Abington Friends School - Outward Bound Yearbook (Jenkintown, PA)

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Also using fheir 'ialenis ai' Kenderion School were Tia Duer and Susan Burich. A+ righf, Suzy King is shown ge'H'ing youngsfers in The Gel Sei program ready for a walk. Unforfunafely, 'lime did noi permii our photographer 'Po visil sfudenis on oiher equally rewarding work assignmenis. FIELD WORK HOSTS Phila. Dept of Welfare Phila. Council for Communiiy Acfion Phila. Housing Auihoriiy The Defenders Associafion Opporfunifies lndusfrializaiion Cenier Naiional Teacher Corps Jenlzinfown Day Nursery Salvaiion Army Ludlow Civic Associaiion Presbyierian Hospifal Gai Sei Program Heroines of ihe proiecf were senior mo-ihers under fhe leadership of Mrs. Allen G. King. The luncheons 'I'hey pro- vided sfudenis and speakers were me- morable. The Mrs. Crosman, Lillicrapp. King and Parry al' work in The lciichen of fhe John Barnes Room. n. , ,, Y

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ieform of Poverty 99 Bonnie Willig and Louise Shuiz worlied in the pre-kindergarten Get Sei pro- gram of the Lehigh Avenue YMCA. They reported that while this program administered by the Philadelphia Board of Education needs improvement. if still has merit for the many children of working mothers who might otherwise be unattended. This Year, two days of lectures and films preceded the field work, with eight days following it. During the final week, there was a field trip con- ducted by the Philadelphia Rede- velopment Authority and a day of interviews with important otlicials in poverty programs. Each team of stu- dents made oral reports on its Work and interview assignments in order to share its findings with the class. The faculty was surprised and de- lighted that so many qualified people were willing to take time out from important work to come to Jenkin- town to talk with a class of only' 25 themselves re-examine students. The speakers enjoyed the chance to their activities from the viewpoints of students. Dr. Shostak spoke at the iirst and dual sessions. In addition, students had the opportunity of hearing Dr. Julian Griifer, a regional director of the Oiiice of Economic Opportunity, the agency which administers all fed- eral poverty assistanceg the Reverend Tom Ritter, executive director of the exciting Opportunities Industraliza- tion Center, Dr. Donald Cheek, out- spoken director of the Council for Research for Better Schools, Nicholas S-troh, the Evening BulZet'in's bitter critic of the administrators of the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Committee, Sylvia Meeks, the Urban League 's education director who had harsh words for the Philadelphia school system, the teachers' union, and the people who Hee to the suburbs rather than lead the fight to improve the system. There were a number of panel discussions with representatives of VISTA, the domestic peace corps, the Job Corps, and grass roots coin- munity action groups. Both documentary and art films were used. These included Raisin in the Sun, The Quiet One, View from the Center, and 2'The Bicycle Thief. Students would have liked more films. Books and articles on poverty are coming out every day, but Michael Harrington's The Other America re- mains, as Dr. Griifer pointed out, the Uncle -Tomfs Cabin of the war on poverty. Other useful books were Louise Shotwe-l1's The Harvest- ers, Harry M. Caudill's Night Comes to the Cimtberlamis, and John Ken- neth Galbraith 's The Affluent So- ciety. Term papers on some aspect of the problem were researched and written before the project began, and stu- dents were urged to spen-d as many weekends as possible at work camps sponsored by the Friends Social Order Committee. Those students who regularly participate in Work camps proved to be much better prepared for the program. Two of them were on the team which worked with Na- tional Teacher Corps trainees in a slum school. Their supervisor, Pa- tricia Alpren, wrote in a letter to Headmaster Adelbert Mason, 4'The girls from A.F.S., in just ive days, made a wonderful contribution to our program . . . They brought with them in addition to their special profes- sional talents, an enthusiasm and sen- sitivity that was contagious . . . their perceptive questions gave us an op- portunity to clarify and evaluate our goals . . . I hope we will have future opportunities to work with your stu- dents. Another heartening comment came from Ann Richardson, an exchange student from Durban, South Africa, who spent a day observing the pro- ject during its final week. She said: I have been in several public and private schools at home and in your country, but I have never heard a class discussion that was so free and so exciting. Your students have learned so much . . . all those tech- nical terms! I only wish I could have been a part of it from the begin- ning.

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June. I967 OAK LEAVES 3 . Development Campaign Exceeds Goal by 565,000 Excellen Qbb r fasaocor yi . 'fiat Qzocgoco 1 I VIHE l5o.ooo p Ewa I 00.000 l Mean' :50.I000 K Members of the executive committee -ot the Development Campaign watch Dr. Charles Ewing move the lrangeroo over the goal line. They are Howard M. Bucirman, Mrs. Marvin Neely, John B. Ferguson, Jr., Robert Oppenheimer, Dr. Ewing, Adelbert Mason. Mrs. Vernon Reynolds, Mrs. J. Harold Reppert, T. Frank Decker. Special gifts c-hairman Herbert K. Taylor, Jr. was unable to attend this tinal meeting. ALUMNI NEWS '9I-Sarah Jarrett Hilles, a member ot the tirst class to graduate in the present school building. died February I at the age ot 94. She is survived by Martha and Caroline Jarrett. both members ot Abington Friends Meeting. '35-Peggy Livingston King's daughter, Susan, graduates this June trom AFS. '37-Dora Euler Smith is now court stenogra- pher at Doylestown Courthouse. '38-Emily Semiseh Krumperman has served her second year as president ot the Women's Auxiliary ot Temple University Hospital. '53-Martha Weigand Carotenuto died De- cember 30 ,l966. She was a graduate ot Endi- cott Junior College. Her friends in Jenkintown miss her greatly, '58-Fritzi Fleisher, who previously taught in a Long Island iunior high school. now teaches in Spanish Harlem and tinds the work unusually satisfying. '58-Betty Dickel Fleclringer is married to a doctor and now lives at 425 S. Huntingdon Lane, Jamaica Plains, Mass. 02l30. ' '58-Frances Pinhus is interning at the Uni- versity ot Miami in pathology. '62--Marion Glenn Clement married Harry Singleton Gretz May I3 at Grace Presbyterian Church in Jenkintown. '64-Lynn Biester is engaged' to Edward E. Elliott IV. son ot the Reverend and Mrs. Edward E. Elliott Ill, Oreland. '66-Nancy Haines Miller now lives at Route 2, Cochranville. Penna. '66-Theresa Ann Hoerner's marriage to Edward Mathis Sleeper ot Moorestown, N.J.. has been announced. , '66-Frances Conlrey has been awarded a tour year scholarship tor high academic achievement. and contribution to the Chatham College community. OPPORTUNITY to serve as a teacher's aide at the Muhr School, I2th and Allegheny, for a three hour period Tuesday or Thurs- day morning during the I967-68 schoot year. For further details call Lilian Bailey-TU 4-I I05 or Virginia Stetser-OL 9-3507. Fathers' Social Notes Although Father 's Day is otticially slated for mid-June, AFS fathers celebrated much earlier this year. On Sat., April 22nd, under the direction of George Foust of the Fatl1er's Committee, lower school boys and girls, 115 strong, joined with S0 fathers to bicycle, play baseball and volleyball at Alvethorpe Park in Jenkintown. They then enjoyed a picnic lunch of hoagies, steak sand- wiches and hot dogs. As a special treat, coke on tap was provided and 'prizes awarded. George Britton lead the group in a sing-along , ac- companying them with his guitar. Although the weather threatened, the sun came out later to end the day on a joyous note. Upper School fathers scheduled an evening of baseball with their daugh- ters on May 26th which included dinner at the Yorktown Inn. A bus took the party of 69 to the Connie Mack Stadium where they watched the Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardi- nals. Alfred Breinig made all ar- rangements for the event. Dutch Fair Brings Total To 5316.000 Was it the winy weather, the friendly folk, or the fair and fallow farm of the Marvin Neelys that drew 900 people to the Dutch Country Fair on May 13? Ask any of the 100-odd people who put in countless hours of preparation and they will tell you it was all of that, but much more. And the much more was the determination and op- timism of one Nancy Bailey Neely. She wanted to end the development campaign with a. bang, not a whim- per, and she did it. Nancy, of course, would like all this space devoted to thanking people- Meeting people, alumni and alumnae, school people, parents, students, next- of-kin, distant relatives and all those marvelous people who pa.tronized the fair because they knew a good party when they saw it. , Nancy would also want it mention- ed that Qmiraclej 90 dozen eggs sold out by three p.m.! The house tour attracted 227 and Cadded miraclej 264 paid to see the a.rt exhibit. When the Schutzes counted all the money there was S3100 in the till. After bills are paid the tl53l4,000.00 already pledged to the development campaign will be topped with a bonus of about 52,250.00 Small Wonder the Messrs. Ewing, Parry, Mason and Shaifer were beaming. .ii-.-.i1 , Play Day Joins May Day There were many innovations at May Day this year. Heading the list was the combination of the two picnic days into one: Blues competed against Whites Land won again ly on the hoc- key iield before moving over to the grove,where Susie Adams was crown- ed queen and her willing subjects danced at her feet. Also new for this year was a perfect spring da.y, with the dogwoods ringing the hockey field and grove in full bloom. Mary P. Harper Parry received a corsage from her graduating grand- daughter Debbie Parry While cele- brating the seventieth anniversary of her graduation from AFS. We learn- ed that the Old Pupils gathering, the forerunner of our May Day, lost its name because there were those who didn't care for the confusion with Old Peoples. Nothing new about that.