Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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The Class of 1924

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JUNE ISSUE Slip (Ehuts of 1U23 AFTER the dreaded final examinations are over, the next task is writing the class notes. The writer of these is greatly to be pitied. There is an advantage, however, for one finds that his class has been doing a great deal more than lie thought. Looking back over our sophomore year we find that our class has been active in most of the doings of the school. With the aid of Henry Ambler as president, Marion Hepler as vice-president, Helen Stinson as secretary, and George Fox as treasurer, we began to make a name for ourselves. In athletics, during the football season, Ambler, Leibriek, Cottom, Chester-inan, Gitlin, and Florey represented the Class of ’23. In basketball, the best players among the boys were Leibriek, Myers, Fox, Adee, Ambler, Chesterman, Krewson, and Rapp. Rapp did some fine work in the interclass games. These boys won the championship and we hope they will keep it for us. We were very proud of having our numeral carved on the beautiful cup. Geraldine Mast and Margaret Green were the class stars in girls’ basketball. Both girls are very good forwards, and we hope they will make the team next year. In track, Ambler, Rombach, Woolley, Cottom, and Loughead did splendid work. Loughead had the good fortune to receive the much coveted track letter. Then there is baseball. What would our team be without Myers and Leibriek for the battery, and Rapp’s timely hits? The last thing concerning athletics at the end of the school year, was the election of Charles Leibriek as vice-president of the Athletic Association and Joseph Conway as baseball manager. We are quite proud of these boys, and have reason to be, because the officers are usually seniors. We feel sure that they will work as hard in the future as they have in the past. Our class is well represented in the Orchestra by Elsie Leusch and Margaret Kervin ,and also in the Glee Clubs. We were glad to have a hand in the production of ‘The Gypsy Rover.” The vocational boys have been putting themselves on the map this year. Some of them dramatized three scenes from Dickens’ ‘‘A Tale of Two Cities.” This was enacted in chapel one morning by sophomores. The vocational boys have distinguished themselves in many other kinds of work. In spite of our misgivings we came out on top with our first class dance. The hall was crowded and the decorations and orchestra were admired. In the recent book drive the sophomore class came out ahead giving more than half the number of books received. We are also glad to say that the sophomores led the school in punctuality. The sophomores must all possess good alarm clocks. Our attendance record measured up almost as well. We are proud of our scholastic standing, although we think that there ought to be more on the honor roll. Page Thirty-seven

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JUNE ISSUE ®ljp OIlaflH nf 1324 WE are Sophomores! A review of our year’s work will bring recollections of Freshman days which have shown to us what it means to be a mem-3528 her of Abington High School. The class was rather late in organizing. We chose George Detwiler for president; Matthew Ilutmaker, vice-president; Edith McClellan, secretary and Gregory Egner, our representative on the executive committee of the Athletic Association. Two class meetings were held during the year, one for the purpose of electing officers and the other to decide on the question of giving a streamer to the school. The class voted unanimously in favor of the banner. A few days after this, in Assembly, the pennant was presented to the school. It is made of a white, waterproof material. The length is twenty feet; the width, two and a half feet. On it is painted in large red letteers “Abington High School.’’ This streamer will be used, for the most part, on trips to other schools. The large membership of our class enabled us to find someone for every activity that a Freshman can enter. Because of the inexperience of our teams none of the residts of the inter-class games were in our favor but some were very close games. The only outside game played was a baseball game with the Cheltenham Freshmen. This we won. The score was 6-0. Some of our athletes are: Gregory Egner, Roland Scherbaum, Richard Spering, Ralph Garvin, Raymond Myers, Matthew Ilutmaker, Thomas Gallagher, John Bierlin, Edward Foehl and John Clark. Athletics for girls are as important as athletics for boys. Unfortunately basketball is the only sport for girls at Abington High School. When the significance of this fact is realized, changes will be made. The class basketball team received the training necessary to keep up the standard of girls’ basketball established by the varsity team of ’20. The members of the Freshman team were: Frances Flavell, Dagmar Sjostrom, Anna Reeves, Catherine Florey, Helen Clark, and Arlene Schneider. Not only in athletics did the Freshmen attain success. The girls kept up our reputation by being on the Honor Roll. Several times a Freshman girl received better marks than anyone else in the, school. Good music is something a high school cannot dispense with. There are too many entertainments that would be a failure without music. The Freshman class was proud of its two violinists in the Orchestra, Dagmar Sjostrom and Wal- ter Beck. The Art club had quite a number of Freshman artists who soon proved that they would be of great value to the school. The Boys and Girls’ Glee Clubs had many freshmen on their rolls. These took an active part in Glee Club work. The Tardy Mark Campaign and the Book Drive were faithfully supported by everybody. Our class could do very little for the “Oracle” but we helped it financially by subscriptions and advertisements. This year seemed successful. We hope that before another year is ended we shall have done more for Abington High School. Page Thirty-nine