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( uote • • • “The many activities of high school are culminated in the graduation exercises. The purpose of the graduation program is that of symbolizing a mastery of a challenge and the passing of an important milestone in the lives of our young people. As the passing of each milestone on any journey reveals a new horizon, so graduation un- veils new horizons of opportunity and of challenge. Graduation from high school, therefore, is not only an end but also a beginning; it is the beginning of new opportunity for greater individual growth, and, also, the be- ginning of greater responsibility and greater challenge. The world of man is dynamic; it is on the move for better or for worse. In man’s expanding mastery over his physical world lies his greatest opportunity to make his world a better place in which to live. It is in man’s mastery of himself wherein lies the challenge.” WILLIAM F. NYE, B.S., M.S. Junior High School Principal A “For the first time in many years, the [ familiar picture and comments of Jay W. L Worrall, the former Supervising Principal, will be missing. His passing in the late summer of 1957, closed a dedicated career’ in the field of education which spanned near- ly a half century, thirty-three years of which were spent at Marple-Newtown. His interest in and efforts for the young people of our communities can best be remembered by what he called the dignity of labor. His opinion was that every vocation is impor- tant, and that there are no menial tasks. To the members of this graduating class, I extend my best wishes for your health, happiness, and success. No matter what your choice of vocation, give to it the ut- most effort and dignity, and you will be richly rewarded; you will experience per- sonal satisfaction worth far more than any monetary reward.” HERBERT E. RATHEY, B.S., M.S. Acting Supervising Principal
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It was a long way to Philadelphia in those days, and the people of Marple-Newtown Townships never thought of themselves as suburban. This was farm country; rural is more the word for it. It was on April 27, 1914, four months before World War 1 started, that Marple-Newtown High School was established. The sturdy red-brick building stood on five acres of land given to the townsmps by their community-minded friend. Doctor John G. Thomas. This was to be an agricultural and vocational school, which is just what the townships needed. There were thirty-one pupils that year, and they were taught by three teachers. Nine years after the founding of the school, a young University of Pennsylvania graduate took the job of Supervising Principal. His name was Jay W. Worrall. Because of the limited faculty at the time, Mr. Worrall had to step in and teach Latin to the academic students. Mr. Harry R. Harvey, who arrived in 1927 to teach the business courses, recalls how the principal would remind his class over and over again, “In Latin A is pronounced AH.” As the years went by, the school moved the emphasis from agriculture to academic and business prep- aration. In 1927, the year everyone was dancing the Charleston, a gymnasium annex was added to the original building. The pupils of Marple-Newtown were always busy improving their school life with fresh new activities. In 1932 they mimeographed a school newspaper. This was the first “Mar-News”. The next year, with a faculty of eight behind them, the students put the mimeograph machine to work again and produced the first senior yearbook. “Memories was born the next year when the class of 1934 printed a twenty-four page yearbook. Miss Helen Yeingst came to M-N in September 1934 and has since done everything in this school from supervising the Hi-Q team to directing the senior play. It was the year the dirigible “Von Hindenberg” exploded in New Jersey that a youthful Edgar Raffensberger came to M-N to teach. History continued to be made all over the world in those fateful years, and Marple-Newtown gravely looked on. 1941 -- THE UNITED STATES WAS AT WARI M-N stood behind the nation and never neglected her duty. The old Honor Roll of war veterans that hung in the first floor hall of the old building told the grim story of those M-N graduates who had fought and died for their country. The years that followed were yearsof progress. A new emphasis was put on education. As the population of the two townships increased, the need for school growth also increased. In September of 1950 Mr. Herbert E. Rathey arrived at Marple-Newtown and became principal of the joint Junior and Senior High School. No longer can the original eight school rooms of 1914 be seen. They were destroyed on April 9, 1956 -- the day of the school fire. With the fire came the end of an era; the old was gone. Now we look forward to the new.
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