Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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YEAR BOOK 5 ? f An Appreciation IVE years ago, Abington High School was the incarnation of youth. It had strength and vitality and courage and beauty. Today it is adding to these attributes a fineness of thought and action, a perfection of understanding anti living, unfailing tokens of the Golden Age about to dawn. Five years ago, there came to Abington Township Joseph C. Weirick, a worker, a teacher, a man. The mountains of Central Pennsylvania, historic mother of men, had molded his character. Penn State and Bucknell, Pennsylvania and Columbia had stimulated his intellect. His passage from the one-room school at Howard through the principalship of the Lock Haven High School to the superintendencv at Ashland had tested his manhood. Today Abington High School bears the indelible impress of that forceful personality which has set it on the road to high achievement. Abington High School has an athletic field perhaps not excelled by any other institution of its class. The teams are well equipped. The coaches are the best. The students whether they win suburban championships or come back to the hilltops after seasons of failure, are loyal to the code of sportsmanship, honorable winners and good losers. Abington High School is the scholastic equal of any other similar institution in the state. The Oracle ranks first among publications of its kind. The debating teams carry off league championships. The-students gain competitive state scholarships. The majority of the pupils graduate alter lour years of consistent industry. At all times Abington High School serves the community faithfully. With whom rests the responsibility for the proud position of Abington High School? With its principal, Joseph C. Weirick, to whom the Class of 1923, in recognition of the above facts, dedicates this year book. “May all his ways be pleasantness, and all his paths—-peace. ”

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YEAR BOOK 7 Jforetuorb Duke Sheffield of Buckinghamshire once said: “Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.” With this sentiment in mind, the heartiest congratulations are due those who have so generously poured forth their knowledge and have so unstintingly given of their labor to the Oracle of Aldington High School. It is with a keen sense of privilege that the present writer, representing the feeling of the entire school, makes these few remarks concerning the accomplishments of the present ORACLE Staff. Experience shows that success is due less to outstanding brilliancy than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himsel to his work, body and soul. But the ORACLE Staff has had the happy combination of both ability and enthusiasm for its task. The results speak for themselves. The uniformly superior issues of the Oracle—interesting, entertaining, humorous, saturated with the spirit of the school—bespeak a tribute far more impressive than can be given by this present effort. Thoughts are forces; through their instrumentality we have in our grasp, as our rightful heritage, the power of making life and all its manifold conditions exactly what we will. For this reason has the Oracle been invaluable to the students of Abington High School, inasmuch as it has provided under the leadership of the Oracle Staff, a medium for all to express their thoughts. Thus the Oracle has been at once our common meeting ground, our forum and our safety valve. Here, we have all had an opportunity to voice our innermost sentiments, to discuss our aspirations and inspirations, and to blow of!' the steam of a youth’s over-exuberant spirit. Finally, let it be writ upon the hearts of the school that the Oracle Staff had a difficult task to do and did it well. There is no greater accomplishment, no higher purpose, no richer success than this, that the work in hand was done with all one’s might. The Oracle Staff has labored hard and achieved much. Long after it has turned down the bend in the road which leads out into the wide world, the work it wrought will remain, a beacon-light for those who follow and a monument to the glory and the honor of dSar old Abington High.