Archmere Academy - Patio Yearbook (Claymont, DE)

 - Class of 1938

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25eJzC..f,'.m To the lohn lakob Raskob Family To Mr. and Mrs. John Jakob Raskob of Centreville, Maryland, and their children-John Jakob, Jr., Helena Mary, Elizabeth Ann, Robert Pierre, Mar- garet Lucy, Josephine Juniata, Nina Barbara, Patsy Virginia, Mary Louise, and Benjaminxwe dedicate the PATIO of 1938. Mr. Raskob is a living example of what America offers to earnest and determined young men in the business world. Mrs. Raskob typiiies the home- loving mother. The large family of thirteen chilf dren, three of whom, William, Inez, and Catharine, are deceased, represent on the maternal side the ninth generation of American citizens. Where it not for this family's exemplary liberality the beautiful estate and home on the Delaware River would not have become the site of a Catholic institu- tion of secondary education. No doubt their thoughts often return to Archmere where they lived for so many years. With sincere gratitude, then, and heartfelt appreciation, we offer the Raskob family this small memento and token of the years 1937-1938 at Archmere Preparatory School.

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CONTENTS DEDICATION .......... ARCHMERE AND DELAWARE HISTORX' THE TEACHING STAFF . . CLASSES . . ACTIVITIES . . . SPORTS . . . . . FEATURES AND ADVERTISEMENTS . . page page page page page Page page 7 8 11 14 27 35 45 THE PATIO 1938



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ARCHMERE AND DELAWARE I-IISTGRY Since very important anniversaries have been celebrated in Delaware during the past school year, it is extremely fitting that we recall and relate their historical significance and at the same time tell the story of the beautiful estate and home which Mr. john 1. Raskob established and which has now become Archmere Preparatory School for Boys. We will draw our material from the Raskob-Green Record Book and encyclopedias. Before the coming of the white man, the fertile and verdant lands of northern Delaware and southern Pennsylvania along the Delaware were the hunting-grounds of the Leni-Lenape Indians. They were of Algonquin stock and their name signifies real men. Evidence of their mode of' life was found in the spring of 1912. At that time a well-preserved arrow head was turned up when excavations were made for the garden. The settlement of Delaware has a very interesting and involved history. A Dutch colony at Lewes Creek in 1631 was a complete failure when the Indians mas- sacred the entire settlement. The Dutch claim to the territory was based on Henry Hudson's voyage of discovery in 1609. Three hundred years ago this June, in 1638, two ships carrying some fifty Swedish emigrants entered Delaware Bay and chose the present site of Wilmington for their new home. The colony was called Nova Suediai' and a Fort Christina, named in honor of their young queen, was built. New Sweden was dominated by the Dutch East India Company and in 1664, along with New Amsterdam Cnow New Yorkb, fell into the hands of the English. For many years the territory of Delaware was claimed both by Lord Baltimore, leader of the Maryland Pilgrims and by William Penn. Mrs. Raskob is a direct descendant of a passenger on Governor Leonard Calvert's ship, the Ark, in 1634. Thomas Greene, the ancestor we speak of, became the second Governor of the Province of Maryland in 1647. Mason and Dixon, the famous surveyors, settled the boundary controversy when they laid the east and south lines of the Three Counties. The Lenape Indians made their first treaty with William Penn at Shackamazon in 1682. His grant of land extended somewhat south of Newcastle, Del. What is today Claymont was originally in Penn's Woods. According to historical documents William Penn's son and grandson, Thomas and William, were his heirs and succes- sors. In 1720 they surveyed the land between Naaman's Creek and the Old Plantation Cnear Holly Gakl, and between the King's Road-the present Lincoln Highway- and the Delaware River. This tract was sold to Joseph Grubb, john Buckley, and Benjamin Moulden. The land assigned to Mr. Grubb and his heirs contained the present Archmere. Turning now to the national scene, we find that Delaware's existence as a sovercicin state, distinct from Pennsylvania, came about by charter on October 28, 1701. Seventy-five years later the state constitution was framed. In the same century the most stirring events in our nation's history was taking place-the Declaration of 8 .

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