Avalon High School - Annual Yearbook (Avalon, PA)

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I Leaders and Teachers of Youn America I g I AVING one objective in mind, two seniors, www h Niuwvwgmu l, a girl and a boy, re-entered the Avalon .- X p . I S11-:i.x.A I.. CfXRlDPIN, A.B. l lfng lzlrh , I I I e.,'lb K ,HHN L, Wrzicnm., BS., M.Eil.l Ilrirlivzy I l'fx.sli-1 Nm B S IN I I I I I Eva llooviin, ILS. ling hlrh lmm R. In-TAN, A.B., M.l'Id. Hiirlury Ill-ILl'1Nci. Wm!-:LnoN, A.B., IVLA. lflryllirh a ri ri Hzirlnry High School lxuilding. It was the day after graduation, and they had returned to pay one last visit with each teacher, everyone of which had acted as guide and example in their development in learning, living, and citizenship. First they sighted one of their special favorites, Miss Carden. It was she who in their junior and senior years had taught them correct usage, literature through the centuries, and the private lives of tiamous authors. They next called on Miss Hoover with whom they discussed the study guides and 41 iI1l'l1iI'lll7ll7lt'l' .V11ql1l'.v Dream, which they had enjoyed in junior high. Under her influence the two visitors had hecome inti- mate liriends with Iohn Greenleaf Xvhittier. Clusters of papers, news magazines, and pictures ot famous Americans alliorded a familiar sight to Mr. VVeichel's students. ln these sur- roundings sociology and history had lmeen studied. Interested pupils took active part in Mi'. Weichel's P. D. discussions through panel pro- grams and curiously awaited the results ot' their personality analysis. Next door to room 15, Mr. Dean welcomed his former learners. The three tallied ol' the differences lwetween Napoleon's regime and the deomcratic methods in this nation. The discussion got so lively that time was nearly forgotten, hut not quite. Vowing not to forget their European history, they bade goodlmye and proceeded on to Nlrs. Gilling's room. llere they recalled why her civics classes had lreen so attractive. On a tahle in a conspic- uous corner stood many home-made projects which had lmeen made for extra credit. Smiling Miss Wliielclcmli was the next on the seniors' visiting list. She was in the midst ol' reading the 1940 flvalun 11Ill1lllIl, hut was eager to renew old acquaintances. They recalled her teachings and democratic attitude in English and history gatherings. Languages had always lmeen fascinating. They felt, too, that these studies helped to luring an understanding among foreign neighbors. As Miss Plympton cheerily greeted her anciens eleves, memories returned of much-too-short hours spent in singing French songs and reading t14l

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