Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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F RI ENQD Co U NS E LO R Miss CORINNE B. HARDCASTLE Through love to light! 0 wonderful the way That leads from darkness to the perfect day: From darkness and from sorrow ofthe night To morning that comes singing o'er the sen! Through love to light! Through light, 0 Cod, to Thee, Who art the Love :J lone, the eternal Light of light! Rmumn Wrrsow Gunmen N THE death of Corinne B. Hardcastle, the Germantown High School has suffered the loss of one of its charter faculty members. She began her teaching career in the Girls' Annex on Ger- mantown Avenue with Miss Mary S. Holmes, and was transferred to this school, upon its comple- tion in 1915, as a member of the Art Department. During all of her years of service she has been a conscientious and tireless worker, and gave of herself unselfishly in the interests of the school, and in its service to the community. Although born in Chicago, Illinois, she early in life attended the Philadelphia grade schools, and then entered the School of Design for Women, now the Moore Institute of Art, Science and lndustry, under Miss Emily Sartain. Her work as an art student was outstanding, and in her senior year she was awarded a fellowship for an additional year of study at the school. Her ability was recognized by the award of the P. A. B. Widener fellowship for a year of study abroad which was spent in England. Upon her return, she worked in New York as a designer for about a year before entering the Philadelphia School System as a teacher. That Corinne Hardcastle was well fitted for her work is attested by the fact that she has made a profound and lasting impression on the many girls and boys with whom she came in contact. She brought to her work a seriousness of purpose and a thoroughness in detail and technique which was a great incentive to her students. She maintained her art interests by study in summer school classes, by professional member- ships, and by exhibiting her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Alliance, and the Chestnut Hill Art League. Corinne Hardcastle will be greatly missed by her colleagues, and all who came to know her and enjoy her friendship.

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efmzz., Edna E. Cassel, K. Eleanor Cooper, Louis Gordon, E. Grace Hardy, Helen Lamber- ton, Helen M. Mahoney, Anna M. Mullikin, Albert Raah, Harry P. Rothermel, Helen A. Tyson. MATHEM ATICS DE P ARTM ENT R MUSIC DE PARTM ENT Grace E. Evans, Eleanor E. Golden, Mabel J. Yerkes. I3 PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Leopold F. Zwarg Willwert R. Augustin, Charles W. Barthold, Lorretta G. Duffy, Grace L. Freehafer, Paul Kelis, Marjorie Morgan, Frederick Reith. Virginia L. Snyder, Mary .I. Steger, Florence A. Wvert. is SCIENCE DEPARTMENT George W. Plummer C. Edna Bramble, Freda L. Brummer, Elizabeth Cole, Elizabeth Evans, Martha C. Jenkins, Frederick Leighton, Margaret G. Moore. John Y. Pennypacker, Frank P. Primiano, Jessie A. Rodman. IH-3. HOME ECONOMICS SCHOOL COUNSELOR Elsic Allen, Pauline Chapman, Frances May C. Sutvh C. Garretson. SCHOOL PHYSICIANS HOME AND SCHOOL VISITOR Marion Kolhye, M.D. Anna C. Siegele P. Howland Shaw, M.D. LIBRARIAN SECRETARIES Theodora C. Rlodget Otto I.. Ealtermayer Marguerite T. Bennett NURSE Fay H. Gordon Helen M1'Cook Mildred J. Oderman, R.N. Dorothy E. Stewart

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EIGH WELLS PRENTICE, of the Department of Social Studies, was born on March 22, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of Levi Wells Prentice and Emma Sparks Prentice. He was graduated from the Philadelphia Central High School, in the Latin Scientific Course in June, 1907, with the degree of A.B. He then attended the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy, graduating from that institution, in February, 1910. Continuing his advanced work he was granted the degree of A.B. by Temple University in June, 1912. Writing the thesis, Colonial County Gov- ernment in Pennsylvania, he was accorded recognition by Central High School, for this achieve- ment. From the University of Pennsylvania, in June, 1918, he received the degree of A.M. for his work in the field of History. Mr. Prentice taught from 1910 to 1916 in the Philadelphia elementary schools, the last five years in Manayunk school. For two years he was an instructor in the Frankford Evening High School. From 1916 to the date of his death he was a successful and much beloved teacher of the Germantown High School. He was a member of the Society of the Founders and Patriots of America, the Sons of Ameri- can Revolution, the Germantown Historical Society, and the Philadelphia History Club. His colleagues feel that he occupied a place of unique value in the life of Germantown High School, first, in his love of and interest in the boys and girls in his classes and those in the Rail- road and Stamp Clubs of which he was sponsor, and second, in his minute and accurate knowledge in the field of Early American History. He possessed an abiding and genuine faith in high idealism of life and conduct. In the words of a member of the faculty, he never made any weak compromises with truth as he understood it, developing in the gradual evolution of history. Respected and beloved by his colleagues in the Department of Social Studies and the faculty as a whole, the memory of his personality and work will live on in the hearts and minds of his many friends and of the students in this school. TRIBUTE T0 THE MEMORY OF MR. LEIGH WELLS PRENTICE