Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CLASS ADMINISTRATION J-i J-2 Alfred Paoletti .... President .... Harry Baun Richard Helder . . Vice President . . . Alfred Paoletti Clyde Rupert .... Secretary .... Clyde Rupert Walter Jacoby .... Treasurer . . . William Wilson S-l S-2 William Wilson .... President .... Alfred Paoletti George Havrisik . . . Vice-President . . . William Wilson Clyde Rupert.Secretary.Clyde Rupert Louis Severino .... Treasurer .... Alexander Boyd NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY President .Richard Helder Vice-President .Francis H. McGovern Secretary .John Fischer STUDENT COUNCIL President .Adelmo Recchiuti ATHLETIC COUNCIL George Havrisik CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Edward Paul Berman (Hnrtnilftan L 8] aiamtary

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Girard College December 18, 1940 To the Boys of January, 1941 : This Corinthian of yours has much of interest for you now, but twenty or thirty years later you will really enjoy it and appreciate it. Just forty years ago 1 helped to edit the class book in my junior year at college, and what fun it is now to take my copy off its shelf and look through it! How immature our pic- ures show us to have been! How obvious our humor ! How naive our prophe- cies! How limited our achievements as a group! Here now is your book with your boyish faces, your record of activities, your interests, your accomplishments, your services to the College, your group judg¬ ment of each other. You, too, will turn to it in the years to come with a flood of nostalgic memories. You will yearn to see each other once again; you may even wish you could see some of the men and women who had a part in directing your lives here; you will hanker after a soccer ball, a baseball bat, a basketball— knowing however that ten minutes of that strenuous old play would knock you out completely; your mouths will water for a ginger; you will wish for the taste of a “Schmitty” or for the more venturesome recesses of Worman’s ! Well, if the rest of us think in kindly terms of our old high schools and dwell happily upon the memories of our days in col lege, what must be your at¬ tachment to the school of which you were such a real part for eight or nine years! God grant that your backward look may be a satisfying one! I do hope each one of you can feel that he truly left something here for which the insti¬ tution can be grateful a fine scholarship record; achievement in music, art, dra¬ matics, forensics or athletics; a standard of excellence in service to the College; an example of able leadership; a high level of courtesy and gentlemanliness; a reputation for real integrity. Of one thing I am quite sure, you really won’t understand the place and part Girard College has had in shaping your lives until thirty years or so from now when you take this book from its shelf and call to mind faces, names, places, incidents that helped to make you what you then will be. Habits of daily living, ideals, standards of conduct, appreciations, avocational interests—all these Girard is surely making a part of your very being. 1 trust you will then be able to look with pride not only upon your record of achievements here but also upon what you have accomplished in the inter¬ vening years—the way you have cared for your health; the interest you have taken in civic, social and spiritual enterprises; the part you have taken in the political affairs of the community; the family responsibilities you have assumed; the position you hold in the economic world. May life be good to you, young men, and may you live your lives abundantly! Sincerely yours, 1941 [ 7 ] fflurmtljmtt

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