Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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(DsjdkcdtiofL. To the spirit of American youth . . . that invincible will of a generation called upon to preserve democracy throughout the world, to those who are giving today their services—their lives if need be, to those who are preparing to offer themselves in the future that America may survive as a government and a people truly free— we, the seniors of 1942, dedicate our Yearbook.

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CL 3tsboud h. U)tw LLooksucL CUwclcL 7wENTY-FOUR years ago, a small country schoolhouse, nestled on the slopes of Abington, and its student body of a hundred boys and girls awaited eagerly for their new principal, summoned from a distant Pennsylvania county by Superintendent Edward S. Ling, to take up his duties in the York Road area's fastest growing high school. That man who came to Abington more than two decades ago was Joseph C. Weirick. His untiring efforts as principal in the ensuing years transformed that little rural high school into one of the largest and most highly respected educational institutions in the Philadelphia suburbs. Since Mr. Weirick took over the township superintendency in 1934, on Mr. Ling's retirement, his three most noteworthy accomplishments have been the building of the modernly equipped vocational shops at Abington, the change to a junior high system with a three-year high school, and the construction of the $200,000 gymnasium. As he has molded buildings into fine institutions, so he has helped to shape the characters of the thousands of children in the Abington schools. This year in June, a tired man, weakened by ill health, Mr. Weirick finishes his educational work here and retires to the leisure and rest he has so well earned. A shrewd American philosopher, Emerson, has truly said, He is great who confers the most benefits. Abington township will for years to come reap the rewards of Joseph C. Weirick's wise planning for the future.