Moorestown Friends High School - Cupola Yearbook (Moorestown, NJ)

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To the Class of 1955 CHESTER L REAGAN Up to thrs ume most of your decrsrons have been dependent on the thxnkrng of adults regulatrons requrred by those rn authorrty and crrcumstances whrch generally affect all adolescents Now out ward restrrctrons will be reduced and you must look wlthrn yourselves for drscrplme Thrs means self control and self drrectron Your own ldeals will be the basrs of your behavior Wrll you evaluate wrth me the quotatron from Cardmal Newman s autob1ography Control thy thoughts that oer thee press and throng They wrll condense wxthxn thy soul and change to purpose strong Thls statement 1mpl1es that one s thoughts may be elther good or ev1l, and that self determmatxon rs necessary Knute Rockne, the well known Notre Dame coach, once sald A good offense rs the best defense Goodness, brotherly love, truth, and servrce thmk on these thmgs Successful results come from careful plannmg Set asrde a trme each day for medrtatxon, evaluatlon and worshrp Guxde your thmkmg by readmg the best of all books, the Bxble Good thoughts insure good purpose Dedrcatlon to rrght convrctxons makes a good l1fe ln trmes of specxal stress and stram thrnk of the tenth verse of Psalm 46 ' Be sull and know that I am God Ay g V 1 up .I 1 'n - , ' ff Y Iy, . . . , . . ,. . . ' '

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CUPGLA 1955 f fi r Q if s .'Z', 'g 'O ei. GSS COFISCIGHCS

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To Mr Reagan Thirty years Headmaster Few people have had as much mfluence over us 1n our hxgh school years as Chester L Reagan He has been our counselor smce our entrance mto the com plex hxgh school world Hrs enthuslastrc support of all our undertakings and hrs helpful advlce tn solvmg the perplexmg problems of our cholce of college and our future plans has been mvaluable Not only has he been a scholar, but an outstanding athlete as well He was a four letter man rn hrs semor year at Earlham College After attaining hrs B S at Earlham rn 1912 and h1s M A in 1922 he earned the degree of Master of Edu catxon from Harvard m 1930 He had come to Moorestown Frtends' School m 1925, havmg been teacher of mathematlcs and coach for the hrgh school tn Franklin, Indrana, Prrncxpal of the Splceland Academy, also ln Indtana, and Assistant Prrncxpal and teacher of mathematrcs at Frlends Select School The atmosphere at M F S was unsettled as a result of the recent consollda txon ofthe Orthodox Academy and the Hxcksrte Frrends Htgh School when Mr Reagan became 1ts Prmclpal One of the provtsrons of the mergmg had been a no danc mg clause Mr Reagan, a strong believer m co-educatron, quickly but tactfully made possible both semor and yumor proms Besides being one of the most avxd backers of the erection of our present hxgh school burldmg, our prmcnpal had the wooden tenms courts erected, saw to tt that the elementary school had a play ground, and caused Dr Thorne s cow to be evicted from her swampy pasture on the glrls hockey frelds Mr Reagan s extracurrxcular actxvmes are numerous he rs a member of the Headmasters Assoclatlon and has held executrve posxtlons m th1s and ln the Quaker Headmasters Assocratron he has been an active member of the Moorestown Rotary We gleefully note that Mr Reagan was also aware of the fact that adults could sometimes use a little educatxon he was one of the people responsible for the adult mght school 1n Moorestown Mr Reagan's First Day School classes have attracted many young adults from outsrde the Meetmg . , . . 0 I - . . . - l OC 9 1 ' . .. . . , . Oli - . . . . ,. . . .. .. . U . . .,, . . . . .. . . . ' , . . ., . . , . I . .. , . . . .. .