Jenkintown High School - Jenkintonian Yearbook (Jenkintown, PA)

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ESHMEH HE Freshman Class like their rivals, the Sophomores, have made outstanding records in athletics, especially in hockey, basketball, gym, and track. Patsy Quittner and Joy Young starred in hockey while their fellow classmate, Alex Gaydon set the record for rope shooting in gym. Several members of the Junior High relay team which won first place in the Lower Merion Junior High relays were from the Freshman class. However, all their interest does not lie in the field of athletics, for early in the fall the class gave a very successful party where motion pictures were shown and refreshments served. Best of luck in your work and play throughout your high school career! JUHIUH HIGH HOUGH the seventh and eight grades have been with us but a short time, they have made their little niche in Jenkintown with their rollicking gaiety, their sur- prising gravity, and their petite boys. These latest comers to the high school have taken the problem of self-government very seriously. This year the seventh and eighth grades formed their own monitor system to patrol their section of the corridors. In conjunction with the monitor staff, they operated a tribunal which had jurisdiction over all Junior High offenders. With their fine school spirit and cooperativeness, they should go far in Jenkintown High School. 'Twentyniue

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ULHSS HI Song of the Thirty Niners fto the tune of Hiawathaj Ye who loved the golden school days Loved the joys of youth's adventure Ye who loved your alma maters Loved her songs and cheers of conquest Listen to a tale of classmates Class of nineteen thirty-niners. They were children when they came there To the great high school of learning And the sophomores, juniors, seniors Looked upon them with compassion In the classrooms through the winter Sat the little thirty-niners Heard the teachers' words of wisdom Heard the wisecracks of their elders Est Puella said Miss Kendall Ancient language of the Romans And they laughed at words like nec, nec Blushed at felicissime From wee Strauss they learned equations Sally Ann and X Y Z Z While from Goldberg hammer saw saw Headley taught them history FFF space - space Painting, drawing, cooking, sewing And they sang the songs together Sang the songs that Eckroat taught them. Freshman maidens had their chumsl club And their rivals cavalcade Here they told their deepest secrets Guarded well a treasure chest Both resolved to give a party At the home of Doris Goodfriend There the youths as guests assembled Wearing each his Hrst long trousers. In the evening after nightfall Freshman took the lonely byways Lest he meet some stalwart sophomore Who might seize him and disrobe him. Many pranks they played in classrooms Put a snake in Lucillels pocket She unknowing put her hand in Paled and screamed aloud in terror Once a youth and maiden wandered Through a green and grassy meadow Picked some green leaves, then pretended That 'twas mistletoe they'd found there Next day to the school returning Hands and faces red and fiery They discovered to their sorrow Thuty STUHH That the leaves were poison ivy. Till at last this year was ended Summer came and now vacation By the shores of the Rancocas By the shallow winding river Stood the cabin of K. Wilson Daughter of Magruder Wilson Here a group of thirty-niners Gathered for a happy week-end Here they rowed and swam the river Strolled in couples through the woodlands Here the warrior Hi-ya-Comly Gazed upon the dark eyed maiden Gazed upon our Barbara-ha-ha Walked beside her through the forest Sat beside her in the twilight. When the summer days were over Back they came this time as sophomores Girls had shorn their lovely tresses Boys had voices deep but squeaky And the fair young Pau Pau Bessie Boasted of his hairy visage But they heeded not his boasting Greeted him with jest and laughter When in Shakespeare's play as Bottom I must to the barber's,l' said he For methinks Pm marvelous hairy. Now they learned the art of dancing At the Riddell school of dancing Learned the rhumba and the tango Learned the shag and the big apple Hurried to the gym at lunchtime Stood about and talked together Laughing, talking, waiting, hoping Hoping for an invitation. And they held a Christmas party In the gym with pine trees laden Tinsel, music brightly lighted Dancing, games and fortune telling. Thus the days and weeks whirled by One more year had passed forever. But the year that was to follow Was a gay one for the Juniors Junior Prom, Ken Stanley playing Shipwreck Party to the seniors Very nautical and sea going All the guests were dressed as sailors Carrying funnies as their passports. Mary Gee's was Popeyels Sea Hag. There were many lads and maidens them Who were skilled in games and ballplay And their classmates cheered them onward At the games and heated contests There was none as strong among them As the mighty GG Getchell. None could play the game of football Do the pole vault and the broad jump Throw the javelin and discus Half so well as G G Getchell. Out of childhood into manhood Thirty-niners now were seniors Learned in science and in language Skilled in youthful sports and pastimes They were mightier than their teachers And in basketball they beat them To the tune of eighteen twenty Skilled in Music and in singing Eight sang in the Senior Octet. Skilled as actors, thirty-niners Acterl Only 38 though In their class in Economics They discussed momentous questions Whether there'd be war in Europe Solved the problems of the nations. lf their viewpoint became narrow Their Professor Herbie See See Said they had half-baked ideas Chided them as mob and bunnies Sometimes in their own, class meeting For the purpose of deciding Argued this and that together Talking, shouting, getting nowhere So assured was their behavior So blase, sophisticated That they often caused a neck pain To the beloved Mary Gee Gee. Now according to tradition Of the Seniors in past ages Came the trek in Merry Maytime To old Washington in D. C. With the Entwistles as chaperons All the places that they saw there Were as nothing when compared to The exciting things they did there Thus at last examinations Graduation and diplomas With regret the thirty-niners Bade farewell to friends and teachers Bade farewell to dear old school days High School days were gone forever.