Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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First Row, left to right: Mrs. E. McDaniel, D. Hepperly. C. Troxell, W. Off, J. Debold Second Row, left to right: T. Love, D. Fizel, A. Tangi, V. Gravelle, J. Ferry Third Row, left to right: L. Martin, R. Bujcs, J. Maleno, G. Thomas, E. Garabedian, T. Clayton, P. Keenan, S. Bonatatibus Hoping to initiate many new and highly controversial topics to confront this year’s Junior-Senior Seminar, Mrs. Elsie McDaniel succeeded greatly in accomplishing this task. Although the Seminar group met only three times the entire year, we were privileged just to be able to talk with intellectuals concerning world problems, literary analysis and develop¬ ment and topics directly spear-headed at youth and the establishment.” The distinguished Dr. Sober Butmann, Professor of English at Haverford College, was our first speaker. Dr. Butmann’s lecture, entitled Nature of Comedy,” defined to us the dif¬ ference in the nature of comedy from the 1500 to our present era. From this examinati on, we were able to see the transition of satirical comedy mocking individuals, to the stinging, editor¬ ial comedy pinching the American system, its politics, and American involvement in the world. Dr. Butmann explained to us that people who lived in the early part of our country’s development had to be careful about their nature of comedy” because of the country’s statutes. It is evident in our own life time, however, that freedon of the press has allowed a great sa¬ tirical, witty, and snide form of comedy to take its place in our present society. Concluding, Dr. But¬ mann informed us that literatuure, as well as pictorial comedy has been used as mediums to reflect people’s thoughts when strongly felt. In the month of February, the Junior-Senior Seminar was privileged to have as its speaker Dr. John E. Mock, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College, who excelled greatly in his talk, The Significance of Student Protests.” Dr. Mock informed our group that he was in complete favor with protests if they were peaceful, and if the students had a justified point to protest. We thank Mrs. Elsie Me Daniel for all her work, since she tried consistently to make these sem¬ inars an intellectual pursuit. -{23 y

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First Row, left to right: F. Dwyer, W. Off, K. Lawrence, J. McGrath, Second Row, left to right: G. Buthusiem, A. Blose, D. Jesser. D. Feeley, D. Riddle, Mr. D. Clark Third Row, left to right: D. Corriden, H. Costello, A. Richey. S. Sedor, M. Malandra The sole purpose of the World Affairs Council was to become increasingly active this this year both in and out of Girard. This year’s Council wa s able to bring the problems of the world a little closer to some of the people who will be facing them in the near future. High School Forums, sponsored by the Philadelphia chapter of the World’s Affairs Coun¬ cil, were attended by Girard students who took active parts in all discussions ranging in scope from Biafra to the Problems of Big City America. Through briefing and sheer enthusiasm the Hummers proved to be the true diplomats and formidable foes in any discussion. This increased zeal in attributable mainly to Mr. Douglas Clark, faculty sponsor of the club, who gave considerable amounts of his own time in organizing and directing the Council. The club’s purpose of giving students first hand experience in world government and the major problems that now confront the world was entirely realized this year with Girard’s par¬ ticipation in the Model U.N., an organization which authentically duplicates its N. Y. coun¬ terpart in every detail. The countries are represented by students from the various Philadelphia High schools, of which about 150 attended. Girard represented this year New Zealand. The delegation was headed by Walter C. Johnston. On 4123169 the General Assembly met at the University of Pennsylvania Museum for a whole day, with an attendance of about 700 students who decided either to adopt or reject the various resolu¬ tions, such as Isreali agression, admission of Red China to the U.N., technical problems dealing with voting rules, and uses of the Sea Bed. This year’s World Affairs Council enjoyed and profited from the meetings they attended. A fine note of thanks must go to Mr. Clark for his fine guidance in a project demanding arduous work. {22 y

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] tu den t (den ter Seated, left to right: C. Troxell, Mr. F. Seifert, D Callohan, Mr. G. Dunkle, D. Carpenter Second Row, left to right: W. Linton, R. Hockenberg, D. Puzo, L. Martin, A. Richey, J. Verna, P. Lanza, A. Tangi, D. Hepperly The activities of this year’s Student Center showed a great improvement over those of past years. With the renovation of the premises, business picked up tremendously. Many new services were offered at this year’s Founder’s Day and Mothers’ Days, including waiters at each table, a clean store, and many other small things which, we are sure, made the visitors’ stop more enjoyable. The Canteen Dance appeared in the social light this year. This event, which was less for¬ mal than a class dance, brought a profit only in the sense of enjoyment. The small financial loss from the dance was due to the moderate attendence by the students. Due to more efficient management, the store was open every weekday and occasionally on Saturdays. This management enabled the store to make a good net income, and pay back the investments of the Juniors and Seniors with interest. Also due to this increase in net income, we were able to eliminate many of the debts contracted by last year’s staff. A new and dedicated member of our advisory staff was Mr. Frank Seifert, who took a large portion of the work from the shoulders of Mr. Dun¬ kle. We would like to thank him for his help. As usu¬ al, Mr. Dunkle gave up much of his free time to work at the store and, for his work, we thank him very sin¬ cerely. Dr. White also deserves much of the credit for the smooth operation of the store; without his help in keeping the books up to date, we would not have been open long enough to make the profit we did. Special appreciation is extended to Dennis Calla¬ han for doing a fine job as store manager. Through him the store was able to function. -f 24 y