Sinking Spring High School - Imago Yearbook (Sinking Spring, PA)

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PROF. HARRY E. SOWERS Supervising Principal and Social Studies Born at Auburn. Pennsylvania. 1897. Graduated from Auburn High School in 1915. Attended Keystone Normal School 1916; Athenaeum Business College. Fort Wayne. Ind., 1918; Graduated from Muhlenberg College. Allentown. Pa.. 1923. Ph. B. Degree; Graduate work: Muhlenberg College. 1925; Lafayette College Easton. Pa.. 1927; Lehigh University, Bethlehem. Pa.. 1929-30-31. will receive M. A. in 1932. Teaching ex perience. 12 years.

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A Message From Our Supervising Principal To the members of the Class of 1931: As you face the world to-day, which is changing ever more rapidly, you must carry with you, from your high school training, certain fundamental skills and habits by means of which you may the more effectively assert your personality among the men and women of the future. The goal of your high school training was set along a line of procedure which had primarily this end in view. The various achievements you have attained and the activities you have promoted are ample proof of your ability to attain these external ends and master many of those pre-ordained habits and attitudes which the tradition of your Alma Mater and the prevai'ing systems of thinking have demanded of you. But such ends and procedures can never be permanently satisfactory, especially to young and e-rowing minds. The real roal for education is to continued growing is the essence and end of it. Only better actions Education is in life and for life. Continued growng is the essence and end of it. Only thus can it fit a growing world. Changes in affairs demand loudly for changes in thought and action. The habits of thinking you may have acquired, the standards you have learned to recognize, may all be criticised and subjected to change as the resulting facts of life demand. I wish I might set for you a new goal as embodied in that type of person who is able and disposed to think and decide for himself; to think freely, without the warp of prejudice, decide unselfishly, preferring the social good to any merely private good or gain. Such a roal places the value upon individual personality. Whatever your high school training may have done for you should be reflected in the individual Dersonalities you will represent in the rapidly changing conceptions of life which you will experience within the coming years. Never fear to assert your personality. after you have thought it throughly and are sonality. after you have thought it through thoroughly and are convinced that you are right, for your courage and will power will shape many other minds to believe as you do. We hope that we may follow you through in your progress with a firm and conscious assurance that we shall see many of you fulfill the richness of the promise of life which we now see in store for you. Harry E. Sowers. Supervising Principal ssssssasaa? $8S28382S3 £ Business Manager—Chester Bright. Art Editors—Blanche Machemer. Dorothy Cassel, Arlene Grlng. Circulation Manager—Richard SchifTer. Sports Editors—Christian Harnish. Dorothy Potteiger Humor Editors—Ethelyn Wilk, William Moyer. Exchange Editor—Ruth Harpel. Alumni Editor— Pau'ine Lutz. Reporters: 12th Grade; Flora Cassel. Vera Yerger. Elsie Yoh. 11th Grade: Paul Sallade. Charles Ruth. 10 Grade: Harry Reddig. Ardell Moyer. 9‘h Grade: Roberta Cassel. £th Grade: Florence Allen. 7th Grade: Grace Mogel. Faculty Advisors: Principal Harry E. Sowers. Miss Ruth Snyder. 83S3S8S 88S8 388SS8S8 6S: CRAFT CLUB The Craft Club has been very active during the past year. They have been doing many things whic are instructive as well as a pleasure. The:' have made beautiful cushion tops. Many jar3 have been painted and stenciled and made into beautiful vases. Weaving of baskets and shopping bags ha b en one of their crafty works Odd things as telephone pods, sachet bags and lamp shades have also been made. The officers cf the club are as follows: Pres.—Ruth Brubaker Treaurer—Mrs. John Lambert Secr- tary—MarilouLse Freeman sasasmaafis Press Club One of the most daring undertaking for the year bv way of extra-curricular activities was the organization of a Press Club. This organization was sponsored bv Mr Sowers and assisted by Miss Snyder of the English department. The Club gave us a peep into journalism and advertising. The title of the publication was Sinking Spring Echo . One of the happy features about it was the fact that we produced it as well as comoosed it. It was tvped, stenciled and mimeograohed in the school. Had it been printed by ?ome commercial printing companv we should have ost sight of one important phase of the work. There were four numbers published during the year exclusive of this year-book number which is being partly spon-rored by the Press Club. All types of talent began to reveal Itself in the production of this school paper. Some excelled in art. some in humor, some literary, etc. The outstanding feature, however, seems to have been the art. Blanche Machemer played the chief role with Dorothy Cassel and Arlene Gring assisting. These were the chief values and outcomes as far as the school is concerned but there was another great va’ue which resu’ted from this publication is the advertising which it gave for the school in the community as well as in other communities through which it was circulated It was a means of creating a community interest in the public schools. The officers of the Club were as follows: Editor-in-chief—Eugene Weidman. Associate Editor—Miriam Schrack.

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HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY MRS. JOHN M. LAMBERT Latfn. Social Studies and Health Mverstown High School. 1918; Albright College. 1922 —A. B.; Schuylkill College; Albright College. Experience. 9 years. MISS Rl’TH N. SNYDER English Reading High School for Girls. 1924; Hood College. 1926; Mt. Holyoke College. 1929-A. B. Experience, first year. PAUL F. FREED Mathematics, and Physical Education Allentown High School. 1921. Muhlenburg College. 1926—B.S ; Stroudsberg Teachers College. 1930. Experience. 2 years. ROY T. MERKEL Science and Geography Kutztown High School. 1926; Franklin and Mar shall College. 1930—B. S. Experience, first year