Ridley Park High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Ridley Park, PA)

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Z HICH QCHOOI X Q1 To COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION HERMAN DANIEL MUEHSAM ESTHER KATHRYN MOORE MARGARET ANN MINK MARY WINSMORE IEROY JAMES ELLIS WILLIAM PAINTER WOOD ARNOLD ALLAN BROWN IOHN OBERLE MARY JOSEPHINE DEMPSEY ANNA LORENIA STARK MARION JOHNSON Assoczate Edztofs LORETVIA VERONICA TREFZ ELIZABETH GERTRUDE KILGALLEN CORNELIA COZINA VERHEY RUTH MARIE COOKE LOICE ETHEL JANKE ELEANOR HOOPMAN CATHERINE MOORE LOUIS PALKOVICS ROBERT ELDER VON SICK Business Bom d DAVID DUDLEY BONNET STEPHEN EDWARD MAGILL WILLIAM MARKOE STREIT Copy Edztovs CLARENCE STANLEY SMITH KATHERINE ALICE GREIM Staff Adzzsors RALPH BOYD SHARER KATHRYN PRICE L,l.9 .. .. N 1211 O . . I O A Ai? ,427 - Editor-in-Chief

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RIDLEY PARK SENIOR CLASS ORGANIZATIONS ALUMNI Llmabeth Kllgallen Mal13H Johnson Angelo Bagattln ATHLETICS John Obel le Clalenc Slnlth Agnes Moole BUDGET Anna Stalk QIBICDCQ Smlth Steven Maglll CANDY Maly Dempsey Isabelle Fullelton Ce0rgeAnlle Van Dvlle Colnella Velhev CAP AND COWN M3116 BHIIOW Nola MacD0nnell Andl ew Houllston CLASS BANNER Fleanol Hoopman lack Nlehols CI ASS NIC HT Geolge Bnllln HdlXCY Rlgill Balt Rees ENTERTAINMENT ESth61 M0019 Robelt M1Bkl8Y Alnold Blovsn Iq3.thlVl'1 SIITIIUOYIS EXECUTIVE Stephen Maglll George Belllll Ollve Davls Anna Stalk Clalenc Snllth FRESHMAN RECEPTION Loretta TrefL Paul Bulgess Ieloy Ellls GIFT Cathellne M0010 Salah Balton PLAY Maly WIHSDIOIQ Kathlyn GIGIITI James MacNanlee Fdwald Ottclbuln PROf RAM Colntlla Vuhu Ruth Cooke Ioletta Tltfl C ICV Hutchmson fl fi! PUBLICITY WIISOH Hoopes Dolothy Elsenhans Cathallne Coleman SCHOLARSHIP Blanche Fulton SUSIE Talval USHER Hel man Muehsam James MacNamee LOUIS Palkovlcs Thomas Pratt Flank Nledzwledskl WAYS AND MEANS RODGIL Von Slck Malgalet Mlnk WASHINGTON TRIP Davld Bonnet Dolothy Ford Isabelle Fullelton WELFARE I 0166 Jank fllb0lt Mohl Wllllam Wood YEAR BOOK Helman Muehsam Mallan Johnson 1 'rn ' w 1 ' .' f- ' y . . ' 1 7 4 u' L A K - -.Q ' - ' ' ' e . . 1 , ' . . e ' , . I 4 i . . V. , , . A, ,. E 3 ' n I A . ' 4 I' n 4 1 ' I A ' , v , Joseph Hager , 1 ' - I ' J . J . , . . A ' , V3 I 4 ' 1 f l' n u I , 1 I 1 . . , . 1 A L L I 1 I X I X ' 'xy ' - A . ' . . .HJ Z 6 1 . .A ,I . A A 1 v ' n A ' 1 r :- . I l n , l f, 3,2

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ix RIDIEY PARK X TO THE CLASS OF 32 HESE are graduation days for the members of the Class of 32 It marks the end of a high school course yet let us hope it will not mark the end of an education Unless your experience here serves as a basis upon which to build higher and more worthy struc tures your four years have not been most profitably spent A few years from now you who have taken Latin would no doubt experience some embarrass ment if called upon to give the pluperfect subjunctive of a Latin verb and you who took Chemistry would find yourself quite unable to reproduce the formula for even the simplest chemical reaction These particulars howevei well learned escape the memory with the passing of years Yet as Cicero said in defending his friend Archias and the studies he had pursued through life These studies nourish youth and delight old age they travel with us What is it that remains when details are forgotten? One thing that remains as a result of study is the power to understand and interpret other men s minds It is only through such understanding that appreciations can be developed Engineers tell us that the great failures in the engineering profession are due not to any lack of the mastery of materials but a lack of insight into human nature Engineers understand their materials better than they understand their men They know what will hold up a bridge but not what will hold together the workers who must build it Failures in teaching we are told are not so much the result of a lack of knowledge of subject matter and of courses of study as it is a lack of understanding of the individual being taught. One of the most important products of learning then is the ability to under- stand human nature. One other thing that should travel with us is the capacity to carry old methods into new situations and solve problems we never faced before. When Admiral Dewey sailed into Manila Bay he was moving among dangerous mines through waters he had never sailed. Years before he had sailed with Farragut up the Mississippi and using the same courage and the same scientific method in the Philippine harbor as on the American river he accomplished his goal. We are attracted to Colonel Lindbergh not so much because he fiew across the Atlantic as because the coolness courtesy and courage acquired among the simple surroundings of a western home are now being so nobly applied in a situation the most trying that any man can be called upon to endure. l . Facts soon go from us unless we continue to use them. But methods insights appreciations understandings values-extracted from many studies-these abide and travel with us through the years. So may it be with the Class of 32. JOSEPH LAYTON NIOORF. 3 l'J Tm