Germantown Academy - Ye Primer Yearbook (Fort Washington, PA)

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team of ouidclass competed for a prize cup with the Class of 'o5, and although the younger class, we came olf victorious. This cup we have succeeded in holding every year from then until now. Promoted with honors at the close of the year, we found ourselves in the lfifth Form Academic. For the first time we now entered into the realms presided over by Miss Xlfilson, where we soon became accus- tomed to the command Class ready, workf' and by which we always knew an examination was coming. W'e were joined in this class by Pete Spaulding and Edwin Campbell. Here we also made the acquaintance of Mr. Deacon. This year we procured class pins, and though we recognized Mr. Deacon's ability as a mathematician to solve almost any problem, we felt sure he could never solve one which might read: Given at any time, a class pin of 'o6. and the name of its owner, find the now present wearer of the pin. Possibly if Mr. Deacon had known some of the young ladies present to-night, he would have been able to find the unknown quantity even of this diffi- cult problem. Another year, with swelled heads, as Miss Wfilson might say, we crossed the hall and be- came Freshmen.,' Mr. Truesdell now took us in hand, and led us along in our college preparatory career. Under his generalship the way was rough, and it is not to be won- dered at, that oftentimes we would steal a ride in the classics in order to get over the ground he daily mapped out for us. Punk Gruhler now joined us, and, as we all know, added great weight to the class. School athletics now attracted our at- tention, and one of our number, Fred Shoe- maker, became a member of the football squad and also a member of the track team of the Academy. Advancing to the Third Form Academic, Raymond Peck and Ed. Ralston, the cowboy from the West, came into the class. Jack Graham also joined us, though the regularity of his atendance, like angels' visitsf' were few and far between. Qccasionally we rushed the freshmen this year, though these rushes were stopped almost before they were begun. In our junior year we welcomed into the

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old Adam in us, and generally wound up in doing wrong. We were proud, however, to belong to this society, and looked forward with great pleasure to the half hour, every Thursday, when Miss London read to us from that highly instructive and entertaining book entitled, Toby Tyler. A Returning from our summer vacation the following September, we found ourselves to be the very highest class in the Primary De- partment. To our boyish minds we were at last of very great importance. There were now four classes under us, each member of which, we felt, was looking up to us as boys greatly to be respected and feared. This year Vlfalter Hentz joined us. Wfith the assistance of Miss Bouten, and under her guidance, we now tackled for the first time the study of Latin, and, though every member of the class then began its study, only six of our number continued to hold to it throughout their course. It was in this year one of our members, Charles Riley, distinguished himself and gave lustre to our class by carrying off the Kimber Memorial Prize. This was a prize given to that boy in the Primary Department who re- ceived an average of loo for deportment throughout the year, and who was the best liked by all his schoolmates. The termination of this year wound up our Primary days in the old Academy. Wie had studied and played together for five long years. Strangers at first, we had grown into friends strong and true. Our minds had matured, and we were now eager and anxious to step on and up into the Academic Department of the school, and begin in earnest our preparation for college life. In September of the year IQOO, more dig- nihed, and beginning to feel the responsibili- ties of upper classmen, we came together once more as a class on the old campus, and Robert Coleman now joined us. This was the begin- ning of our Academic days in the old school, and, though we realized we were now only in its Sixth Porm, we were content to be called no longer the Seniors of the Primary. lfVhile we were in this form we were dis- ciplined and instructed by Miss Bentley, Miss XVatson and Miss Mears. This year the track

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class two new members, Olney Payne and Wilbur Gemini. This year we decided to get new class pins, all of our old ones having strangely disappeared. Superintended by Bill Keefer, after much discussion and various bal- lots on designs, we finally got what we thought to be a very attractive pin, but whether the members of our class or their best girlsv are the owners of these pins to-night, only obser- vation can tell. In March of this year we were initiated into Philo. Wfe then challenged the First Form to a debate, and although we lost, the team representing our class acquitted itself nobly, and with great credit to the class. Passing our preliminary examinations for college successfully, we rested forthe sum- mer, and returned last September to be reck- oned with as the Seniors of the Germantown Academy. W'e had at last reached the height of our schoolboy ambitiong and class-day exer- cises, the planting of the ivy, and graduation day were in sight. Joe Kuehnle now joined us, and we then numbered as a class twenty- four. The first important thing this year of course was football, and although the Acad- emy team was not as successful as in some former years, those of our class who were on the team did good work, and every one of the squad deserves great credit for the plucky game he played. Then came the prize debate, which was won by Joseph Kuehnle, with Olney Payne as second best debater, and honorable men- tion of Joseph Brown and Robert Coleman. This debate was one of the best ever held in the school. On February 16th our Class Dance came off. This social event of the Class of '06 was pronounced by many to have been the best dance ever given by any class in the school, and was greatly enjoyed by every one who was present. The staff of the Academy Monthly, com- posed of members of the Class of 'o6, have well managed the magazine this year, and have kept it up month by month to its usual high standard. The Relay Team of the Academy, made up entirely of members of our class. in the