Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Class of February, 1921 face the world undauntedly with our choice. VVe shall never forget you. You are too much of us. Dear Girls: To you, with whom I have worked so intimately the last four years, I can wish nothing better than that your individual tasks will be difhcult enough to develop the best in you. As we go our various ways into the things for which we have been trained, the relationship, formed in our happy high school days, will not be severed. However scattered we may be, we shall ever be united in our common bond of love for our Alma Mater. VVe do not say Good- bye, for the circle of friends in the Graduating Class of February, 1921, can never be broken. XVe say, instead, in the good old language of our Anglo Saxon forefathers, who knew the full meaning of their Goodbye, - God be with you. KATHERINE B. GRILLET. A Page Seventeen A

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Philadelphia High School for Girls Nor is our courage and daring merely youth's desire for action and change. We have learned, in the past years of high school training, two facts which together may prove the key of our puzzle. Vile realize that whatever we may choose as our chief work, we must reach out to many other things, broadening, deepening and diversifying our interests. Each part of life is so woven into the warp and woof of the whole that interest in many affairs is beneficial to the pri- mary interest. Every experience we have, if we use it rightly, makes us bigger and our lives richer. If we confine our abilities to one work, they grow less keen and we become useless to the world. The great demand of today is for people, not only specialists in one field, but possessing knowledge of the many. The young woman of the present has greater opportunities for broadening her interests than the woman of former years. Through the political life she can and should enter, she comes in contact with the majority. We girls, by keeping, before us always the high ideals we have been given, can make the ideals of America finer and more splendid. If a girl chooses a business life, the teaching profession, or immediately goes into the home life, her influence upon her asso- ciates will be great. While we realize the value of varied interests, we also have learned a greater truth. We know that the richness gained from all our living, to be of any real force, must be concentrated on one definite task-a work of which we can say: This is my work, my blessing not my doom. By me alone of all living This work can best be done in the right way. We are sure that among all the many occupations in all the fields of service, there is one particular task for each of us. If we should neglect the task for which God designed us, it must go forever unfinished. There is no other indivi- dual with the talents necessary to carry on that work. It is ours and only ours. The illuminating truth is that for each individual there is a definite task. It mat- little if it be great or small, but it is important that we give to it the best that is in us. We must develop our talents in the field for which they were given to us. As we stand here today and think of the thousands of girls, from this school, who have gone into the world and accomplished noble deeds, our hearts thrill that we belong to such a splendid company. VVe sincerely resolve to find the work which is ours, to develop a broad-minded spirit and live lives of service so fine that our beloved Alma Mater will be proud to have our names on her list of graduates. The Gentlemen of the Board of Education: In later years we may appre- ciate more fully the benefits you have made it possible for us to receive. But on this Commencement Day we do realize the many, many things we have to thank you for. Those of us who are going directly into the world of business. have only the capital you have given us, to aid us. The honors we win and the heights we reach will be obtainable because of the training you have given us. We shall always be grateful to you. Dr. Gowing, our Honored Principal: VVe are closer perhaps, to you than the classes before graduated, because you and we were Freshmen together. For four years we have worked together and you have guided us towards the ideals you yourself live by. You have been ,a faithful friend and a wise advisor to us. To enumerate the many improvements you have wrought in our lives, would be an endless recital. So with honest sincerity let us say as simply as possible, Thank you. The ideals you have given us will guide us long after this day on which we bid you Farewell Dear Teachers: During the last four years we have stood before you. on more than one occasion, in mute dismay, powerless to put our thoughts into words. At this time of parting, we find our words powerless to express our thoughts. VV e can tell how you have influenced us for good-have made us big- ger and better than we ever dreamed we could be--but it leaves unsaid many thoughts. With your faith and confidence in us, we dare choose our work and Page Sirtnn

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Philadelphia High School for Girls All JEANNETTE AARONS 3831 North Seventeenth Street. c Wm. G. Hunter. limit kllllitf what to fall hrr, but shelf mighty like a rosef' Classical Club, Natural History Club, Red Cross, Athletic Association, feam1r'ttzr DOROTHY BAKES 3804 Patton Street. john H. Wlebster. 1 lflf'he1z joys and lessons flash, Lvl' lessons go to smash. Senior Dance Committee, Classical Club, Nature Club, Natural History Club, Red Cross, College Settlement Sub-Chapter, Athletic Association, President of Sigma Gania Sigma. Dot KATI-IRYN BICKEL 3439 Carlisle Street. Simon Muhr. Arv0mplislied? She' says not, but who can tell? Shi, does somf kindly things and does them well. Section President, Class Flower Committee, Per- sonality Committee ot Record Book, Classical Club, Nature Club, Red Cross, Athletic Association, Gym Contest, Captain-ball Team. Bick Page Eighteen