Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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CLASS Mackie Wunderle Mary Niblock Allen Okamoto John Donahue OF JUNE, 1937 CLASS OFFICERS Victor Koenig President Mackie Wunderle........Vice-President Mary Niblock.................Secretary Allen Okamoto .............. Treasurer John Donahue Athletic Representative CLASS MOTTO Count that day lost Whose low descending sun Views from thy hand No worthy action done. CLASS COLORS Blue and Silver W. H. ALBRIGHT Sponsor CLASS FLOWERS White Rose and Forget-me-not VICTOR KOENIG President SPONSOR’S MESSAGE To the June Class of 1937: It is up to the June class of 1937 to help to prove to the parents and other taxpayers of Abington Township that the money spent for school purposes pays large dividends. It is expected that each graduate of Abington High School has learned how to work as well as how to use profitably an ever increasing amount of leisure time. Abington has a right to expect that her graduates become good citizens, rendering service in the community; for from those to whom much is given, much is expected.

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LAURA M. VANDEGRIFT Speaking of crowded hours! LAURA was a member of Student Council, Hi-Y, and Junior Fourth Estate, Abingtonian typist, feminine lead in Anybody's Game, and class hockey and basketball player. Commencement speaker, she won commercial honors. LILLIAN M. WESSELS LIL won her monogram for swimming, played class hockey and basketball, and is an expert dancer. Etiquette, Commercial, and Dramatic clubs attracted her, and she started her business career by soliciting ads. JEAN M. WEICHARDT REDS showed her dramatic ability as Lulu in Anybody's Game. Interested in dancing, graceful JEAN joined the Modern Dancing, Dramatic, Etiquette, and Style clubs. She hopes to have a stage or screen career. E. CLYDE WRIGHT CLYDE never missed a day of high school and even went on Saturday to the Temple Convention. Actor in Anybody's Game, vice-president of the Current Events Club, he loves two sports, baseball and arguing. RICHARD H. YOUNG DICK was too busy to miss a day. Besides singing in the minstrel and operettas, and belonging to the Dramatic Club, Hi-Y, and band, he wrote sports for Abingtonian and Yearbook and played basketball, tennis, baseball, and football. 24 .

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DECIES I. ADAMS Ambitious to become a New York social worker, DEETS belonged to the Red Cross Club for two years. She displayed her dramatic and musical talents in ''39 East'' and A Cappella Choir. MERRITT D. ALDRICH PICKLES from Lans-dale has been with us only two years but has become number one handy man, with active interests in music and radio and engineering ambitions. EDRA M. ALLANSON EDDIE, letter athlete in hockey and swimming, has demonstrated her musical ability in Glee Club, A Cappella Choir, and three operettas, besides playing Madame de Mailly in 39 East. She rated second in the Intelligence Test. EMMA M. ALLEN PETE played class hockey her first two years, and has been a member of Etiquette, Travel, Typing, and Style Clubs. With philosophy as her hobby, she still hopes to be an actress. I. GORDON AMBLER GUNNEY, a letterman in football, was three times Student Council representative, Pan-American delegate, and Hi-Y member. His irresistible tenor voice will be remembered in the Sunny Southland Minstrel. WILLIAM K. APPLEGATE APPLES, an outdoor man with traveling and hunting as his hobbies, earned monograms in wrestling and football. He was a member of the Campus, Etiquette, Life Saving, and Hi-Y clubs. E. MARGARET ASURE PEGGIE participated in several operettas, Christmas programs, and other musical activities. She was a member of the Student Council, Girls' Hi-Y, hockey squad, and Abingtonian staff. PAUL A. ASURE Sportsman PAUL, letter-man in football and wrestling, was officer in the Local History, Clay Modeling, and Etiquette clubs, and a member of the Hi-Y. Ardent hunter and fisherman, he will study forestry at Penn State. FREDERICK F. BLACK BUS, Abington's future electrician, was a member of the Band and Dramatic Club. His spare time is devoted to nature in the wild and woolly woods of Ardsley. JANE BOBB Glee Club, A Cappella Choir, and Dramatic Club appreciated JANIE' S voice, which she also' used to advantage in debating and operetta work. Captain of the junior class hockeyists, she delights in hunting and swimming.