Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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jCnnkiiuj Sarkumrii ffllasa nf dlanuarg 1933 lE itorial £ taff Charles John Godfrey, Editor-in-Chief David Keller Burkhart Norman R. Betz Rexford Emerson Tompkins Edson Joseph Shannon The Girard College Press

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January, 1933 3 Voice and Pantomime E THAT speaks sows; he that hears reaps. The; beneficial results of this proverb, we believe, were evidenced by our work last year when the fruits of our efforts were shown in the many public appearances. From the time we entered Girard until our Senior-one year we heard the seniors giving speeches. We were reaping and they were sowing. When the Dramatic Club presented Dr. Jekyll and, Mr. Hyde, Peter Wambach did a good job as a little boy. He was our sole representative and we were proud of him. At Christmas time the Dramatic Club presented before the High School assembly Harry Kemp’s Don Juab’s Christmas Eve in which Bradford Swonetz portrayed the part of Alamandos. The play was admirably presented, and we were once again represented in Girard Dramatics. During our lower Senior semester our class; was represented by John Guarini, Elmer Bryan, Terrence McLaughlin, and Robert Q. Jones in a debate against the Junior-two class. It was well done, and we were proud of them for the manner in which they upheld the standards of our class. When Memorial Day appeared, John Guarini, the only Captain our class could claim at that time, delivered a poem, as part of the services. In last year’s annual group of spring plays we were again represented. You will never forget the excellent presentation of Justice Credulous by Harvey Mel- son in The Scheming Lieut want. A new standard of achievement was reached in this play. We must not forget to mention Howard Shultz who portrayed the part of an Indian and Jack Shiner that of a soldier in The Little Father of the Wilderness. With our determination to set higher standards we started our Friday morning speeches at the outset of our upper Senior term. There was a wide variety. Some of them were Edward Holmes and William Davis on The Citizen’s Military Training Camp, John Bullock on Johnny Weissmueller , Silvio Pastore on Experi¬ ences in a Bakery, David K. Burkhart on West Point, Norman R. Betz, on Working at w Unemployment Relief Station, Robert Q. Jones on The Ice Business, Matthew Spinelli on A Summer Experience, and Charles E. Kistler on Alexander Dumas. December brought the Annual Original Declamation Contest in which we were well represented by four contestants. An Appreciation of Art, Charles Godfrey’s declamation, received the second prize. This was an account of his ambitions. It was a natural topic characteristic of its writer. William McLaughlin won the third award with the declamation entitled The Career of Journalism. It was given with feeling and enthusiasm that made the speaker’s interest in his subject a certainty. . David K. Burkhart was our third contestant. His interpretation of Henry Ford as a man was excellently given.