Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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MARION ESTHER TOWLES If during the next five or ten years you look in “Who s Who.” don’t he surprised to note the name of Marion Esther Fowles. “Married to some famous person?” Oh, no! A shining light of the chemical world. There is more than one kind of chemistry, you know. She entered Abington in the Sophomore year. Since then she lias been a basketball enthusiast. This year she won her gold basketball by serving the team as a very efficient manager. She has also taken part in “What They Think, and “A Mennonite Maid.” She has been somewhat ailin’ several times during her high school career—but not doctor-sick. “ The light that lies In a woman 8 eyeo. Toots VERA FREINFIELD “Snappy brown eyes, curly brown hair.” Oh, I know who you mean, Vera. She has been an enthusiastic member of the (lice Club for four years and has participated in all its activities. This year she has joined the Tennis Club and plays—yes, as we all do—well, when the courts are not full. Our poetry department 1 as been very grateful to Vera for her helpful assistance. DONALD R. FUNK Donald came from Weldon. They seem to grow them big over there. Donald was a member of the football squad, belonged to the Radio Club, Latin Club, and Tennis Team. Perhaps his most well-known activity is the orchestra, for this unusual young man can play almost any instrument there is. We must also say in passing that Donald is intensely fond of a pretty girl, and has dates with all the pretty faces in the school. It must be that “Music hath charms.” Acting also hath charms. We arc told that some of the audience were so charmed by Donald's portrayal of Absalom Puntz in “A Mennonite Maid” that they could not understand why Tillie refused him. “ Those were golden things he said— To his riolin.” “ By the work One knows the workman!' Yee Funky -=J 19 fc-

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HELEN MATHILDE FENSKE Helen came to Abington from Germantown in September, 1!)£2. She was a member of the Glee Club for two years, taking part in “Love Pirates of Hawaii.” In her Senior year she joined the Tennis Club. Helen is much interested in cooking and serving. The future we have planned for her is rather complicated. We cannot decide whether she will be a fashionable modiste on Fifth Avenue or settle down and keep house for some one. We wonder! “ Take things as they are and come. Not as they might hare been. RICHARD MONTGOMERY FETTER “Who’s that out there with the number on his jersey?” I looked, and yes, it was Dick. Mud from head to foot. Probably very much bruised but nevertheless I knew he was happy. He worked for three years, watching every game from the bench—fellows who have had that experience know what it means—but finally, he won out and made the varsity team in his fourth year. He also won the honor of being chosen as left guard on the all-suburban team. And didn’t he surprise us all when he forgot his “preposterous diction” long enough to make a successful Walter Fairchilds in “A Mennonite Maid.” “ Sadness may came, and sadness may go Hut fun gees on forever! FRANCES EVERETT FLAYELL Yes. this is Swat. Her hair did you say? Oh. no; not auburn, brown! At least according to Swat herself, it is. Abington Grammar School gave us a basketball player when it passed Swat along. During her first year she made the class team. Swat has played varsity basketball for three years, being the Captain of last season’s successful team. Swat is President of the Hockey and Basketball Clubs. She has been a member of both the Radio and Latin Clubs. She has also been a faithful member of the orchestra. “ The splendor of her bright and glancing hair! Dick Huh-huh! Swat 4 18

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DOROTHY HOPKINS GEBIIARDTSBACER Dot is just as nice in proportion as her name is long. Although she may not realize it, and if she did would never acknowledge it, helping other people is her hobby. And she does it well! But she wasn’t too busy helping other people to be a member of the Glee, Basket ball, Latin. Hockey, Swimming and Press Clubs. Dot just revels in chemistry; surely her secret ambition must be to succeed Mr. Messinger. Surely any one who takes such interest in chemistry should become a renowned chemist. Here’s hoping that she does! “ 'Tina beauty truly blent whose Red and White Nature s own sweet cunning hand laid on. GRACE JOSEPHINE CENTNER Grace entered from Atlantic City High School on October 1. 1941. She claims that her favorite hobby is reading. She is also evidently very fond of athletics for the Class Basketball Team, the Basketball Club, the Hockey Club, and the Track Team are made the merrier for her jolly companionship. It is sometimes whispered that she almost blows up the school by some of her skilled laboratory maneuvers. We can easily forgive her this, however, for entertaining us so delightfully in “The Mistletoe Bough,” and in “Nevertheless.” “ Faithful to a friend in need! VIRGINIA MAYNO GILES Ginny and Gerry Stout are absolutely inseparable. They think the same things; do the same things; like the same things. There is only one difference: Gerry never looks quite so bored with life in general as Ginny. Looking bored is really Ginny’s favorite indoor sport. However, she retreated from her boredom long enough to join the Hockey, Latin, Short Story, Basketball, Swimming and Tennis Clubs. Ginny’s hobby is going to the movies. Ginny has one of those sudden, flashing smiles, that is so unexpected and delightful. “Smiling, froirniny ever more. Ginny ( 20