Northeast High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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fn- 4' K A ' NORTHEAST 53 J JUNE l928 'Y sa 11--'Z -Q' cv Address Qwen by L Mmiidell frm Aleceptmg time C01 mid own ACCEPT the up and gown on behalf ot the lunc Cliss of 1978 Mr President we hiv. ilvx iys lr ok cl up to youi tliss is in cxinipc emulate your records l extend my congritulations and wish th linuiry Class of 1928 all the success in the world whether they seek a higher educi tion or chose other held of cndc ixor X I Address on Presentmvf the C01 J: cmd own OW We come to the more serious put of our program Thit of the transler of the cap ind gown The present B Fla S hi been in outstanding one not only scholastic illy but ithletic illy is well It is thot fore fitting that at this time vm should present thc president ol their class lohn Brownlee and following the traditions of Class Day pass on this c ip and gown to him Tzuentx ix , + - ' ,giiii Q' e vi A 5 as ease e K fa c Y W - T -K ,mg5g.- ca - e-F--e -+v -- -Q . X -- rj .L t ' , qv- - 1 ' ' e X'g.c.,,' f G+' A' Q e - eg c vc ,ees ' x -f 1 a l Q x a f 1- . K C L E I - c A- 1 . 1' e , 5 z 'X 2 fi 5 1 e ' :Q 1 lf in scholastic and athletic activities. It is our hope that we may be able to ' ' . B ' A 1 ' ' 3 Q e sz z A u KN - ' x v x 9 - x u f ' Q. -1 , X 7 ' -, l . ' 'D -l S A 3 51 ' . ,QW f fZf ' if ii 5 7 l Q 'I 3 ' 3 5 53 . K 2 4 ' i 'K . 2 Q 3 f 45 A 5 xv I v 5 3 5 SL qx I if 1 1 53 , 1 . . A 4 5, m N 4 .' ' a L. it ' 1 'I ai '. fe' A A ' I 3 ye ERS 3 I 3 1 B. ' K':, D , x : .er , ee 'z

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+ 0+ -Q' NORTHEAST G E JUNE l928 + 'ihwy cv f The Class Prophecy OMEONE once sa1d that t1me warts for no man Thls ln reallty seems to be the truth as It has eaused 227 students just ten years to Wdlf IH order to achleve thenr hve s amb t1ons It IS the twentieth day of une nmeteen hundred and thlrty elght and these preelous 777 world beaters have been ejeeted from thelr Alma Mater Northeast H1911 Sehool for preclsely ten years The wrlter had spent a busy afternoon 1n hrs englneerlng ofhees havmg d1sposed of three 5 eent msuranee agents and was preparmg to elose for the day Albert Stover my partner was glvmg mstruetlons to the clerk bookkeeper stenographer and ofliee boy eombmed one Wlllldm Sehe1del when the phone bell vlgorously rang Wlth thoughts of that rare e mmodlty customers ln my bram I dashed to the mstrument to Hnd that Mr Howard Colehovy r requested Albert s and my pres nces at the Annual Banquet of the Amerlean Engmeermg Soclety Aeeeptlng we deelded to make the trrp by alrplane and jumped lnto 1 Yellovy IIXI mstruetlng the drlver to take us to the Avlatlon Field Would th it we had recrgnl ed the dr1ve1 before he reeogmzed u for tveas no other than that lmpetuous athlete Harry S Redeker Harry evxdently remembered hrs schoolboy days and celebrated our presence wlth three aee1dents He f1rst demolrshed a Ford drlven by B111 Schoenhut wlth K1mber Lee and Hugo Merkle as pa sengers H1s next v1ct1m was a steam shovel owned by the Emll B Weber Construttxon Company plloted by the Messrs D j Forden and L Elsenburg Last but not least we hut an lee wagon drlven by George Kills knoeklng from the rear of the wagon one Frank Kmg hrs brother who was servlng the rec Fmally arrlvmg at the field very much the worse for our tr1p we bought our tckets from Charlle Brltsch and boarded the plane Our treket shovyed that Brantley Elllott was the Pres1dent of the A1r Corporatlon Raymond Gross was Vlee Presxdent Harry Martln was ehlef stockholder and horror of horrors john Stephenson was the Treasurer' Cpposxte to us sat Edgar Everett and W F Albrecht both of whom were prom1nent electrlexans They told us that G and j E Hartman were foremen vtorklng for the Turklsh Eleetrlc Company yyhrle A L Zwerner and E11 Morton vyere a soerates to the great lnventor Edward Weber Our tlckets were collected by Conductor Harold Mueller who ev1dently was up to his old trlcks of collectmg money The plane was plloted by Albert Eckelmeyer and what a p1lot he was' We narrowly m1SS6d the top floor of the sky scraper known as the Northeast Co ed Hlgh School deslgned by W11l1am Fedell and Charles H111 and bullt by the joseph Haefelm and Earl Lmd Companles And our meehanle' He was ealled Charlie Braunwarth back at Northeast but that 1sn t what Samuel Axelrod called h1m when he dropped a monkey wrench on Sam s head Such IS llfe' Readmg a tablo1d newspaper over an old lady s shoulder I saw where Wllllam K R1ChmdD had just graduated from Bryn Mawr and was conslderlng takmg a post graduate eourse at Penn State Another artlele told of the sale of Clty Hall Annex from jumor Hyman to Carl Kugler for thlrty five eents negotlated by the Leslle A Wr1ght Real E tate Broker Company A th1rd mentloned that Teddy Splcer was the prmclpal speaker at the openlng of the nevy art museum on the Parkvyay Charlie Chlrkms plcture was 1n one of the advertlsements announcmg that he used Amsterdam s Face Powder ln a vam attempt to keep that schoolboy complexxon Eck finally brought us safely to the ground m1SSlI1g by lnches the plane that Thomas Chorley the Engllshman was usmg to fly to Saturn or some other fool place Nobody cared any way except hrs backers R E Faust and Frank E Hahn a mov1e man w1th VISIOHS of wealth Fearful of taklng any more tax1 cabs we started to walk to the Banquet Hall Seemg a large crowd around a pollee box we elbowed our way rn and beheld Patrolmen S Rlley and C Murphy arrestmg Belvm J Evans for sellmg unpatented soup SIYAIIIEYS at less than eost pr1ce Rushmg from the scene of the tragedy we came upon the ball park where a large slgn announced that Wayne Fretzs Phrladelphxa Athletrcs were playmg Nelson Strrretts Yankees H S Magmn collectmg Twenty eight 2 Aung. , S mi Try, I - '1 ' -154,59 . 7 19,-W, I' Q T7 ' 'Lf 1 i rip' j 3 Q ,.., -, Q ' 1 P H 1 , ' S 3 5 . . 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