Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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W' F' M To the Glass of June, 1942: Everywhere about us, young men are going into training for military or naval service. Friends, relatives and acquaintances are volunteering or being inducted by the draft boards in ever- increasing numbers. They are going into danger, offering all they have-even their lives-for the things Americans hold dear. Here in school many are asking, What can we do to help? How can we make easier the work they have to do? Well, more than in anything else, we can pre- pare ourselves thoroughly to do the job which will come to us within a year or two, either in industry or in the service into which they are going. Ordinarily nearly fifty millions of people are industrially employed in peace-time jobs. Within a year or eighteen months that work will have to be done by something over twenty mil- lions. The others will be either in the armed forces or employed in work to support those who fight. Can you prepare yourself to carry the work of two? Do it as nearly as you can. If you can go on with your education, do so' If not, take the hardest job you can find and do it in the very best possible way. In the mean- time, Godspeed and good luck. x eg 7

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DR. LESLIE B. SEELX

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PEHCIYAL S. STRATSS To a f'01n1.selor and 1 l'l.C'IIIl.' The sorrows of parting always are one of the tempering forces that restrain'the joy of graduation. The regretful parting of student from student and of teacher from student accents in deeper tones the bright prospects of the world into which the new graduate is about to enter. In June our class will have a new member, one who has been a great. friend to us and countless other Germantown boys and girls. As he graduates with us not only we but other students and faculty members will grieve at parting from Percival S. Strauss, charter member of the faculty, a spark plug of school adairs, friend to those in trouble. and a just judge of erring students. He possesses an abiding and genuine faith in the high ideals of life, conduct and service to others. Only we who have known him and have been associated with him will ever realize his value to both school and community. Good fun, good sportsmanship and good scholarship have been the three greatest ideals that he has taught by word and deed in the years past. Character, leadership, and service he held to a degree and of a sort that will never be surpassed. They are traits that have granted him enduring friendships with those he has met. The memory of his personality and work will linger in the hearts and minds of his many friends, colleagues and students. We reluctantly bid him farewell and hope that the days that lie ahead will be the most fruitful and the happiest of his long life. Ronmefi' l,ifoNr:o, Presfflent, Sf-lmol Senale.