Northeast High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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be ecorb Staff MALCOLM EDIVARD MILLER, I RQBERT LEHMAN Editor-'1'n-Chief. B1Lsz'1zc'ss Mafzager. CONYER5 B- GRAHAM, SAMUEL FLETCHER, AA-gigfgylf Editor, I Asszkfnfizt Bzwzfzzcss 1U'!11lUgL'l'. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. Howard T. Knapp, Conrad P. YValdie, Wfilliam A. Wfright, Ritner Kelsey Wfalling, John R. Chapin, john G. Sonneborn, Clarence Garwood Horner, ' Conrad B. Maurer.

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RECORD STAFF Walling Wright Graham Waldie Horner Chapin Knapp Fletcher Lehman Miller Maurer Sonneborn

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4 nts te l .--za' i W -L-- .. , ,,,..,...s:. :' : - 7 f a Q - J , G fi HE early history of every nation or people is more or less buried in the Qffk v A mists and shadows of obscurity. Wlhen the heavy veil of darkness W 4 is lifted by the hand of progress, it always discovers the nucleus of t the future state in a greater or less degree of development. True, the QC? inhabitants may as yet be but mere savages, without culture and re- finement, laws or established government, they may not have, as yet, accomplished any deeds, the knowledge of which will be of any value to posterity. But for all that, they have had a previous history, a history which is forever lost. lhfho they are, where they came from, what agencies and influ- ences moulded their destinies, shaping them into what we now find them, must for- ever remain insolvable mysteries. So the ancient history of the Class of 1904 is obscured from the vulgar gaze by a cloud as dense and impenetrable as any ever emitted by a locomotive burning soft coal. The doings of the members of this class, while still studying geography and arithmetic in the grammar schools, must ever be hidden behind a curtain as transpar- ent as a London fog. And may be it is better so. It might so fall out that some assembled here to-day would not care to have the North American advertise by what a narrow margin they managed to squeeze past the sentinel who guards the en- trance into the high schools of Philadelphia. Sufhce it to say, that by some chicanery or other a few lucky sinners did manage it, and, as they set foot across the border, a new epoch was begun in their lives, a new chapter commenced in the annals of Old Northeast. The history of the Class of 1904 was begun! And such a class! Gathered from all the four points of the compassg from Ger- mantown, Kensington, Foxchase, Frankford, as well as from the c'iz'i1i.GUd quarters of the city. Wfe were indeed a motley crowd. W'hen the light of our history dawned on September 9, 1901, it shed its welcome rays over two hundred hfty-three innocent, emerald-hued little kids, all, figuratively and literally, clamoring for admission to that classic pile known as the Northeast 10