Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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Dr, W. Eugene Stull, High School Principal Dear Students: It is with a great amount of pride that I write this brief message to the class of 1957- the first class to be graduated from the new Abington Senior High School. You are to be congratulated for setting a fine example for the many classes to follow, In a sense you are pioneers. You have filled the role admirably and have met successfully the many challenges coming to any pioneering group. My heart- felt thanks are extended to every member of the class for your co-operation. After graduation some of you will go to college, others will go to work, some will marry, while still others will enter the armed services. No matter in which of these groups you find yourselves, please be assured of my sincerest wishes for your success and happiness. W, EUGENE STULL, Principal Mr. Eben Peek, High School Assistant Principal tix 8 Enthusiastic Administration Un All Planes Dr. O. H. English, Superintendent of Schools ls Rcquisitc To Every Good School

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Proved Activities The hypothesis to a successful school year is an understanding administration supported by an interested student body. Our adminis- tration has done a masterful job of giving the new Abington Senior High School a firm foundation. With plans in formulation long before our new home was completed, our transition from Huntingdon Road to Highland Avenue was not without incident but always well organized. It is no less a task to transplant a student body with its traditions and customs than it would be to move the building itself. A major chord of the educational circle brought from the old to the new Abington High is our extra curricular program of formals, established activities, publications, student government, service clubs, vocational and professional interest groups, scholarship and sports honor groups, and musical organizations- all major postulates to our high school life. After the turmoil of moving, these traditions emerged stronger than ever as a living proof of the success of Abington's formula of education. 7

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.9 'N f X rf new Q' X519 ds.,- 'wax ...r Sthool Distric' Authority: Back Row: Percival R. Ricder, Raymond A. Coward, Harold W. Spencer. Dr. llenry lf. um. Front Row: Wesley A. Clem, Dr. lVlillard E. Cladleltcr, William R. Mattson. ln November of l952, the Board of School Directors ol Abington Township and the super- intendent, Dr. O. H. English, authorized a school building report and selected an educational con- sultant to consider the problem of Abington's aging senior high school. Less than four years later a great new building had become a reality- housing some l352 students in surroundings second to none in this part ol the country. School Board, School Authority, superintendent, architect, administration, faculty, and an enthusiastic com- munity had spent eountless hours planning the minutiae of detail that went into so great an undertaking. The result was worth the effort in providing the citizens ol Abington Township with a building admired for its beauty as well as respected for its utility. Abington Township which has accomplished in fact what many townships still have on the draw- ing boards- is a township of the first class with an estimated population ol 48,000 lt is located within six miles ol the city ol Philadelphia and is growing at the rate of four to Five thousand a year. The School District, which is fiscally inde- pendent ol the township government, includes ten elementary schools, three junior highs, one senior high. and employs a stall' ol 585 employees. The total pupil enrollment lor the township is 1690. Board of School Directors: Back Row: Charles W. Smith, William R. Andrews, C. Edward Shmidheiser, Carl D. lledner, Front Row: Hon. Evelyn G. Henzel, Albert C. lVlcCoy, Dr. Iames l . Koehler. 'wx LIE sr Q paw pn...