Haverford School - Haligoluk Yearbook (Havertown, PA)

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ELIZABETH B. REMINGTON 6 AN APPRECIATION Standing second from the left in the second row of the lunior School faculty picture is Miss Elizabeth B. Remington, who at the close ot the present school term, will retire from active duty in the Haverford lunior School after thirty-five years of contin- uous service. Miss Remington has watched this department of the school grow from three divisions to seven with steadily increasing enrollment and enlarged faculty. Ever a devoted and untiring worker for the best interest of each individual under her care, a large number of students and alumni bear loyal testimony to her skill. Her former pupils, now teachers, have been a source of great pleasure to her in very recent years. ' Faculty, students, and alumni express appreciation for her devotion and loyalty to all interests of the Haverford School. 5 ix

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HERBERT I. WYCKOFF UEUIEATIUN Mr. Herbert I. Wyckoff retires at the close of this year. Since 1918 he has been an inspira- tion to the hundreds of boys Who have been in his classes. The dedication to him of the 1941 HALIGO- LUK is the sincerest tribute which We, the class of 1941, can pay. We know, furthermore, that our own appreciation for his faithfui and effec- tive service to Haverford will be felt as deeply by the school and by the alumni, Whose privi- lege it was to study under his guidance. THE EDITORS. 4

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COBNEUUS BRETT BCOCOCK, Headmaster. THE HEADMASTEHS MESSAGE With my head covered with curly hair, my neck surrounded by a collar that must have made difficult the passage of air to my lungs, and with my feet and ankles covered with a pair of high, black-laced shoes, I faced the world bravely from the pages of the l9l6 Verdian, the year book of the Nicholas School of Buffalo. A Senior of Haverford School, looking at this picture a few days ago, said, Yes, I suppose a headmaster must have been a schoolboy once. Yet, as l turn the pages of this chronicle of my youth, it seems but yesterday. A touchdown in football counted six points, in baseball, three strikes were out, and in tennis, six games made a set. The record for the hundred-yard dash was 9.8, and a goal in soccer counted one. There has been little change in these sports in a quarter century. The Current Events Test of that year asked for the names and titles of the rulers of Greece, Bulgaria, ltaly, and China. We were asked to locate Bess- arabia, Salonika, Trieste, ond Scutari. lt wanted to know in what field Winston Churchill was famous and who was head of the German war staff. l9l6 was much like l94l. Business was good and taxes were high-at least our fathers thought they were. We didn't know it then, but war with Germany was less than a year away. Boys graduating from school were looking forward to college, and boys graduating from college were looking forward to busi- ness. Few of us realized that before long we would be serving in the military forces of our country. Dickens, in the opening chapter of A Tale of Two Cities, in describing the times, says, lt was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us. ln short, the period was like the present period. Are we back at that cycle? At the movies, when the picture begins to repeat, we say, This is where we came in. Let's go. All right, let's go! Let's go and face the events of tomorrow with a clear eye and a brave heart. Let's do our work to the best of our ability. Let's be men, and no matter what overtakes us, we will have the satisfaction that comes from a job well done.