Harriton High School - Aurora Yearbook (Rosemont, PA)

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Foreign Exchange Program Miss Progi Easter, whose hard work and patience have made the Foreign am at hiarriton possible, pauses for a few minutes with her two AFS Exchange students. Pete Waitneight, president or tne Student Council, introduces AFS students Michele Soffian, Jetfe Petersen, Brigitte KogI, and Bunny Saam in an assembly program at Harriton. Christmas caroting in any language conveys the same meaning: peace on earth, good will to all men. Under the auspices of the American Field Service, the senior class of Harrl+on was honored to have Brigl+te KogI from Vienna, Austria as one of their classmates. Her American sister, Connie Billlan, soon discovered that there was little language barrier between them. Because of her warm, vibrant, and charming personality, Briggltte had no trouble making new friends and meeting the challenges of a different environment. Always on the go, she proved to be a hard worker, and her efforts were particularly directed at her favorite subject, chemistry. Without Brigitte the senior class of I960 certainly would have lacked some of its distinction. Last June, Bunny Saam traveled to Belgium, where she repre- sented Harriton under the Americans Abroad Summer Program of the A. F. S. Bunny spent almost three months living with two French-speaking Belgian families, one in Brussels, the other In Hasselt. They took her to visit the World ' s Fair, almost every city in Belgium, and even Dusseldorf, Germany. After a wonderful summer filled with rich, new experiences. Bunny returned to Harriton where she enthusiastically related to others her trip abroad and headed the Foreign Exchange Committee. BRIGITTE KOSL Wien XVIII, Scheibenberggasse 49, Austria Brigitte June 4 Activities: A.F.S. Foreign Exchange Student 4; Student Council 4: Basketball 4; Girls ' Service League 4; World Affairs Club 4. Future Plans: College — Medicine. Friendship In any language begins with a smile. Spending many qulel evenings at hcnne v ith Tne Billians, Brigitte learns to love her American family and to understand their v ay of life.

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CLASS HISTORY RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SENIOR CLASS If was over. The graduating class of I960 sat quietly in the morning-after silence of the Haverford College Field hHouse, thinking about the things which had brought them from that first panic-filled morning to this serenely calm one. They thought back to Thursday, September 4, 1958 and the sense of bewilderment and fear which had engulfed them. How quickly organization had come from chaos as they first saw Dr. Wilfred B. Wolcott, Principal of Harriton, standing on the stage to welcome them. How strange to be sitting in front of a sign marked Juniors. From the opening assembly, it was just a step to homerooms and elections. First, class officers: the all-important leaders of the first junior class to enter Harriton. Peter Waitneight, elected president, proved more than once that their confidence had not been misplaced. Jane Eger ' s quiet competence as Vice-President won her the same post the following year. Anne Hahn kept neat records of junior activities in her secretary ' s book, while Don Jordan managed the badly depleted treasury with good sense and created a sound credit-rating for the class. Sports, an important part of every school, were well suppported by the class, which contributed outstanding members to each team. It was proud of Joe Miller who was chosen for the All-Suburban Soccer Team as a junior and again as a senior. The spring sports season began on a note of gloom whose key was the word without : without a track, a basebal diamond, equipment, or experience. Each meet set school records and the junior class held many of them. George Sokol fired the tennis team and evoked shouts from the community, school, and his junior classmates by becoming the State Singles Champion. May 2, 1959, Harriton turned pink. Think Pink was the theme of the Junior Prom which hit harder than anything before or since. Its piece de resistance was a huge pink elephant created by Gail Goodman. Able class sponsor, Mr. Leroy Hollings- worth, urged pink-smeared painters and drapers on to greater things with promises of pool-side days to come. Educational testing came to the fore as the National Merit Scholarship Preliminary Examination was administered to quaking juniors in the cafeteria and homerooms. At the end of the three-hour period, the test was finished and so was the class. Also in May came the announcement that Bunny Saam had been chosen to represent the school in the American Field Service Summer Program. She spent the two months in Belgium, and returned speaking impeccable French. At last it was June, and although the class had another year to spend at Harriton, it received its share of honor on Class Day. Peter Waitneight was presented with the Harvard Club Award for the Most Outstanding Junior. The class ' collective chest swelled and almost burst its buttons in anticipation of what they would do . . . next year. Then, in a haze of pride, they scattered •for the summer. It was September again, but it wasn ' t the same. They knew what they should do and how to get where they were going, and they were seniors. An addition to the senior class was Foreign Exchange Student, Brigitte KogI, dark eyed, laughing, Austrian, who amazed them with her English. Class officers, elected before vacation, began organizing with a ferocity which terrified their mates. Led by versatile Parry Hesselman, the officers, Jane Eger, Margie Young, and Ed Sterne, set in motion the machinery which made a senior year. Also swinging into action was the staff of the Aurora: Editor-in-Chief, Wendy Acker assisted by Paul Halpern and Dick Scott; Business Editors, Carolyn Hubsch and Barry Kohn; and Art Editor, Jeri Decker. They established meeting days, times, and places, and with a large staff ready to go, started to assemble the yearbook. In October the long awaited class rings with the magic number ' 60 arrived and were proudly displayed before envious sophomores and juniors. Next in line for hard-earned senior dollars was the photographer with his black velvet drape, blinding lights, and swiftly wearying, Smile please. New honor came to the class when Rodger Digilio was informed that he was a Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist, and after another grueling session of testing, that he had qualified for a Merit Scholarship. Paul Halpern, Forum pundit, received the Harvard Cup for Journalism for his outstanding reporting, and the class cheered loud and long at the presentation. Throughout the fall and winter, college acceptances had come slowly to early applicants, but with March came a flood by which the wait-until-Mays were driven mercilessly to distraction. College Boards were taken with trepidation and the all-Important scores were eventually received by an anxious guidance department and class. The last snow began to thaw and class members could be seen transforming the gym into a Roman garden for the March 19 Roman Fantasy. Again under the direction of Gail Goodman, angel-haired, white washed crews struggled with high white trees, pillars, and ceiling fit for a palace. April brought other individual honors to the class in the form of Jane Alsop ' s election as The Optimists ' Girl of The Month, and Jim Markleys ' winning a first prize in the Senior Space Sciences Division of the Delaware Valley Science Fair. As the year drew to a close the seniors looked back at the three courses. Special English, Psychology, and Music, Art, and Literature, which were exclusively theirs. Each of these played an important part in the development of their Ideas and Ideals. Then there was the final acknowledgement of their senlorship, measuring for caps and gowns. With this acknowledgement came Spring, late, hot, and stultifying, and the campus was dotted with strolling seniors forgetful of their studies and preoccupied with the thought of college. June 10 dawned and passed as the class spent their last day in the educational pursuits of Harriton. Two days of marching brought them to June IS, Class Day, and the eagerly anticipated Class Trip to Valley Forge Country Club where they sunned and swam. Finally, after twelve years of waiting, it was four o ' clock Thursday afternoon, June 16, I960 and they were graduated. After an afternoon and evening filled with jubilation, they had gathered in the Field House, together, as a class, for the last time. And as people will do they talked about the thing they had in common, their years at Harriton. Sixty ' three