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

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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.

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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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4 OAK LEAVES June, I967 From the Headmaster . . CLASS OF '63 TODAY CContinued from Page lj Perhaps the most significant edu- cational venture at Abington Friends School outside the usual curricular pattern is the Senior Project, de- scribed in detail elsewhere in this issue of Oak Leaves. Although we might not find unanimous agreement among students, faculty, parents, and our visiting speakers or panelists on the timing and method of the project, I think there are few who do not see the values of this departure from the usual academic curriculum. The pro- ject seems to promote some import- ant educational gains: it involves in- dependent study through reading that is not narrowly limited or highly structured Cthis encourages the strongly motivated and searching student to pursue her study in depthlg it requires critical assess- ment of experts who diifer among themselves and with whom the stu- dents have had personal contactg and, perhaps most innovative of all, it provides the students with direct in- volvement and experience in the pro- ject, studied, not merely with a teacher-directed, textbook - oriented approach to the topic under study. Thirteenth Year? The enthusiasm of the students, the encouragement of a university professor who participa.ted in the pro- ject, the favorable evaluation of our studen-ts' work experience by those not directly associated with the school, should give impetus to break further the confinement of the tradi- tional curriculum. Should such ex- periences start earlier - perhaps in the freshman, sophomore, or junior years? Would perhaps an extension and development of the Senior Pro- ject idea be a valuable and enriching program for a year between high school and college? Recently Presi- dent Kingman Brewster, Jr. of Yale University promoted the idea. that fl great many high school graduates would proit by a year before college in some activity that was in sharp contrast to the pressure for competi- tive academic achievementf' The de- lay, he said, would do wonders for motivation, for perspective and for character. ' ' In an era when more and more formal education becomes a necessary part of the fabric of our society, we shall do Well to re-evaluate carefully the structure of our educational pro- Alice Atkinson, an English maior. will receive her degree from Dennison University this sprung. Carol Beebe completed her studies at Peirce Jr. College and is now secretary tor the history department at Temple University, Jo-Ann Boghetti entered Boston University as en art maior, At present she is working es private secretary to the dean ot foreign eco- nomics at Brown University. but expects to re- turn to college tor her degree in art. Renee Brenner was graduated' from Briarcliff. She was married in July ot l965. Her son. James M. Wynn lll, was born January I9. I967. Dawn Galt. Sth Grade representative to CISV, sold pansies to raise funds tor this year's sum- mer camp in Youngstown. Ohio. gram and provide greater iiexibility within it. The Senior Project may bear the seeds for constructive change. In any event it is a venture forward from the curricular frame- work and has already eiected im- portant gains to the seniors who, we trust, will graduate with perhaps greater insight and perspective as a result of this project than they would have under the more traditional aca- demic year. -Adelbert Mason Phyllis Croll is graduating trom Elmira Col- lege as an economics maior. She has enioyed her work with a stoclcbroker this year. Judith Chestnut received her degree in March ot this year from Penn State University. She was married the twentieth ot May to Rich- ard A. Fuss and is living at Fallow Field. Church Road. Wyncote. Susan Doerr entered Chatham College but was forced by ill health to take time ott. She is now attending the University ot Pennsylvania. Anne Ebert was graduated from the Univer- sity ot Pennsylvania with honors in nursing. Her major was medical-surgical nursing. Cynthia Ervin. graduating from Hood' Col- lege with a maior in elementary education. .will be married July lst to Joseph J. Beschel. r. Pamela Greenwood expects to receive her degree this year trom Hiram College. She tool: a year otl' to work. Barbara Hutchinson, graduating this spring from Mount Holyoke College with a maior in economics, will be married June I7th to Wayne DeBois. Linda Friedrich will receive her degree from Bucknell University. Her maior has been politi- cal science. Mary Lou Hay, who graduated trom Vermont Jr. College where she majored in child de- velopment, is married to Edmund A. Gallucci. She and her husband live at 9 Damond Road. Arlington. Mass. Carol Kaufman will be graduated' trom Ohio Wesleyan this spring with a maior in psy- chology. On July 8 she will be married in York, Pe. to William Collins who is also grad- uating from O.W.U- ln the tall the Collinses will be in Columbus. Ohio, where Bill will be attending Ohio State and Carol teaching nursery school. Marion Lees is receiving her degree in ele- mentary education at Temple University. Eleanor McFarland was graduated trom Cen- tenary Jr. College in l965. At Ohio State. from which she will receive her degree in Feb- ruary. she has maiored in illustration tor internal medicine. Eleanor was chosen out ot sixty-tive applicants for membership on a tour-man hos- pital team. Josephine McMaster entered the University ot Wisconsin as a French maior. Following a year's absence. she returned to meior in art. Betsy Meyers has been attending the Bouve Boston campus ot Tufts University. She will be receiving her degree this spring in physical therapy. AK LEAVES Non Protit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Jenkintown. Pa. Permit No. I4 Return RequestedfAbington Friends SchoolfJenkintown. Pa. I9046