Doylestown High School - Torch Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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Norristown, Pa., May 6, 1942. Miss MARGARET BRUNNER, Doylestown High School, Doylestown, Pa., DEAR EDITOR: As you probably know, the first issue of the Doylestown High School Torch was published a little over twenty-five years ago. I have a copy of that issue before me now, and with it several of the more recent issues. It is indeed pleasing to see what a fine publication has grown out of our first efforts back in December, 1916, and it seems to me that the hard conscientious work which the editorial staff and business managers gave to those first numbers must have been equalled or bettered by each of the other boards since that time. Margaret Mead, Emma Hartranft, Earl Fell, Dorothy Sholler, Robert Radcliffe, Iohn Rosenberger, Frank Worthington, Foster Fell, and George Leattor worked with me on that first Editorial Staff and we were advised and aided by Dr. Carmon Ross and other teachers. Although the staff is widely scattered now and we seldom see each other, I shall take the liberty of speaking for all of them, and express our best wishes for the success, of you, your editorial staff, and your faculty advisers, and for the continued successful growth of the Torch of Doylestown High School. Sincerely yours, HOWARD WORTHINGTON, '17 fFirst editor of The Torchl will v- X51 Vim

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PREFACE HE 1942 TORCH is an anniversary number, for this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first graduating class of Doylestown High School. In the pages that follow an attempt has been made to present not only a complete record of the senior class but also a summation of the clubs and activities of the school during these years. The lay-out of the book is somewhat different from previous Doylestown annuals in that the arrangement of material is more like a real book. The contents are divided into five books and these in turn into chapters. The type selected is light face to conform with the style of the book. The art work for the dividers symbolizes the early activities of the school. Credit is given to the School Press Review, a monthly magazine published by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, for the idea, and to our printer, engraver, and photographer for their cooperation in helping us to develop this idea. If there are any mistakes or omissions, the editor asks the reader to overlook them, for there never was a perfect yearbook. 7

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