Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE CLASS RECORD, JUNE, 1935 ....4.-ggi. 4 ,A meg To THE NIEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF JUNE 1935:- If there is one thing which more than anything else characterizes this universe of ours, it is change, ever- present, everywhere present. All about us-in human life as well as in the lower forms, in the ma- terial world, and in human institutions Let Not Your Heart Te Troubled 612.11 DR. LESLIE B. SEELY Trincipal and Friend AS PRINCIPAL of this school, Dr. Seely has had a wide experience with the problems of youth. He is lceen in his understanding of life's complexities and sympathetic in his handling of its proh- lems. His parting message sounds a clarion note for those who will hear and will accept a friendly word of encourage- ment from one who is greatly interested in their success consistent with our objective makes our final goal more eas- ily attainable. Every student who finds education a slow laborious pro- cess should commit to memory the fol- owing from the writings of VVilliam James: Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education what- nothing seems to be constant either in form or quality. Sometimes the movement is rapid, explosive and gen- erally destructiveithis is revolution. At other times it is slow, quiet and constructive-this is evolution. Generally human characters which are worth while are built up in the latter way. Psychologists tell us that only occasionally are habits broken or found suddenly, as by conversion. Almost always they are the result of slow day-by-day growth. What we will be tomorrow can be pretty actually foretold by what we are doing today. A knowledge of the above fact should be full of encouragement for all of us who strive daily to attain any worthwhile quality or ability and find its accomplishment difficult and slow. 'I'oday'.S' ejort makes tomorrowfs' ac- complishment possible. Every task ever the line may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the work- ing day he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation in whatever pursuit he may have singled out. Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built itself up within him as a posses- sion which will never pass away. I hope that each one of you may have a most happy and successful career. Sincerely yours, ' nt .ay 15 Ia

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THE CLASS RECORD, JUNE, 1935 .9 im Y M5211 fy.. vlssisfafzf fo the 7'rz'rzc-ipal MRS. VIRGINIA DEM. HAACKE HY don't you go see IXIrs. Raackt-? . . . That is the remark heard so often in the Halls of Germantown when a student needs help. It is to you we go, Blrs. Raacke. for the solution of our problems, and aid for the future. Your kind interest and assistance are a pleasant memory of our days here at school. llany a one of us has been set on his track for the future at your suggestion. To you we owe much . . . we cannot express it all here, but may you accept these few words as a token of our esteem and devotion for all you have done for us. --if 17 Ia-