Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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NORMAN WESLEY McDERMOND This quiet fellow, who has so faithfully played the violin in the Orchestra, has a good hit of talent hidden behind that exterior of his. Resides being a member of the Nature, Spanish and Science clubs, Norm assists the singing each morning as a member of the Choir. Norm also has a hobby for drawing—in fact, the more you find out about Norman, the more you find there is to find out. Sounds like a riddle, doesn’t it but get acquainted with Norman and you’ll find the answer. “ No speech is so eloquent as that of music. ” MARY JOSEPHINE McNEAL Mary came in with sails flying in 1026, and she hasn’t furled them yet. For she has been busy, what with being a lively member of the Latin, Dramatic, Spanish and Library clubs and furthermore, being present every day for seven and one-half years! Think that over. Mary hopes to be a trained nurse, and we can say at least that her patients w ill never suffer through her absence from duty. She is sure to cheer them up in her happy way. “In her very quietness is charm.” AUBREY BASIL MULLEY “Fore!—look out, Aubrey. That ball almost hit you.” Aubrey, as you might guess, is interested in golf. I le eats it, sleeps it, dreams it, and in fact, wants to be a professional so that he can live it. In 1928, Aubrey was a member of the only golf team Abington ever had. He has also belonged to the Vocational Club for four years. Now that he has been graduated, we wait patiently and expectantly for developments in the golf line. “So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.” AUB BETTY 28 THE ORACLE

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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

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ETHEL MAE NASH Ethel is that little blonde girl with the big blue eyes. Ethel loves to dance and she must include acting in that category for she was very a faithful member of the Dramatic Club. She followed her interest in commercial subjects by joining the Commercial Club. Ethel belonged to the Library Club and helped out in her vacant periods. If you had heard the English class listen to her interesting talks in the Pickwick Club, you would have realized that Ethel is both interesting and attractive in her Dresden China way. “She is pretty to walk with and pleasant to think on. LEHTE ARTHUR CHARLES NEUMANN, JR. Weldon certainly gave Abington something when they handed Ait to us. His cjueer keen sayings make him liked by all. Art toots a mean horn in the band and he makes you sit up and take notice when he plays the saxophone as he did on Class Night. We might here say that Art has his own ideas as to how the “St. Louis Blues” should be played. Naturallv, with all this ability. Art is a prominent member of the Orchestra. The Science. Nature, and Math clubs also claim him. Art’s most famous achievement, however, was the interview which he got with the A’s right after they won the world championship. Art handed the interview to the Oracle but kept the thrill to himself. “.1 laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. TKA ETTA DORIS OBERHOLTZER Four years ago. a walking chuckle came from (ilenside-Weldon Grammar School to Abington. Etta, it seems, had a weakness for plays, for no sooner had she entered than she was in the cast of Seventeen, and during the course of her career, played in the Christmas Surprise and Leave it to Jane. Etta’s popularity and ability are the outstanding characteristics of her high school life. Her clubs, Latin, Debating, Dramatic, French. Interims, and Library, certainly show diversified ability, and she is a charter member of the Junior Fourth Estate. Of course everv one knows also, that she is editor-in-chief of a blue-ribbon Oracle. Etta has proved one of the snappiest rebuttal speakers on the negative debating team, for her charming | er-sonality and emphatic delivery doubled the value of her clever speeches. This is Etta, for she knows w hat she wants, and goes about getting it in the right way. J She that yon soars on Golden Wing, not just in studies but everything. ATTE JUNE, 19 JO 29