Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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Foreword There has been a continuing educational institution at Mercersburg since 1836 fMarshall College and then Mercersburg Collegej, and so when Dr. Irvine founded The Mercersburg Academy in 1893 as a boys' preparatory school, hc inherited among other things two literary societies in a long tradition of public- speaking and debating history. These two groups, The Wasliington Irving Society and The John Marshall Society, have played a tremendous part in the life of the institution for the past 65 years.SAt first there were annual prize debates on the Saturday nearest to Wasl1i11gtox1's birthday, and then there developed a tradition of team contests. The Irving Society was founded in 1865 and was known as the Mercersburg Society until 1866. It took as its motto, '60nward and Upward. This was later changed. The early history of the Marshall Society is obscure, but we find in the record a reference to a meeting in Diagnothian Hall in 1870, at which time a temporary organization was effected, and a connnittee was formed to tran- scribe the constitution. Its motto was G'Hold Fast to That Which is Good? Thus the club must have been in existence before that date. In the fall of 1893 these two groups met to reorganize. Their history has been continuous ever since that time. 9 In an era when great store was set on debating, the activities of these societies became an important part of the fabric of Mercersburg life. Meeting weekly in scrub, prelim, and proper, the various sections debated the burning problems of the day and as a by-product set up a spirit of rivalry which reached into every portion of school life. The annual inter-society debate was the highlight of the Mid-winter festivities and still is, but the paths which lead to it have changed. In appreciation of what the WHSlllllgl0Il Irving and John Marshall Literary Societies have meant to Mercersburg and with the realization that the course of a boy through school should be a steady progress and development and that once having achieved, he should cling to those ideals whicll he has acquired, the staff of the 1958 KARUX has kept before it in preparing this book the two mottoes, Onward and Upward,'7 and uHold Fast to That Which is Good.

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I odds VM I Q SSSIIIZE ? I Z S Q The 1958 , 4 M get Lf ? , - f Ed! 1. ...S . A - u w o 1' ii I AD 4 ...ie A' I Stephen R. Kozloff, Editor-in-Chief John M. Denson, Associate Editor Robert M. Kerstein, General Manager Lawrence R. Buck, James R. McKee, Photographers Introduction . . 4- Contents Social Life. . . Dedication ....... 6 Sports .. Guides fFacultyj . . . 9 Classes . . . Spirit .,........ . 35 Directory .. . Honors . . . 45 Advertising ............. . . Press . . . . 56 Patrons and Patronesses. . . . . . Staff Editorial Szaj: Ri.-ARK E. COHEN, DENNIS R. EYLER, A. MARTIN FLEISHMAN, TERRY A. INGERSON, E. JOSEPH WEST. Staff: PHILIP I. ABRAMS, STANLEY L. ABRAMSON, TERRY R. ALLEN, GUY K. ANDERSON, ROBERT H. ANGELL, L. SCOTT BARKSDALE, JR., ROBERT A. BATCHELOR, RICHARD M. BEATTY, JOSEPH O. BUNCE, III, KENNETH B. DALZELL, JAMES D. FALLON, WILLIAM M. FISHER, JOHN T. FRIEDLINE, WILLIAM J. IHLENFELD. RANDALL D. JONES, JOSEPH E. KALBACH, MARCUS KATZEN, ROSS W. LENHART, JAY N. MACHT, JAY D. MCCOLLOUCH, DAVID L. MYERS, ERIC P. REIF, STEPHEN A. SALKELD. JAMES R. SCHUMACHER. Faculty Adviser: ROBERT R. BLACK, assisted by HAMPTON P. ABNEY, III. 65 80 108 145 156 164