Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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ANNA VIRGINIA AIREY Well—this is the first of the Seniors—and a very nice one, too. Virginia’s been a devoted member of the Spanish Commercial, and Tennis Clubs. Moreover, when the Commercials want candy sold, they go straight to Virginia and she’s always “ready and willing.” Maybe Fort Washington air has a peculiar effect. At any rate, Virginia writes poetry. “ Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind!” Ginny BERTHA HUNTER AMBLER “Bertie” to her friends, Bertha Hunte Ambler, also to her friends because she has no foes. Poor Bertie has listened to tales of woe from nearly every girl in the Senior Class at one time or another. That’s the penalty for having an “unruffablc” disposition and a sympathetic nature. Her graceful dancing has more than once entertained the Dramatic Club of which she is a member. And when the Choir is practising, we can always hear Bertie leading all the rest. Bertha is quiet but mischief lives in her blue eyes. ” All that is good, all that is fair!” Bert JAMES EDWARD ASHWORTH “The boy with the smile” came to us from Pott stow n High. He brought with him some delightful talks about the country, to use in Oral English. He immediately entered what he thought the best club in Abington, the Commercial C'lub, and later the Glee Club, and took quite a part in the opera. For sports, Jimmie decided to put more competition on the track. Now he is a fast miler. Then when soccer came along, it also took his attention as did a number of girls and his Ford. Jimmie may be called on to lend a helping hand. “One that lores his felloic-men!” Jimmy 4 17

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r2.. -.I.-:------------- jj TME.- wacLC «HI -ygSWBgy -flii Proem The sweet cold air invigorates; the breath of a north wind whispers, As it whips the stars into place. I walk and I watch them sparking, silent sparks in still, remote skies. Now thunder lightens the heavens, and lightning thunders response. Stars in the windy night and the great black clouds careening, While I wander upward, upward into the storm! Behind me the Quaker City, the flaming, many-mirrored city, flares to the stars their image. Below, to the south, the playground, the festival ground of nations, rests from a burden of years, While the shrouded old years are mocking, mocking ignorant mortals. Behold then a thin shaft of white light, cleaving the void and widening. Tinting, circling, careening, lighting the few dim stars. See! It is pointing the highway! I ike a broadening path it is leading up to the Milky Way. The hurrying hosts of the earth-clouds, the low-lying clouds in an army, trample its beam underfoot. They are pierced through to the marrow; they become translucent. They grow pale, affrighted, routed! They stumble backward and forward. The circling light disappearing, rounds its arc, to appear again. Resplendent, it searches the heavens; it encounters the army, prevails! Then points to the Milky Way, to the great, white throne of the Infinite . . . The breath of a summer wind’s sighing as it soothes the stars into place. I inspire deeply and fully; I breathe in the fragrance of living, I breathe out the soul of my being; I lose my sold in the universe. Stars in the summer night and the white cloud-foam billowing, While I wander upward, upward into the day. ■416 f- Wallace Goldsmith, ’26.

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LETITIA BOWEN ASKI WORTH Coming to us from Pottstown High School in her Junior year, I etitla soon won her way into our hearts with her gentle, charming manner and her winsome smile. She has been a faithful member of the Latin Club, and of the Choir. Quiet and shy, but a true friend to all who know her! “Come pensive one, derout and pure, Sober, steadfast and demure. Lktty MARY ELLEN BALLEXTINE Ellen is a demure, but very lovable little maid and her very demureness hides a heap of wisdom. The Honor Roll vouches for that. She doesn’t look it but she’s especially good in math. Imagine! A little girl like that! In her Junior year she was in the Press and Spanish Clubs, and in her Senior year, the Mathematics and Internos Clubs. We hope that Ellen’s as much of a success at the U. of P. as she has been here. “ Those about her From her shall read the perfect trays of honour. Ellex WILBUR X. BIGGARD Wilbur is one of the vast tribe of Glenside-Weldonites. Each year at school he has devotee! himself to some organization. In his Sophomore year he was one of the oast of the operetta, “The Wishing Ring.” In his Junior and Senior years, he went out for interclass football, the Orchestra, and the Mathematics Club. He is always ready to have some fun in that Peerless of his. We vote him a good scout. “Softly street, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures 9 Ben Franklin 18 Y-