Lincoln High School - Knight Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ALMA IVIATER Lmcoln Hugh School Alma Mater Mother ofthe strong and talrl Sons and daughters sung thy praises For thy lovmg lastlng care Frrendshlps strong thy bounty fosters Knowledge wlsdom rlght and truth Brrght and gleammg In the sunlight Serve the tleetmg days of youth When In tlme we leave Thy portals May we go with wrder vlslon Toward horizons clear and bold Lmcoln Hugh School Alma Mater Mother of the faur and strong Pledge we now devotron endless To thy gatherlng growing throng N1 llfl Heirs to what the world may hold

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CLASS HISTORY IT was a mass e uncomplefe buuldung fhaT greefed us ThaT fursf day un February l95O So umpressed and excufed were we by uTs ummensufy Thaf even gym classes un unIuT corrudors could nof dampen our enfhusuasm As 7B s we whole hearfedly helped To pIoT Luncolns course We chose The school colors black and gold and The mascof The Luncoln Knughf and unformed our Teachers ThaT aT IasT we The besT yeT had arruved In 8Th grade we began To realuze whaf a really TaIenTed group we were Many of our sTudenTs performed un Luncolns fursT venfure before The fooflughfs The Talenf Show Summer vacafuon flew by we became 9Th graders and could look back happuly on our chuld hood days un uunuor hugh school We felf secure un our posufuon as hugh school freshmen Then ds asfer sfruck We were guven ThaT horror of horrors The four oclock rosTer No longer coud we walk home un The sunshune flashlughfs became necessary eguupmenf for every schoolbag Parfly To revuve our droop ng spuruTs buf prumaruly To make money for exTra currucular acTuvuTues The Jamboree was unuTuaTed IT has sunce become a Luncoln unsTuTuTuon aTTracTung Thousands of unTer esfed specTaTors each year In IOA under The Luncoln Immugrafuon AcT nearly ZOO aluens uouned our ranks from varuous foreugn uunuor hugh schools Soon assumulafed They added a spark whuch helped To druve our I952 fooTbalI Team To uTs publuc hugh champuonshup Thus exfra push also auded our baskefball Team affecfuonafely called The Mayfaur Monsfers un pulung up a long sTrung oT vucforues guvung ouT only af The funal playoffs Our class socual acTuvuTues goT under way wuTh our fursT dance The Sophomore I-lop Aprul Showers The Theme of The hop was well chosen The charm umbrellas proved uneffecfual however agaunsf The downpour greefung us on ThaT Aprul evenung The monfhs sped by and once agaun we found ourselves un The Communufy Room Thus fume for The Junuor Prom Long hours of plannung and prep araTuon helped make Thus semu formal affaur a bug success Many of our class sTuIl refaun Tne memory of ascendung The Sfaurway To The Sfars If seemed as Though There were more and more acTuvuTues as we moved on The Tradufuonal Washung Ton Trup provuded us wuTh a greaT deal of pleasure and a general knowledge of our counfrys capufal and permufTed The nafuon a prevuew of uTs fufure leaders In Sepfember of I954 we came unTo our own We were funally un our senuor year and looked wuTh anfucupafuon Toward whaf The year would brung As we realuzed how soon we were To parT we seemed To grow closer The wudely scaTTered groups of IIB s became unufed we were now a Class Led by our presuclenf Ron Muller we began work on Senuor prouecfs Enfhusuasm ran hugh and many of The class Turned ouT as workers To make Thus IasT year as fune as possuble So occupued were we ThaT before we knew uT Move up Day arruved we became The revered I2Bs and Joe Cavallaro was unaugurafed as presudenf of The school We soon assumed our posufuon as leaders aT Luncoln Busy wuTh pre graduafuon plans concerned wufh scholasfuc achuevemenf and defermuned To make whuch we had prevuously consudered somewhere near unfunufy Our lasT Two weeks aT Luncoln were busy ones We wull always remember The fun fulled Trup up The Hudson and The excuTemenT of The Senuor Luncheon when we saw our yearbooks for The fursf Tume buf mosf of all we wull remember June IOTh our Senuor Prom The occasuon can only be descrubed as gloruous The gurls glamorous and The nughf gloved wufh perfecfuon Then ThaT Nughf arruved' Graduafuon As we Iusfened To The sfrauns of Pomp and Curcum sfance we fully realuzed ThaT The Tume had funally come for The Class of June 55 As we wauked down The ausle and onfo The sfage behund us we ueff The plans and dreams of youfh Before us rose The realufues of adulfhood of Iufe AlThough reuucf anT To leave The securufy of our youfh from The momenf of our graduafuon we faced The challenges of The fufure wufh courage and confudence .Slut-5 Iouuu Iv , ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' u u D , I I - - ' : . . ' . I ' I . . . : I - . . v . a I I - I . I u . .. . our acTivITies The besT, we arrived af The Time I - Q . - W . , . , 1 ' . : ' . , .T . . ' II ' Il - . - . .. . . . I I 1 ' ' ' : ' ' ' .

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