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

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Born at Egypt, Pennsylvania. March 4, 1297. Graduated from Whitehall High School in 1914. Graduated from Keystone State Normal School in 1916; American Commercial School in 1918; graduated from Muhlenberg College. Allentown. Pennsylvania - - Teachers Extension Division - - 1926. Ph. B. Degree; Graduate Work toward M. A. Degree in 1934, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania; Supervising Principal's Certificate, Department of Public Instruction. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. Teaching experience 16 years. A. I). STECKEL Supervising Principal and Social Studies BOARD OF EDUCATION MR. HAROLD G. FREEMAN. President MR. WILLIAM E. MOYER. Vice President MR. BERT F. REIFSNYDER. Secretary MR. CLARENCE S. SCHONOUR. Treasurer MR. SOLOMON A. BROSSMAN. Director --- 5--- HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY A. D. STECKEL. SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL MR. PAUL F. FREED MRS. JOHN M. LAMBERT MISS PEARL L. OTT MISS RUTH E. KILHEFNF.R MR. IRWIN MR. ROY T. MERKEL MISS RUTH N. SNYDER MISS CLARA E. WETZEL MR. ANGUS DOUPLE BROSSMAN

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principal’s Jflessage to Seniors To (he Members of the Class of 1934:. To-day the world Is waiting for men and women who are able to think clearly and definitely to a logical conclusion. We need men and women who arc free from personal bias, political domination and petty hatred; we need men and women who see self os a part of a great social order in which each one has a very distinct part to perform for the welfare of that order. With that social order you, as intelligent beings, must identify yourselves. Yours is. indeed, a noble heritage. From hands that fought and irorn brains that thought have come the rich blessings of educational opportunity of which you are benefactors. And you must carry on th? work. There are men to-day who would bring to naught, were it possible, our entire educational organization. To them, it seems, education means little or nothing. They do not see clearly. While we admit that. a3 far as our present educational system is concerned, we are somewhat in a stage of philosophic uncertainty, yet that proves all the more that we need young men and young women such as you to build upon the old and to foster a spirit of tolerance toward the new in the hope that out of the present order we may build a structure, complete and fine, that will serve mankind for a more practical and a nobler purpose. All is change but not all may be decay. Humanity is born, lives and dies but immortality is still farther beyond. Dream dreams and see visions for out of these grow reality. Think clearly and think long; retain the heart of childhood but adopt a mature body and mind; and if you do. the small world of which you are a small port will remember you for your constructive work. Toward the achievement of this purpose it may be well to dedicate your lives. A SHINING STAR THAT BEAMS —«— The sunset slowly sweeps across the high school's brow. Wo turn frem its walls--and. geing swiftly now. We hurry down the dusty road--yes. we are smiling yet! Until we come to a place where two paths have always met. And there we find success, in golden armor bright. And dreaded failure, whose cloak looks dark as night. An old musician plays a tunc upen a violin. The notes produced arc wavering and very frail and thin. And then we pause and let our hearts take up that weakened tunc. And make it glad with memories of love and youth and June. Of the loveliness and splendor of faith and hope and mirth. And all the glowing things that grow upon this earth. Our road to happiness means to smile through dingy lanes, To speak a word of sympathy to men bowed down with pain, To paint new paths to folks who have forgotten where to go. To give the hand of fellowship to people crushed with woe. Tj pause beside a beggar and put a light into his eye; For worthy things like these shall live and never die. There will dwell a blessing cf peace when we have found the trail; If we follow all these things, our quests can never fail. Ah. we shall reach success, in spite of all our woes. V e’ll watch the star of happir.ess--we’ll follow where i goes; And in our souls--all glittering bright--touched with a poet's gleam There will dwell a light, a glorious light—a shining star that beam.-. Helen A. Lutz - 34 Class Poet

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HOY T. MERKEL Science and Geography Kutztown High School. 1926; Franklin and Marshall College, 1930; Lehigh University, 1932—B. S. Ex. perience 4 years. PAUL F. FREED Mathematics and Physical Education Allentown High School. 1921; Muhlenburg College, 1926—B. S.; Stroudsberg Teachers College, 1931, Experience, 6 years. MISS RUTH N. SNYDER English Reading High School for Girls. 1924; Hood College, 1926; Ml. Holyoke College. 1929— A. B. Columbia University, 1933. Experience, 4 years. MRS. JOHN M. LAMBERT Latin, Sccial Studies and Health Myers'own High School. 1918; Albright College ; 1922—A. B. Schuylkill College; Albright College. I92G. 1232; Columbia University 1932. Experience 12 years.