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

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-'Lui FRONT VIEWV OF THE ACADEMY, GYMNASIUM AND CAMPUS

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and this can be done only by a firm determina- tion to keep the aim high. The accomplish- ment then will be more candidly appreciated. Humanity is all around us-it is to be bet- tered. The best time the world has ever seen is now, and a better yet is sure to be. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fateg Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Fain would we linger yet a little while, but we must go. To our principal, Dr. Ker- shaw, that dear, kind friend, in whose counsel and large fellowship we have ever held im- portant place, we bid good-bye. There can be no Lest we forget in his case. His kindly courtesy and unfailing anxiety for our wel- fare finds most responsive echoes in our hearts to-night, and memory will not fail to keep alive the bright flame of his refining inliuence. To our faithful teachers also, with their pains- taking zeal in our behalf, we pay our soul- felt tribute as tremblingly, yet fearlessly, we step aside, each to wend his separate way. Classmates: During this last school year we could scarcely wait until its close. Now that it is here, the last time we shall be to- gether in happy comradeship, how tinged with positive regret is the occasion, and how mem- ory lingers over the sunny past. The tumult of the halls in the ivy-covered walls, the dis- tant shout of the football field, the room where we held debate. And as we loiter here for this last hour of fondest farewell, with much of happiness in the background, we must not be unmindful that much of joy still awaits us, hopeful joys in the days that are to come. And may we, the illustrious Class of '06, pass from this bright period of you-thful accom- plishment, into the strength and pride of the glorious achievements of ambitious manhood, to strive with earnest endeavor to fill places in the world, which shall bear a lasting tribute to our dear old school. Farewell one, farewell all. JOSEPH KUEHNLE.

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IVY ORA TIGN Friends, Teachers and Fellow ,S'tzLdeuts.' To-day we are gathered here for the pur- pose of celebrating an occasion which it has been the custom of the school to celebrate for manyyears, namely, to plant the ivy and to reveal to view the class stone. This seems to me, friends, not to be mere form, for the ivy and stone appear to have some symbolic meaning: the class in a way resembles the ivy-it starts out from the one trunk-the school, it divides into several branches-the members of our class in the various paths they are about to enter, and it keeps on dividing, each branch into many others, becoming more and more separated all the time-so will we become more and more separated as our lives go on. But, spread as the ivy may, it is always joined to the old trunk, and may we always be so, classmates, joined fast to the old school by our feeling, and may all of us, for whom it is possible, always keep up the old spirit by at- tending reunions, and may none of us ever forget we are the loyal sons of old German- town Academy. May we also, classmates, resemble, in sev- eral ways, the stone we place in the wall of the old building-may we always cling as close to each other as the molecules of the stone do, and may our love for our Alma Mater be as firmly imbedded in our hearts as the stone is in the wall, And now, friends, hoping that old Ger- mantown Academy will remember our class as long as it shall remember her-which is for- ever-I, in the name of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Six, unveil this stone and plant this ivy. F. WALTER HENTZ.