Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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©ear poofc j§ taff Editor-in -C'h ief— M ahg aret Dougherty Issociate Editors Business Manager Marguerite Graham Sheldon Hoffman Richard Spkrino Assistants Albert Bross Sarah Stevens Willes Reeder Hhie tic Editors Helen Clark Chief Typist Elizabeth Cridland Committee Marion Dalton Frank Evoy George Detwiler Edith Roll Margaret Harper George Shoemaker Marion LaRue Ina Stewart Eva Leusch Earnest Willard Josephine Yungker Maxey Morrison Cartoonist Charles Leidy Walter Beck Ralph Yozzy Edith McClellan Ma bel Mooney Bookkeepers Margaret Nash

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More oQight A FEW years ago. the liner La Bourgogne caught on fire at sea. One of the negligible number of survivors tells us that passengers, officers and crew fought with the feiocitv of trapped rats. At a somewhat later date the wonder Titanic went down. The flower of American manhood deliberately chose to save others rather than themselves. They sent to safety steerage women and children of little education and alien purposes. Yet those men have bequeathed to the coming generations of America a heritage far more costly than material wealth or landmarks in literature and art. They have given us an imperishable tradition—a light in the darkness of the woods of the world. The traditions of a nation are forged in its school. Every time a boy or girl in the classroom or on the athletic field wills to do right or prefers to do wrong, lie shapes or misshapes that school spirit which is to fan or to extinguish the flames of patriotism burning on the altar of his homeland. School spirit, however, grows slowly. It is not so much a matter of years as of generations. The students kindle. The alumni foster. Abington High School, in spite of its youth, possesses a nucleus of commendable traditions. Its scholarship is genuine. Its athletics stand for sportsmanship. The members of the student body give every ounce of their energy to the ambitions undertaking of the moment. They are constantly setting new standards of high achievement. The students of Abington High School have generated the spark of its power. It is for the alumni to protect and feed and cherish that fire which is to grow into a beacon of greatness and glory to light the highway of democracy. To the Alumni of Abington High School, therefore, the Class of 1924 dedicates this yearbook. We “follow the gleam.” ■A. 3 k-

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Foreword Rowing in a tidal stream is either very easy or very hard. If you you row with the tide, it is easy; but if you row against the tide, it is hard. In a tidal stream, the tide changes every six hours. If you start rowing up stream when the tide is running out, you will find hard pulling. You may also strike a sandbar. There is a proverb which says that “patience is a virtue.” This applies to the rowing against the tide. Stop rowing—and you will be swept out to sea. Persevere and when the tide changes, you will be carried to your destiny. The Senior Oracle staff has rowed against the tide a long time. Very, very often it has looked as if the editors would be swamped. The material has been slow to come in; the Senior play “A Mennonite Maid has interfered; Class Night and Commencement preparations have threatened its progress. But the staff has persevered. The material has come in and the staff has managed to overcome the other impediments. The Personal Glimpses is a new idea. Of course, we have not been able to put every little detail in the biographies. We have done our best and have accomplished our aim—a Senior Oracle, which contains an account of every activity in the school; which we hope will raise the standard of the school paper and which we know will bring before each graduate, the ideals, principles and standards of his Alma Mater—The Abington High School.