Brown Preparatory School - Brownian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ADMINI5 FHATIUN

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DEUIEATIU To MISS Valerle Brown ls Dedxcated ThlS Book The Class of 1940 In recognltxon of years of serv1ce as a teacher of young people 1n Phlla delphla who always ma1nta1ns ln her class room the highest scholastlc standards and who ln the subject of Plane Geometry IS not excelled anywhere As a collaborator w1th her brothers Alonzo Brown and George I Brown she assnsted ln developlng the Brown Preparatory School to a state of efficlency that has galned general approval Her retlrement from actne serwce whxch she recently announced at a gather1ng of the Alumm and students w1ll mark a defmxte loss to the School but w1ll be accompanled wlth the best w1shes of those who have been under her mstructlons and those who have been her fellow workers 1 v v 1 ' v - v f 1 v , .

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DR A LYNN MYERS PI'1l'1Clp3l BUILUI G A BIGGER TU IIIHHUW fast year whnle m Florxcla I vlslted St Augustine foulo d ID 1565 the oldest c1tv m the Umted States I went through the oldest house m the Umtcd States It seemed small We bunld hlqger houses today Dur1ng our Chrlstmas holxdays I stopped off m V1rg1n1a long enough to v1s1t amestown Yorktown and Wnlllamsburg places of much hlstorxc mterest Although m W1ll1amsburg the restored olonlal bunldmgs such as the Clpltal the Old Court House the Governor Paxace the Ralexgh Tavern and the V ren Bunldmg of Wxlllam and Mary po tge are fine examples of Colomal Archltecture and furnlshmqs of that tlme yet we bulld much bxgger bulldmgs today and provlde them wxth gadgets and comforts unknown then Are we gomg to bulld a hmgqer tomorrow or has Amerxca seen nts best days7 Wxll It be necessary from novw on for young people to have a pull or drag to get 1obs7 Our entlre h1story shows that mtelllgence and character are the qualltles that brmg succf-ss A young man by the name of Strauss was rejected m college for the athletlc teams because he was too small One evenmc as he sat ln h1s room he made up hls mmd to bulld somethmg blg when he gc out of college A few years ago he was selected to bu1ld the brldge at San Francxsco whose towers are tvto hundred and Hfty feet hlgher than the Washmgton Monument He also buxlt the George Washington brxdge across the Hudson R1ver A German chemlst about thlrty years ago mvented stamless steel but lt remamed for Edward G Budd of Phlladelphla after sxx years of study to glve nt commerclal value Streamlme trams of stamless steel span the pralrles of the West today A new lndustry was born nn Ph1ladelph1a whlch employs fifteen hundred men who were formerly out of work Amerlcan h1story IS full of the development of new xdeas luke the McCor Il'llLl'C reaper of IS34 whxch have created new busmess enterprlses and gxven employment to thousands Thls 1s especxally true nn per1ods of busmess depress tons It ns vsorthwh1le today as ln the past to go through a stlff course of prepar atlon IH school and college to he ready when the opportunlty comes A LINN MYERS Q . . . t .4 , , . . , .f L , i .. . ' 7. . '. .. . I ', ' 1 ,H-' , , . f x' ., . 1 , . ' 1 v . . . . w . s 1 - ' , ' 1 Y . V v . , . . . .1 . , - v . . . , . . . X , . - .V . x . . . v 4 , .