Downingtown High School - Our Year Cuckoo Yearbook (Downingtown, PA)

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FOREWORD Time has carried us through another school year ... In the lower grades we often complained, wishing so eagerly for each slow term to pass—that we might be free to do what we would for a while. In Junior High, the days seemed to slide by somewhat more rapidly. Then faster, faster . . . actually catapulted into the Freshman Class, and the momentum carrying us swiftly through those madcap days into the slightly more subdued period in which we were designated as Sophomores. Then before we could completely gain our balance, we found that we had somehow filtered into the Junior Class and become vested with our first actual responsibility—perhaps weighty responsibility would be more accurate—that of editing the school yearbook, the Cuckoo . During the past several years, many other Junior Classes have turned out yearbooks superlative in content and arrangement, each furnishing a delightful compendium of the years activities which it represents. The Cuckoo has furnished us with a permanent record of what has gone before, with a memento of our high school life, year by year,- it has become a high school tradition, the compiling of which is one of the aspirations of every class. Determined to do our best to make this annual as good if not better than the preceding ones, we have tried constantly to keep in mind a few points: first, the book must feature everyone in the high school to be complete; second, it must present an accurate but informal picture of school life for this year— in lines scholastic, athletic, cultural, and social; and third, it must present all these things in as novel a manner as possible. In an effort to secure informality, we have eliminated a theme, which naturally tends to constrict the point of view when arranging the book; the faculty arrangement is more intimate, less posed; and through an abundant use of snapshots we have tried to secure the real thing , the way that the fellows and girls of our high school really act in work and play. We have earnestly endeavored to produce a book that will be a worthwhile memento of this year. It is our greatest hope that the pages that follow may please: the graduates, to whom we wish the best of everything as they leave at last their Alma Mater; all the students and teachers in whom is embodied the spirit of our school; and any friends who may happen to glance through this book. If such is the case, our purpose has been fulfilled; your opinion, friends, must be ours. THE EDITORS Page Six

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DEDICATION With tirelessness, patience, and understanding, Miss Ulrich has worked with us on our yearbook, in the classroom, and on the stage. She has been very helpful in planning school activities, and has done much to make the Senior commencement exercises a success. We have found her advice wise and her genuine interest in the school has won for her a place which will be hard to fill indeed. Her tact and humor have endeared her to all, faculty and students alike. In recognition of these services we, the Class of 1939, dedicate our yearbook to Miss Sara M. Ulrich. We appreciate her fine work, and realize that her leaving will be felt as a great loss.

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CONTENTS 1. Hope and Heritage (WHO WE ARE) ADMINISTRATION SENIORS HOME ROOMS 2. Faces and Features (WHAT WE DO) ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS WITTICISMS ADVERTISING