Jenkintown High School - Jenkintonian Yearbook (Jenkintown, PA)

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Tlzxrt yfxm STUDENT COUNCIL Top row-Left to right: Harvey McFeeter, J. Cortright, E. Cort- right, Fogler, Wilson, Torrey. Second row-Left to right: Good' friend, Baker, Still, Lange, Fal- lows, Oliver, Hunter. Seated-Lett to right: Bidlack Gaydon, Swallow, Tomlinson Buehl, Chapman, Mr. Lanks. RED AND BLUE Top row-Left to right: Schmidt Cortright, Sidebottom, Nightlinger Still, Eisenlohr, Mueller, Lauden- slager, Malone. Second row-Left to right: Hamil- ton, Crosson, Patton, Detreux Rohrabaugh, Buehl, Murray, Hun- ter, Cooney, Griesinger, Kessler Stahl. Sitting-left to right: Point, Davis Stein, Chapman, Goodfriend, Bat- chelor, Mr. Headley. I

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GIRLS' HUCHEU N SEPTEMBER the hockey field echoed with such familiar cries as sticks, free shot, offsides, and blowing the whistle, glenkintownis new coach, Miss Edwards ushered in the 1938 hocke' season. The team soon iicked included i i lf i stick-wielders as uittner Young Basset Scroffffins Helveston Coml f under- 1 by a 5.5 i 1 i classmen, and Chapman, Davis, Crosson, Newton, and Captain Batchelor, seniors. VVith early success, the Jenkintown eleven toppled Hatboro, Olney, Abington, and Ambler in succession before bowing in its only defeat to Cheltenham. As the 7 C1 . season drew to a close, they once more carried the Red and Blue colors to victory over Upper Moreland. During the season the virls iarticiiated in several ire-'fame meetings and C 7 U i i I D U serious candlelight services introduced by their coach which ins wired such good team L- 2 . 1 l t spirit and such fine fellowship that they were truly sorry to see the season end. May next year's team and its captain, Mary Ann Comly, be as successful! GIRLS' BHSHETBHLL I-QCAUSE of a shortened playing schedule, the 1939 girls' basketball team played only three games and entertained at two play days this season. The team lost its first two games with Lansdale and Springfield, but ended the season with a one-point victory over Abington. On play days,', which were introduced this year by Miss Edwards, four or five school teams participated in a tournament of short games. The team winning the most games received special awards. The varsity team consisted of veterans, Mildred Davis, Rachel Helveston, and Barbara Chapman, captain, and newcomers, Margaret Nyce, VVanda Lee Griesinger, and Betty Oliver. W N THIS, the first year for glenkintownis gym team, the recently formed Drake aggregation, under Coach Dougherty's tutelage, joined the Surburban One gym with Upper Darby, Cheltenham, Bristol, and West Chester. The team was organized for both boys and girls, with about 38 members. The first meet with West Chester, the Drakes won by a lop-sided score, 48 to 15, and then whipped Cheltenham, 47M to l4f6. A few days later the team defeated Upper Darby, 35 to 28, but in the deciding meet for the league crown, they lost to Bristol's experienced team, 35 to 28. This record of 3 wins and l loss earned Jenkintown second place in the league in their first year of competition. In the District meet at West Chester, McCowie won the rope climbing champion- ship and Synder won the mat championship. Miller placed 4th in the State champion- ship on the horizontal bar and McCowie placed Sth on the rings. Thirtyffivg

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Q, l SlUDElll 6UVEIlllllIEIll HPI work of the l938-39 Student Council which elected Harvey Tomlinson president, Barbara Chapman vice-president, Virginia Buehl secretary, and Anne Swallow, treasurer, consisted of many important, but unsung tasks. However, under the able mediation of Mr. Lanks, faculty advisor, the Council undertook a large project, that of educating the students to the advantages of democracy, both as a national government and as a student government. A panel discussion led by Miss VVright was held in the assembly on the subject, Is Democracy worth-while and practicable in this school? The topic excited a great deal of interest among the students and made them feel a greater awareness of and a closer relationship to the problems and duties of the Student Council. lhe RED and BLUE HIE Red and Blue staff during the school year 1938-39 published ten hi-weekly issues of the Red and Blur, the oflicial newspaper of Jenkintown High School. The editor-in-chief of the paper was Barbara Chapman and the associated editor, Doris Goodfriend. It was the ,aim of the staff, which was guided by Mr. Headley, to give the students a regular publication which would carry the important news of the school and news of special interest to the students. 'llhat the staff succeeded in its purpose was evident from the increased interest of the student body in the school newspaper. The students not only praised the Rerl and Blue for its interesting articles and last minute news, but also used the newspaper as a means of expressing publicly their own opinions about school problems. Thus, the Rfrl and Bluff has become more closely connected with school life, and school problems, and is in reality the oflicial organ for student expression. Thirtyscven