Benjamin Franklin High School - Electron Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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F ORE WORD 46For though the American youth are allowed not to want capacity; yet the best capacities require cultivation, it being truly with them, as with the best ground, which unless well tilled and sowed with profitable seed, produces only ranker weeds. That we may obtain the advantages arising from an increase of knowledge, and prevent as much as may be the mischievous consequences that would attend a gen- eral ignorance among us The idea of what is true merit should also be of- ten presented to youth, ex- plained and impressed on their minds, as consisting in an inclination joined with an ability to serve mankind, one,s country, friends and family; which ability is to be acquired or greatly increased by true learning; and should indeed be the great aim and end of all learning? Excerpt from, Poor Richanfs Almanac. tProposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsyl- vania, 1749J

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' mm:f 1: V EIVAng 1963 ALMANAC ALMA MATER Sing we of Franklin Marching together School of our very soul; Onward we gladly go Integrity thy pride, honor, thy goal. Loving our noble school Long may thy colors wave Fearing no foe. Borne by the true and brave, Loyal to Franklin High Praise we the blue and gold Thus may we live and die Through years untold. Faithful to blue and gold Through years untold. Ini'l-lt w m , glx e BEN J AMI N F RAN KLI N H 1 GH SCHOOL PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

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TABLE OF C 0N TEN T S Principalis M essage V ice Principalis Message Faculty Seniors Senior Farewell Sports Clubs Activities Class Will J x2