Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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THE FACULTY

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The Yearbook Staff Editors-in-chief Edward Gillingham Walton Coates Barbara Hesse Edward Coyle Assistant Editors Mary Kneedler Calvin Bliss Albert Postle Elsie Rau Dorothy Dill Associate Editors Susan Simone Lois Graham Alberta Lang Frank Cantwell Robert Priest Gladys Smith Marian Killeen Frances Celline Vincent Ceneviva Dorothy Warr Margaret Molloy Elsie Koehler Thomas Goldkamp Eliese Funke Committee Marion Williams Betty Bradbury Barbara Knowlton Robert Brownlee Charles Drebes Mary Jane Chapman Robert Freeston Norman Reeves Carl Franck Jack Mills June Fite Robert Coxon Mildred Kenyon Anne Colsher Harry Marcy Grace Fultz Jack Malloryt Elsie Yost Helen Henry Frederick Turner 3

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Block by Robert Priest, 31 . The Little Log School House Land of the fertile valleys And hill-tops green in the sunshine, Home of the flowing rivers That make the factories go— Long ago he bought you And called you Pennsylvania— Long ago he walked here When first the spirit whispered; And he harkened to the calling And planted a tiny acorn, The seed of a cherished dream. For he opened the little log school-house To the children who cried out for freedom; And the acorn grew and sprouted While he planned and prayed and hoped for The school beautiful in the forest. The storms had sought to uproot it— That sapling green on the hill-side— And the wind sought but to strip off The tiny boughs and the leaves. It bent like a reed to the tempest, It suffered a deep humiliation, But it never once snapped or was broken Though the wind tore round its tree trunk. One century has jxissed — two centuries And more, but the oak stands firmly, So many its roots as the branches That it rears to the glorious sky; So many its own little acorns As the water-drops in the vast ocean: From one tiny acorn—from one little school-house Built in the land of the valleys and rivers, Nourished by God icho had sent the dream-vision For the children who longed to be free. Alberta E. Lang, '34. 5