Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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UNE NINETEEN FORT Q MISS MADGE M. YOUNG Class Adviser for the Girls MR. RGLAND L. RUDRAUFF Class Adviser foo' the Boys 13

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M' JUNE NINETEEN -.FORT TO THE CLASS OF JUNE, 1940, I extend sincere wishes for the future. Your contribuf tions to the school in scholarship, in student government and in extrafcurricular activities will long be remembered. I May all of you continue your development along the above lines in a way beneficial to yourselves and the community. Use the facilities that our great city offers you in the way of night schools, vocational schools, museums, libraries and institutes to increase your knowledge and your skills. I hope that each one of you will feel that your education and training are never finished, but a conf tinuous progress throughout life. Germantown graduates have already made r their mark in the community, some even in f the country at large. One of the outstanding early graduates of our school was the late Merritt Hurlburd who directed Stella Dallas and other motion picture successes and was afterwards an editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Buck Walters, outstanding pitcher of the National League last year, was one of our boys. Former city councilman Thomas Minehart was another. The well known novelist Mildred Walker is a Germantown Alumna. Among our more recent graduates Louis Villalon is making a name for himself as a magazine editor and as moderator of the Philadelphia Town Meeting of the Air. Joseph de Pasquale whom mostof you know personally, has just been chosen in nationwide competition to be a member of the Youth Orchestra which Stokowski will take to South America this summer. We can all think of numerous others: professional men, busif nessmen, artists, craftsmen, leaders in civic affairs in education in labor. On this our 25th anniversary we look with pride on such a versatile and serviceable body of graduates and we know that you, the Class of June, 1940, will carry on in the tradition they have established. VIRGINIA DEM. RAAcKE, Assistant to the Principal. 12

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JUNE NINETEEN FORTY TEACHERS EMERITUS ITH the graduating class of June 1940, there are three members of the faculty who will terminate their years of service by retirement. To them, we say farewell, and extend our most sincere wishes that they may have the opporf tunity to do the things which seemed possible only in dreams. May good health and happiness attend them. In interviews, we learned what we always suspected-that they had a past, that they all were regular fellows in the best sense of that term, and that they, too, en' joyed the pranks of their high school days, the same as we do today. These are their stories: In the fortyfeight years in which he has taught, Mr. Fox has regarded teaching, not only as a prof fession and means of livelihood, but as the thing he held closest to him. As a boy, he attended John Arms' Academy which he entered directly from grade school. He had to walk three miles along the tow path of a canal, and in order to utilize this time, he recited his lessons aloud. The advice of a teacher, whom he met while workf ing on a farm, impressed him so much that he attrif butes this to the choosing of his life's work. After leaving John Arms' Academy, he taught for a short time, and then entered Millersville State Teachers' College. Again he resumed his teaching. During this time, he finished an A.B. course at Ursinus College, and took advanced work at Temple and the University of Pennsylvania. He first taught at East Coventry, and from there he went to Abington and then to Morrlyn County where he was supervisor' principal. His next assignments were principal of Norristown Grammar School, and then teacher of history at Norristown High School. In 1920, Mr. Fox came to Germantown as a teacher of history. All through his life he has had little time to devote to hobbies. He enjoyed hiking and bicycling and became very much interested in the debating which he did in literary societies. Here at Germantown, he conducted the Archery Club which was very popular. Mr. Fox looks back over his teaching days with great pleasure and satisfaction. FF PIC Ulf Pk Pk Miss Cole received her high school education in a Friends' School. She received very good marks and got a fine background for her further education. In this school which was run on rather strict principles, pranks were not too fref quently played. However, Miss Cole does admit taking part in several which went unf discovered and unpunished. 14