Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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CUmgJwL JojLunAhip SxJwoL (BocUitL Albert W. Zackey, Pres. E. B. Ayres, Jr., Vice-pres. J. Lewis Fretz E. Wayne Jenkins Wm. H. Holmes, Jr. William S. Armstrong Edward S. Zepp, Treas. Louis C. Metz, Secy. (Non-member) Qua, (paAt: Always looking ahead, Abington High School has led the way in building a better community of educated citizens. In this war emergency, which is testing the quality and strength of every public institution, the high school is a vital center of community activities. Looking into the future and seeing the need for leaders and workers to rebuild our peace-time society, Abington High School is intensifying its efforts to develop the individual powers and ethical character of every boy and girl in the township. Joseph C. Weirick.

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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.

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These are critical days for America. There are those whoi Abington High School wishes to do its part in meeting the, Abington High School looks ahead. From time to time, let us what we are defending and protecting. Let us make sure that of our American ideals. E. stion our way of life, resent challenge. But— e certain that we know s Americans are worthy FGERNERT, Principal.