Abington Friends School - Outward Bound Yearbook (Jenkintown, PA)

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if cyie Qgfizkzg. . nd Paul Spiro fit right into the roles of eth was exuberantly performed by fifth , Gary Glassman, Anne Arney, Marcia a . Sghwartz were Hansel and Gretel in the classic. The angel was Nancy Zurn. males' presentation Oliver was brighten- rrow and Susan Swenson. :tion in the Dramatic Club melodrama, Shown here at rehearsal lfrom leftl are Shuman, Marianna Perkins, and David T11is leads me to comment briefly on summer reading. NVhile reading lists are available and perhaps ev en specific suggestions are given to our children about what might be suita.ble and interesting, vie tend to shut' out from our busy vacations time for refiective read ing. The following observation in a recent publication of the National Council of Teachers of English mu be pertinent in this regard. As the young come to constitute a larger portion of society, there IS an accent on youth and a resultant lackeof perspective about life and traditional values. Literature suf fers in such a world, even as it comes to have more relevance. The young in our time are h t led into activities and states of mind appropriate for aims other than their owng they lack the immersion in leisure and the opportunity for spontaneous impulse characteristic of earlier experiences, to distance them and compare them. In tha.t kind CContinued on Page 45

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Trying 'l'he crown .on May Queen Brenda Brooks before the annual pageant is senior princess Cathy Harbison. From the Headmaster . . . CCOntinued from Page lj gatherings and for guests of the school. . . . All those who listened with sympathy to our problems and offer- ed constructive suggestions towards the improvement of the school. . . . And most important, those who trusted us with the education of their children. It is this trust which renews our spirit! 1--. -:Q eq , My own recent reading underlines once again that formal education per se is no guarantee of the progress of man. Brought to my attention from the February issue of the Bul- letin of the Atomic Scientist, Lady Violet Astor is quoted as saying: It's a curious paradox that while the miracles of conjuring tricks of science are gaining these daily, al- most hourly victories-conquering the skies, bridging the seas, broad- casting knowledge, defeating pain, almost defeating death-we men have not become any more virtuous or any more civilized than we were before. In fact, during my lifetime I should say that civilization has reeled back- wards. If in my childhood or youth I 'd been told that I should live t.o see things like concentration camps, tor- ture chambers, forced confessions, gas ovens, I should have dismissed them as a nightmare from which I would soon wake up. I'm often re- minded of a story I heard . . . Caboutj Sir Benegal Rau. He was out in the jungle on a hunting expedition and all m cya 574441219 Sie Q UPPER : Jimmy Katz, Paul Robinson 4 Joe Tom Sawyer. and Huclc Flnn LOWER A capsule version of Macl The traveled about three after .they days, the Indian bearers laid down their burdens. Sir Benegal asked them if they: were tired. 'No,' they said, 'we're lnot the least tired, but we must wait here at least twenty- four hours uiitil our souls catch up with our bodies' I wonder sometimes whether We dught not perhaps do the same. These are sobering thoughts for all of us, for iflthe education we have developed since the end of World VVar I has failed to produce human sensitivity add spiritual wisdom land there is harflly a headline in the news today ,that doesn't emphasize this failurejj then indeed We must seek some new directions. While stirring our thoughts and actions to- wards a moyement of change, how- ever, we might well contemplate letting our douls catch up with the frightening pace of our physical ad- vances. Perhftps all of us will seek some opening in our summer vaca- tion period hkmr creative soul search- ing. lx - ,M Y ff., , - l. lfrom leftl Ricki Rudolpl Susan Laiken, and Lynn Shore UPPER Dana Harbison and Karin sixth of the Humperdmc : The seventh and eighth gy ed leftl Jeanna DiMarco, Ellen Y The audience was art of the of January lb, by A n Ran Van Buren, Brenda Broo s Miss

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4 OAK LEAVES Addresses Wanted Please get alumni data into the office by June I5 so that our new directory can be ready early next fall. -Eleanor Repperi, Alumni Secretary. On Their Way . . . CContinued from Page lj . . . Class of I964 Janet Atkinson receives a B.S. in mathematics from Denison Univer- sity this month. A member of the French, math, and service honoraries, she worked at UNIVAC as a com- puter programmer last summer and hopes to continue in that field. Barbara Baberick married Chris- topher C. Simonds in February. She graduated from Penn in May. Lynn Biester, now Mrs. Edward E. Elliott IV, was married in January, received her B.A. from Penn in May. Further plans await Edward 's return from Vietnam. Pamela Boyer will marry Dennis Ferri of Media, June 7. They will live in Wilmington where Pam will work at a skating club. She attended Endicott. Chris Conly, now Mrs. Robert Semisch, attended Peirce College after graduating from Centenary. Robert is a stockbroker. There is now an infant son, Bruce, in the family. Bernie Corson expects to begin teaching next fall. She graduated from Kutztown State College. Susan Fox was also among the Penn graduates this spring. She majored in Latin American Studies. Dobbie Fueller is working as a buyer and a model in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She spent last sum- mer in Europe following graduation from American River College in Sacramento. Susan Gerlitz expects to work in computer programming. Having majored in French and Spanish, she graduates from Muhlenberg this month. Lynn Gerstnecker is working in California and loves it. She attended Lake Forrest for two years. Virginia Guckes, a Centenary grad- uate, is training as a stewardess with Pan American in Miami. Katherine Haviland is also in Miami. She hopes to teach math and chemistry after getting her B.S. in August from the University of Miami. ,, , A. Cathie High has been accepted at the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. A Penn State graduate, she spent a. semester in France, made the Dean's list more often than not. Ellen Hucke married Michael Col- lins after her January graduation from Roanoke College. Ellen teaches third grade while Michael works for a law degree at William and Mary. Sheila Iobst won a fellowship for a four-year doctorate program at the University of Chicago. She begins this fall after another summer work- ing with emotionally disturbed chil- dren. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sheila was an honors major in French at Penn. Marcia Mount also has plans for graduate study. She will enter the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. In May she received a B.A. from Chatham College. Laura Reeves is majoring in Eng- lish at American University, Wash- ington, D.C. She expects a degree next June. Gail Rosenau, now Mrs. William D. Scott, has a son Jason Matthew who is all of 20-months-old! Susan Sjostrom may begin grad- uate work in elementary education this fall at C. W. Post College where she received a B.A. this month. Meredith Specht who attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts does administrative work at Gradu- ate Hospital. She lives in Glenolden. Susan Stone is expected to grad- uate from Smith this month. Active in dramatic and literary affairs, she June I968 l spends all vacations in France where her family now lives. Carol AnnlTa1acki intends to enter medical schdol next fall. She has a B.A. from Penn, where she majored in psychology. During holidays she helps her parents with the breeding of quarter horses. Nancy Wilson looks forward to working as clinical psychologist at Philadelphiag Hospital next fall. She attended Temple and the University of Miami before graduating from Muskingum College last January. Bonnie Wiimmers, a graduate of Penn Hall, now works in Washing- ton. Her latest interest is sky diving. I have only 18 jumps, and am mak- ing 10-second delays, she writes. Molly Zindel expects a B.A. from Smith this spring, after which she hopes to find useful work in urban redevelopment. From the Headmaster . . CConti1iued from Page 35 of leisurely lreading one could Hnd the dimensilins and harmonies na- tural to onefs individual self. I personally hope that our chil- dren may be encouraged to come upon the value of leisure that will enable themlto have time for read- ing - reading not specihcally for class assignments and book reports but for effecting the awareness and developmentlof the soul of man. This comes so often not from what we tell them to read, but from what they dis- cover to read. E -Adelbert Mason OAK LEAVES from Non Profit Org- ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL US- POSTAGE Jenkintown. Pa. l9046 Address Correction Requested Jenkintown, Pe. Permit No. I4 I l I .