Germantown Friends School - Blue and White Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Pyramids have meanings that Are hard to compreheml- So Frank tolzl the History Class For days and days on end Iiillie gave the speech this year Fader Frank's aflrice. Jlr. Price, :ve :coiuler how you lu'z'er stood it trc'ic,-el IIere's a guy who skipped a grade Lest his learning lie delayed. He drank ink and liluefl his chin, Hluel1earfl's just the name for him. Never sturlies, yet he's bright. llve !l0II,f miurl him, he's all right. .Yom Debbie who in her earlier days lVas forced to travel rickety ways, Il'as parking here against the plan .lml humped into a garbage canl The contents scattererl all about glurl nearly 1l1'oz'e poor Jliss Uvhite out, Because the smell was far from fine ,TIIII her room stoorl right in its line. Jack, it seems an awful gyp That you never learned to skip. ll'e must say you were a flop .-lt Ullippity Hop lo the Harlner Shop. The Trysting Placen was where you shone, Perhaps the part Teas nearer home. John Sonnelzorn, the naughty guy, lVas spitting from the class .elliove the archway--it's no liel Vpon the human mass. Straightway he was adzfised to see Uur principal who sairl Suppose you had contacted me? JI y .' Sonne's face was re1l.' There was a young teacher named Skippy lVho rlirlift like girls that were :lippy. So when Joanie was bail Ile rose up, 'very mad, .-Ind said he'a' have none of her lippy. Fiftemi gqv 4

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.lean is quiet .rind generally neat. ,lated well In Quality Street. Loves the theatre Especially the rear l'Vhen fVIere1lith or :lherne flirt appear. Here's to Jean and PTl1Z7l7IC6'llJTC'7If Let her try and live that flown. Little Billie Fletcher fl-Ie's the one that's seriousj Unce was sent home from school, ,Having seenzezl alelirious. He was .scratching fingernails fill the lmarzlie lilach' .-Incl the teacher hating it flare our Charles the saclr. Little Billie Fletcher Quiclrly orer ran the time, Ilasteniug to his only love .alt his hangout, Jlanheim. Ilennie IVireman is right smart lVhen she turns her thoughts to art. If in summer you have lost her, Just I0 look her 111 in Gloucester ,I I There was a young rlamsel named Price lVho selrloni accepted adzfice. So when in Fourth Grade To flrinh' inlr she essayerl, She learned that it pays to think twice. Rhoads you are a naughty l1oyl So Bliss lVillianzs told him. Letting all those lieetles outlu She was trying to scold him. Little lwurphey dirtrft hear her, He just turned and ran and ran To his house which was right near there. This our President? A man? There was a young girl named Ilappy W'ho revelezl in things that were sappy. W'hen to this Primary lass .Murph proposed during class She simpered, Just wait! I'll aslc Pappy l'1IlIlfl'f0UlL I

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WILLIAM RHOADS MURPHEY, III Entered '24, Class Vice-President '35, Class President '37, Glee Club '35, '36, '37, Operetta '35, '36, Football '34-, '35, Soccer '361 Burn ANI: VVHITIU Board, Paslorian Board '35, '36, '37, Elocution Contest '35, '36, '37, PAST' master of the spoken and written word is our prexy. As we listen to his amazing orations, watch his double-jointed arms herald the climax, and see him literally trip downstairs, we realize he is a genius. Murph possesses an excellent set of vocal chords and uses them adeptly in Qtooj many ways-an earful of that laugh is enough to floor you. VVe've yet to meet the man who can persuade him that there are two sides to every problem, but it doesn't worry us, because for a man with such strength of con- viction, gosh, there must be some place in this world. They tell us he solicits information from the daily newspapers on some of his problems: Dear Dorothy D-Why don't you answer my urgent letter? Fm up the proverbial tree. How now, trouble for our preXy? Sixteen