Friends Central School - Record Yearbook (Overbrook, PA)

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talces and shortcomIngs of yesterday and use our experIence and traInIng IN burldrng lor tomorrow l-lere at l:rIends Central we have receIved excellent traInIng and guIdance through out our school lIle, and for thIs we oller our srncere apprecIatIon to Dr Jones and the faculty We are also sIncerely grateful to our parents for SIVIHQ us the opportunity of comIng here Today we dISbdUd as a class, henceforth we shall be lcnown as IndIvIduals Many of us wIll enter other InstItutIons of learnlng Qthers of us wIll hnd posItIons In the busIness world and wIll turn to the tasl4 of earnIng a lIvIng But wherever we are, whatever we do, we are now IndIvIduals recognrzed lor our own merrts and accomplIsh ments Never have we had greater need of character of VISION of courage and lauth In ourselves Qur country IS young and It, lrlce ourselves, IS startlng on a new era ID whlch It hnds Itself compelled to change many of ItS customs and Instrtutrons It has a future of lf1l:l nrtely greater possIbIlItIes than those of whlch any past age has ever dreamed lts prob VISION to bulld a natIon free from the defects of the past Every one of us has a character, and each character IS dIFlerent from all others Part of our character IS born In us, the rest IS developed through traInIng and experIence as we pass through llle Qur character IS deep wIthIn us and IS the controlllng force of our IVCS lt dICtdtZS every Important decIsIon we malce and on It depends our success or laIlure, our happrness or unhapprness l-lere at Frrendsl Central, ID the classrooms, In our socIal actIvItIes, through contacts wIth the faculty and our lrrends, and on the athletrc lIelds, our characters have been carefully molded Into what they are today As we go on through lIle our characters wIll contrnue to grow, and now we alone are responsIble lor theIr development ID a manner whIch wIll malce us more desIrable men and women We are sorry to leave l:rIends Central and ItS CDVIVODS It has been a most Important lactor ID the shaprng ol our lIves, and happy memorIes of the school wIll remaIn wIth us always We hope that the Splflt ol our class wIll contrnue to lIve, and that as tIme goes on we shall come baclc here as dlUmUI But now we must peer Into the future wIth fervent expectatIon and awart wIth eagerness what lIle has to otler Edwrn Marlcel ' I I I . . lems are a challenge to us. Qur country needs men and women with character and with

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G RLS HISTORY AY baclc un T996 Fruends Central moved out to Qverbroolc and un uts furst Second Grade un the new locatuon were some of the members of the present class of 37 These orugunals were Louuse Jones, .lane Compton, Mary Eluza beth Cannell and Ruth Massey, who entered un the second half of the year As tume marched on, our class uncreased un number, some members dropped by the waysude tus true, but even more became permanent, so that today there are quute a few of us who can exchange tales of those Lower School Days We had a great deal of experuence un dramatucs un the Lower School It seemed that every subject we studued un hustory had to be portrayed on the stage un our efforts to further our actung ambutuons We gave plays concernung Wulluam Penn the Vulongs the Greeks, the Induans, and the Spanush, to mentuon a few Everyone who was luclcy enough to be a member of our Fufth Grade, remembers the way un whuch we converted our class room unto a medueval castle a la Kung Arthur, and how proud we were when our be havuor warranted lcnughthood Qur year un suxth grade us referred to as our reugn of terror, but lm afraud our teacher, Muss Wood, got the worst of ut As an example l thunlc we can all remember the day when two of the gurls were loclced un a closet by some of theur playful colleagues Thus dreadful crume was commutted just before french class and we created quute a stur by crawlung between the walls and tappung on the wrong sude of the blackboard We celebrated our graduatuon from the Lower School wuth a pucnuc un Morrus Parlc Woods It seemed to have been quute a warm day and the creelc proved too much of a temptatuon so we went un wadung Alas and alaclc, Butch Marsh fell completely un and were the gurls embarrassed when he was forced to talce off hus shurtl And then came the Upper School we felt very umportant undeed, when we furst entered the seventh grade, but ut dudn t talce us long to duscover how obscure we really were un the eyes of the upperclassmen, and thus caused us no luttle but of duscomfort We uncreased our class that year wuth Anne Davuson Janet Gray Shurley Smuth Louuse l ee dom, and Connue Loeb The eughth graders gave us a l-lallowe en party and that us how we began to get acquaunted The Senuors especually the football players became our gods and we sumply luved for he least but of attentuon from them We contunued our unterest un dramatucs by guvung the play Luttle Lady Dresden ln the eughth grade our only newcomer was Lucy Chrustman the gurl wuth the flamung loclcs For our homeroom teacher we had Muss Day, who stands out un our munds as a nughtmare un hustory class but swell at other tumes How we dud hate to recute hustory un her classl By the tume we were freshmen, we felt that the home stretch was comung unto vuew We were begunnung to be accepted un the upper curcles we could attend the buweelclys Also, we began to study umportant soundung subjects, such as buology The furst half of the year we had Mr Tobuas, and, though he scared us half to death, we all hated to see I 1 . - ' - . . I l 1 ur , , rr , j ' 1 7 . . ru H ' 1 1 . . . H . H ' . - 1 1 . . 7 . I 1 1 - ' . , I . . ,C D . . L , , . L . , . . . . H . U 1