Haverford High School - Greystones Yearbook (Havertown, PA)

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STATISTICS NAME HOBBY KNOWN BY FAVORITE SAYING WANTS TO BE Ervin Bower Swimming Grin Gotta hot date Big game hunter Harry Clower Bluffing Sleepiness Silence! A bum Erwin Davis Airplanes Chest Con'-a-act Aviator Mildred Davis Basketball Harry S. No foolin'? Admiral of Swiss Navy Dorothy Edgerly Collecting jokes Jokes Oh. man! Lucky Madge Fox Carolyn Freyburger Flying Art Mah goodness! Artist Writing poems Giggling Blow me down! Football player's sweetheart Marian Hagy Asking questions Shrieking My John! A bachelor girl Dorothea Flanna H. B. Ford Oh. no! School teacher in wild, woolly West Helen Hoffner Movies Chem. notes I don't believe it Interior decorator in Home for Blind Elizabeth Kerr Roller-skating Fiddle Bang A once Lake George mermaid Jesse Kochel Smoking Luckies Short pants Oh, pshaw! Farmer Tyson Matlack Boats Car Got a siphon? Grease monkey James McCurdy Cutting weeds Laugh When do we eat? Street cleaner in Venice May Pomeroy Swimming Curly hair My golly! An old maid school 'marm AdelaRomanovsky George Rosengarten Drexel boys Accent Ain’t it the truth? A Greta Garbo Figures (?) Stealing some- body's chance to recite Well, I'll be blowed! Able to play a harp Helen Scheehle Arguing Whistle I reckon Editor of Toon- erville News Andrew Sherrard Football Flaming hair I don't know West Point graduate Francis Smith Delivering papers Gestures Pardon me! Bridge-builder on River Styx Hugh Spacht Golf Voice Mama, buy me a pool table? Papa Helen Watts Cadets Chevrons Strike me pink! Cadet at V. F. M. A. Julian White Leading band Laugh For cryin out loud! Richard Wiley Torturing “sax” Chewing Look at that blond! Musician Jack Wistar Loafing Socks I don't care if I A man of affair go crazy CLASS LALLCT GIRL BOY Most popular . . Mildred Davis . James McCurdy Most studious . . Marian Hagy . . Francis Smith Most lively to succeed .... Helen Watts . . George Rosengarten Class giants ... Madge Fox . .. Andrew Sherrard Class runts .... Carolyn FreyburgerErvin Bower Know the most. Adela RomanovskyGeorge Rosengarten Funniest........ Dorothy Edgerly James McCurdy Most generous . Elizabeth Kerr.. Richard Wiley Best natured . . Carolyn Frcyburger Ervin Bower Biggest flirts .. . Mildred Davis. . Harry Clower Most talkative . May Pomeroy.. Hugh Spacht Most susceptible to masculine charm........ Dorothea Hanna Most susceptible to feminine charm......... Ervin Bower Best looking . .. Helen Hoffner . George Rosengarten Most versatile . Mildred Davis . Erwin Davis Quietest........ Marian Hagy . . Andrew Sherrard Biggest tease . . Elizabeth Kerr . George Rosengarten Most pull....... Helen Watts . . George Rosengarten Best dancers .. Helen Hoffner . Julian White Woman hater........................ Francis Smith Man hater May Pomeroy . Most class spirit. Helen Scheehle. Harry Clower Best romancers . Mildred Davis . Ervin Bower

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SENIOR RECORD H. T. H. S. JANUARY, 1930 TEE EISTCEY CE 193C When in 1926 the old crew of the school ship of Haverford took its final leave, the new comers were entrusted with the craft to keep its colors flying. Although new at the work, preparations were made for a long journey. They elected for captain Jack Wistar, and Erwin Davis served as first mate. Helen Hoffner was made trustee of the log book and Julian White looked after the ship’s wealth. So they set sail, and Jack guided the craft to bring it safely into port after a period of six months. Shore leave was demanded by all, and to celebrate, a picnic was held. When the furlough was terminated, they were instructed to sail the seas for a while in a Junior Ship, splendidly equipped and fitted to meet the battering waves of toil. Its grandeur was fully appreciated, but they were uneasy. After a brief interval the sailors made insurrection under George Byers and regained their beloved craft. Under the new officers, George Byers, James McCurdy, Mildred Davis, and George Rosengarten, the postponed trip was resumed. A calm sea and blue skies made sailing fine, and so an uneventful year passed. To make life on board more interesting, a Prom on shore was planned. It certainly was good to feel their feet on terra firma again and like true sailors each found a girl in port to conduct to the fes- tivity. They danced and drank punch till far into the night when the ship's siren warned them that they had barely enough time to make the boat again before the gang-plank was drawn up. Meanwhile to keep the crew’s spirit up a contest was held. Prizes were to be given to the best orators. While decks were scrubbed and rigging made fast, snatches of Mark Twain or Booth Tarkington could be heard. At last the contest was over and George Rosengarten was pronounced the champion. Thus another year was completed. It was a tired group which presented itself at reveille but all were eager to work, and the great final year was on. Every day was crowded with things to be done for the Senior Ball. The main deck was stripped of its paraphernalia and blue and gold were seen everywhere. The dance was a huge success and enough money was collected to pay most of the year’s expenses. The next thing on the program was a three-day shore leave at Washington. The sailors climbed steps, viewed beauti- ful scenery, and lived like kings. Some of the more daring of the crew kept the servants running, trying to obey their pretended needs. All went fine till funds were needed to continue the voyage. The only possible way to raise such an amount was to give a play. “The Goose Hangs High’’ was selected. The cast proved a good one and after six weeks the production was ready to be given. True to their expectations a fine audience turned out and enough funds were received to carry them through. And now the ship is headed for port. Each sailor sadly gathers his belongings and makes ready to walk down the plank for the last time and to receive his honorable discharge from the admiral of the fleet. Principal J. Frank Carter.

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SENIOR RECORD H. T. H. S. JANUARY, 1930 TWENTY yEARS FCCM NOW It is the thirtieth of January, in the year 1950. The day has dawned clear, warm and balmy. Bathers can be seen at the Everglades Natatorium (originally Brookline Square Club Pool); some basking in the warm rays of old Sol; others under the shade of orange and grape fruit trees. The scene is in Cactus Township (formerly Havcrford Township), which in 1930 was a typical, bustling, northern suburb of Philadelphia, at that time a great manufacturing city, but owing to a change in the course of the Gulf Stream, now a lethargic, tropical region. The hour is 5.45 P. M. and the Royal Poinsettia Hotel (formerly Eagle Hotel), owned and managed by Harry Clowcr, is a scene of great activity and excitement, for the Class of January '30 has selected this place as a rendezvous before leaving for Washington, D. C. Invitations have been sent via A. M. T. C. (American Mental Telepathy Company) by President George Rosengarten to his classmates (according to the agreement made in 1930). The class was due to arrive in Washington at 6.00 P. M. and Erwin Davis, owner of the Dodge Rocket Line, had been engaged to transport them thence in his fifteen million horse power rocket. Tyson Matlack, the ace pilot of the company, had donned his flying togs and was rarin' to go. Madge Fox, designer of woman's attire at Wanabridgc's, and May Pomeroy, a celebrated actress who has been so successful in the role of elderly characters, were waiting in the lobby. A burst of merriment and laughter came from a corner of the lobby where Dorothy Edgerly, Editor of College Humor, was regaling several former classmates with her cver ready supply of wit and humor. Marian Hagy, Principal of Cactus High School, made her appearance, accompanied by Helen Watts, the famous surgeon, who had just left the school after lecturing to the biology classes on Transference of Monkey Glands to Humans. A yelping was then heard as Dorothea Hanna entered and proudly displayed three of her pedigreed bloodhounds that had won blue ribbons at the Lansdale Dog Show. Andrew Sherrard, Commander General at West Point, strode through the lobby, resplen dent and erect in his military uniform, politely ordering the hotel attendants about. James McCurdy could be seen pointing out the beauty of the landscape due to his appoint ment as Inspector of Gacti, Alligator Grass, and Weeds. Mrs. Buddy Rogers, nee Carolyn Freyburger, gave those present a thrill by introducing her famous husband. It was feared that Mildred Davis, coach of the Cactus High Basketball Team, would be unable to make the trip as her team was playing the Tokio High Team in Japan in the afternoon. The party was finally aboard the rocket ready to depart when Elizabeth Kerr arrived and explained that her lateness was due to a broken strap on her jumping belt. She declared that upon returning she intended to discharge the inspector in her jumping belt factory. Then Helen Hoffner, proprietress of the Everglades Motion Picture Theatre (formerly Boulevard Theatre), was sighted in the offing, as usual, the last to arrive. Hugh Spacht was taken aboard at his service station where the rocket secured a supply of nitro'glycerine, the fuel used in the ship. Shortly after leaving, the rocket violated the air traffic laws by making a left turn on a red light, but owing to the presence of Francis Smith, chief of the air traffic police, the ship escaped any penalty. Exactly on schedule the rocket arrived at the White House. The party was welcomed by President Rosengarten and Vice-President Jack Wistar, to the strains of O Havcrford ren dered by the famous W. W. (Wild and Woolley) Band conducted jointly by Julian White and Richard Wiley. Ervin Bower was an imposing figure as the President's boyguard, having been appointed to that position as a result of his early training at C. M. T. C. Senator Jesse Kochel from Reading, who had just come from the Senate where he had advocated a high tariff on pretzels, was to be seen chatting with Miss Adela Romanovsky, French interpreter for the President. During the course of a sumptuous banquet, a toast was proposed to the Class of January '30, but water in place of wine filled each goblet in deference to the presence of Helen Scheehle, who had been appointed to succeed Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition Enforcement. As the banquet drew to a close President Rosengarten in his wisdom asked the advice of his guests upon difficult and weighty matters of state which were instantly solved and settled by the most brilliant class to be graduated from Haverford High.