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

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. -'yeh N I f -sr H - - L i32 ? - ' i- E H :fra 'f 'lvr l '!3'5 was 1 P.. v 4LA+++L.4L4...4-ALA There is one thing which we should remember: the greatest reason for which we venerate Dr. Kershaw is because he has devoted his life unselfishly to the service of others. If men would go down in history as men whose lives have advanced civilization, they must lose sight of their individual interest in service. Tomorrow our good-bys must be said. The point at which our lives branch out into different channels will have come. With the exception of our class prophets, we are not endowed with the ability to look into the future. Although our ambi- tions lie in different directions, we all wish to make good. In all our striving let us remember that our success does not consist in material things. By constructive work and humble service we may attain the greatest happiness. Our school has done its best 5 it is for us to carry on. As Roosevelt said in his inaugural address: We are the heirs of the ages. Under such conditions it would be our own fault if we failedg and the success which we have had in the past, the success which we confi- dently believe the future will bring, should cause us no feeling of vainglory, but rather a deep and abiding realization of all which life has offered usg andea full acknowledgement of the responsibility which is ours. Fellow Classmates, the time has come when we must part. We must bear on our own shoulders the responsibility of the future. May we ever be a credit to our Alma Mater! Good-bye and Good Luckl vVIl.LIAM KINCAID NEWMAN. ' Green Tree Tavem, Built in 174-8. This tavern was conducted by David Pastorius, the most influential leader of early Germantown. 4-7

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1 'J 'Z' ily tr ll l +1-4-+4-ALJALJL4-+4A W' 'QNX' I it Valedictory 4' , 5 I Whig l E HAVE come together this evening for our last social function as a class. As you have already guessed from the previous speeches, we part tomorrow :I and begin another lap of the course of life. There is a certain lens about which we have learned in Physics. This lens has the property of taking a number of rays of light which come from points some distance away and Wi fi bringing them nearer together. Beyond this they begin to diverge and to grow farther apart. Some may be again brought together by the use of other lenses. Fellow Classmates, Ladies and Gentlemen: A QGAVDF M is' Life may be compared to a great many lenses. Each human soul is a ray of light. Our class represents a number of rays. VVe have been born in various homes in various places. The school has been the first great-lens. It has brought us together for our preliminary and elementary education. Some came a number of years ago, others more recently. Tomorrow we separate. Our preliminary work is completed. Small groups of us will once more be brought into contact in college life, and later on in business or in professional work. Although there are many preparatory schools in the world, I think that there are few students who have had the advantage of passing through a school like ours. Many schools excel us from the standpoint of equipment and material things, but there are none, in this country at least, which can look back upon so many historic events, or can remember so many characters of renown, or which can recall so many years of patient endeavor to bring forward generations of boys well qualified to take leading positions in the community. The school will forever stand as a monument to the settlers of Germantown, their sturdiness, their industry, and their desire for educational advantages for their children. It has been hallowed by Washington and Lafayette. It remains for us to strive to bring more honor to its name. In our simile of the lens we must not forget for one moment the hands which have guided that lens. To Mr. Osbourn, who has successfully piloted us through the years of our school life, we owe a debt of gratitude. No less thanks do we owe to the faculty by whose persistent efforts we are at last ready to graduate. VVe cannot thank them Withdripping eyes for the whippings with cat-o'-nine-tails by which the Valedictorians of years gone by were wont to assert that their char- acters had been moulded, and by which learning had been instilled into them. We do, however, begin to realize that the hours after school which we have passed, and that the stiff homework assignments through which we have plodded, have helped us to the desired goal. Nothing is so pleasant, in retrospect, as work accom- plished. To Dr. Kershaw, the class owes a tribute far beyond my humble power to set forth. His life of service has been an inspiration to every boy who has been educated within our historic walls. We shall always carry a loving memory of him with us. - 4-6

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A +4+++L4Le+t.e . 'Prophecy Prophet: CHARLES S. TRUITT Associates: WILLIAM A. CRAVEN, JR., CHARLES MCC. Mounts Ladies and Gentlemen: .A ',e-, ,f NEED not waste time in impressing upon this intelligent and august lr, i N 'ni -,iii gathering fperhaps I should say June gatheringj, the vast advances ,that , T l have been made in the Held of science. Of all these, however, I am sure I i that none can compare with those made in connection with the machine gh- 7ii,,l which I and my associate prophets have arranged to borrow for this occa- sion from the American Television Corporation unlimitedj, of New York, and Egg Harbor. Indeed, so progressive are the methods of this company that by means of this machine I can speak with each of my classmates as he will be twenty-five years from now, and as I speak to him, you will see thrown upon this screen a picture of him as he will look at that time. The following is an outline of the information thus secured: First is Foster. Ben is a bronzed and hardy explorer in Florida but he has become rather more corpulent. - Sid Woody is a mountain climber, and has grown a beautiful, long white beard. Dutch Snyder we see as the player of a large horn in a German band. Bill Raynor never returned from Europe after he went in '27 and is now a gondolier in Venice. Miller is the great American Shakespeare. Skirm is a hustling transportation man with a two-wheeled cart and four oxen. Richards is still at his riding and now wins all the prizes in the Western contests. Stier went to Spain and now lives there with his wife, a lovely Spanish girl. Henkles is a mellow-voiced radio announcer. Newman has become a senator and is still fighting Philippine independence. I-loft, our' class president, has gained the additional honor of .being elected President of the United States. 4. Friebely is now a teacher of Cicero and is taking Mr. Johnson's place. Lawrence, the basketball star, is now Mayor of Bristol. He ran on the basketball ticket and won by a score of 53 to 41. Achenbach is one of Mr. Hill's fashion models. Berkman owns Monte Carlo. 1 Cooney is an army officer, and is investigating the Philippines for? Senator Newman. ' I Eberbach is a famous inventor who has devised a sea flivver in the form of a 4' mechanical fish. I Ingle has gone to the bad, and is a big, bold Frio-Kid, with many notches on his gun. I Hustead, after sixteen more years at the C. M. T. C. has been promoted to corporal. 48 f M315 if f '