Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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RECORD 00K Editor Associate Editor OLGA DODIANSKI LEWIS LOGAN Business illanager Sales llanager ALBERT BLIZZARD LOFISE SHARI-rl Literary Stuff Janet Boyer Lorraine Clayton William Fischelis James Freed Betty Kupke Bernice Moan Blake lloyer Deirdre Rhodes Evan Selsor Frank Smith Ted Weiitz Art Staff C.4'rnERINE Cl'-NLTIERI, Chairman Doris Kenna Alice Reed Girls' Athletics Boys' Alhletirs Shirley Young William Suflus Photographers George Armstrong Edu ard Block .l ack Bren er Typists AUDREY WATKINS, Chairman Edna Bauer Lothaire Hetzell Bonnie Jean Hampton Eva Hunsherger Betty Schacterle Standing: Rhodes, Kenna, llamp ton, Armstrong, Nloyer, Selsor Vventz, Fischelis, Smith, Freed zard, Sharpe, Domanski, Kupke Suflas, Brewer. STAFF ADVISER MISS ELSIE M. LAMINE Q 5 Clayton, Boyer, Reed. Sitting: Hunsberger, Hetzell, Young. Blii- , Logan, Watkins, Gualtierri. Inset'

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MISS E. GRACE HARDY HOW DO YOU DO? GOOD-BYE Y FIRST real touch with this good friend-my 'QHow do you do?,'fwas on the floor of the third story of the William Penn High School, when the practice of dismissing and receiving our classes brought us two, having adjacent rooms, together as neighbors for a little pow-wow at each changing hour. At one of these early meetings, I recall that she introduced to me the then new limerick: For beauty I am not a star There are others lovelierfarg Myface, I don't mind it, Because I 'rn behind it, It's the people infront that I jarf With these early contacts, I sensed her special charm and always during that year at William Penn our touch and go was one of cheer and smiles. In September, 1911, she came to the Germantown Annex for Girls, teaching mathematics and forming one of that dear group of friends and teachers that make the memories of those years very precious to us all, teachers and pupils alike. Always that same contribution of cheer and smiles lived on, making her one of the most cher- ished members of our little group. In September, 1915, with the enlarged faculty and the procession of over eight hundred girls, she came to the Germantown High School, the consummation of the five years of life in the annexes, both boys, and girls'. Here in her classroom-number 130-in corridor and assembly, in dining room and faculty meeting, in season and out of season, teaching her girls-later, girls and boys, touching the lives of many more closely and sym- pathically than mere Algebra and Geometry lessons, she was one of us. Patient, wise, always helpful-many a pupil will have kindly memories of comfort and aid. With the faculty-principal and teachers-there has been always loyalty, cooperation, sympathy, a jest with its laugh, a generous gift when collected for sympathy in sorrow, or celebration of joyfalways a dear com- panion. She leaves a memory of cheer and smiles. When Miss Hardy no longer belongs to the life of school, which has been so large a part of her full life, with her fine preparation in Baltimore at the Public Elementary Schools, at the Girls' Leahin School, and at Goucher College, where she received her A.B.-with her years of teaching at Goucher College, at Westfield, New Jersey, and at Mary Baldwin Seminary in Stanton, Virginia, and here in Philadelphia and Germantown-when thus she changes from school to home, with its varying obligations and opportunities, may she retain warm mem- ories of us, her school-life friends, and heartfelt, loving wishes for her new life. We, her friends here, will bear her in dear remembrance, her cheer and smiles-and so- Goodbye.,' MARY 5- HOLMES-

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EDITORIALS ACH year Germantown High School, to- gether with the several other high schools in Philadelphia, the hundreds in Pennsyl- vania, and the thousands in the United States, pour forth their graduates, young men and women about to enter college or business, ready to take an important part in civic affairs. The procedure is not new. Yet today, when the patriotic ties are more closely felt than ever before, and when the conditions of world govern- ment rise to challenge fresh combatants, this event of graduation attracts new attention, interest, and importance. It is, or soon will be, squarely up to us to attack the problems we are Sure to face-Self-adjusb ment, Self-support, and Self-confidence. We can- not achieve one of these three without the aid of the other two, nor possibly succeed in life without the acquisition of all three. Therefore, since no one can do the job for us, we must all struggle alike to the common end- Self-securityfattained through devotion to na- tional and civic affairs. OLGA DOMANSKI. T HAS given ine greater pleasure than can be expressed to have helped to bring to you this CLASS RECORD. It does not, however, belong to us, the editors, nor to the staff. It be- longs to all of us, our entire class. We have tried to present in this book the actual record of the activities of our Class of June, 1941. Here we have included the complete story of our high school years. The teachers under whom we have worked, the advisers of our class, our athletic teams and their records are all in these pages. Wie have recorded the high spots of our Senior year and the extra-curricular activities in which so many of us are interested. Here are pictures of our friends, whom we hope to keep as close in later years as they now are. We have produced a CLASS RECORD that we hope will be the bond of remembrance of our happy days in Germantown High School. LEVVIS B. LOGAN.