Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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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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JUNE .-.NINETEFLN .-.FORTY Miss Cole, in her school days, was a great laugher. l She was easily amused by little things, and really suffered from her unconquerable giggle. Clothes were Miss Colels biggest worry. She doesn't remember much about the styles, but does recall that owning a large variety of skirts and blouses was the making of a wellfdressed girl. Miss Cole believes that her school days were not her happiest ones, but she admits that they were bright days, for she attended schools where she knew many other pupils, and enjoyed participating in school activities. She took her underfgraduate work at Goucher College. She attended Sarbonne, Paris, Bryn Mawr, and University of Chicago for her graduate work. Theiplans for Miss Cole's future life are not yet definite. At present, she expects to go to France or to Southern California. Pk ik Pl: Pk 3F Dr. Haussmann says, as he anticipates graduation, that he would like to say goodbye to his friends at Germantown, and then quietly disappear. He has graduated several times before: first from a small Lutheran parochial school in Michigan, next from his father's tutoring, and then from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1909 Dr. Haussmann has taught German and Latin in the Philadelphia high schools. He started in Central, where, in addition to his teaching, he ccnducted the orchestra after school for several years. In 1916, he was persuaded to come to Germantown and take over the supervision of the orchestra, which before that time, was conducted by Mr. Fox. At that time the members of the orchestra were handicapped by having to purchase all their own music, and other equipment, but the orchestra became increasingly better, until finally, music was made a regular curricular subject. After his last graduation June 1940, Dr. Haussmann hopes to have more time to spend on his hobbies, which are stamp collecting, chess, local historical records, gen' eology, and music. Although Dr. Haussmann does not take much interest in thrills, he admits that when in school, he, too, took part in schoolboy pranks. From his boyhood days, Dr. Haussmann's ambition was to be a teacher. If fulf filling one's ambition marks a successful life, Dr. Haussmann has abundantly succeeded. 15