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

Text from Pages 1 - 40 of the 1932 volume:

Seniors Ilrmctpal’s jHessage to Seniors Our present economic conditions have greatly inconvenienced many people and has wrought misery and horrors in its wake, but it has also had some beneficial effects. In the first place it has made us more humane and considerate—respect and sympathize for those who are less fortunate. It has had another constructive effect, this is the one I wish to present to the graduates who are now about to launch out upon a new world. This year's graduates, as graduates in all previous years, have looked forward to the day when they should receive their credentials and diplomas. This ceremony seemed to be the end of their entire pub’ic school career. I. too. admit that it is a high spot in the life of youth, but I am also quite willing to confess that it is a crucial event in life. You. as graduates. are now thrown upon your own initiative. Heretofore. your parents, your community, your board of education, your teachers have assumed the responsibility to guide you and assist you. The majority of these agencies now relinquish their part. You now face the task of decision. You must decide for yourself what shall be your pursuit in life. This is vital. It shall either spell success and happiness or else failure and doom. Whichever it shall be. depends upon how much serious thought and determined effort you are willing to give. A decade or two ago a high school graduate could secure a very remunerative position with very little effort. To-day the picture is quite different. Our industrial. economic, and social construction place a premium upon efficiency. Only those who are fitted and well equipped and prepared can hope to survive. Young men and women must compete as does business to-day. With our enormous army of men and women graduating yearly from institutions of higher learning seeking employment, possessing a considerable advantage over the ordinary men and women, and only a limited number of jobs and positions existing. only the fittest can ever hope to win out. The solution to the problem and Uie hope for the youth lies solely in the determination and the willing, ness to strive toward a definite purpose in life. My advice to you. the members of the Class of 1932. as you are about to pass through the portals of this high school for the last time, is to aim at a definite goal, diligently apply yourself toward its attainment, and consecrate yourself to it when once achieved. and success will attend you. Opportunity, though considerably minimized, still knocks at your door. Take advantage while you may. for she abides but for a season. 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 1933. Teaching experience 13 years. S iuuil Itacultu MRS. JOHN M. LAMBERT Latin. Social Studies and Health Myerstown High School. 1918; Albright College. 1922—A. B.; Schuylkill College; Albright College; Columbia University 1932. Experience 10 years. PAUL F. FREEII Mathematics, and Physical Education Allentown High School. 1921; Mwhlenburg College. 1926—B. S.; Stroudsberg Teachers College. 1931. Experience. four years. •' i iiiMimunfo11 MISS RUTH N. SNYDER English Reading High School for Girls. 1924; Hood College. 1926; Mt. Holyoke College. 1929 —A. B. Experience two years. ROY T. MERKEL Science and Geography Kutztown High School. 1926; Franklin and Mar shall College. 1930—B. S. Experience, two years. VIOLA M. KIRK END ALL Commercial Scranton Central High School 1927; Cedar Crest College 1931—B. S. Experience first year. ETHEL IIA MAKER Dental Hygienist Preparation: Rochester Dental Dispensary. Certification: Diploma. Experience: 1 year. PEARL LORENE OTT Teacher, Home Economics and Health Liberty High School 1925—B. S. Cedar Crest Col lege 1931. Experience, first year. ANGUS H. DOUPLE Preparation Kutztown State Teachers College 1930. Certification: Art Supervisors Certificate. Experience: two years. MRS. ESTHER E. HIESTER Teacher of Sixth Grade Preparation: Keystone State Normal School. Certification: Normal School Diploma. Experience: 10 years. MISS BERNICE E. BROWN Teacher of Fifth Grade Preparation: Kutztown State Teachers College. Certification: Normal Certificate. Experience: two years. MISS JENNIE R. FISHER Teacher of Fourth Grade Preparation: Keystone Normal School—A. N.. Palmer School. Beckley College. Penn State College. Certification: Normal Diploma. Experience: nine years. MISS CAROLINE P. GRIMES Teacher of Third Grace Preparation: Keystone Normal School. Penn 8tate College. Columbia University. Certification: Normal Diploma. Experience: 11 years. MRS. GRACE BKIGEL EISLEY Teacher of Second Grade Preparation: West Chester State Teachers College. Certification: Normal Diploma. Experience: six years. MRS. SARAH B. McCAULEY Teacher of First Grade Preparation: Keystone State Normal School. Certification: Normal Diploma. Experience: six years. MISS DORIS G. ACKERMAN Music Bangor High 8chool, 1927; West Chester State Teacher College. 1931—A. B. Experience, first year. IRVIN BROSSMAN Wernersville. Penna. Instructor In Manual Training Twenty-Seventh Annual Commencement Program OVERTURE:—“The Goddess of Liberty. ’ Emil Isenman. Opus 4f 9 Wyomissing String Ensemble PAGEANT “THE GRADUATE'S SEVEN GUIDES ACT I. Class History” SELECTION — “Meditation B. C. Fauconler Wyomissing String Ensemble ACT II. SCENE I. The Seven Guides SELECTION— Dance of the Happy Spirits C. W. von Gluck Wyomissing String Ensemble ACT II. SCENE II. Vocations SELECTION— Serenade in Four Movements W, A. Mozart Wyomissing String Ensemble ACT III. Password to Success SELECTION— Rigaudon -..... P. A. Monsigny Wyomissing String Ensemble MARCH— March Militaire F. Schubert Wyomissing String Ensemble ADDRESS Dr. J. Lewis Fluck Professor at Albright College Presentation of Diplomas to Seniors Professor Harry E. Sowers Supervising Principal of Schools Awarding of Alumni Prizes Clifford Cake Awarding of Prizes Awarding of Diplomas to Junior High School Graduates Professor. Harry E. Sowers FINALE — March Wyomssing String Ensemble ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Coaching and Directing Pageant Mrs. John Lambert. Harry E. Sowers Dances Miss Ruth Snyder Music Accompanying Pageant Miss Doris Ackerman Scenery and Properties Mr. Angus Douple, Mr. Irvin Brossman Mr. Harry E. Sowers Gowns and Costumes St. John's Lutheran Choir Radio Microphone Mr. Walter E. Knouse Bugle Announcer Mr. Robert Dunkelberger Programs Sinking Spring Bank Cll]e Oirahuates ;§ eiien (Suibcs CAST OF CHARACTERS ... LeRoy Dcglcr ... Dorothy Cassel June Moyer Gladys Dunkelbergei Louise Moyer Grace Mogel Miriam Schrack Paul Salladc Seven Guides: • Health'’ .. •Home ...... •Learning •Citizenship Leisure Character Vocation” .... Radio Announcer Vocations: Inventor Agriculture Chemist ..... Aviator ..... Doctor ...... Nurse _______ Artist ...... Florist Journalist Soldier ..... Lawyer____ Engineer .... Home-Maker Spirit of Education Sports: Track Cairn Ennis Baseball Paul Kurt Tennis ......................................................... Florence Allen ....... Chester Bright Miriam Weber Charles Ruth William Moyer Dorothy Cassel Eleanor Balthascr Eugene Weidman Chester Bright Richard Shiffer LeRoy Degler William Moyer ............ Charles Ruth Donald Ganser Ardell Moyer Dorothy Cassel Pauline Lutz Eleanor Balthaser ............ Harold Kline Harvey Mogel William Wertz Miriam Weber Professor Harry E. Sowers Father Time Queen Memory Dancers: Spring Summer’’ Autumn Winter Spirit of School Senior Home: Mother ........................................................... Thelma Stover Children Mary Harpel, Anna Ludwig Boy Scouts ... Richard Stick. Kenneth Ganser, Cecil Davies Character ..........-...............—.....................«... Mariloui.se Freeman Representing Senior .................................................. Harold Kline Class Night Program Published By Row, Peterson Company CAST OF CHARACTERS Richard Morgan .................... Mrs. Morgan ................................ Elizabeth Morgan ........................... Barbara Lee ................................ Josephine Stafford ......................... Foster Lee ................................. Myron Smiley ............................... Doctor Gerald .............................. Jerry Truman ............................... Zac Stafford ............................... Wade Truman ................................ Dudley Grant ............................... Eugene Weidman .... Pauline Lutz Dorothy Casscl Miriam Schrack Ardell Moyer Harold Kline William Moyer ... Paul Sallade Richard Shiffcr LeRoy Dcglcr .... Charles Ruth ... Chester Bright TIME AND PLACE The action of the play is in the living room and study in the parsonage of a small town in tha New England States. The time is the present. ACT I—A day in February, in the late afternoon. ACT II—A day in May, four months later. ACT III—A half-hour later. MUSIC—Wyomissing String Ensemble. George Washington Bi-centennial Programs As a fitting observance of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, the Father of Our Country, the local schools sponsored two programs. On February 24. three episodes in the life of George Washington were dramatized. The program was as follows: THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES Exercise ........-..................... Our Hero Exercise How To Be A Hero Playlet George Washington and The Cherry Tree. P’aylet ..................... The Little General Song Washington Song ....................... Our Flag Colors FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES Play ............ Washington As A Backwoodsman Song ................Washington’s Cnristmas Party EIGHTH GRADE Play The Constitutional Convention Poem The Building of the Ship As a part of the program fifteen of the masterpieces of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart were dedicated. These pictures were presented to the school by Congressman Norton Lichtenwalner and framed in the Manual Training department by the Tenth Grade. On March 8. four reels of motion pictures, the ottl. cial motion picture of George Washington and His Times sponsored by the Bi-Centennial Commission were presented. At both programs a large audience was in attendance. On February 8. 1913 in Lancaster, was bom a baby girl gifted with artistic talent. She joined us in the 3rd grade and ever since we know •Dot” to be a kind of girl who Just takes life as it comes and lets the world roll by. She would impress the average person, as she walks along in her easy going fashion, as one who is absorbing valuable space at Sinking Spring High School which might be used for better purposes. However, she does manage to pull a few worthwhile remarks her way and moves along with the rest of us. DOROTHY CASSEL The studious specimen accompanying this paragraph first disturbed the peace of her town by a sweet soprano voice on June 9. 1914. It seems as if it still lingers in her voice, for to this day she sings soprano. Serious and studious, a man - hater of the third degree, concentration and hard work have made her a student of note. During Mlm’s” leisure, as she is known by her best friends, she was always ready with a helping hand. Her willingness has been well defined. Miriam has a desire to enter McCann’s Business School in September, and we believe that her greatest ambition is to become a stenographer. But no matter what you undertake, we wish you, our class secretary, the best of luck. MIRIAM ‘MIM” C. SCHRACK On June 28. 1914, Chester Homer Bright let out the first of his many howls. Chester ( Chetter”) is one of the few who started his education in this building in 1920. He has been a faithful member of his class ever since. Chester is quite popular with the girls and has a weakness for Catherines. Chester Is an all around athlete and was captain of the basketball team in his Senior year. He was the star third baseman on the baseball team. Chester likes to get into many friendly arguments, especially when playing playground ball. We wish Chester the best of luck in his future occupations. CHESTER HOMER BRIGHT LEROY DEGLER On February 4. 1916 a tiny baby boy who was later named and baptized Leroy Degler. was born at State Hill. He joined this brilliant class in 9th grade and has been a faithful student and hard worker ever since. His profession is architecture, certainly with his courage and diligence. Leroy must become a beacon light to the profession. Although his ambition is to become an architect. Leroy is also an excellent farmer which he learned when but a mere child. We as a class wish him success in whatever vocation he may choose. On the Ides of March. 1914. that eventful day. a bright son ' appeared on the horizon. • Bud.” as he was known to the whole school. Joined us in the fifth grade. He made a hit at once and became extremely popular, especially with the ladies. Although “Bud never tried out for athletic teams, he was a great follower of all sports, being business manager for the boy's basketball and baseball teams during his Junior year. While he admits he never lost sleep over translating Cicero or parsing Latin, he really is a very keen student and is quick to comprehend his subjects. Bud” is a fluent talker when it comes to expressing his opinion and hit1 suggestions are highly regarded by his classmates. “Bud” hasn't decided on his vocation but we have a •hunefc’’ that in 15 to 20 years he will be some chain-store magnate. 1Y1I MAM BUDDY C. MOYER The portrait accompanying this biography is none other than that of Charles D. Ruth.—a pleasing young gentleman, indeed. 'Charley” was born in Sinking Spring on January 8. 1914. He has been very active in all sports and is a fairly brilliant student. In basketball he starred as a guard through which very few forwards were able to penetrate. In baseball he usually holds down short-stop position. From external appearance Charles seems very serious in everything, but what lies deeper one can hardly fathom. He is one of those fellows who likes to take an occasional vacation or a day-off. As to his future. Charles is on the fence, but there is a certainty of some accomplishment in him. CHARLES D. RUTH On January 25. 1914 a little baby boy was born and was later named Paul Sallade. When he was a little baby he no doubt made plenty of noise but somehow or other he seems to have quieted down a bit. He has made quite a name for himself in sports. During his high school career he was an active member of the basketball, baseball, and track teams. He starred for four years in the former two and his flash in track was only recognized in his Senior year when he equaled High School records in the sprint and dashes. Paul has a weakness for brunettes, and we think that's where he gets his inspiration while playing the game. The class as a whole wishes Paul success in whatever field he may enter. PAIL F.. SALLADE Dick, a very ambitious boy. entered our class when we were in 4th grade. Ever since we know him. wc found him to be interested in athletics, especially basketball. Dick starred on the varsity basketball team for the last three years. He has a sunny disposition and a pleasant smile for everyone. This accounts for his popularity especially among the female sex. We do not know whether he has made any definite plans for his future, but we. as his classmates, wish him the best success in whatever course he pursues. RICHARD M. SHIFFTR Born April 29. 1915. • Gene represents the typical high school student, one engaged in some activity or another at all times, and one who is successful on the athletic field and in the classroom. He appears to be of a double nature, for anyone seeing him quietly and studiously poring over his books in the late evening hours would not recognize him as an athelete. Gene is a great student of politics and government. and his opinions are usually well reasoned out. His future educational plans seem to be the pursuit of forestry. We should not be at all surprised to find another • Teddy Roosevelt someday emerging Trom our class, since his interests are almost identical with Roosevelt's. Here is wishing you luck. Gene. We are pulling for you. EUGENE WEIDMAN 9 What Price, Education?” President Hoover in one of his campaign addresses said. “The progress of the race is upon the marching feet of healthy instructed children.’ and that “if we were to supress our educational system for one generation, the equipment would decay, the most of our people would die of starvation, and intellectually and spiritually we would slip back four thousand years in human progress.” About a year ago. Roger Babson credited the American Public School system with the following results: “During the past twenty years, the public schools have practically eliminated illiteracy and materially raised the general level of Intelligence. They have supervised the health and safety of the nation's children to a much greater extent than ever before and to their great good. They have absorbed the great flood of immigration which inundates the country and kept it American. Through courses in vocational education they have prepared young people for specific trades and have increased the earning power of those educated. Our great advance in material prosperity can be ascribed in part to the higher educational levels and thinking to which the work of the public schools has raised the masses. Such quotations could be multiplied indefinitely, but the important thing is not that the service of the school is valuable, but how valuable is it. What measures of value can be applied to an institution that has practically banished illiteracy, looked after the physical well-being of 28,000.000 children; raised the level of living and thinking; increased the earning power of the worker, thereby creating and building up a home market which consumes ninety percent of the products of the farm and factory; and despite the flood of immigration kept the nation American? He is a brave man. or a fool, who ventures to place a monetary value upon such service. The question is not: Shall we have public education at public expense? That is a settled fact. Our legislative acts, our Constitution provides for that. The questions rather are: How much education and What kind shall we have and how much shall we pay for it? Are we trying to buy too mucn and too many kinds for too many people, and are we paying too much for what we are getting? These are the questions the critics of the school are asking, for it has become the fashion for certain speakers and writers on taxation and public expenditures to point an admonishing finger at the steadily increasing cost of public education, questioning the value of much that has gone to enrich the curriculum, and leading the taxpayer to regard himself as the victim of ruthless exploitation at the hands of the professional educator. But who is it bewails the high cost of education, declaring that we are trying to teach too many people too many things? So often we hear the illogical and irrational statement that the time is at hand when all want to be educated and there is no one left to work. Whose heart is it that yearns with sympathy for the overburdened taxpayer and sees in the reduction oi schools costs the easiest way to his relief? Is it the working man in his small rented home striving to support a large family on a small income and struggling against the approaching day when his older children must give up school and Join the ranks of the wage earners? It is the less numerous middle class worker, owning his modest home, whose children can look forward with a fair degree of assurance to attending the high school for a season? No. not these. They know that in education lies the hope of realizing for their children what circumstances had denied them; that the American public school runs the stralghtesl road to success and a more equal distribution of the world's wealth. Who is it then, that wishes to curtail the school budget and reduce the opportunities accordingly? It is that small but powerful and active class that believe apparently, that education above the line of literacy. is the exclusive right of a few select souls and who claim it for their own by a sort of divine right bestowed upon heredity and wealth, forgetting that they themselves and their prestige are the product of that democracy which they now desire to strangle. It is also the gold-greedy go-getters who have always been willing to rob childhood of its birthright and coin it Into coupons, in order that, with unconscious Irony, they may build monuments to themselves upon the college campuses. These are our “conscientious” objectors to the school budget. But these enemies of universal education were met in the fight for free elementary schools and again for free secondary schools and state universities and were defeated. Once more they are riding to a fall. The American public school is not something fixed, static, unchanging; it is a growth reflecting the prosperity, the changing social, domestic, and economic arrangements of life. More accurately than any other institution it mirrors the national Ideals and aspirations. The traveler in Europe on entering a town sees first of all a great cathedral; in America he secs the schoolhouse. It gathers into Itself an ever larger share of the life of our youth. Now it is reaching out for the adult through the night school, Americanization school, and extension school, offering him a share of Its wealth. When the Constitution was adopted, the average length of school attendance was sixty days; in 1920 it was 120 days, the highest length of school life for a whole population ever attained by any nation. In 1778 the elementary curriculum consisted of the three R’s with the Bible and with spelling added. Fifty years later grammar, geography, and bookkeeping had been added. Another twenty years added history and the use of object lessons. By 1928, one hundred and fifty years after the beginning, the curriculum included not five but twenty-three subjects. When the public school idea was first thought out, the home was the primary authoritative institution and the most interesting. In a large measure it was independent of all other institutions. The school when it came. a supplementary institution created by the home for the performance of certain functions which it chose to delegate but for which the home still recognized its responsibility. As our social and industrial organization grew more complex, the former activities of the home have been delegated one after another to othei agencies, and the responsibilities which the home once bore have been placed upon the shoulders of th school, church, and factory. The result has been a gradual transition and transformation of the school from a place of mere training in essentials of academic learning for the children of such parents as were rich enough to dispense with their labor, to great service stations, tax-supported and buttressed by child labor and compulsory attendance laws, dedicated to the service of all the children of all the people. The subjects and courses taught in our schools are not mere frills but the result of public demand. We mus remember, however, that our school system has also achieved an efficiency unparalled by any other nation, for which we should Justly be proud. Prussia has fewer than nine percent of those of secondary schor 1 age in these schools; England less than fourteen percent; while the United States has fifty-two percent of her youth of high school age in secondary schools. When once Europe reduces her standing armies, she, too. can offer greater privileges of education. But this efficiency requires a vast expenditure. I have not as yet stressed this point. I shall attempt to give account of such record at this time. The cout of maintaining schools cannot be a static one. Our population Is rapidly increasing and the demand for an expanding program commensurate with an expanding civilization is discounting to those looking for a reduction in school costs. Can the probable costs or Increase be borne? How are we spending our annual ninety billion dollars income? Like a dinner, a school program costs in propartion to its service. In a city where the costs of th? school were under scrutiny by the Tax Dodger’s League, the sum of $175,000 was voted for a snake hous? without arousing protest. We complain about the cost of athletics in the schools and at the same time maintain municipal golf courses, tennis courts, and swimming pools. Each state is under constitutional mandate to maintain a system of free public schools but there is no constitutional requirement for a system of pleasure roads, state fairs, fish hatcherits or pleasure parks and camping sites for sportsmen, tourists, and gentlemen of leisure. These activities do help people live larger and better lives, the objectives of existence, and are good, but why should there be a curtailment of education, the most important undertaking of the community, state, and nation while there are sufficient funds, if properly expended, in the waste of any community to give everyone educational opportunities. Let us create a picture which will compare ou expenditures in different fields of activities. Cost of living—24 per cent of national Income Operation of government — 6 per cent; Waste—14 per cent; Crime—11 per cent; Education—2 per cent; Religion — 1 per cent. We are going to take for granted that certain of these figures and statistics are uncontrollable and unalterable, such as the cost of living, government operation, etc. In reading the facts notice carefully that the two most important institutions, the church and school, receive but a meagre portion of the income. Two outstanding items call our attention which can be attributed to the lack of training and education, namely crime and waste. You will note that crime costs about six times as much as education. If w? were to reduce the cost of crime, it certainly cannot be done by spending more money on police and enforcement. It must be done through correct guidance in citizenship which is required in our public schools and the ethical training in our churches and Sunday Schools. The Federal government appropriates hundreds of millions of dollars for the enforcement of prohibition. The beneficial results forthcoming have been insignificant. Why not spend that money on the schools where our youth can be guided and taught the enormity of Vhe problem and the evils resultant. The other item, waste, costs almost ten times as much as education. A well trained, educated person has learned to master waste. The elimination of waste becomes one of his objectives of good administration. Who is it now. after the evidence presented, can still cry that we are spending too much money on education? Class History of Class ’32 As time rolls on its ceaseless course, new seasons come and go. A year is soon completed and finally an epoch reached. Today, you are closing one of the greatest periods of life, that of graduation. With this event before me. my mind revolves, and I am suddenly confronted with your class on the threshold of your high school career. You were like the spring of the year, young, vivacious, and full of energy. There were 2r class members who entered on September 4th, 1928. One of the new members who joined you at the beginning of your freshman year was LeRoy Degler. and with him was accompanied Miss Helen Dise who also played an important part in your Freshman year. Your first great achievement after completing your registration was to make friends with your sister class, the Juniors. You would have been overtaken by tear, ignorance, and discouragement, which so often beset the path of Freshmen, had it not been for this new founded friendship. Although you make friends with your cousins and sisters, yet they were ready to initiate you. When you came to school they were standing with their broad paddles. At this time there were savage tribes who were blocking your path. These fierce people were known as the Sophomores, a group to be feared and avoided by Freshmen. For the purpose of your own safety and protection, the Juniors helped you to organize your class with the following officers: Chester Bright. President; Samuel Hetrick. Vice-President; Miriam Schrack. Secretary. After the organization of your class came the big event which was your doggie-roast along the Cacoos-ing stream. The upper classmen were at hand to annoy you. You were scared by the wind noises you heard, although you pretended to be brave. The best part of the evening was spent by canoeing and playing games. The Sophomore tribe became less daring, the faculty gave you their seal of approva and you were beginning to secure a permanent place within the walls of the Sinking Spring High School. See how the Spirit of your Freshman season is interpereted in dance. After a happy vacation fifteen of your class cam? back to school. You had grown from the seed planted in the spring to flowering plants of summer. Whil? you were not weighted down with the fruits of knowledge. you were beginning to blossom. Your greatest glory consisted in occupying the strongholds of last year's Sophomores It was noted that you were mentally alert, physically strong, but morally weak. You were officiated with ‘'Sophomore-itis,” which could be cured only by torturing the Freshmen. Your mental growth was developing rapidly, you even started up in the poultry business which consisted of chancing off white ducks and turkeys in order to raise a fund for your class with which to go to Washington. It so happened that Donald Ganser. a Junior, received the turkey. After having the turkey run around in the coal bin. it was no longer white, but black as the coal itself. In athletics you were outstanding, your basketball team was one of the strongest in school. All too soon you reached your vacation season which was characterized by song and dance. The seeds of knowledge which were sown in your Frechman year and blossomed while you were Sopho-mores, were beginning to ripen into fruit in your Junior year. You were beginning to reap the rewards of your first efforts. When you came back you felt quite lost not having our Principal. Mr. Weidman; our English teacher. Mrs. Snyder: and Mr. Gates, our Science teacher, who were with us so long and whom you always liked. In these persons instead came Mr. Sowers. Miss Snyder, and Mr. Merkel who have filled their positions satisfactorily. Many things were calling your attention at the beginning of this year. First, there was your class organization which was so Important at this rlpenea stage of your growth. You elected the following offi- cers: President. Eugene Weidman; Secretary. Miriam Schrack. Baseball and basketball games were developing you physically as well as bringing honor to your class and school. Near the end of your Junior year. Mr. Merkel planned a trip to the St. Lawrence Dairy. You all went by machine and among the machines was an Amos and Andy Ford in which was Chester Bright. Charles Ruth, and “Christy” Harnish. although they planned to go to the dairy, they never reached it with the whole group because they were either too late or too early. As the year drew to a close you decided to put out a year book. With the aid of the teachers you accomplished this aim. Full grown Seniors, nine in number returned last September. Eugene Weidman as President with an efficient group of officers assumed their new duties enthusiastically which has resulted In one of the bes: organized classes in the history of your school. Your Senior year has been spent largely in gathering fruits that were ripened and storing them away for the future. The annual Senior play has absorbed most of your time outside of the class room. On this momentous occasion. Hollywood would have been proud to have claimed the dramatic talent so well displayed. The last few days here have been quite busy in making your final plans to enter another cycle of seasons when the great clock of the Universe shall chime the hour for your departure. Dorothy W. Cassel. 8SSSBS88S88S8S8 Visual Education Recent experiments and tests hove proven that knowledge acquired through the eye has longer retention than that which may be acquired any other way. The motion and still pictures are the agencies whereby these channels of learning may be brought into 'he school. Through the lunds acquired from school activities a Victor Motion Projector has been purchased on in stallment rates. During the year 15 reels of motion pictures were used in class work. Last year a Spencer Delineascope was purchased through these same funds. The science department has used this projector quite frefuently throughout the year. Promotions The end of the school year is always bound to record a list of failures. Much though we would like to reduce the percentage of failures to zero it is impossible to attain such a standard. There are always a number of children who are either physically or mentally handicapped who cannot hope to advance regularly, and to advance them would be unfair and a hardship upon both pupil and teacher. There is another group of failures who fail by virtue of the fact that they refuse to apply themselves. This group makes teaching disheartening. Of the 28 failures this year 13 of them can be classified in this group. Following is a table showing the percentage of promotion: Grade Enrollment Promoted Percent Grade I. 42 40 96 Grade II 32 32 100 Grade III. 29 27 93 Grade IV 36 33 92 Gradve V. 35 33 94 Grade VI. 30 27 90 Grade VII. 26 19 73 Grade VIII. 26 20 77 Grade IX 24 23 96 Grade X. 16 15 94 Grade XI. 9 9 100 Grade XII. 9 9 100 ■ — . 314 287 91 Perfect Attendance Enrollment In spite of the large number of absences through epidemics throughout the year 106 pupils made a perfect attendance record. FIRST GRADE—Hilda Stibitz, Georgene Stoudt. Alma Stutzman. Marion Stiely, Correli Ritter. SECOND GRADE — Albert Beyerie. Carl Greth. Franklin Krick. Eugene Sowers. Jean Fisher. THIRD GRADE—Ralph Fromm. Richard Helser. Catherine Balthaser. Pearl Fromm. Vivian Gring, Feme Koehler, Coleen Moore. FOURTH GRADE — Leon Greth, Joseph Heiser, John Ludwig. Rea Rentschler, Minnie Stiely. Anna Wartzenluft. Fern Wartzenluft, Irene Williams, Kath_ ryn Dunkelberger, Virginia Fisher. Mary Jane Lambert. LeRoy Furlow. FIFTH GRADE —James Gromis, Lynn Harpel. William Koch. Robert Snyder. Richard Stahl. Luther Sweigart. George Steffe. John Stutzman. George Wanner. Ralph Zechman. Edna Harpel. Fern Schuler. Ruth Sweimler. Dorothy Burgner. SIXTH GRADE—Ruth Balthaser. Clara Fahren-bach. Myrtle Fromm, Pauline Gottshall. June Hafer. Louise HefTelflnger, Louisa Royer. Grace Salladc. Ruth Schroeder, Marcia Zechman. Paul Freeman. John Fromm. SEVENTH GRADE —Mark Dunkelberger. George Fromm. Vernon Hiester. Lester Moyer. Madeiyn Burg, ner, Grace Gassert. Elsie GraefT, Grace Hafer. Mary Harpel, Ruth Keener. Pauline Kerschner. Madeiyn Noriheimer. Grace Ruth. Miriam Stover. Jacob Hartman. Harold HefTelflnger. EIGHTH GRADE—Thelma Bickel. Robert Epler. Irene Foret. Paul Hafer. John Moyer. June Moyer. Emily Yoh. NINTH GRADE—Lillian Balthaser. Betty Binkley. Margery Cassel. Marilouise Freeman. Mary Miller. Thelma Stover. George Beyerie, Walter Flamish, Robert Hafer. Norman Hartman. Paul Weber. William Weber. Victor Weidman. Elmer GraefT. TENTH GRADE—Charles Alspach. Daniel Dunkelberger. Alfred Flamish. Albert Wartzenluft. Bernice Behrenshausen. Roberta Cassel. Margaret Hawthorne. Marie Lutz. Elsie Moyer. ELEVENTH GRADE—Donald Ganser. Harvey Mogel, William Wertz. TWELFTH GRADE—Miriam Schrack. Paul Sal-lade. Attendance Report During the winter quite a number of the children suffered illness through epidemics. This was felt severest in the first three grades. However, in spite oi these conditions the attendance as a whole was good. Following is a table of the attendance by grades: Boys Girls Total Grade I 91 p.c. 91 p.c. 91 p.c. Grade II 94 p.c. 95 p.c. 95 p.c. Grade XXL 95 p� c. 98 p.c. 96 p.c. Grade IV 96 p.c. 99 p.C. 97 p.c. Grade V. 97 p.c. 92 p.c. 96 p.c. Grade VI. 98 p.c. 97 p.c. 97 p.c. Grade VII. 99 p.c. 99 p.c. 99 p.c. Grade VIII. 97 p.c. 97 p.c. 97 p.c. Grade IX. 98 p.c. 98 p.c. 98 p.c. Grade X. 99 p.c. 99 p.c. 99 p.c. Grade XI. 99 p.C. 97 p.c. 98 p.c. Grade XII 95 p.c. 96 p.c. 95 p.c. Totals 96 p.C. 96 p.c. 96 p.c. The enrollment in the first nine grades is what would be normally expected. The low enrollment is found in the Senior High School. This condition, however, is changing rapidly. While the graduating classes have been averaging 8 to 10 students, in the next two to three years will be doubled that. The retaining power of the High School is becoming evident. While the graduating classes are small on the other hand the beginner classes are running high, averaging as many as 40 pupils. The reason for the retaining power in high school may be partially explained by the fact that boys and girls under 16 years of age have been released from employment to give place to men and women who are idle because of the present economic conditions. Again, the local high school may increase its retaining power, by virtue of the fact that diversified curricula are being offered. The enrollment by Grades Is as follows: Grade Boys Girls Total Grade I 22 20 42 Grade XX. 18 14 32 Grade III. 13 16 29 Grade IV. 20 16 36 Grade V. 21 14 35 Grade VI 7 23 30 Grade VII. 7 19 26 Grade VIII 12 14 26 Grade IX. 15 9 24 Grade X. 9 7 16 Grade XI 4 5 9 Grade XII. 7 2 9 Total 155 159 314 m sm Si WHAT THE SCHOOL BOY TOLD IE By Arthur Dean I know you are the teacher, but don't fire it in my face. I d learn a lot better if we sort of learned things together. Just please step off that throne and come down here where I sit; Then I’d listen because everything would be so cozy. Now don’t get sore when I tell you I don’t care much for preaching A lot of your high faluting words are way out of my reach. So Just be yourself - good, kind and understanding like: Then I’ll feel mighty mean if I don’t hand you back all you sent me. I don’t always understand all you say about these fine, big things of life. If I did I’d be up where you are. But just between ourselves let me give you a tip:— If you’ll do these things yourself I’ll learn all about it by your example. As for these books. I know there's a lot in them that's going to be useful some time in life. But can’t you once in a while show just where I can use them now? A small boy like me cannot look ahead like a big man like you. They say you’ve got eyes in the back of your head and can see anything anybody does. Now won't you please look clean through my head and see why I can’t do this example no matter how hard I try? Surely you. who are so smart, can see into a boy's head. And please look into my heart and see I mean well; and into my home where dad and mom work hard and think a lot of me; and into that something or other which I’ve got inside of me that’s going to make me a great big man. You know how a fellow feels. So Just help me. Objectives of the Sinking Spring School by Prof. Harry E. Sowers 1. To guide and counsel the children in their study, in their social dealings, and in their moral aptitudes. 2. To make our instruction thorough and equip our pupils completely before we pass them on to the next teacher or dismiss them from school. 3. To train the pupils in the manipulation of the tools of learning. 4. To develop more self-expression and initative on the part of the pupil and the constraining on the part of the teacher of too much talking and lecturing. Guidance Failure in school work, waywardness and shiftlessness, undetermined and unpurposeful objectives and aims in life have been due to the lack of guidance and counsel on the part of the teacher. Every teacher should be able to assist and direct to some degree, the pupils who come under her care in these all important problems. Every teacher, both in the elementary grades and high school will be called upon this year to play an important role in this work. I. Guidance In Study. Do not feel satisfied that all pupils are learning with the same ease and speed . You have pupils with weak mentalities who need constant help, you have others who have not grasped the fundamentals and consequently are laboring and yet not getting anywhere, the result.--failure. Let us reduce this condition to the minimum by devoting more time to the weak. Teach them how to study, how to interpret the printed page, how to attach or approach the problem. Check and re-check, drill and re-drill until you find marked improvement, until you see they have discovered the secret. Once they have arrived at that point they become happy and contented children and their learning improves in leaps and bounds. You. too. shall be happy in knowing you have brought to light one who has been fog-bound. II. Moral Guidance. There is a great need these days for guidance of this type. The most potent factor in this wort is. without a doubt, the teacher. Children fashion after and copy their teachers. When they seek confidence they come to the teacher, when they would have help or advice they call upon the teacher. How can we shirk our duties and sidetrack the issue confronting our social order to-day? Do not forget that a child gone astray because the teacher would not heed the appeals when help was needed brings disgrace and remorse upon the teacher. On the other hand, any good advice and counsel given, as well a a helping hand extended when in trouble, rebounds with honor and glory to the teacher as th young man and woman succeeds in life. Let us show our interest in those who fall short of good moral influence in the home. Many homes have been saved by what teacher has said to the pupil. But. on the other hand, let us be careful of our own moral character before we attempt to impress too vividly our personality and character upon others. III. Educational and Vocational Guidance, ibis phase of the guidance program applies chiefly to the adolescent child, those in high school. All of us teachers are not thoroughly prepared to handle this type of work as it should be don ■ but we are all in a position to do some helpful work in the field. Our daily contact in subject fields will help us a great deal to advise. After all. the success and progress in the subjects bears greatly upon the kinds of professions and vocations which mav be selected. Again the subject teacher may discover an interest or aptitude in a pupil which another teacher or counsellor would not find out. Let us help the youth to find themselves and set them thinking about their future career. Many young men and women graduate from college without the faintest idea of why they went to college. We can avoid this to a marked degree. After all. there is nothing more gratif ing to those of us who are engaged in the teaching profession than to know we have had a big share in the shaping of the career and success of those who have been under our tutelage. Throughness of Instruction During the past school year a great deal was done by the entire teaching corps in this direction, but we found ourselves chiefly engaged in doing “patching-up” work and consequently we lost our step wkh the program as originally planned. This was more clearly noticeable in the high school than in the elementary grades, but since the elementary grades prepare the way for the entrance into high school, the teachers must be all the more alert in teaching the fundamentals and basic principles. Instruction in Manipulation Too few pupils and students are able to use the texts and books, as well as the supplementary materials. which are available to them. They have not been Instructed sufficiently in the use of them. Consequently they become parasites, constantly relying upon the teacher and the parent to tell them where and how to find or search for the desired information. The ability to use the Table of Contents, Index, Because of the several curriculums in the high school we must outline our program definitely and insist upon thoroughness. There will be rigid supervision this year so as to check upon the progress of the leaching and the learning. The Department of Public Instruction of both the State and the County are pressing the supervision program and consequently the local supervision must co-operate with the superiors. of the Tools of Learning Appendix, and Glossary in a book is of inestimable va'ue to time saving in learning. For those who are in the Junior-Senior high school a great opportunity is offered in the new library where instruction will be given to assist the pupil and Interest him in search for material. It is hoped that it will lead to more research and laboratory work. Statement of Sinking Spring High School Activities Since the Board of Education has placed all school activities and the funds derived therefrom in the hands of the Principal. I wish to make this financial statement public to account for the source of revenue and the expenditures. RECEIPTS Balance on hand in bank. December 4. 1931 .....................................................$ 31.70 Receipts from Basketball (a Genera] admission ................ —................. —............ $366.90 tb� Guarantees ............!................................................... 4800 «c Other Sources 14.10 $429.60 Receipts from School Activities (a Elementary Grade Operetta ......................................... $ 1488 ib) Washington Program — 26-15 (c) Washington Motion Pictures 14.65 id) Musicale 2.10 e) Stephen Haboush Commission 22.70 $90.48 Grand Total of Receipts -....... $551.78 EXFENTMTI’RES Basketball 1 a) b) (c d) ie (f) th) Referees Guarantees Transportation Equipment Ointment P. I. A. A. Dues Awards (Gold Basketballs) Treat for teams .......—.... $ 74 .50 76.00 24.00 156.87 ....... .60 3.00 ......... 20.00 3.45 «t Du Paul Sallade Account of James Muir 'Motion Picture Projector) Fred Medan Co. (Basketball Backstops) Hangens (Set of Traps Tor Orchestra) ........................................................ Transportation to KuUtown Field Day ................................. $358 42 $ 14.00 ........... 4.00 ........ 1.00 31 .......... 25.00 89.92 42.00 ........... 4.00 Grand Total of Expcnt' ures ......................................... $538 65 Total Receipts from December 4. 1931 to May 7, 1932 $551.78 Total Expenditures for same period .......................................................... 538.65 Balance in Checking Account, May 27. 1932 $ 13.13 Signed: Harry E. Sowers Supervising Principal Sinking Spring High School Placed on Accredited List of Secondary Schools in the State Sinking Spring High School received Stale recognition and was placed on the Accredited List of Secondary Schools of Pennsylvania during the past year. To receive this recognition is an honor to any cchool or community. In erder to receive this honor the school must meet all the standards for secondary schools. This includes 100 per cent certificated teachers, properly certified supervising principal, diversified curricula, minimum standard of equipment and apparatus, for science departments and other laboratory subjects, minimum standard for high school libraries, systematic personnel record system, thoroughly organized pre ram of studies, completely developed courses of studies, or curriculum, supervisors in all special subject'. Luch as art. music, and dental hygiene, properly certificated instructors in physical education, and a number of minor items. The local school has met all these standards and received very favorable comment upon the same. Following are copies of letters received from the State and County officials. The first letter is a statement of conditions existing at the time of the dating of the letter. LETTER I. May 17. 1929. Mr. A. F. Kemp Superintendent. Berks County Schools Reading. Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Kemp: This is to report my visit with you to the Sinking Spring Borough High School on May 8. 1929. We are pleased w’ith the general spirit of work in this school and the earnestness of both pupils and teachers in carrying out the school program. A check of the conditions prevailing in the school indicates that development is needed along the following lines: 1. The library facilities provided are inadequate for a school of this type. This inadequacy is in part due to the fact that additional mater-ills are need and also in part to the fact that for satisfactory use a library needs to b? carefully organized and administered. In a small secondary school it has been the practice to convert one of the classrooms into a library classroom. In other schools, where it has been found necessary to temporarily house the library in the various classrooms of the school, a central catalogue has been developed and books charged to the various rooms. 2. The physics equipment destroyed at the time of the fire has never been replaced. I am enclosing a copy of the SCIENCE MONOGRAPH which outlines the minimum physics equipment in a classified secondary school. 3. At the present time no teacher on the staff has certification for geography. This should be given the attention of the district. 4. The school needs maps and other materials so that the geography work can be carried out on a highly satisfactory basis. In this connection geography materials are also needed for th? library: 5. The teachers in the first six grades are providing art instruction for those grades. There is no definitely organized art program for grades seven and eight. I am enclosing a copy of a statement outlining a minimum art program. The art work of this school can best be carried out if the district can join with other districts in providing art supervision and teaching. C. There is an increasing demand for more complete and accurate personnel records, particularly in the secondary school. Whereas, in previous years it has oniy been necessary to have the scholastic records of the pupil, colleges now demand a complete personnel record. A record '•imi iar to that used in the Carnegie Study is being found very helpful in the various secondary schools. Copies of this record can be secured by writing to Doctor W. S. Learned. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education. New York City. 7. A soon ns the district finds it possible to do so. practical arts for both boys and girls should b? added to the program. 8. Tj meet the full requirements for Junior-Senior high school organization this school should have a program of practical arts as is suggested above. In developing this program, an additional teacher or the time of part-time teachers should be provided. As the school is organized at present the principal is carrying a rather heavy teaching load. Sincerely yours. William H. Bristow Assistant Director Secondary Education August 20. 1931 Subsequent letters give record of improvements and approvals. Mr. Alvin F. Kemp Superintendent. Berks County Schools Reading, Pennsylvania Dear Superintendent Kemp: This is to report my conference with Assistant Superintendent Strieker and Mr. Sowers. Supervising Principal at Sinking Spring, relative to the development of the program for the coming year. We are very much pleased with the set up as outlined by Mr. Sowers. For the coming year the school will meet full requirements in health and physical education, practical arts, fine arts, and guidance. It is unfortunate, of course, that a certificated teacher could not be found for the work in shop, but it is believed that this problem can be satisfactorily adjusted so that the work may be In charge of a certified teacher before the term 1932-33. V e are particularly gratified to note the development with regard to the library. Mr. Sowers reports that the library will aggregate the 1000 volumes for the coming year and that library instruction will be given to all pupils under the direction of the English teacher who has certification in this field. Commercial werk is also being introduced for the first time this year. Will you please convey to the Board our appreciation for the splendid progress which their school is making, and assure then of our desire to co-operate in every way that we can? Very truly yours. John F. Brougher Assistant Director Secondary Education Reading. Pa.. October 8. 1931 Mr. Bert Reifsnyder Sinking Spring. Penna. Dear Friend Reifsnyder: REPORT OF SCHOOL VISITATION I visited your school on September 29. and desire to make the following report on my inspect.on. I was very favorably impressed with your school system. You erected a fine new addition to your building and your new organization is functioning effectively. As a board you deserve credit for taking the progressive steps in providing additional opportunities for your children. All your teachers are doing work, and there exists a fine spirit of co-operation among them. The next important step to take in the development of your system will be the preparation of a plan of co-ordination of the work in each field. I understand that your supervising principal and the teachers are now working on the same. After this is accomplished. you have an opportunity to develop an outstanding school system. There remain a few additional steps of development in the High School. These, you will, no doubt accomplish as fast as finances permit. Sinking Spring has taken a decided step forward educationally. Let me know whenever I can be of service to you. Very respectfully. A. F. Kemp. County Supt. of Schools SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASSIFICATION Sinking Spring Borough Berks County Visited October 20. 1931 Reported October 27, 1931 Walter E. Hess The following Is a summary of the recommendations which ore made as a result of a visit by a representative of the Department, for the development of the Sinking Spring High School. In the pages following this summary will be found a more detailed statement relative to these recommendations and suggestions. which are made in accordance with the classification standards. I. Building and Grounds. The district is to be complimented upon their v activity in providing a school plant for the instructional needs of the community. With these facilities now at hand, efficient and effective school work can be done. A school building properly equipped, supervised and administered is one of the most valuable assets to a community. II. Equipment and Supplies. Tile equipment and supplies for the school have been very carefully and adequately provided. Additions of a ditto machine fo. teachers use in preparing outlines for the subjects they teach and cork bulletin boards for the rooms not already provided with them are two needs that, snould be supplied this year. The expenditure of $200.00 for science equip- ment and $450.00 for library books, etc. speaks very highly of the efforts and interests of the board of education In the welfare of the school. III. Program of Studies A very fine program of studies and class schedules have been worked out by the persons in charge. The fact that provision has been made to offer all subjects in the required Junior-senior high school curriculum is indicative of the efficiency of the supervisory and teaching staff. V. Supervision and Instruction. The supervisor)’ program and administrative practices as outlined by the principal are very commendable. Very creditable w'ork should be expected as a result of the operation of this program. The teachers visited presented demonstrations of very good classroom instruction. Some suggestions, such as additional pupil participation in the recitation. economical use of class time, diagnostic and remedial work and pupil guidance, were given the principal at the time of the visit. The employment of a certificated librarian is very commendable. VI. Teachers. B. Certification. The securing of a certificated teacher in shop would be an adjustment to make in the future. A part time teacher hired in conjunction with some other district might be secured. VIII. Pupil Load. The requirement of each pupil taking only four solid subjects each year is indeed a fine standard to adopt. These in connection with the special subjects will permit the pupil to concentrate on a few' subjects and thus become more proficient. The devoting of time to a few subjects will produce better results then using the same time over a great variety of subjects. IX. Records and Reports. A satisfactory system of records and reports are being developed. Walter E. Hess Supervisor Secondary Education Public Schools of Berks Countv, Pa. Office of County Superintendent Reading. Pa.. March 5. 1932. To Those Concerned:— This is to certify that I visited the Schools of Sinking Spring and found them in excellent condition. Superintendent Principal Harry E. Sowers deserves special commendation for being instrumental in building up a school system that ranks among the best in the county. Sinking Spring has a progressive Board of Education. Do not fail to keep the educational clock wound up. I am proud of Sinking Spring. Very' respectfully William A. Fricker. Asst. Superintendent Sitting, Left to Right - Ardell Moyer, Ruth Brubaker, Captain Dorothy Cassel, Eleanor Palthas-er, Florence Allen, Margaret Hawthorne Standing - Coach Paul Freed, Pearl Ott, Faculty Mgr. Louise Moyer, Elsie Moyer, Lillian Bal-thaser, Beatrice Hain, Prof. Harry Sowers, Sup. Principal Due to the loss or four varsity players through graduation last year. Mr. Freed, the coach, had a real problem on hand in developing a winning team. In order to do it, it was necessary to take Eleanor Bal-thaser from a guarding position and put her in a forward position, as well as find another forward. In doing this an offensive team had to be developed in place of a defensive team which played last year. The final varsity line-up was Eleanor Balihaser and Ruth Brubaker as forwards and Lillian Baltha-ser as a first string sub.; Dorothy Cassel as center, Ardell Moyer and Elsie Moyer as side centers, and Florence Allen and Margaret Hawthorne as guards, with Margery Cassel and Beatrice Hain as first string subs. However, in spite of the radical change which took place in the development of a team, the girls won five games out of twelve. The strongest opposition was found in Wilson High and Shillington High. From a comparative standpoint in terms of points, it was a draw since the local team and the visitors, or the •winners and losers both made 276 points. By graduation this year only one varsity member will be lost, Dorothy Cassel. There are high hopes of again putting a strong winning team on the floor by next year. Player Position Games Point E. Balthaser. 33. Forward 12 140 Ft. Brubaker. 33. Forward 12 83 E. Moyer. ’34. Forward 11 18 L. Balthaser. 35. Forward . 10 16 A. Moyer. 33. Side-Center 11 2 M. Freeman. 35. Center 10 2 D. Cassel. '32. Center 10 F. Allen. ’SS. Guard 12 M. Hawthorne. 34. Guard 1 M. Stover. '35. Center 4 M. Cassel, '35. Guard 2 B. Hain. '35, Guard 1 B. Binkley. '35. Guard 0 P. Lutz, ’33. Guard 2 S. S. H. 8 Visitors Oley 33 20 Wilson 14 28 Robesonia 25 24 Alumni 25 26 Wemersville 36 18 Womelsdorf 35 21 Wilson 10 23 Robesonia 17 29 Wemersville, 16 20 Womelsdorf 24 16 Shillington 19 24 Shillington 13 27 276 276 Sitting, Left to Right - Eugene Weidman, Richard Shiffer, Captain Chester Pr’cht, Paul Sallade, Charles Ruth, Student Manager LeRoy Degler Standing - Coach Paul Freed, Norman Hartman, Victor Weidman, Earl Kerlirg, Daniel Dunkelberg-er, Albert WarUenluft, Prof. Harry Sowers, Sup. Principal Many followers of the Sinking Spring High School ba-kctball roftm had lost interest and predicted a losing team for the year 1931-1932 because the backbone bf the team of last year. Christian Harnlsh. had been graduated. To replace Christian as a center and as a captain was no easy task, but Coach Freed was not to be dismayed. One consolation was the fact that the other four members of the varsity club had three full years of experience and formed one of the fastest aggregations in the county. The hope of a center lay in Eugene Weidman and Earl Kerling. When the present term began. Coach Freed began to grcom these two members for the position and by the time the season began both showed themselves to be promising candidates for center. Chester Bright wa selected to guide the squad. The first game of the season was with our traditional season-opening rival. Oley. Inasmuch as Oley . defeated us last year it was time for revenge, and wc got it. defeating them by the score of 19 to 18. This victory gave the boys, as well as the coach, confidence that another good season was ahead. Ontclaunee was the next victim being defeated by the score of 20 to 16 Both these games were non-league games and prepared them well for the first league panic with Wilson. who had developed a strong team who threatened to ••knock-off’ the best teams in the division. To the surprise of the fans and the players. Wilson went down to defeat bv the score of 37 to 21. Chester Bright scored 12 points while his running mate. Richard Shifter scored 10 points. Our first game awav from home was played on the Wyomissing floor, with the champions of last year. Both teams were out for blood Our boys were at a disadvantage, playing on a strange floor, the result— we lost by the score of 16 to 20. This defeat, however, was not to spell doom for Sinking Spring. The next game was on our home floor with our “famous rivals.” Robesonla. What a game it was: For a low score game, this set the record in the league for the year. The score finally was 10 to 6 in favor of the ‘•winners. Sinking 8pring. During the Christmas holiday season our team met the Alumni and set them back by the score of 30 to ?2. and Wemersville High and turned them back by the score of 23 to 9. This, however, does not describe the contest, for it surely was hot. The next three games were away from home. Womelsdorf gave us a race for our life, edging out only a three point margin. The final score was 21 to 18. We next played a non-league game at Muhlenberg where we lost by the score of 19 to 32. We met our real test when we played Wilson on their floor. The game was more tie than anything else, but we finally came out on top to the tune of 23 to 21. Bright and Shiffer again starred with 9 and 8 points respectively, but the entire team played an excellent game. Our next two games were the ones that undid us. We first met Wyomissing on our own floor and took another set-back with the count of 17 to 21 and then met Robesonla at Robesonia. and again lost out by the score of 17 to 22. These two games put us out of the race for the championship. Two more league games and two independent rantes marked the end of the season. We met Wer-ncrsvllle away from home and defeated them by a 28 to 25 score. Womelsdorf was slaughtered by the rcorc of 41 to 14. The return game with Muhlenberg was sweet revenge for our earlier defeat. Sinking Soring came out on top. 35 to 32. The last game was with Mverstown. This turned in a 31 to 12 victory. The season in general was very successful. The team won 12 out of 16 games, which was slightly better than last season. In points scored. Sinking Spring made 387 points to 309 points for the opponents. Our sad regret is the fact that the entire varsity squad will be graduated and an entirely new team must be developed. Individual Scoring of Boys’ Basketball Team Player Position Points Game C; Bright. Forward 121 16 R. Shiffer. Forward 113 16 P. Sallade. Guard 80 16 E. Kerling. Center 23 8 C. Ruth. Guard 17 14 E. Weidman. Center 12 13 E. Mogel. Forward 10 7 A. Flamish. Forward 6 4 A. Wartzenluft. Guard 2 2 N. Hartman. Guard 2 2 A. Berkenstock. Forward 1 2 W. Flamish. Forward 0 0 G. Bcyerle, Forward 0 0 P. Kurtz. Guard 0 0 C. Ennis. Forward 0 0 Scores of the Games Played by Boys’ Basketball Team S. S. H. S. Visitors Oley 19 18 Ontelaunee 20 16 Wilson 37 21 Wyomtssing 16 20 Robesonia 10 6 Alumni 30 22 Wernersville 23 9 Womelsdorf 21 18 Muhlenberg 19 32 Wilson 23 21 Wyomissing 17 21 Robesonia 17 22 Wernersville 28 25 Womelsdorf 41 14 Muhlenberg 35 32 Myers town 31 12 387 309 Ethel Hamaker, Dental Hygienist The Dental Hygienist in Public Schools It is now universally conceded that the most conspicious physical defect of the school child is the unhygienic condition of his mouth. The reports of the medical inspectors in the public schools, who have made but a glancing examination of the mouths of school children, show that decayed teeth outrank all other physical defects combined. Caretul dental examinations reveal the fact that it is difficult to find two school children out of a hundred with a sound set of teeth, and that the fifth grade children will average seven cavities per child. How to overcome this deplorable condition, how to establish clean mouths, sound teeth and healthy gums—this is one of the most important public health problems facing the medical and dental profession. The school dental hygienist is. of course, the answer. Since the beginning of this dental hygiene project in our public schools, we have noticed marked improvements. By cleaning, polishing, and examining the teeth; by tooth brush drills; by playlets, pageants. posters, and contests, the children have been induced to take more pride and interest in their teeth and the care of them. We are taking strides to make this dental hygiene movement, bigger and better than before, and convey its full meaning to the school child. Septombf •r. 1931 May. 1932 Temporary Cavities Permanent Cavities j Temporary | Cavities 1 Permanent Cavities Percent of Improvement Grade I. 127 16 102 13 19.6 Per Cent Grade II. 139 29 128 26 8.3 Per Cent Grade III. 140 48 109 35 23.4 Per Cent Grade IV. 123 79 109 46 23.3 Per Cent Grade V. 91 66 41 46 44.6 Per Cent Grade VI. 25 66 17 47 29.7 Per Cent Grade VII. 6 83 3 67 32 6 Per Cent Grade VIII. 0 96 0 75 21.9 Per Cent Grade IX. 0 46 0 25 45.7 Per Cent Grade X. 0 92 0 79 14.1 Per Cent Grade XI. 0 8 0 5 37.5 Per Cent Grade XII 0 18 0 13 27.8 Per Cent 651 647 509 477 24.0 Per Cent During the year 325 pupils had the teeth cleaned and examined once, and 182 had them cleaned twice. First Annual Field Day At Sinking Spring The public schools of Sinking Spring held the first annual field meet on Friday. May 6. The event was very successful and well attended by patrons of the community. Considerable rivalry wag noticeable in the high school for class honors as well as Individual honors. The results by classes in points were as follows: Grade VIII—89; Grade X—77; Grade IX—66; Grade XII 47; Grade XI—44: Grade VII—36. In the Elementary grades the results were as follows: Grade VI — 77: Grade IV—65; Grade V—52; Grade 11 — 42; Grade III—40; Grade 1—38. Individual honors in the high school were distir-buted as follows: Earl Kerling. 21; Chester Bright and Alfred Flamish were tied for second place with 17 points each; Ralph Miller, captured third place with 1C points. Individual honors in the Elementary Grades were as follows: Eugene Sowers. 26; Ruth BaRhaser, 18; Richard Weidman. 13. Paul Ballade set high records in the 100 yard dash and the 220 yard dash, the former in 10.8 seconds and the latter in 24.2 seconds. JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Athletic Events CLASS A (BOYS) Shot Put—Bright. Flamish. Hill; 35 feet 0 inches. 100 Yard Dash—Sallade. Flamish. Berkenstock; 10.8 seconds. 220 Yard Dash—Sallade. Flamish. Shifter; 24.2 sec. High Jump—Bright. Berkenstock. Shifter; 5.0 feet. Broad Jump — Erlght. A. Wartzenluft. H. Boyer; 17 feet. 10 inches. Basketball Throw—Flamish. D. Ganser. Bright. Baseball Throw--Sallade. Flamish. Bright. CLASS “A” (GIRLS) 75 Yard Dash—E. Balthaser. A Moyer. P. Lutz; 10.8 seconds. Standing Broad Jump —A. Moyer. E. Balthaser. P. Lutz; 6 feet. 7 inches. Basketball Throw—R. Brubaker. E. Balthaser. A. Moyer. Baseball Throw—R. Brubaker. A Moyer. E. Balthaser. CLASS ■‘B” (BOYS) Shot Put—Kerling. D. Dunkelberger. Merkel; 33 feet. 9 inches. 100 Yard Dash. Kerling. C. Ennis. Merkel; 11.8 sec. 220 Yard Dash—Kerling. Merkel. C. Ennis; 26 sec. Hi h Jumo—V. Weidman. D Dunkelberger. Kerling; 4 feet. 9 inches. Bread Jump—Beyerle. D. Dunkelberger. W. Flamish; 15 feet. Rascball Throw -Kerling. V Weidman. Beyerle. Basketball Throw Stick N. Hartman. W. Greth. CLASS “B” (GIRLS) 75 Yard Dash—L. Balthaser. G. Dunkelberger. E. Mover- 10.5 seconds. Baseball Th-r.w - Alien. M Miller. E. Moyer. Basketball Throw—Hawthorne. Allen. Freeman. Broad Junn - M. Miller. E. Moyer, L. Balthaser; 6 feet. 9 Inches. CLASS ■•C ’ (BOYS) 75 Yard Dash- R. Miller. J. Moyer. R. Lutz; 9.8 sec. High Jumo—R. Miller. R. Lutz. C Davies. 3 feet 11 inches. Broad Junin J. Moyer. K. Ganser. R. Miller; 13 feet. 6 inches. Chinning Bar—L. Mover. R. Lutz. J. Mover. Basketball Throw—J. Hartman. L. Moyer. M. Fisher. Baseball Throw—R. Miller. P. Hafer. K. Ganser. CLASS •‘C ’ (GIRLS) 50 Yard Dash — E. Graeff. W. Purdon. G. Mogel; 7 seconds. Standing Broad Jump—W. Purdon. L. Reeser, I. Foret; 6 feet. 4 inches. Basketball Throw—Northeimer. Kerchner. I. Foret. Buseball Throw, N. Corriston, I. Foret, G. Mogel. JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Scho’astic Events English: M. Freeman. A. Moyer. B. Behrenshausen. Spelling: T. Bickel. M. Dunkelberger. R. Lutz. Mathematics: Junior H. S.: P. Harding. C. Ennis R. Epler. Senior H. S.: L. Degler. P. Weber. M Weber. Declamation: Junior H. S.:: Mogel, T. Bickel. M. Red-dip. Senior H. S.: H. Lutz. E. Moyer. Science: Grade 7 and 8: D. Gring. C. Ennis. M. Northeimer. Grades 9 and 10: R. Sharman, E. Hill. T. Stover. Grades 11 and 12: E. Weidman. L. Degler. W. Wertz. ELEMENTARY GRADES Athletic Events CLASS •A (BOYS) 50 Yard Dash—P. Freeman. O. Stott. W. Mogel. Basketball Throw—P. Freeman. J. Madeira. O. Stott. CLASS A (GIRLS) TO Yard Dash—Ruth Meredith. L. Foret. G. Sallade. Basketball Throw—M. Zechman. L. Foret. R. Allen. CLASS B” (BOYS) Broad Jump—R. Watson. R. Kurtz. P. Freed. 50 Yard Dash—R. Stahl. J. ShoKes. W. Ennis. Baseball Throw—L. Greth. G. Steffe. R. Stahl. CLASS ”B (GIRLS) 50 Yard Dash—R. Balthaser. C. Fahrenbach. D. Lutz. Baseball Throw’—M. Corriston. P. Gottshall. F. Schuler. CLASS C” (BOYS) Baseball Throw—R. Weidman. J. Ludwig. R. Kurtz. CLASS ••C,, (GIRLS) 25 Yard Dash—B. Weidman. M. Stiely. V. Gring. Potato Race--E. Troutman. B. Weidman. M. Flamish. CLASS -D- (BOYS) 25 Yard Dash -E. Sowers A. Fisher. K. Yochum. Broad Jump— E. Sowers. H. Hain. A. Beverle. Peanut Scramble—E. Sowers. R. Steffe. C. Wolf. CLASS D” (GIRLS) 25 Yar Dash—J. Good E. J. Fisher. A. Stutzman. Peanut Scran ’e—E. J. Fisher. J. Koehler. G. Stoudt. ELEMENTARY GRADES Scholastic Events GRADE I r'eadino—K Yochum. A. Pennabecker, E. Knouse. Numbers—K. Yochum. A. Pennabecker. H. Hassler. Handwriting—A. Stutzman. A. Pennabecker. J. Miller. GRADE II Spelling—E. Sowers. R. Nonnemacher, E. Ruth. Arithmetic—E. Sowers. R Nonnemacher. C. Greth. Handrwriting—E. Ruth. Ruth Nonnemacher. E. Sowers. GRADE III Snelbng—M. Flamish. E. Lutz. P. Freed. Arithmetic—V. Gring. R. Watson. P. Freed. Handwriting—E. Troutman. A. Cassel. C. Koch. GRADE IV Snelling—D. Davies. R. Weidman. L. Herber Arithmetic—R. Weidman. L. Herber. R. Heiser. Languaee—E. Knouse. P. Daub. M. Ijambert. Handwriting—V. Fisher. F. Wartzenluft. P. Daub. GRADE V Spelling—M. Wisser, M. Harpel. D. Burgner. Arithmetic—J. Stutzman. F. Knouse. R. Snyder. General—J. Stutzman. R Zechman. R. Sweimler. Handrwriting—L. Harpel. M. Brubaker. B. Herb. GRADE VI Spelling—R. Balthaser. A. Cassel. R. Hain. Arithmetic—R. Balthaser. A. Cassel. A. Lowe. General—A. Cassel. R. Balthaser. M. Zechman. Handwriting—M. Zechman, P. Gottshall. R. Hain. ALUMNI OF SINKING SPRING HIGH !9t4 Emma C. Evans Katie M. Evans Cora Guldin (Stltzel) Herbert P. Holtzman Hiester Hornberger Luke A. Huyett Elsie K. Leinbach (Riley) Anna R. Miller (We'dman) Theodore W. Miller John G. Sharman Edward H. Zechman IM5 E. Minerva Binkley (Stuber) Georgene E. Field A. Hughes Fisher Geraldine L From (Davis) Jacob Gring Ada M. Hemmlg (Irwin) Clinton H. Miller Emma M. Yocum (Greath) • Murray D. Zechman 1906 Ruth Evans (Gring) Minnie W. Gring 8tryker) • Beulah R. Hlmmelberger James W. Kulp Gertrude Leinbach (Rothermel) Reuben H. Potteiger A. Frederick Rentz Katie A Ruth (Zechman) Jennie N. Stoudt (Wagner) Katie E. Stefly (Shoop) Anna R. Weidman (Potteiger) Florence M. Wilson 1907 Helen T. Binkley (Yenser) • Esther Bresslar Lizzie M Fisher Lizzie M. Fry Charles H. Haas Minerva R. Huyett (Ulrich) John W. Lelninger Cora C. Mays Emily M. Stoudt (Holtzman) J. Russel Welder Mabel Yoder (Edris) 1908 Luke H. Berger Grace E. Eisenhower Luke R. Huyett Bertha H. Krick (Drelsbach) James B. Reber George E. Rhinehart 1909 Alfred C. Bennetch Wellington Eberly William S. Eckenroth Edna M. Grimes John D. Haas Frances G. Hemmlg (Myer) Erma B. Kintzer David Sharman George R. Specht Paul I. 8peicher Florence E. 8tiely (Hornberger) Raymond K. Zechman 1910 J. Wellington From • Howard Glassmyer Annie M. Klssling (Dunkelberger) Austin E. Lutz • Roy H. Potteiger Clarence Schonour Paul L. 8pecht • Fred P Weidman M. Edna Zechman (Bergen 1911 Elmira D. Esterly (Bentz) Regina C. Grimes Adam D. Huntzinger Daniel S. Krick • Jacob D. Ruth 1912 Esther S. Glassmyer (Robb' Helen Henry (Reeser) Leon D. Henry Mary E. Huyett (Grcth) Irwin W. Huyett John W. Wenrich 1913 Elsie Brossman (Pfau) Leroy B Herb Ernest P. Krick Warren H. Miller Harry H. Miller Irvin H. Reber Katie O. Ruth Clarence Stltzer George C. Weidman Stella W. Weitzel (Yocum) Aquillas Zechman 1914 • Sara E. Hartman (Binkley) • Esther M. Machmer (Yochum) • Esther L. Cammauf (Stover) Lillie N. Gelsinger (Werner) Lillian D Kocher (Krick) Harvey Reber Arthur H. Miller 1915 Catherine E. Schrack (Gerhard) Laura H. Gelsinger (Hoffman) Minnie K. Haas Carrie E. Whitmoyer (Wessner) Leon L. Lambert Leroy F. Ruth • James H. Livingood Irvin F. 'From Elmer A. Wickel 1916 COURSE CHANGED 1917 Evelyn J. Ruth (Landis) Howard L Blankenblller Arthur J. Lied Blanche E. Henry (Stltzer) Lyman Seibert Marion M Bright (Leinbach) Harry J. Binkley • William M Savage 1918 • Esther M. Potteiger Hattie N. Ruth Carrie E. Krick Esther F. Miller Elsie M. Cammauf Arthur F. Machemer Kathryn Burgner (Schoener) Marion C Bair (Spatz) A. Dorothy From (Miller) Florence P Weidman (Northeimer) Ira M. Ruth Charles W. Lambert Ruth I. Bright (Blankenblller) 1919 Carrie R. Haas Erma V. Brossman Helen M Mattemes (Troutman) Rita M. Zechman (Dreisbach) Dorothy V. Matz (Scull) Marguerite S. Huyett (Resser) Theodore O Mattes Clayton F. Ruth Stanley R. Ludwig Dorothy M. Ruth 1920 COURSE CHANGED 1921 Ella M. Boyer (HU1) Eva A. Burgner (Kauffman) Marguerite E. Burgner (Miller) A. Estelle Miller (Weitzel) Raymond E. Henry F. Lerch Krick Lawrence A. Mattemes Adam F. Spohn Jr. Henry P. Weidman LeRoy K. Miller Reuben H. Weitzel Homer W. Welder 1922 Marguerite L. Brossman Charles M. Ludwig Mahlon M. Miller Geneva V. Paulsgrove (Fisher) Ralph Y. Steffy Brooke R. Stltzer Earl A. Unger Elsie M Wartzenluft Sara C. Welder (Rizzo) Leon M. Yerger Cloyd S. Yoh Herbert B. Zechman 1923 Henry Y. Brubaker Catherine M. Eisenhower (Roth) John C. Fink John H. Fisher Harold G. Freeman John R. Lambert Carrie E. Lebo (McCauley) Bessie G Potteiger (Hans) Myrtle M. Ream Charles D. Ream Anna E Schrack John L. Seibert 1924 • Mary Johnston Olga Freeman (Kiehner) Bertha Kiebach (Rouss) Helen Lambert (Oraeff) Eleanor Noll (Troutman) William Bright Carl Freeman Floyd Weitzel Carl Peiffer 1925 Ruth Becker John Eisenhower Klarence Henry Stanley Flelsher Harvey Holtzman John Katzeman Helen Matz (Smith) Helen Ravel Margaret Rennlnger 1926 Feme Bard (Henry) Wellington Beyerle Clifford Cake Paul Eckenrode Arthur Holtzman Melvin Lamm Arthur Lengel Forrest Ludwig Miriam Madeira (Knappenberger) Myrtle Murr Bessie Peiffer (Lambert) Lee Seibert Annie Seltzinger Solomon Weidman Warren Wleder 1927 Florence Beard Machemen Robert Beyer le Irwin Bright Claire Edris Minnie Freeman E len Harding Emily C. Hawthorne (Lelby) George Lambert Grace Ludwig William Marks Myrtle Potteiger Miriam Ruth Raymond Sell Edna Yerger Herbert Ruth 1928 Earl Fisher Alton Graeff Grace Madeira iHlmmelreich) Lenore Murr Harold Witman 1929 Sara Becker Charles Elsenhower Mildred Gerhard iReeser) Esther Grill Edward Hamel William Hoffman Howard Katzeman Hazel Reynolds George 8allade Joseph Stuber 1930 Thelma A. Nester Grace E. Edris Sarah F Schmeck Spangler Helen M Brubaker Dorothv Henrv Helen V Gruber Warren I. Noll Stanley C. Weidman George Y. Brubaker Norman H. Bentz Harold M. Knauer 1931 Elsie Mav Yoh Verna Marguerite Yerger Blanche Arlene Machemer Ruth Augusta Harpel Arlene Keener Orlng Flora Wenger Cassel Ethelvn Sarah Wilk Dorothv Anna Potteiger Christian Dohner Hamlsh • i Deceased) mimsspm wmmsm Kutztown Field Day The local high school entered about 40 students in the various contests in the Countv Field Meet held at Kutztown on Saturday. May 14. Due to the inequity in the classification of the schools of the county, Slnkinp' Spring could do no better than win about five or six third places, in spite of the fact that they made very good records. Schools like Olev. Fleetwood. Onte-launee were too powerful to compete against. Industrial Arts The department In Manual Training and Home Eoonomics were Innovations in the local schools this year, but both departments achieved commendable results in the short time. The first year was more or less an exploratory course, to determine the Interests and apUtudes of the students. There were some students who showed lack of interest and indifference in shop and consequently had to be removed so as not to affect the morale of the entire group. Music Miss Doris Ackerman, superviso of music, has given considerable time in the development of a high school orchestra. The lack of certain instrumentation. however. seem9 to have held the progress of the orchestra in check During the month of April a set of orchestra traps w.is purchased from school activity funds. This will more than likely encourage considerable interest in orchestra bv another year. During the month of April Miss Ackerman rendered a tnusicale which included the entire school. By another year provisions will be made to give scholastic credit for those who lake an active part in orchestra and choral work. There will also be some recognition given to the members on a parity with sports. 8MBBBB8MR8 Spring Musicale The Department of Music of the Sinking sprin? Public Schools, under the leadership and direction ot Mies Doris Ackerman, gave a musicale in the Hign School Auditorium on Friday evening, April 15. Everybody was invited. Receipts were used for Music Department. The program was as follows: 1. Overture High School Orchestra 2. Song Fifth Grade 3. Rhythm Band First Grade 4. Trio. Trees Alfred Flamish. Violin Walter Flamish. Clarinet: Norman Hartman. Saxophone. Accompanied by Bernice Behren-shausen. 5. Dances. Tambourine Dance Fourth Grade English Country Dance C. Rhythm Band Second Grade 7. Songs Third Grade 8 Dance. Songs Sixth Grade 'Representative Group) 9. Piano Solo Bernice Behrenshausen 10. Selection High School Orchestra 11. Violin Solo Alfred Flamish Accompanied by Bernice Behrenshausen 12. Instrumental Duet Ardell Moyer. Wil- liam Moyer. 13. Special Feature. 14. Songs Group of Hieh School Boy� 15. Trombone Solo Eugene Weidman 16. Selection High School Orchestra tsmssaBsstt Reading Circle Record By direction of the County Superintendent of schools there is a prescribed list of books required to be read by each grade during the year. This is designated as the Reading Circle for Berks County Schools. The purpose is to stimulate reading of good books and the development of appreciation for the same. A certificate and seal are awarded to each pupil or student who reads the required number of the prescribed list. In our local schools 304 have merited such awards. The distribution by grades is as follows: Grade I 42 100 per cent. Orade II. 32 100 per cent. Grade III. 28 100 per cent. Grade IV. 37 100 per cent. Grade V. 33 100 per cent. Grade VI. 30 100 per cent. Grade VII. 22 88 per cent. Grade VIII. 24 91 per cent. Grade IX. 24 100 per cent. Orade X. 14 87 per cent. Grade XI. 9 100 per cent. Grade XII. 9 100 per cent. 304 97.7 per cent. Paftromns® ©osr Adl ®!r(lns®ir � i.‘ti mT hf-iLnl'j .1 ii -■ � «A.- :.r- •+v: r-u Best wishes to the Class Charles Winand 552 Penn Avenue SINKING SPRING. PA. Painting and Papet hanging Get my estimate From old to new, with any shoe Safcis-Factory Shoe Repairing Guaranteed Work 466 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring, Pa. IL'st lllislu's (£n flic (Class (Compliments of Cacoosing Dairy Miller From Dairy Products of Quality tylolvers for all occasions 700 - 714 Columbia Ave. Dial 8-1547 or Dial 81-9351 Sinking Spring, Pa. “Dial 8-1319 Congratulations frorru Leon C. Colove Compliments of •w« Jam i-� . j x?a i- . Jiif. � ., ifiV i , .■M .:u� a :r v— FRIGIDAlRt Frigidaire Dealer Electrical Supplies and Appliances Wiring Zeller’s Hardware Store Successor to House of Knouse 570 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring, Pa. .. if: IV :IS Hardware and Electrical Supplies Thone 8-1066 Phone 81-9647 577 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring, Pa. Open Evenings peonies Plants and Blooms m Oberlin Peony Gardens 425 Penn Ave. Sinking Spring, Pa. A Better Dry Cleaning Service Brought to your door at a very moderate cost. !’■ a “Dist inline Service u r THE V � Unli ’ • virn Cleaners of Wearing Apparel M. F. LORISH SON 1,v ’ � sn-« 308 N. 5th St. Reading, Pa. - v We Call and Deliver Every Monday and Friday H. H. WEBBER Successor to W. W. 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Auto. Casualty etc. One deposit guarantees that Co’.-lege Educational Endowmnent or that Family Incom-' etc. Don't gamble with the happiness of your loved ones. Protect their future and your own peace of mind. Insure now. Also that car might get you into a lot of trouble this season if not properly insured. Ask about new modern policy saving 25 per cent. Arthur Machcmer’s Fire Insurance Companies also provide savings of 20 per cent. Among his companies arc New York Life. The Travelers and The Aetna. Be wise and use him. Urst Ulishrs ait? Congratulations (To tlir (Class t Hallacher’s Store 102 Penn Avenue Sinking Spring, Pa. BEATTY’S Ladies’ Service Shop 855 Penn St. Reading, Pa Second. Floor Phone 2-4523 SPECIAL SUMMER PRICES ON ALL ALTERATIONS OF WOMENS GARMENTS We are equipped to give quick service an rovered buttons, buttonholes, hemstitching, pleating and shirring. Congratulations ) the (pluss Andrew A. Klopp Qeneral Auto Repairing Rear 28 Penn Avenue Sinking Spring, Pa. 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