at Apollonia and Antioch, both in Pisidia.