Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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4 Commencement Record UPPER JUNIOR Charles J. Keys Chester W. Phillips Walter R. McClelland James E. Woods Charles Kennedy Chester W. Phillips UPPER SENIOR Charles J. Keys Walter R. McClelland Henry A. Young James E. Woods Charles Kennedy Edward C. Ephault CLASS ADMINISTRATION President LOWER JUNIOR Chester W. Phillips Vice-President Herman Castellani Secretary Henry A. Young Treasurer James E. Woods Business Manager Charles Kennedy Conference Committee (No member) President LOWER SENIOR Walter R. McClelland Vice-President Charles J. Keys Secretary Henry A. Young Treasurer James E. Woods Business Manager Charles Kennedy Conference Committee Charles J. Keys HIGHEST STANDING Valedictorian —Henry Alexander Young Salutatorian —Stephen Anthony Walton CLASS SPEAKER • George Henry Yemm DISTINGUISHED IN DEPARTMENTS ENGLISH Henry Alexander Young SPANISH Henry Alexander Young MATHEMATICS Edward Woodrow Wilson SCIENCE Kurre Wilhelm Ostrom SOCIAL STUDIES George Henry Yemm COMMERCIAL INSTRUCTION r Rowen McClelland Henry Alexander Young MECHANICAL INSTRUCTION John William Knock

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January, 1931 3 “This, I zoos worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.” T HERE was a lump of clay on the potter’s wheel. The wheel of experience turned slowly at first. The nimble fingers of the potter went deftly to work fashioning, with the touch of his genius, the pitcher which had been for a long time only the creation of his mind. So this is the scheme of things in which the Potter creates the potter, and he, in turn, catching the spirit of the Master moulds others to rise from one condition to another until they aspire at least to assume the master’s place. Life is a process of growth. When we left behind us those dear mothers who to-day greet us as if at the end of a journey, we entered Girard some ten years ago with no expectations, hopes, or visions that light the spark of human ambition. No conception of hopelessness describes what we then saw before us. But God made teachers who have striven to perfect themselves with the fulness of experience, reason, and inspiration; and we were placed in the hands of such as these. Each of them is different from the other. Each one leaves something different from that priceless contribution of every other. As the individual finger of the potter moulds a design of beauty at the neck, or the bulge, or the mouth of the pitcher, similarly each teacher has left his mark upon the boy. It is there to stay. Each impression, each influence, each moulding of the texture, and each filling or designing has not come to him in vain. Time will go on but the words of his craftsmen shall ever endure. Boys of January 1931! Accept the challenge of the Potter! Strive on with the indomitable spirit of the potter to progress, to achieve, to build. Let what has been done for us spur us now to do for ourselves. We can face the wind, bear the strain, meet the fortunes and misfortunes of life with unfaltering purpose. “Potter and clay endure.” We shall succeed in the same measure that we strive. And on the way we shall go as travellers facing the west, but Wherever we go in the world, dear Girard; Whatever the work that we do; Whatever the fare, we shall have but one care, And that to prove worthy of you.

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January, 1931 5 Herman Castellani William Clouser John F. Forsht John Frasco Rodney Barwick Douglas Buchanan Frederick Clark George Grafton Automobile Shop Edward C. Ephault Chester Phillips Pattern Shop Irvnig Kern John Knock Electrical Shop Lawrence Estill Walton Gibson Harry Seiders Biology Kurre Ostrom VOCATIONAL MAJORS COMMERCIAL SCHOOL COURSES Stenographic Ray Howard Charles Kennedy Charles Keys Walter McClelland Donald Miller Clerical Edwin Greenawalt Samuel Kagel Joseph Maser William T. Michaels MECHANICAL SCHOOL COURSES Carpentry Shop Ellis Booth William Collins Paul Frankel Leon McMenamin Clyde Meyers Kurre Ostrom Steam Fitting Richard Splane SPECIAL COURSES Chemistry Paul Frankel George C. Whittam Richard Williams James Woods Albert F. Young Frederick Miller Stephen Walton George Yemm Henry A. Young Drafting Shop David Bortel George Lowe Alexander Deveney Earl Tanner John Fay Foundry Edward Wilson Music Howard Mills