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

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1 .J 4.4.1 . 14+ +4-ALJ-Leg-1-4 Ladies IH: -ia.: .1 Q Scziutatory and Gentlemen: N behalf of the Class of 1927, I bid you all a hearty welcome on this occa- sion. The exercises tonight mark our final assembling as students of Germantown Academy. We have reached the goal towards which our fondest hopes have been so long directed, in token of which we shall re- 9.6353 .tv 'V' 4 I4, I I'CIl'l3ll'1 ceive tomorrow the treasured diplomas that are the mark and seal of the completion of our school work. VVe shall leave Old G. A. for new and bind us like links of steel in enduring friendship. and diverse fields of action, but the happy memories of our schooldays will always u B future. Suffice our cla other's times t c spirid o explain prologu ll ij If t it is not for me to dwell upon our past achievements or try to glimpse our In those fields our Historian and our Prophets will duly 'enlighten you. it to say that in accordance with the honored traditions of the Academy this, ss night, will be given over in a large measure to good-natured satire at each expense-to mutual mockery, and should our quips and cranks seem at 1 challenge even friendship, be assured that all is said and done in the genial f give and take and in the best of good-fellowship. As Bully Bottom s in Midsummer Night's Dream about the lion among ladies-in this, our e, we will tell you that our lion is no such thing. GEORGE W. HOFT H istory MERSON says that there is properly no history, only biography. In the same vein one may state that the history of the class of 1927 is really a collection of the biographies of its several members-of both leaders and rankers. Our leaders have supplied initiative and inspiration, the rankers i f v Fi of thep Board pattered us-his were b in getti to priz e so highly, were probably quite lost on us, that first eventful day. The dimpled Primar Truitt, say, we 1927, Cherub fledged grade, have supported them with the loyal spirit fostered in old G. A. Such is the team-work necessary for success. rst, a few words about our green and salad days when blissfully ignorant itfalls along the pathway of learning, most of all the giant despair of College Examinations, we crossed the Rubicon--I should say School Lane-and up the time-worn steps of the old Academy building. History in front of tory to the right-history to the left-history everywhere, but dazed as we y our sudden plunge into the mysteries of education and too busy perhaps ng mutually acquainted, these historical associations that afterwards we came cherubs in Buster Browns who thus first met as classmates in the Second y were our poet, Visscher Boyd, Howard Friebly, Nick Richards, Charley Charles Morris, Tom Skirm and your humble historian. These, may I re the Great Hearts in uknicksl' who formed the nucleus of the class of and as you, ladies and gentlemen, direct your critical attention to these same s now seated on the platform, there in all the semi-fitting dignity of full Seniors, you will, I am sure, concede' that it was some nucleus. Those early ssed quickly and happily, and if they were comparatively uneventful, they ost profitable. Under the guidance of our faithful teachers, we made the days pa were m advancing by annual promotion through the intermediate, which then occupied 4-2