Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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9 Walter H. Albright Mathematics Helen P. Briggs Librarian E. A. Brunner Mathematics George E. Dorothy Cathell Helen M. Clark Burlington English Social Studies Science Virginia Dale English George F. Erb A. Donald Frantz M at hematics Com m ercial Science J. S. Furniss Paul T. Gantt George G. Gessner Commercial French Mathematics Social Studies Gertrude E. Herzog Physical Education Sarah V. Kline English J. Ira Kkeider Social Studies THE FACULTY YEARBOOK

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THE PRINCIPAL HEN EUGENE B. GERNERT succeeded Joseph C. Weirick as principal of Abington High School, in December. 1934. he came not as a stranger but as a friend. Mr. Gernert had headed the mathematics department in Abington from 1920 to 1930, perhaps during the school’s period of greatest advancement. He had watched it develop from a small rural institution of a few hundred pupils to one of the finest high schools in suburban Philadelphia, indeed, in the whole of Pennsylvania. He had sent forth a continuous stream of students who distinguished themselves and Abington both in college and in life. Mr. Gernert had left Abington to become principal of Steelton High School and. later, assistant superintendent of the Steelton public schools. Abington remembered this worthy son and called him back to continue in a higher capacity the work he bad laid aside four years earlier. Mr. Gernert is a man of broad vision. He believes in athletics, clubs, school publications, music, art. He himself was an expert tennis coach and orchestra leader during his teaching years at Abington. He makes it possible for Abington teachers and students to contact national leaders in thought and action. Abington placed confidence in Mr. Gernert. He has not failed in this trust. He is maintaining the Abington ideals of scholarship, discipline, responsibility, character. He is spurring the students to new levels of achievement. He is blazing a trail of courage, ambition, perseverance, and kindness in the hearts of those who have the pleasure of knowing him and working with him. 8 THE ORACLE

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THE FACULTY David E. Kruger Elmer A. Lissfelt Catharine E. Commercial Social Studies Lobach Latin Pauline H. Manifold Household Arts Frank McClean Manual Training M. B. Messincer Science Hi tii E. Messincer Art Katharine Miller English Pauline E. Nunn Home Economics Carroll O’Brien Music Earnest A. Rauch Science Lilian J. Reichard French Spanish Ralph R. Ricker English Roland C. Ritchie Science Social Studies 10 THE ORACLE