Conshohocken High School - Echo Yearbook (Conshohocken, PA)

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10 THE BLUE AND STEEL Looking back on our Junior year it appears we did so much that it is impos- sible to set it all down. It would take a good-sized volume to do justice to that year alone. From the day we entered in September to the day we left in June we were on the go, accomplishing an incred- ible amount of work at an amazing rate of speed and deriving great benefit and enjoyment from it, too. Foremost in the mind of every student who becomes a Junior in C. H. S. is the Junior Prom. Though this is the last social event of the year—the Juniors’ farewell party to the Seniors—work on it is begun very early as much time, labor and money must be spent upon it. With this and other important events in mind we set about organizing our class so as to make of it as closely co-operating a body as possible. First we held a class meeting and chose our officers. The following were elected: John S. Blackburn..........President J. Bradley Elzey......Vice-President Elizabeth Yost.............Secretary Ellwood Bickhart...........Treasurer Emma Ruth. Corresponding Secretary The rest of the class was divided into committees as needed. Thus organized, we began the real work. In previous years the various Junior classes had col- lected the money for their proms in many different ways, mainly a series of pie and cake sales, candy selling, rummage sales and the like, necessitating a great amount of work for all concerned. We, however, devised the plan and by doing so estab- lished the precedent of having a Junior play. Acting on this plan we staged the delightful little comedy entitled “Honor Bright,” affording the townspeople with a fine entertainment and netting ourselves the required money. Moreover, it gave us good practice in dramatics, stage-set- t'ng and the management of our financial affairs. It was a great success in every way and we felt our efforts well repaid. As a result the Prom which we gave at the end of the season was a brilliant affair. All who attended it had a won- derful time and it will linger long in the memory of both classes. Another event which will not soon be forgotten is the program which we held on Junior Day. Each class has set aside for it every year a day on which it takes charge of assem- bly exercises and renders a musical pro- gram. When our Junior Day arrived the school was given a great surprise. In- stead of the usual ordinary method of presenting the musicale, we held a radio program, heightening the novel effect by displaying a real radio set and conducting the entire program behind closed cur- tains. Needless to say, this was also a success and afforded greatest enjoyment to all. At the end of the year we held another new affair—a great Lawn Fete which lasted an entire day. This increased our treasury and gave us an excellent start for our final year. And at last that final year arrived! I wonder if any of us will ever forget the day that we became Seniors. As we entered the old familiar doors, we felt ourselves endowed with new power, great authority and real dignity. Each scene was clouded with the misty haze of mem- ory. As we took the foremost seats in the auditorium for morning assembly we could remember the time when, as lower- classmen we sat in the rear of the great room and wondered how it felt to sit in front; or when as Freshmen, while the auditorium was still under construction, we held our morning exercises in the Gym, with the knees of the person behind boring into our backs and being forced to crane our necks to see what was going on. Every classroom we entered brought forth new memories of happy days passed there. But we could not spend much time dreaming of the past. The present was here, clamoring insistently for our atten- tion, and drawing us immediately into a whirlwind of activity. If we thought we had been busy in our Junior year we completely changed our minds the last year for then it was that we found what work really meant. Leisure was an un- known word. The teachers piled upon us more and more work, fearing that we

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THE BLUE AND STEEL 9 Tap! the outside. I was saved! Then I knew—they were signals from Eleanor G. Caine, ’28. History of the Class of 1928 TH E good men do goes before them. Shakespeare never said that but that’s because he never knew our class. Long before the Class of 1928 entered the portals of the Conshohocken High School the fame of its originality and willingness to help was well known, and although we entered in the approved fashion of Freshmen—excessively green and intensely bashful—our ability was shown the very first year. We scarcely had time to get acquainted with our numerous classmates—there were 108 in all—and to spot the location of our class- rooms, when preparations for the foot- ball season and the annual operetta were started. Immediately the Freshmen of- fered their help, and many being ac- cepted, proved their worth by working hard and giving splendid support to both enterprises. Many also joined the orches- tra and when the other sports came along the same thing happened. Basketball, baseball, and track all had their quota of supporting Freshmen. At one time during the year the Blue and Gold, our school magazine, was in a very precarious state. It looked as though it would have to be discontinued. But as soon as the situation was made known to the school, the Freshmen came to the rescue, forming a volunteer ad squad and turning in all the class notes and stories possible. Thus the Blue and Gold was saved and we have been able to maintain a successful magazine ever since. The year came to a close, final exam- inations were met and conquered and the Class of 1928 completed its first year at high school. Vacation over, we returned in the Fall to again take up the duties of high school students. But though there was no difference outwardly, a subtle change had taken place. No longer were we little Freshies, meekly enduring the taunts or indifference of the upper-class- men. We were Sophomores—a year older, about five times wiser, and at least ten times more dignified. Now we were the Lords and Masters, with the Freshies to obey our every command. Even when we looked up the meaning of the word Sophomore in the dictionary at the re- quest of a Senior we were not very much taken aback. The dictionary might call us “wise fools” but we knew better! Taking stock of our classmates and teachers we found a change in both. Some of the teachers had gone and others had taken their places, while a number of our classmates had either been trans- ferred to other schools or had left for good. Still we were a large class and a number of rooms were needed to hold us all. We greeted old friends and new and then settled down to work in earnest. Again the operetta, the orchestra, and the different sports were staunchly supported by members of the Class of 1928. This year, too, there was an essay con- test on the lives of different composers. Members of every class in the High School entered it but I am very glad to say that it was won by a Sophomore. Another high spot of the year was the event of the orchestra’s first broadcasting over the radio. Here the Sophomores not only played with the others but rendered many fine solos, both vocal and instru- mental, and if we are to judge by the fifty odd telegrams we received, the con- cert was a huge success. Thus the year went by with everyone busily and happily engaged in school work and play. All too soon our Sopho- more year was over and our second vaca- tion arrived.

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THE BLUE AND STEEL 11 might miss something before we were gone, and yet with all that we managed to stage a Senior Play called “The Patsy,” which was successful financially as well as dramatically, and also to carry the Blue and Gold through a highly suc- cessful season. A number of our class- mates helped win the Montgomery County Championship in basketball. The debating society, which had a clean list of victories to its credit, was almost en- tirely composed of Seniors and many also entered the Oratorical Contest. This year our officers were: John S. Blackburn...........President J. B rad ley Elzey....Vice-Presiden t Dorothy E. Lobb.............Secretary Ellwood Bickhart............Treasurer Gladys Campbell. . . Corres. Secretary There was but one drawback to this glorious year. As each great event was successfully put over we paused to re- member sadly that it was for the last time. The last time we would hold de- bates, the last time we would stage a play, the last time we would support ath- letic teams and so on. Each event, how- ever successful, was tinged with a little sadness. But we did not have time for sadness and we plunged into a whirl of preparations for Class Day and Com- mencement. These completed, final ex- aminations arrived, were passed and then suddenly, abruptly, as when one jams down the brake of a speeding automobile, we stopped, and realized that all was over. Four years of High School, so long as we lived them, so short as we look back upon them! Only our trip to Wash- ington is still to come. But now, with the great unknown future stretching before us, with pitfalls and snares awaiting us, we shall always keep alive within us the memory of our happy high school days and the dear Alma Mater wherein they were spent. Helen R. Gabin, ’28. Last Will and Testament BE it remembered that we, the Class of 1928 of the Conshohocken High School, of the Borough of Con- shohocken, in the state of Pennsylvania, being of sound mind, memory and under- standing, do make, publish and declare this to be our last Will and Testament; hereby making void all former wills or promises carelessly made or spoken. We make it in number and form following, that is to say: We do bequeath to the faculty all the amazing knowledge and startling infor- mation that we have furnished them from time to time in our various examination papers. We give and bequeath the Blue and Gold Staff all the events of our lives, past, present and to come, with all won- ders, sensations, hairbreadth escapes, glorious attainments, and other desired or undesired notoriety and fame with which we may have been or may here- after be associated, trusting that they may furnish plenty of material for new items and brilliant editorials for ages yet to come and serve as inspiration for those younger students who so naturally look to us for examples. The following may seem but trifling bequests, but we hope that they may be accepted, not as worthless things lavishly thrown away because we can no longer keep them, but as valuable assets to those who may receive them and continual re- minders of the generosity of heart dis- played in our free and full bestowal. We do hereby bequeath unto Alverda Metz, Clara DeDeo’s ability as a typist; may Alverda win honors in typing as