Eastern High School - Punch and Judy Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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MR CHARLES HART ROGRESS us made through good leadershup and ul us as a result of the capable Gnd ddvoted efforts of Eastern s pruncupal that our hugh school has made such Shady progress un the course of uts growth A foimer graduate humself and teacher of Eastern Hugh School Mr Hart has car rlid dll the good tradutuons of hus school and untroduced addutuonal valuable educa tlblldl flniures whuch have been followed un other Dustruct schools such as the school Mstem Through hus unterest un the value of movung puctures as a modern educational method Eastern was one ofthe first schools to have a film prouector and the Hrst to have complete sound equupment Eastern has also been one ofthe leaders un educatuonal and vocatuonal guudance All phases of school lufe have been of unterest to Mr Hart whuch probably accounts for the fact that Eastern s alumnu organuzatuon has become so large and extraordunaruly loyal a group Endung hus twenty fourth year as pruncnpal of Eastern Hugh School un l942 Mr Hart deservedly receuves the acclaum of thus year s graduatung classes for hus fine servuce as an educatuonal leader for hus promotuon and contrubutuons to East ern s development and success and hus never aulung fruendly unterest un the stu dent hus problems and welfare :ff . , Af- u . u . ' u ' , . . . . v I 0 - I - 1 1 I E1 . , , A :GH -1 . ' - I ' I , . . . - I . . . 1 . . , , . . . . . . I ' I ' , .

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Miss Freda Egbert, who has been our vice-princi- pal since February, 1939, has had a varied career. She came to Eastern on an auspicious day, No- vember l1, 1918, to become a teacher of English and iournalism. The first iournalism class at Eastern, in fact, was taught by Miss Egbert, and she was also faculty adviser to the student publications. Miss Egbert's scholastic and professional train- ing have also been varied, for she has studied at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Har- vard, and American, but finished the work for her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at George Wash- ington. As vice principal Miss Egbert has had the con fidence and interest of the students an ability for which she was well known as o teacher and en abled them to make more successful adlustments and solutions to their social problems as well as to the academic lain, Coming to Eastern as our vice principal in the fall of 1940 Mr Nathaniel Danowsky soon be came a familiar and friendly figure in the halls and activities of the school Educated in the state of Pennsylvania where he obtained both his degrees from Susquehanna Uni versity he taught school in that state a number of years Then during the first World War he entered the Army Air Corps in which he remained a year Following his war service Mr Danowsky re turned to teaching in his native state and later became principal of one of the high schools Previous to his appointment at Eastern as vice principal Mr Danowsky was with the Department of Statistics of the District Board of Education Through his impartial and experienced under standing of students interests and activities Mr Danowsky s counsel and assistance have been of valuable and to the school in the brief time he has been here 7 Miss FREDA D EGBERT MR NATHANIEL DANOWSKY