Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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slowly rolls into the shed. Its pilot is Oscar Hale, who has just returned •'rom Lehigh College, twenty miles away. Fellow classmates, if any of you have been overlooked in our little experiment this evening. I wish to assure you that it was due entirely to your failure to sign properly the cards. Now, friends, I hope this demonstration has conclusively proved to you that it is no longer necessary to look into the future as a vast wilderness of unknown terrors; but that we may at any time see the road ahead by turning oil the spotlight of psychological experiment. JAMES E. BROWN WALTER M. CLULEY

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very cautiously while Miss Mary Yerkes quietly plays the old hymn, “Wash Me and I Shall Be Whiter Than Snow.” Name in full—Frank Conway. What is your supreme wish?—“That there were no police in Ahington Township.” What incident would most excite your feeling of explosive hilarity?— “To hear Harold Bayuk translate French.” Since the requirements are satisfactorily fulfilled by the above named person, his future is easily foreseen. Beware, my friend, and steer clear of horse races, roulette wheels, etc., and you shall succeed greatly as Supervisor of the entire Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. I can plainly see James Brown five years hence walking wearily along the streets of a large city. He stops in the post office to inquire the location of the famous apartment house for which the city is noted. At the bureau of information he meets Arno Farenwald. who directs him to the real estate office of Hallowell Shelmire, to which he goes immediately. Upon entering he sees seated behind a typewriter, quickly tapping the keys, a charming young lady, which is none other than Frances Hamilton. Immediately John Porter approaches him. accompanied by Dorothy Stout, whom he is just about to take out for an inspection tour of the apartment house. He is invited to join them and does so willingly. Upon arriving there, they first walk into the parlor and reading room, where they see the same Walter Scherbaum who went to school with them, earnestly reading books on Thoreau. From here he is taken to see the wonderful community kitchen, the main feature of the place. His first glance, upon entering, is toward a fat, chunky fellow, in a large apron and white cap busily engaged in the intricate task of making flap-jacks in a very large pan which is so large that it keeps him constantly busy, turning and flapping them over. This curious character is none other than Harold Bayuk. Going toward the other end of the kitchen he sees Dorothy Langdon briskly moving back and forth to an immense oven in which she is baking great numbers of large cakes. Farther on he sees Margaret ilson holding a large wooden spoon in her hand and carefully testing and sampling the community pond of bean soup. From here he is taken to the elevator landing. He presses a button for the elevator, but to his great astonishment, instead of the elevator appearing, immediately an orchestra begins to play, and looking around he sees that it has for its director. William Woolley. Finally, however, the elevator appears and he is taken up to the bedrooms, in which there are about twenty beds to a room, and among the twenty beds in one room he sees all dolled up in fine linen Joseph Kidd, the chambermaid. From here he is taken to the top floor and introduced to Louis Mullen, who shows him the latest modern improvements, that is, the shed and landing of the airplanes by which the residents of the apartment house go and come. While he is being shown its merits, a large biplane lands on the platform and 18

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(Class Hill We, the members of the Class of 1919 of the Abington High School, County of Montgomery. State of Pennsylvania, conscious of approaching the end of our life in this building, and being in possession of a remarkably sound mind, memory and understanding, with due regard for the rights of the upper classes and the comfort and amusement of the infant Freshmen, wishing to make provision for the disposal of our worldly goods, jokes, idiosyncracies and good wishes, do hereby declare this to he our last will and testament. All former wills are hereby declared void. Said will to be executed when the last member shall have received his diploma. Said items of bequeathem? r shall he hereby read and duly executed. Item I—To the incoming Seniors we willingly, gladly and cheerfully give and bequeath all the privileges and favors which have been bestowed upon us—our good looks; our charming dispositions; and extraordinary good behavior. As an example of the latter we cite our silence in the ranks in the chapel, when the Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen are requested to leave the room for chatting and giggling, and sent to their respective rooms, a calamity that never lowered the dignity of a Senior. Item II—To the Sophomores we bequeath the care of the Freshmen, so that they may teach them how to behave and to realize the responsibility and importance which falls upon their shoulders when they enter into the greatest episode of their dear little lives—that of being a high school student. The Sophomores shall instruct them in the use of the garbage can. and how to patronize the lunch room: and. last but not least, the ice cream counter, so that the school may keep up its reputation of being the most generous customer and consumer of the greatest amount of “eats.” Item III—To Mr. Weirick. our principal, and to the other members of the faculty, who have so kindly and generously helped us through our four years’ struggle for that little piece of paper, so important in our lives, we leave an expression of gratitude and good cheer. Item IV—To the School Board we leave our thanks and gratitude for their courtesies during the past four years. Item V—To the orchestra we leave our thanks for their indispensable services and pass said services along to the incoming Seniors, hoping that they will appreciate our generosity. Item VI—Elsie Mitchell, generously inclined, hereby bequeaths her melodious soprano voice to Beatrice Griffiths and, Mary Yerkes. similarly 20