Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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DOROTHY WHEATLAND. Our sensibilities are so acute. The fear of brine) silent makes us mute. Operetta, 16; Chorus of Flukey Duke. t ALICE WI1ITKAM. (At) The people free from cares, serene and ,;ay Pass all their mild untroubled hours away.” Rom January 23, 1898. Chorus of Flukey Duke. Favorite expression, Golly-whiz. CHARLES WILLIAMS. (Charley) am in a holiday humor. Born July 31, 1898. Oracle Staff, T6; Conspirator in “Flukev Duke, ’18. Favorite expression, Where do we go from here? MILLVILLE L. WILLIAMS. 'Antiquities, art. He is fond of. He knows the old masters by heart. And his taste is refined. Born January 11, 1901. Glee Club, ‘17. ‘18; Orchestra, T8; Librarian; Pedro in cast of ‘The Flukey Duke; Class artist: Literary Soiety. MARY WILSON. «o) (Wilson) Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfined A knowledge both of books and human kind. Born October i4, 1899. Basketball class team, 15, T6; Basketball team, ’16, T7, ’18; Captain ‘17; Glee Club, T7, T8; Oracle Staff, 16, T8; Chorus of Flukey Duke: Pi Chi Psi: Class Yell. Favorite expression, You look similar but I fails to organize you. HELEN B. McCLCRE. Her air, her manners, all who saw admired, Courteous, though coy. and gentle, though retired. Born October 22, 1897. Glee Club, 17, 18. Favorite expression. Believe Me. 15

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MARGARET B. TULL. (Peggie) Honesty needs no disguise or ornament; Be plain. ’ Born lune 9. 1898. Operetta, T6; Glee Club, 77, T8; Chorus of •The Flukey Duke.” Favorite expression, What did she say?” MARIAN TULL. ( It happiness of sweet retired content To be at once secure and innocent. Born June 9, 1899. Operetta. T6; Glee Club, 17, T8. Favorite expression, “Ask Margaret.” CROFTON UN I AC. “I do not like much ceremony.” Born January 23, 1899. Entered from Cheltenham High School, 78. DOROTHY W. WELSH. (Dot) Her air, her manners All iiho saw admired.'' Born September 1, 1900. Entered from Germantown High 78. Two Lunatics”; Delores in cast of The Flukey Duke. Favorite expression, That's not so good. CATHERINE WHALEN. (Katinka) “A woman already won. Born November 11, 1898. Operetta, 16; Girls’ Glee Club, 77, 18; Chorus of “The P7ukey Duke;” Secretary and Treasurer of The Oracle, 18. Favorite expression, My goodness. 14

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- ri K To rescue from oblivion the memory of former students, and to render just tribute of reunion to the many great and wonderful adventures that befall the Class of 1918 is the Historian's purpose in adressing you this evening. We were the largest class to enter Abington High School up to the year of 1914. There were seventy-eight of u? Altogether forty girls and thirty-eight hoys. Green you ask? Yes, that always must be the lot of Freshmen. But, ah! what a delicate soft shade, not visible to the naked eye, hut only after a most careful spectrum analysis. There is not much of importance to be told of those first few months. We were all rather shy. at first, and full of apprehension lest we should do anything to raise the wrath and ire of the tyrannical upper class men. We were divided into the General and Commercial sections, these sections differing principally in name, the work being practically the same for the first year. ’Twas during the first semester that we proved to the faculty and to the upperclassmen as well, our ability and ambition to be good diligent students, a reputation that has not fallen. Little of note happened that year, most of the time being occupied by study and becoming acquainted with our classmates and faculty. The following September we returned, but not all of us. for the mortality was high in the Freshmen vear, but the moat fitting had survived and were now raised to the Sophomore strata. We could now fully appreciate what an extraordinarv class we had been; for roundhs''T?efe the incoming classmen, small puny and backward in appearance, possessing none of he marked and Stirling qualities of the previous class. F.arlv in the term we organized, electing Edward Fincke president, and choosing the blue and gold for our colors. 16