Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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January 1935 7 Almost before vve were located in a hotel, we found ourselves en route to Mount Vernon. The sight of this shrine was awe-inspiring. When one stops to think that our first president once lived in this lovely place, it is hard to compre¬ hend. Mount Vernon is beautiful beyond description. On the second day in Washington we saw Congress and the Supreme Court in session. The House of Representatives was a disappointment to most of us, but the Senate and Supreme Court are very dignified and well-conducted. The rest of the day was spent in touring the city, covering such points as the White House and the National Capitol. The third day we spent visiting the capital’s museums and a few other points of minor interest. These trips were our only class activities outside of Girard. Experience is the best teacher, however, and vve learned more from these two excursions than from weeks of classroom study. If you would learn, travel. Journalists and Writers The things men write live after them. Perhaps the work the Class of January 1935 did will remain behind us as an example. A school can be judged often enough by the publications of its student body. We hope our class has been able to elevate Girard in the minds of our outside cor- 1 respondents as well as with the student body. The first writing accom¬ plishment of our class became public when two of our group took places in the first short story contest sponsored by the Literary Club. However a better-known work of the class is the publication of the Girard News. In our senior term Ralph Price headed the staff of the paper, and Arthur Englebach and Robert Franey covered news and sports items respectively. As the paper came out but once a month, the editors did not print events which had already occurred but tried to get news of events yet to take place. And again, they were able to bring a regular sporting page back into each issue. We hope we have been successful in regaining for the paper some of the prestige it formerly held, but lost when its num¬ ber of issues was cut in half.

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6 At the Turn of the Road in the getting of a training which is hard to parallel. They have been to us some of the closest friends whom we have ever had, and we trust their relations with us have been pleasant. We have been told by them how to make men of ourselves, and we say as a reply, “You are men and women with whom we have been proud to associate, and may your clean influence reach future classes, as it has ours.” En Route In May 1933, our class took its ■ first scheduled trip outside of the city. This trip was to Valley Forge, the shrine of Revolution¬ ary War days. It was but a short trip to the place, and we had the greater part of the day to travel over the park. Probably the outstanding jnemory which we cherish is our Visit to the Valley Forge Chapel. The pastor of this little chapel was the late Rev. Doctor Burke, who devoted the greater part of his life to it. He was building , additions to it as fast as contri- I butions from visitors permitted him to do so. When we saw the jchapel, he had almost reached Jiis goal. Yet, within a few months after our visit he was called to his last resting place with his work unfinished. We spent the greater part of ' the day roaming the grounds at our leisure, traveling from the Observation Tower to each com¬ memorative monument. And that night we certainly were tired! It was a rather subdued group that traveled homeward on the train, but we thoroughly enjolyed the entire day. On January 10, 1935 we took the outstanding trip of our school days—the Washington trip. More enjoyment and activity were crowded into three short days than one can believe possible.

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8 At the Turn of the Road The Fall 1934 issue of the Girard Magazine was published practically by the members of our class. The Editor-in-Chief was John Binder, assisted by Robert W. Andrews, President of the Literary Club, who did a good deal of the work. Other members of the staff were Joseph Abaldo, Bruce Allen, Calvin Morgan, Guy DiCenza, Nicholas Mocharniuk, John Steen and Raymond Pritchard. This is an extremely large number of our class acting as editors, and a good many of the articles were written by them and their fellow classmates. Sam Place, Art Editor of At the Turn of the Road, contributed the cover design for the magazine. The clear-cut lines, and the general excellency of the design placed Sam as one of the outstanding linoleum block-cutters of recent years in the College. Look at some of the cuts in this Record. Sam did them. The last work of our class is the publication of our year book. At the Turn of the Road was published by a class-elected staff. Ralph Price is Editor-in- Chief, with Robert Andrews, Tobias Koch, John Steen, Arthur Englebach, and Robert J. L. Franey his associates. Our desire as writers has been to be just a bit different from the ordinary. This record is decidedly different in several respects from other year books. It is our final literary achievement; we hope it’s the best. Footlights Acting ability in our class was first shown in our Junior-One term in the play “She Stoops To Conquer.” In this presen¬ tation Bruce Allen and Alex¬ ander Davit took the part of servants. The next play in which our class’ talent played a large part was the “Christmas Carol.” In this play, Alexander Davit once again showed his ability as an old man, indulging in strange practices. Bruce Allen also took part as a pawn broker. We now present a new actor, Daniel Shirk, who admirably portrayed to us in the same play what a ghost should look like. We also present another arrival in this field of entertainment: Ralph Price. He transported us from our seats to a cultured English group across the sea. In the “Christmas Carol” the smallest member of our class, Roy Jones, took the part of Tiny Tim, showing us that he only had to be natural.