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

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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

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Rini BY PARK CLASS ADVISORS MRS MARGARET ELLIS NEVIN After M1 Moore had successfully guided us through our Freshman year we elected Mis Nevin then Miss Ellis as our Class Advisor for our Sophomore year As a class and as individuals we owe much to Mrs Nevin for the invaluable advise and aid which she gave to us in all ou1 scholastic ventures Not only did Mrs Nevin aid in coaching the school play The Ama7ons but she also gave her valuable help when we sold Christmas Cards in an at tempt to increase our bank balance It was with a great deal of regret that we learned that Miss Lllls was to leave our faculty at the end of the 1928 1929 school veal MISS MARJORIE IOHNSON Miss Iohnson as oui Junior Advisor first show d us how neccssaiv enthuslasm and stick to itneness are in making anv venture scholastic or otherwise a success In coaching our first class play Captain Applejack Miss Iohnson left no doubt in the minds of anyone as to which production was going to be the classs best In all activities just as in this one Miss John on s wonderful cooperation has made us f el that we owe her a great deal for any success which our class may have attained MR. RALPH BOYD SHARER His earnest concern for the welfare of each individual student as well as for the class as a whole has made our Senior Class Advisors duties something more and something better than merely that of advising. Of his aid in coaching our play advising the Ye Ridlymz guiding our financial budget and the countless other ways in which Mr. Sharer has helped us too much cannot be said. Suffice it to say that each of us has received his help and each of us will remember Mr. Sharer with thc fondest munories 'md kindest thoughts. Til'1'fC'r'