Friends Central School - Record Yearbook (Overbrook, PA)

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ham leave Fraends Central When we weren t readang Davad Copperfaeld and The lhree Musketeers we were busy presentang two very successful plays, The Lady of the l.al4e, and She Stoops to Conquer Qur tenth year sped by, and an thas year we started the much emphasazed Enterprase ln connectaon wath our studaes an thas new system we presented a maraonette show, called The Wanged l-lorse, or Bellerophon fands Adventure -lhas was so good we had to gave at agaan before a group of fraends At the end of the year our class receaved ats farst publac recognataon by mal4ang a daasy chaan for the graduatang class of 35, whach everyone saad was the prettaest one they had had an years However, rumor has at that each sophomore class receaves the same complament, so part of the glory has faded ln the aunaor class, the usual dassensaon arose over the class rangs but was fanally settled to the apparent satasfactaon of a great maaoraty Qur prom, held at the New Aronomanlc, was a bag success, an spate of the fact that we had no few controversaes over plans for at the Barclay, and at turned out to be a grand affaar We safely returned from an educa taonal as well as naghtmarash trap to Washangton on whach l m afraad our land chaperons, Mr and Mrs Crouch, had quate a tame of at To add a couple of more events, both Anne Davason and Polly Young lost thear appendaces thas year l thanlc l maght safely add that the garls who have been connected wath the Nursery School have found at very anter estang and enjoyable And so, at last, we have reached the end of our road and are about to turn onto one much broader and longer than thas has been We have had our day at the top, and l hope have been looked up to, an turn, by the lower classes as we loolced up to the senaors an our younger days My last wash as that the bonds of fraendshap that have been formed here at school between us wall not be brolcen by the separataons whach are to follow an the years to come Mary Elazabeth Cannell BOYS CLASS HISTORY w E have refueled at every stataon untal today we have one of the largest classes er to leave Fraends Central Qur class was founded an the farst grade wath Everett Lord Wood as ats charter member ln the followang year Norman Costello and .laclc Downs sagned up We had plenty to do an those days eat, sleep and play ln the saxth grade we grew to be a rather large class How many of us remember the play company of Costello 84 Co and ats arch raval, Clarlc 84 Sons, who presented weelcly thrallers for the eraaoyment of everyone? l-low can one forget the antacs of Jaclc Culver as he Fell over baclcwards, whach he dad at least a dozen tames a day, or has radao set whach he brought to school . . . . I , Qur senior year has been very successful and eventful. We held our Senior Prom at Y

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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

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Ahl The big leap Seventh grade at last, only six more years We met the upper school teachers and accustomed ourselves to the various new tasks before us We then proceeded to get ourselves a reputation, which we cherish to this day that of being the noisiest class in the school This fact combined with the fact that we have a rather large class, makes a constant threat to tranquil atmosphere Clarence DeArmond left us in the seventh grade only to rejoin us in the junior year As the year drew to a close we gave the operetta, George Washington Eighth grade' Several new boys joined us l.eewood Qgden, Ernest Essig and George Muellerschoen Mr Crouch was our homeroom teacher as well as math instructor Boyl Did he tell jokes' l-low many of us remember Maynard Clark and Evan Boden s attempt to break each others tardiness record Maynard won, he couldnt get here more than five days straight without being late His pet excuse was the car wouldnt run any faster Ernest Essig was always a great attraction Since his parents were in the bakery business he often supplied cakes for everyone As we had several stamp col lectors in the class, Mr Crouch proved to be a drawing card also Spring fever, and then June, and another year drew to a close Qnly four more years to go Ninth grade was a great year for us Dick Stoll and all his germs and uncles joined our staff as did Sam Fields Paul Mory Bud Kohler and Henry f-lallowell Mr Gracey was our English teacher with Mr Crouch as homeroom teacher again Mr Gracey was the only man who ever successfully put a stopper on answer Seventy five words to be copied from the dictionary with full meanings Johnny Lawrence was a great big fellow and every time he moved his body the floor and chairs protested loudly along with all sorts of sighs and ah h hs coming from Johnny The results were inevitable and he joined the club At one time he had three hundred and seventy five words to write Unfortunately, John moved to Reading Penna , and we also lost George Muellerschoen through the death of his father We were sorry to see them go We are now second mates only three more steps to make Again we take on a load of passengers Sam Publicker, Frank Andrews, Watson Supplee, Bill Monroe, Ben Statzell and George Moose McGinley Several of our group felt sufficiently grown up to attend the Senior Prom Were we really growing up? What was to happen to us in the future? Ed Lambrect tried to answer this question by reading Ten Days on the Moon and other ten cent thrillers As fast as they appeared they were confiscated, but to no avail l-lis supply seemed inexhaustible thats the real reason that the Union News Company is still in business today This year was the start of the finish, marks were to count for college credit this year, and there was some evidences that people were going to college We are juniors' Clarence DeArmond, Ed Markel Jack Bye and Walt Kahler joined us, Clarence for the second time This business of being a junior had its worries and lots of them, but Ed Markel shouldered them immediately and because of his fine work . . . . I . , .. , , , I I our noise. l-low did he do it? l will tell you: the seventy-five-word club was the 1 . n . . i ' a . . h I . .