Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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CELINDA.BOUCHER HETZELL Celin has proved so versatile and capable that our head whirls as we look over her activities. Her hard work as a Latin Club member won her the position of consul in that organization and we all know what a fine president Celin made for the French Club. C'elinda’s ambition is to go on the stage. Judging from her work in dramatics, we feel sure that it will be realized. We all remember her clever acting as the mother in Betty's Last Bet and as Flora in Leave it to June. But wherever the future may carry her, on the stage or elsewhere—we wish her all the luck her merry and good-natured disposition deserves. 11A well-trained actress leaves the stage. CELIN JOHN WESLEY JOHNSON, JR. The future Doctor Johnson, or as we know him, just John! The Spanish and Science clubs claimed him as a member when he joined our throng. Every one knows of his humor and story telling. They always bring much merriment, especially to English class. If John continues that way, he will be the original Doctor Happy, guaranteeing to cure his patients by medicine or by his infectious jollity and mirth. 14All nature wears one universal grin. JACK MILDRED LOUISE KAISER Any one who has seen Mildred busily employed in the commercial rooms will agree that she is industrious. But look, this blondehaired miss is a member of the Commercial and Spanish clubs as well as being a member of the Oracle staff. Mildred’s business career will surely be a success if she always possesses such a wealth of the “never-say-die” spirit. We’re all for Mildred and that pluck which makes every one with whom she comes in contact admire her. Thank you, McKinley, for this bright young lady. “.4 maiden modest yet self-possessed. MIL 26 THE ORACLE

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RUTH ADELAIDE HAINES A genius is in our midst! A genius—yes, a girl—at making, in the latest fashion, clothes that make others green with envy. Perhaps she may bring some styles from Paris with her when she will have completed her studies in Europe. Ruth, in the good old days, was secretary and treasurer of the Mathematics Club and took an active part in the Reading, Glee, Internos, French and Debating clubs. Chemistry is Ruth’s weakness. If she doesn’t blow' up her good humor and personality, every one will be satisfied. Ruth goes quietly but she makes an impression. “ I joyful smile and a loving heart has she. ” RUFUS MARY ELIZABETH HAM BACH Mary can almost speak for herself, for she certainly has done plenty of it. She is the one you ask when you want publicity stunts for plays or dances. She is the one you ask for monologues w hen some club meeting needs an entertainer. In fact, you always look for her for any program where a speaker in a character part is required. The lucky clubs that held this cheery, amusing girl were Commercial, French, Dramatic, Nature and Latin. Continue your speaking in any form you w'ish, Teddy, but please draw the line at soap box orating. “ We wonder at this girl and yet we like her. ” TEDDY LEORA ANNA HAMPP “Ah, here is ze artiste;” for you know that I.eora is really a budding genius. But her talents are diversified, to say the least, for she signed up with the Art, Nature and Internos clubs while the Tennis, Hockey and Basketball teams welcomed her as a fighting force. Also, she has the honor of being a member of the Junior Fourth Estate. Certainly you remember her marvelous drawings and sketches in the Oracle; they reflect Leora’s colorful imagination, and her delightful, vivid personality. “Art is the expression of one soul talking to another.” LEE JUNE, 1930 25

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HARRIET EMMA KEEYILL Who was never serious? Ask any one who knows Hat and he will immediately pronounce her name. As a freshman, she started right out as an active member of the Varsity Hockey Team. She manifested a tendency toward business when she became treasurer of the Reading and Hv-Y clubs and the Senior Class. As a member of the senate in the Student Council, second consul of the Latin Club, a member of the assembly of the French Club, and as manager of the Basketball Team, Harriet displayed her civic interest. The Internos Club also claimed Hat as one of its members. Hat’s voice gave her a part in the operettas: The Bells of Beaujolais, and Cherry Blossoms. Lovable, adaptable, and attractive—that is Harriet. 44 We like her merry chuckle. ” HAT HARRY LANE KNEEDLER Kneed dashed into Abington and athletics at the same time and bowled every one over with his appetite for football, by which he earned the position of left-end on the All-Scholastic team. Then, too, he was captain of the Basketball Team, and a member of the Baseball and Track teams. Aside from athletics, Kneed demonstrated his writing ability as athletic editor of the Oracle, his exective ability as president of his class, and miscellaneous ability as a member of the Junior Fourth Estate, the Student Council and the Latin Club, and of course his dramatic ability as “Jack Larrabee” in the senior play. Such a lot for one person is hard to imagine, but that’s Kneed, the busy one, with the intriguing blue eyes! 44Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.” KNEED DOROTHY EVELYN MAYLAND When North Glenside Grammar School graduated Dorothy, they did not realize that they were losing some one whose talent for writing might prove to be genius. For that is what we expect any moment. You will find that there has been practically no issue of the Oracle in which Dottie has not featured something extremely worth while. Yet she is really not serving on the Oracle Stall, for she is a very active member of the Abingtonian group. Her clubs are Commercial, Latin, Glee, Science and Junior Fourth Estate. Dottie founded the Pickwick Club, too. Dot showed her dramatic and forensic ability on the Debating Team and on the stage. We can remember no play that was not preceded by a sketch presented by Dot and her co-worker Mary. Rememl)er, Dot, real success is genius plus application. We think you have genius. Can’t you make the other? 44And in her mind the wisest books.” DOTTIE JUNE, 1930 27