Ridley Township High School - Archive Yearbook (Folsom, PA)

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MISS MIRIAM CAMLIN MISS ADA MUCDONALD BS and MS Unuv of Penna Gundance Durector MISS BENETTA SNIVELY MISS RUTH WASSER MR PETER YACYK COUNSELING t1Ofw OT MTMTG SUCCESS Many tnmes a student can be more successful nf he has the help of a person who understands has problems can analyze has personalnty and gunde hum In choosong a career The Gundance Department furmshes such counselors Each student has the opportunnty to dnscuss wlth has counselor any problems he may have enther at home or nn school Specnal assnstance ln selectung courses best fitted to the nndnvudual ns gnven In the sophomore and lunuor years All semors plannlng a hsgher educatuon receuve and un selectnng and applymg to college arshups For those gomg nmmeduately unto the busmess world a placement servnce as oFfered whereby all commercial students are placed nn 'obs most suntable for their qualnficatuons A complete group testnng program as supervised by the department The school psycholognst admmusters nndnvndual lntellngence and personallty tests Specnal problems are referred to hum MR HORACE MILLIKIN BS and EdM Temple Unlv Psychologist ,- W... Mass R Wasser sensor counselor listens attentuvely and renders Results from the Natlonal Merlt Scholcrshlp Exammataon are expert advice as F Slate revlews hrs college appllcatuon received by K Dull from Miss A MacDonald guidance director . -, X 33 4 Qi R Ia 4 5 M ts f f The Guidance Department keeps interested students informed of available schol- 3 P

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MR NORMAN B L FERGUSON MA DePauw Unnv PRINCIPAL To the class of 1958 When we thunk of the future we are prone to thunk un terms of today s young men and women to whom the future wnll belong At the begnnmng of the last decade when the growmg strength of totalltaruan states threatened the human rughts and lnberty fostered by western cuvnlnzatnon we looked to our young people to flght the battles that would preserve the prunclples we cherish Now we are faced agam wlth a seruous threat to our way of lnfe Agaun we look to our young men and women to carry on the fight for democracy In thus crnsus however we know that the decnsuve battles are more apt to be won In the classroom and laboratornes than on the land and sea and un the aur Never be fore has educatnon seemed so Important to our exnst ence as a natuon The advance of scuentuflc knowledge has placed great power ln our hands and ns brmgmg great changes nn our maternal luves The rate of maternal progress ns becommg so rapnd that nt us dulflcult to fore cast the condltlons of llfe twenty years hence But nf the young men and women to whom tomorrow be MR VAN S EVANGELOU MA Umv of New Hampshure ASST PRINCIPAL longs hold fast to the gundmg pruncuples that have made our democracy a cherushed way of lnfe the fu ture wnll be good whatever maternal changes take place The members of the Radley Townshup Class of 1958 have guven evidence of ablluty to do theur part In to morrow s world They have exhnblted qualntues of pos: tlve leadershap and have wnllmgly accepted the re sponsubnlmes of school lnfe They have demonstrated thenr abnlnty to dlstmgulsh sound prunclples from false doctrmes and have shown thenr wnllnngness to stand on the sude of rught and to fight for at We preduct confidently that the members of thus class wlll take theur place un tomorrows world wnth no less honor to themselves than those who have been graduated from our school before them Congratulatuons and best wushesl Smcerely s n .., . .., . 1 O O 1 . , . . - I - 1 , . , . , . - 1 - I I I ' 1 . u ' I ' I - .

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MISS HELEN HOFFMAN AB Swarthmore College BS Temple Umv Depaflmenl Head MR CLAUDE BUCHANAN AB Penn State MRS MARTHA BURKE MISS ALICE DITZLER AB Duckmson College Seniors pause during classwork ln Engllsh IV whlle Mass H Hoffman suggests an excellent article for extra currlcular reading from the Reader s Digest e ectwe use of ENGLI H Into whatever world we venture as we leave hugh school good Englnsh will prove an essentlal part of our llves It as true that no man llves unto himself for we all have an In fluence on the world In whnch we luve Clear and effective commumcatnon of our Ideas will enable us to make a greater lmpressxon on those with whom we come nn contact One ofthe mam obpectuves ofthe Englush Department ns to encourage lntelllgent crltncal thlnkmg In analyzing and eval uatung that whuch we read and hear Thus IS attained through drull In grammar and composltuon book reports and the study of llterature Each sophomore ns Introduced to the varlous types of later ature the short s'ory blography autoblography and the essay Silas Marner and A Tale of Two Cltles, two of lltera ture s finest works are read by underclassmen An acquanntance wtth the luterature of our own counlry IS necessary If we are to understand the growth and develop ment of our Amer can democracy Members of the lunlor class receive an excellent background un the relnglous polltl cal and purely creative wrltlngs of such American writers as Franklnn Thoreau and Emerson Shakespeare s Macbeth stands out ln the munds of sensors as do the orugnnal essays short stones and poems that cre ahve mnnds have composed The English Department contmually endeavors to relate Engllsh to our lndlvudual everyday lnves since It plays such a vltal role m everythmg we do bfi MRS. EVELYN GATT MR. FELIX MARION MRS. JANE SMITH M.A. Montclair S. T. C. B.S. Fordham Univ. B.S. Univ. of Penna.