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

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CLASS WILL E. THE Class of l94l being of sound body and feeble mind hereby make t is our last will and testament on this clay of Freedom of Speech To Dr Osbourn we give our sincerest thanks for all the work that he has done prepare us for college o the Faculty we give our utmost appreciation for their patient endeavors to make something out of us To the school we give the task of continuing the true G A spirit which has thus far been prominent in every Senior Class We also bequeath the following To any member of the Fourth Form who has nerve enough to try it we leave Pete Hodshon s form of driving To the whole unior Class we leave wider front steps so that more of those women haters will be able to enjoy the daily feminine parade To certaln members of the Faculty we bequeath Tom s tool room which the Cellar Club has so kindly donated for their much needed den that of his taciturn friend Mr Basy To all coaches we give bunches of forget me nots and bottles of aspirin tablet To Hyndman and Etris we bequeath the job of being their class s Don uans which was so nobly undertaken in our class by Smyth and Yeager To The Academy Monthly and YE PRIMER Staffs of l94Z we leave the job of being as efficient and prompt as we haven t been To Dr Osbourn we leave our admiration and a prize of a raw beefsteak for the best shiners of the whole year To Keely we leave the task of being Roper s successor as class jitterbug To Dr Moore s famous intelligence group the Class of l943 we leave the Kinder garten s beautiful teaching staff Taking into consideration all chances of a law suit and attempted murder me do hereby affix the Class s seal to this our last will and testament CHARLES LUTKIINS 50 ' . . . ' h. . , ' ' to T v . . . . . , . . - , - .. ,, . . To Mr. Heuer, we leave a sound-proof partition to be erected between his room and - n , . . . . , . Y , Y

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CLASS ORATION ITH the greater part of the ClVlllZCd world m chaos we are forced to reflect upon the causes for thls bloodshed and destructlon Although at fnrst glance we max say that the desire for natural wealth preclpltated the trouble we are not yet satlsfied that thls IS the true answer Must there not be some great fundamental prlnclple 1nvolved3 The answer IS afflrmatlve for a great moral truth has been defied This truth can be t be expressed by the words of our Greatest Educator Who sald Thou Shalt love thy nelghbor If all the natlons of today consulted thls slmple rule for human relationship how could Stflfe such as now CXlStS contlnue3 LOVlHg our fellowman how could we permlt such ruth less and unnecessary loss of thelr l1ves5 Therefore the answer to our problem re ts 1n a greater spmt of understanding and cooperatxon between the natlons of the world l..lVlIlg m such a spmt the natlons leaders would hesxtate to annex forclbly some other unwnllmg people to thelr own but would allay their grlevances through more sane and respectable methods When we read a statement such as Mr Churchlll s m whlch he recently sald The Brltlsh Expedltlonary Force mfllcted casualtles on the Germans that were many trmes the three thousand kllled and wounded suffered by the lmperlal forces we are greatly alarmed at the hardened attltude whlch has become commonplace today Whlle we probably cannot blame Mr Churchill who at the present tlme IS unable to consider moral obllgatlons we are stlll amazed at the prevalllng lnhuman fe llng If Mr Churchlll IS unable to conslder these thmgs we ln Amerlca are able to do so XVC are stlll fortunate enough to view this tltanlc struggle much as a spectator seelng a traglc play whlch we are able to analyze scene by scene We can see that lt resembles the old Ellzabethan tragedy ln that we find the leadlng characters strugglmg agalnst a super human force thls tlme a struggle of rlght agalnst wrong and we hope that when the fifth act has been reached the gods must agam be vlctorlous However thls play dxffers from the old tragedres In that the end must be a joyous one for the sake of human welfare This end can be reached only lf the people of the world wlll turn to thelr conscxences for the consclence of every man must tell hum that war IS wrong and that man s sense of values has been entlrely Jumbled Such materlal thmgs as those for whlch we are prone to Frght are ln truth not the xmportant thmgs of llfe Therefore our descendants will wonder for what reason we should have left that red blotch whlch stalns the pages of the hrstory of our era It may be that the world IS movmg so rapidly that morallty has been trampled under foot but the day must come when there wlll be a period of calm and pea e n whlch murder and destruct on cannot exlst To hasten the arrlval at this perlod our natlon must take the lead lnstllllng by its actlons a Splflt of cooperatlon ln the heart of every man upon the earth and ln so dolng our youth must be shown that they can llve most profitablv ln a world where peop e work as a umt rather than ln one where they work ln greedy and CgOtlStlCal groups As we slt here tonight ln our flnal meetmg before becomlng graduates of the Academy we ponder thls problem ln every prevxous crlsls whlch Amerlca has faced slnce the found mg of our school ID U60 Germantown Academy graduates have played an honored and an honorable role Yet these crlses have wasted maternal and destroyed men wlthou procurmg humamty s permanent welfare ls future hlstory to be a slmllar record3 Tr vou my classmates and to all other graduates of the year l94l l present thus challenge let us be leaders of a new xnternatlonal order based upon the welfare of all p ople IH thls world W LAWRENCE CAHALL -I 49 y , - y . - rr Q V -f y r - u v . , - . , 3 y .,. . . ,,. .. .. . . . . . . ,, , - v ra 1 V . . , . - . 1 , 1 v - 1 f v . . . , - v f v ' o Y A - V . .1 . .. . ' v , . Q e . ,R.

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VALEDICTORY OR nearly two c nturles some graduates of Germantown Academy have gone forth feellng reasonably confident of what the future mlght hold for thems ves Equipped with a good education and made hopeful by the prosperlty of thelr natlon thelr con hdence seemed Justxhed However there have been classes graduatlng ln tlmes of natlonal and lnternatlonal stress whose confidence and future securlty seemed challenged We constltute such a group Faced with dlfferent ldeologles of government and various theorxes of economlcs today s graduate may not feel certaln about the future War always horrible and crlmlnal brought about through selfishness and greed faces us both abroad where It IS takmg place and at home where preparatlons are belng made to meet lt Aggresslon and might have taken the place of peace and rlght whlle thoughts of polltlcal and economlc democracy and of soclal reforms are forgotten Rellglon IS belng abused and discarded at a time when nts prlnclples and thelr appllcatlon are most needed Man s lnhumanlty to man was never more fully ln evidence than now when havlng reached hls highest development ID varlous pursults he chooses to fight It may seem then almost useless and certalnly stupid for today s students to con tlnue educatlon ln the unlversltles or to apply present learnlng to the world at large Yet this IS not so for these are the tasks that we must do ln a better manner than others have done them ever before We resolve that the learnlng we have recelved and the phllosophles and prmclples we have consldered are not golng to dle because of temporary evll They have wlthstood man s abuse for thousands of years and now IH contrast to those thlngs whlch they oppose seem stronger and wlser than ever They are the llghts by whlch manklnd may be guided to a more perfect form of llfe they are ensurers of peace they are truth and wlsdom and urtue To the school we are about to leave we have glven little but from lt we have recexved much May we be guided dlvlnely IH maklng use of lts contributions to our development and spreading these prlnclples among manklnd for the prosperlty of the entlre race ROBERT W SAFRIN ul Q V c ol - y Y , . . . . , . . . . . , 1 v v - , . - V Q , . . . , . . ' - . , . . , - 1 1 f . -