West Philadelphia High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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il FEBRUARY, I93I V Council. Eloise Breed, Jeffries Eyster, Esther Goldhaber, Blanche Lesser, Howard Madsen, Lois Schenberg, and jan van den Beemt composed this Council. The duty of choosing our Record Staff and Prom Committee devolved upon this body. After due deliberation and thought, Morton Sonnenfeld was chosen to head the former, while Mimi Marquet was named chairman of the Prom Committee, with Eva Adams, Irwin Benjamin, Grace Gillis, Mary Savage, Peggy Sawyer, Edgar Virene, Earl Keller, Virginia Cook, and Esler Macartney as his willing workers. Not quite a week after this election, just before our girls departed for Washingf ton, Kokomo Klotz, our beloved mascot, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. It was at first thought that some disappointed aspirant for office had done for him, but this supposition was dismissed when it was found that Kokomo had no enemies in the political fold. In fact, the politicians were deeply concerned. For, without Kokomo, a quorum, with which to ratify certain of their pet propositions, was impossible. It was not 'until the girls were safely lodged in Washington that we received word of his whereabouts. We gathered from their telegram that Kokomo had stowed himf self in their baggage and had not been discovered until they had reached the hotel. We were assured that he was well cared for, and not a bit lonesome. The girls took care of that! Aside from that, we learned nothing of his adventure, and I suppose we never will hear the details. Kokomo adores secrecy! After the girls had set our minds at ease concerning our dear mascot, they began their sack of Washington. We don't know what they plundered, but we do know what they brought back with them-souvenirs OJ, broken hearts, sweet memories, and limps. Upon their return, inspired by their new knowledge of the nation's halls of fame, they urged us to elect from the class a Who's Who of our own. The lucky PROM COMMITTEE Tws nfy-fh ree

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4 THE RECORD if CLASS COUNCIL eficient Ring Committee. Under the able chairmanship of Emily Kaissling, the comf mittee functioned smoothly and rapidly, in fact so rapidly that ere we had entered our Senior year we had for our very own the emblem of the class, those rings which we so proudly flaunted before the dazzled eyes of younger explorers. With the opening of our Senior year came the problem of electing permanent officers who would lead us through the labyrinth of difliculties which the ensuing months held in store for us. After much campaigning, john Zierdt, president, Mary Savage, vicefpresidentg Peggy Sawyer, treasurer, and Irwin Benjamin, secretary, were selected. All of us owe a debt of thanks to these loyal members of our class for the tireless service they have rendered. Their first piece of official work was the selecf tion of a Benefit Committee. Some fifty odd dollars was added to our treasury by the eflicient work of this committee, made up of Muriel Smythe, chairman, and Lois Schenberg, Isabella Crowder, Eva Adams, Pauline McLean, Henry Jenkinson, Mar' garet Green, Maurice Weinberg, Merle Fay, and Milton Marquet, The benent was staged at the Tower Theatre and we all enjoyed two hours of delightful comedy en' titled, High Society Blues. Before our Senior year had half spent itself, our men, eager for new fields to conf quer, spent a weekfend at Washington. To laud the exploits of these intrepid men would take pages of highfpowered literature. Therefore, that you may better enjoy the details, we refer you to the official log of the Washington jaunt. It is difhcult to tell, now, whether the boys conquered or were conquered, but we're certain that they had a weak end! fKokomo says it was the wallet.j Our first undertaking as high and mighty Seniors was the election of our 12B Twenfv-two

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4 THE RECORD if .gi f f 'f HF 'fi 1 ' 1? T Q 211 'Q a A 'ffl I QL, I 'tid I .Mi , ,Lt an l TJ... RECORD STAFF people so honored spent laborious hours primping and posing for the Silver Screen Club, and the final verdict of the camera may be viewed on pages 32 and 33 of this book. Kokomo says that the class may well be proud of its choice. As our senior year drew to its close, it was crowned with the greatest social event of the season, our Prom. Every John Gilbert and Greta Garbo of the class was there to do the light fantastic on the 'gsidewalksn of the Penn A. C., with Ray Duffy and his Melody Men furnishing the wheat. None of our class, we may safely say, will ever forget the eve of December nineteenth or the morn of December twentieth. Finally, the big event of our high school lives fell upon us-Commencement. Father Time may succeed in erasing much from our minds, but he shall never oblitf erate our Commencement memories, so sweet yet so bitter, so joyful yet so sad. May these beautiful memories pursue us to the last of our days, and may we be ever mind' ful and observant of the ideals set forth in this ceremony. The unknown and the unexplored, from the beginning of time, have attracted the attention of all mankind. So it was with us, that when the final ceremonies of Commencement had formally closed our high school career, we, once more inspired by the love of adventure and desire for greater knowledge, sought new fields to explore, this time individually rather than in a group. Twenty-four