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

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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

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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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races at Franklin Field, April 28th, 1906, took Hrst place, hnishing ahead of De Lancey, Penn Charter and Episcopal. Thus our team, for the first time in three years, won the champion- ship, secured cups for themselves, and one more banner for the old school. In base ball, cricket and track athletics our class has done equally good work this year, and reflected credit upon the school. The base ball game with the Episcopal Academy was certainly a notable one, in which our team came off victorious after ten innings, the score being I3 to 12. The Belfry Club in February made quite a hit in the play entitled, f'The Prince and the Pauper, with one of our members, Charles Riley, playing the principal role, and acting the part of both the Prince and the Pauper with great credit to himself, his class, and the school. It was the first time a melodrama had been attempted, and it proved a great success as a dramatic production. The receipts from the play were divided between the German- town Hospital and the Athletic Association ol the Academy. Thus, as your historian, I have tried to narrate to you, fellow members, the facts that have occurred in our class at old G. A. To- night wensever our relations with the school, and go out from under the watchful care of Professor Kershaw, ever remindful of his per- sonal interest, patient consideration, and con- tinuous efforts in the welfare of each one of us. And now in conclusion let me say, that while the history of the Class of 'o6 of German- town Aeademy, as an organization, has termi-- nated, there will be many facts yet to be writ- ten of the future of each and every member of this class-individual efforts and achieve- ments in college, as well as success in profes- sional and business life-all of which will be a part of our Germantown Academy class his- tory. For without the early sowing of the seed of knowledge in our minds and its care- ful nourishing by Professor Kershaw and his assistants, not one of us would be as capablf'