Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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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

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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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GEORGE GITLIN' Willow (»rove Grammar School presented to Abington in 1919 one George Gitlin. We know that lie has been interested in athletics, but—what else, did you ask? That’s a secret. Was it lessons? Again we reply, “That’s a secret.” During all his years at A. H. S., he has gone out for baseball and football. As a Sophomore he made the (lass Basketball Team. This year George did break away from athletics to the extent of joining the Latin Club. “ Meanwhile welcome joy and feast! Gitt MARGUERITE RAE GRAHAM Marguerite entered from Weldon Grammar School in 1920. If there were a telegram for Marguerite, we would have some difficulty in finding her. We might look in upon the Glee Club, practicing, maybe, “The Gypsy Rover.” If not there, we would take a peep at tin Writers’ Club, the Latin Club, or the Swimming Club. Or, perhaps she is preparing to entertain 11s in “The Mistletoe Bough.” We then proceed to the Oracle room, where she resides, first as the Assistant Literary Editor, and then as Poetry Editor. But here she is. pondering over immigration with the Debating Team. But if, while meandering along in the pathless wood, you find a tree-nymph, reclining by a stump, reading, for all the world as if she were blissfully content in her Elysian fields, then only, will you find Marguerite truly at home. “Come, pensive one, derout and pure, Sober, steadfast and demure. EDITH HAPPY HALE Edith’s middle name is Happy and to all her friends the name seems very appropriate. She came to Abington four years ago from the Weldon Grammar School. During her Freshman year she appeared on the Class Debating Team, and also won the Oratorical Contest given under the auspices of the W. C. T. C. She was an active member of the Glee Club. In the following years the Glee Club again claimed Edith as one of its members. We must not forget her delightful interpretation of the song, “Come Back to Erin,” which she sang before the students on St. Patrick’s Day. My heart is like a singing bird! Teddy Marguerite 21 Jfc-