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

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D' L. ...Q - Class of June 1935 B y B.-xRs.AxR.-x B.xR.uc.fxT He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not. He is u Freshman -V-shim himq He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, He is a Sophomore-V-pity lnmg He who knows, and knows not that he knows, He is a junior --honor himg He who knows, and knows that he knows, He is a SENIOR--fereverence l'll?7l.l-l N ANCIENT times our forefathers constructed what were deemed hy the world as the Seven Great Wciiiders, hut it remained for the present generation to complete the list hy adding the Eighth Wmiiider, namely- -'-- our Class of June. 1935. Let us con' sider each of these wonders in turn, and, hy applying them to our high school career, see how our class has progressed to the esteemed place it holds today. Wlieii we first entered high school, West Philly seemed to correspond to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassusf -an inanimate edifice erected to hold equally inert conf tents ffus freshmen. How we wandered through the hare vaults not knowing which way to turn! Lost in this lahyrinth of intricate networks, we would suddenly come upon a sentry, or patrol, who was carefully guarding a sacred passageway. It was these patrols with their up and down stairwaysn and one way corridors who caused our days to he filled with confusion. In QB we had harely heeome acquainted with our school surroundings. The one thing that had influenced us was the high and mighty dignity of the seniors. They impressed us much as the Statue of Olympian Jupiter at Athens must have impressed the ancient Greeks. This statue personified their supreme diety whom they feared and honored, As Jupiter was the originator of all that took place in the sky, so we helieved that it was the Seniors who controlled our paths. Rain and thunderholt alike hailed down upon us in the form of summonses and detentions. Through all this tumult and turmoil, however, we still looked up to the seniors with a respectful and reverent eye. Seventeen

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Roberta Ambrose Eleanor Bailenson Barbara Barakat Freda Barr Virginia Bondy Howard Boyd Helen Bryan Einer Christensen Dorothy Cohen Lola Cooperman Lester Gorrsin Betty Deininger Howard Douglass Regina Edelman Norma Endy Dorothy Friedman Janis Goldstein Marian Gray Virginia Hanley Mary Harvey Robert Herr Estelle Hollander LAUREATI Helen Janulis Lena Kooperman Howard Kremer Gertrude Maginniss Dorothy Malakoif Albert Mart Joseph McKendree Ruth McLaughlin Burton Mendlin Orabell Mohn William Netsky Irving Nuremberg Dorothy O'Brien Gicely Pointer Lillian Powell Frances Robinson Howard Schachman Louis Slifkin Rose Solnek Jean Sparkman Martin Stein Ruth Teitelbaum

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0THE1935 Rsconno CLASSHISTORY The Colossus of Rhodes, the third great wonder of the world, must have appeared as far away and as aloof to the Greeks as knowledge did to us. This hrass statue of Apollo, erected at the port of Rhodes, was said to have heen seventy cuhits high. It hestrode the harhorfmouth, the vessels passing under its legs. So it seemed that we, in searching for a knowledge that looked too high and farfreaching, had to pass under or go around it. According to tradition, this statue was thrown down hy an earthquake and lay ahout the city in ruins. The people gathered together the hits of metal, melted, and sold them. Thus, when knowledge came down to our level, every one had a share in partaking of it. We did not look up to learning as something unattainahle hut reached out for it with eager hands. Although we eagerly searched for knowledge, we still had far to go to fulfill that great accomplishment. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, seemed to symholize our hlind instincts, and it was in her Temple that we laid our incompleted works. With the Goddess of the Chase we raced over the sands of time until we found ourselves standing at the threshold of l1A. As the crew of an Egyptian ship exulted when it first caught sight of the Pharos of Alexandria, so we rejoiced when the horizon of a new term loomed into view. On returning from our quest in search of knowledge, we saw the faint glimmer of the friendly lighthouse, a heacon standing at the harhorfmouth, heckoning sojourners to enter and partake of all that was offered. The fruitful period, 11B, followed, and our class sprang up with new life much as did the Hanging Gardens of Bahylon. Weeds and apparently lifeless hushes and shruhs gave forth heautiful flowers. What had seemed a harren desert in the fall now hlossomed out into such fine specimens as our fair President, Lois Ledy, who was aided hy Boh Kahn, VicefPresident. Next down the line came Betty Deininger, Secretary, while from amid the gay panorama, such sun flowers as Catherine Davidson, Vice' President of the C. A., and Nannette Bellina, head of our ring committee. stuck out their heads in wild profusion. Sof mi DANCIQRS CoL'NcIL Crass Som: Eighteen