Chester High School - Annual Yearbook (Chester, PA)

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12 ANNUAL Class Daji Jlrrsrntrrs Marjorie Black Edith Paxson Henry Ickes Theodore Stein (Hast of ‘'S»i|lota” Sir Hrrtrani Dr Lacey Ralph Pennington Prince Tobbytum Donald Cochran William George Baldt Hob in Walter Dutton Sylvia Edith Paxson Betty Helen Rhodes A ram ini a Anna Orr . 1 rabclla Ethel Dieffenhach Poll y Hesse Howard Molly Marjorie Black Dolly Virginia Montgomery Chorus: Farm lads, farmers’ daughters and haymakers. Members of the Senior Class Class Play Commit fee ('omme ncemc ut ('om m it tee Carolyn Loner. Chairman Esther Nichols Benjamin Riley, Chairman Helen Rhodes Ferdinand Nyemetz Joseph Koury Lillian Ilines Samuel Cochran Marian Harrison Donald Cochran Harold Myers CLASS OF NINETEEN FOURTEEN

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14 ANNUAL IStstnru of the (Class nf l!J14 5 » Ralph Pennington, President Elizabeth Rein hard. Vice President SEPTEMBER. 1910. marked a great epoch in the history of the Chester High School, for then this great institution of learn- ing received beneath its stately portals the great and glorious class of Nineteen Four- teen. What a splendid assemblage of boys and girls, especially girls, that nearer, clearer, dearer heaven of stars. But I must not dwell too long upon this gentle theme; for it is a subject where, like a babbling brook, 1 could “run on forever. These scholastic genii of stellar qualifications were not in school long before they began to make their presence known. As soon as foot- ball season made its appearance, the '14 boys showed themselves to be born lovers of the old pig-skin. In one of tin most gruelling contests in the history of football, these progenies of the gridiron put a crimp in the tail of Nineteen Thirteen by swamping them to the tunc of ‘21-0. This was only practice to our boys, however, who repeated the process of a runaway victory on Nineteen Twelve. Feeling that the rules of etiquette pleaded for a slight recognition in Sara Riley. Score tan Ferdinand Nyembtz, Treasurer seniority of age. we spared the senior class the humiliation of defeat. Soon basket ball season came, and Nineteen Thirteen was anxious to avenge her defeat in this new line of athletics; but the contest that ensued was not a game; it was a tragedy. To our rivals it was a case of non veni. non vidi, non vici, or the Latin equivalent of hard luck. The game finished with the score 23-11 in our favor. Ye gods, what martyrdom ! Besides com- pleting our baseball season creditably, we also enjoyed the distinction of being the only fresh- man class with members that had earned posi- tions on the first baseball, basket ball and foot- ball teams. Our next achievement lay in the conducting of the Flag Day exercises. The program was splendidly arranged, and the selections deliv- ered in that eloquent manner which character- izes the oratorical abilities of the (’lass of Nine- teen Fourteen. But summer was destined to end the first year of our high school career. It brought va- CLASS OF NINETEEN FOURTEEN