Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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JUNE NINETEEN .-.FORTY MUSIC DEPARTMENT Grace Evans, Eleanor E. Golden, Karl Zapf. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LEOPOLE F. ZWARG, Head Wilbert Augustin, Charles W. Barthold, Lorretta G. Duffy, Grace I. Freehafer, Paul Kehs, Frederick Reith, Virginia L. Snyder, Mary J. Steger, Florence A. Wert. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT GEORGE W. PLUMMER, Head C. Edna Bramble, Freda Briimer, Elizabeth Evans, Helen T. Higgins, Martha C. Jenkins, Frederick Leighton, Margaret Moore, John Y. Pennypacker, Frank P. Prirniano, Jessie A. Rodman. SOCIAL STUDIES GARTON S. GREENE, Head Herbert F. Arnold, Leon S. Drumheller, Harry H. Fox, Grace Getchell, Kathryn E. Grotevent, Mary A. Palmer, Leigh W. Prentice, George M. Schuster, Percival S. Strauss. MATRON MARY BALLANTYNE SCHOOL COUNSELOR MAY C. Surcri SCHOOL VISITOR ANNA SIEGELE LIBRARIAN Tr-IEODORA C. BLODGBT NURSE MILDRED J. ODERMAN, R.N. SCHOOL PHYSICIANS P. HOWLAND SHAW, M.D., YETTA E. DEITCH, M.D. SECRETARIES Marguerite T. Bennett, Otto L. Faltermayer, Fay B. Gordon, Helen McCook, Dorothy E. Stewart. 17

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- JUNE NINETEEN .-.FORTY LIST OF FACULTY ART AND MECHANIC ARTS DEPARTMENT WILLIAM L. BENCKER, Head Harold F. Durner, George D. Gideon, Jr., Corinne B. Hardcastle, Harry W. Jacobs, Eugene C. Moore, Charles Parker, Roland L. Rudrauff, Henry D. Soderf berg, F. Elizabeth Wherry. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT MARGUERITE EVANS, Head Dorothy Baldwin, Morris Diamondstein, Charles S. Donnelly, Jacob N. Gelman, Spencer R. Graves, Louise H. Kohler, Amelia C. Kern, Isador Klein, Martin Laderman, Elsie M. Lamine, Mary E. Logan, Catherine A. Logan, Katherine S. Morison, Georgia Nutt, Edward A. Raacke, Elizabeth Shelling, Annabell Smyth. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WILLIAM Wooos, Head Henry P. Baker, Emily R. Ebling, Rhea Ege, Cecil E. Fanning, Julia N. Goodman, Florence L. Heubach, Matthew M. Hynson, Emma N. Jackson, Anna L. Maf ginnis, John E. Mason, Mary F. Pritchard, Marion Prince, Edith R. Steele, May Sutch, Caroline W. Thorne, Madge M. Young. FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT EDITH F. RICE, Head George W. Bacon, Florence Buckley, Alice B. Chubb, Anna L. Cole, M. Emily Dilg, Carl F. Haussmann, Anna M. Heller, Percival H. Nicholas, Bertha Rosen- heimer, Sarah A. Schaefer. HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Elsie Allen, Frances C. Garretson, Pauline Chapman. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Edna E. Cassel, K. Eleanor Cooper, Louis Gordon, E. Grace Hardy, Helen Lamf berton, Helen M. Mahoney, Anna M. Mullikin, Harry Rothermel, Helen A. Tyson. 16

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JUNE .NINETEEN .-.FORTY 1 JOHN G. BEGHTEL The unexpected death of John C. Bechtel came as a distinct shock to the members of the Germantown High School Faculty. Unaware of his illness and seeing him in his accustomed place on Tuesday, March twelfth, we found it diiiicult to believe that his life had terminated on the following morning, After a number of years at the Gen' tral High School, Mr. Bechtel became a member of our faculty in the year 1916 as a teacher of Mathematics. In this position he remained until 1927, when he became Head of the Depart' ment of Mathematics in the South Philadelphia High School for Boys. Upon the retirement of 4Mr. Harry Graham in 1935, Mr. Bechtel returned to the Germantown High School as Head of the Department of Mathematics, in which position he continued until his death. ,. Mr. Bechtel occupied a place of distinction in the Germantown High School. He was a teacher in the best sense of the word, devoted to his profession and the various problems involved in it, and genuinely interested in the students that attended his classes and whom he came to know through other means. He was tireless in the per' formance of his duties and in the service that he rendered outside the classroom to inf dividual students and to the life of the school. He gave much of his time to promoting school athletics, acting as treasurer of the athletic association and as coach of the golf team. He believed in maintaining high ethical standards in all athletic contests, and did much to develop a fine spirit of sportsmanship among the members of our athletic teams. - In his work as department head, as teacher, as colleague, as encourager of the right kind of student activities, and in all phases of his life at the Germantown High School, he endeared himself to faculty and students alike. We shall greatly miss Mr. Bechtel because of the large place he occupied in the life of our school, because of his vigorous personality, and because he possessed those qualf ities that made him more respected and admired the better he was known. 18