Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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UNE NINETEEN FORT YOUTH'S PRAYER Humbly before Thee, great God of all nations, Begging Thy guidance, before Thee we standg Teach us, O Father, to make each day worthy Of the mercy and wisdom of Thy ruling hand. As now we stand on life's glorious threshold With youth's hope and courage still fresh in each heart, Give us an aim an ideal, we may strive for, From righteousness' path let us never depart. Teach us to work, from our task turning never, Tet teach us to bring some good cheer to each day. Help us to live, and in living to nurture Some downtrodden creature we find on the way. Help us to seek a reward not of silver, But rather to find one in nature's delightsg All that we ask are the beauties of springtime, Of flowers, of blue skies, of bright starry nights. So when through the years, as the past becomes dimmer, Looking behind, we can say as we die, I made each day precious, by work and by striving, True glories of Heaven have not passed me by. MARIAN Rose ENGLEMAN. 6 l

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UNE NINETEEN FORT DEDIC completes twentyffive 1 years of service for Germantown High School. It has served the community well in main. taining high standards of scholastic achievement for its graduates. Germantown High School may be symbolized as a tree of knowledge in this place of rare and famous trees. The roots of this tree have struck deep in this historic soil, and have nurtured a sturdy oak of tower' ing strength, a protection to many against adverse conditions due to a changing world. It has upheld the ATIUN 1 worthy traditions of our forefathers and it has endeavored to give to the generations past and present those ster ling qualities of character and achievement needed for a more abundant life In dedicating this CLASS RECORD and our lives to the ideals of our Alma Mater, may we wish that the acorns of this tree will germinate in our hearts, and produce trees of great strength and beauty of service for our country and posterity. 5

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UNE NINETEE O T FOREWGRD James M. Barrie has said that We have memories that We may have roses in December. Our CLASS RECORD is the book of mem' ories of happy moments, days, and years spent in more or less intimate association in and out of school with our classmates. If it is true that friendships formed in high school are more lasting than any formed in later life, then the preservation of the incidents here recorded will be increasingly cherished with the years truly the roses of graduation time will bloom in the December of our lives This is our hope'