Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ITH pride in his achicvementsg with appreciation of his goodness and kind- Iinessg with gratitude for his leadership, THE. CLIVEDEN dedicates this issue to our Principal LESLIE B. SEELY, B.S., P.D.D.

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Ruling VOL. XVIII NOVEMBER, 1929Q NO. I GIIUIHIHIEQ GIEJIEQIIWVJIEBJIDJIEBJINIT ESTABLISHED 1915 ' Pzzblixlzefl by lhe Sludentr in lhc irziercwl of THE GERMANTOWN HIGH SCHOOL GERMANTOXVN, PHILADELPHIA M The Staj' V Iiditor-in-Clzief, GEORGE D. GIDEON, III J..-.rociaiz Ediiar, DORIS B. JONES Literary Editor, LYDIA M. HUMPIHIREYS BUSINESS Bn.rine.r.r Jlanager, M. BERNARD BARR dde'er!i.ring Jlanager, HERBERT XVEINER Cir-culalian Jlanager, NELSON LIEDNER HENRY RUEMELI PAUL LIEEMAN CECILIA KURETSKI Poclqy Humor HARRIET ANDERSON SAM REM, SIDNEY FRICK - D Crain ARNOLD MIKUSERT BETTY WEAVER HENRY WATERS XVILLIAM SILDERT Slahc FRANK FIALA EDMUND RILEY 1C.vclzange.r A. PURVES PULLEN -1 Slaff LOUISE VAN ANGLAN ANNA MAE MYERS BENJAMIN ICASSER NANCY REYNOLDS FRANKLIN GUTCIIISS EVERETT ELWOOD EMILY CIIRISTINE NIATIIEXVS IOIINSON HERNIIONE IQESSLER Contents - PAGE EDI'I'oRIAI.s. ......... 4 LITERARY. .. .......... . 7 TELEVISION ...... .... .... 2 2 FAR FLUNG HoRIzONs. . . . 26 LANGUAGE. .. ........... .313 TIIE CRITIC .......... go EROIIANGES ..... . . .37 HUh1OR ....... 03

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AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. SEELY Dorus B. IONES E HAVE concluded that Dr. Seely has no anti-interview com- plex, else he could not have received us in so gracious a manner, nor have been so very understanding of just what the Young Interviewer simply must find out. Our quest was for biographical and other materials, so of course the first question had to do with his boyhood and education and we learned that he was born in Nanticoke County, Pennsyl- vania. He spent his boyhood in the country and graduated in 1897 from the Bloomsberg State Normal School. After teaching elsewhere for one year, he re- turned to Bloomsburg to teach and pre- pare for college. He graduated from Haverford in 1902, after which he taught for three years in a private school in New York State. In 1906 he came to Northeast High School, then the Manual Training School, as teacher of Physics, and in 1915 was transferred to German- town as head of the Science Department, which position he held until 1924, when upon the death of Dr. Keller, he became Principal of our school. Dr. Seely was asked whether there was any rule of conduct or maxim that he felt had contributed to his success, and replied that hard work and com- mon sense are the most valuable factors in the achievement of one's goal. He said that one must not fancy that one can do well in only one kind of work, that the same perseverance and applica- tion which we lend to the thing we enjoy doing will guarantee our success if given to any other line of work. The thing to do is to conquer one difficult job, then another. ' When he was asked about his prefer- ences in books and music, he said that he mostenjoyed the reading of scientific works, both physical and biological and liked orchestral music. Dr. Seely has learned the value of having some hobbies far removed from his usual line of work, and finds his favorite recreation in gunning and fishing. Our closing query was whether or not he thought the young people of today deserved to be called Flaming Youth , and we adored his vigorous negative to this question. He said there was a natural breakdown in conventions dur- ing and after the war, when girls of refined character who would never have done it otherwise, sold poppies and liberty bonds in public places. Let- downs like these gradually led to others, and there were some people who carried it to extremes. Every generation has had its own extremes of conduct, but those of the present one have been more noticeable because of the advent of the war. As a group though, Dr. Seely believes this younger generation is as industrious and serious as any of the older ones which have been so' highly esteemed. When she emerged from his ollice, the interviewer felt she had been in contact with a life pleasant in its wholesome- ness, significant for its purposeful achievement, inspiring in its ideals, and with a lingering memory of a personality --kindly, human and approachable. -rsr-